Climate averages 1991–2020

Santo Domingo Este weather
in January.

A warm, fairly dry month: the coolest and the 2nd driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 27.2°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 21.1°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 33 mm 12 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Santo Domingo Este: daytime highs average 27.2°C and nights cool to about 21.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 33 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 09 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Santo Domingo (5 km away). In January its highs average 27.5°C, about as warm as Santo Domingo Este, with 32 mm of rain.

Among the 14 cities listed in the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo Este ranks joint 9th of 14 for the warmest January highs and 9th of 14 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 14 cities is 27.3°C; Santo Domingo Este is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 27.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 33 mm to 28 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Santo Domingo Este climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Santo Domingo Este, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	27.2°C21.1°C	21.1°C	33	11.8	11.211 h
February	27.6°C21.0°C	21.0°C	28	10.2	11.512 h
March	27.9°C21.3°C	21.3°C	34	10.7	12.012 h
April	28.4°C22.2°C	22.2°C	57	14.4	12.613 h
May	28.7°C23.0°C	23.0°C	113	21.7	13.013 h
June	29.3°C23.7°C	23.7°C	114	22.9	13.213 h
July	29.8°C23.9°C	23.9°C	122	22.7	13.113 h
August	29.8°C24.0°C	24.0°C	147	23.5	12.813 h
September	29.4°C23.9°C	23.9°C	148	22.6	12.312 h
October	28.8°C23.4°C	23.4°C	135	22.4	11.712 h
November	28.0°C22.6°C	22.6°C	87	16.8	11.311 h
December	27.5°C21.7°C	21.7°C	42	11.2	11.011 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

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January in nearby cities

Distance from Santo Domingo Este

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Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Santo Domingo Este) is explained once on the Santo Domingo Este year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.