Climate averages 1991–2020
Santo Domingo weather
in October.
A hot, wet month: the joint 5th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a hot month in Santo Domingo: daytime highs average 29.3°C and nights cool to about 23.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 115 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes October a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 44 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Santo Domingo Este (5 km away). In October its highs average 28.8°C, about as warm as Santo Domingo, with 135 mm of rain.
Among the 14 cities listed in the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo ranks joint 8th of 14 for the warmest October highs and joint 9th of 14 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 14 cities is 29.6°C; Santo Domingo is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 1.0°C to 28.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 115 mm to 75 mm.
The annual picture
October in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Santo Domingo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.5°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 32 | 11.8 | 11.211 h |
| February | 27.9°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 30 | 10.5 | 11.512 h |
| March | 28.4°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 37 | 11.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 29.1°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 62 | 15.2 | 12.613 h |
| May | 29.3°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 120 | 21.3 | 13.013 h |
| June | 29.8°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 107 | 21.6 | 13.213 h |
| July | 30.3°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 108 | 21.1 | 13.113 h |
| August | 30.3°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 129 | 21.3 | 12.813 h |
| September | 29.9°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 120 | 21.0 | 12.312 h |
| October, selected | 29.3°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 115 | 21.5 | 11.712 h |
| November | 28.3°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 75 | 15.9 | 11.311 h |
| December | 27.7°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 39 | 11.4 | 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.
Compare places
October in nearby cities
- Santo Domingo Este in OctoberDominican Republic · 5 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 23.4°C · 135 mm rain
- Santo Domingo Oeste in OctoberDominican Republic · 12 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 22.5°C · 115 mm rain
- San Cristóbal in OctoberDominican Republic · 23 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 22.8°C · 115 mm rain
- San Pedro de Macorís in OctoberDominican Republic · 62 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 24.9°C · 101 mm rain
- Bonao in OctoberDominican Republic · 76 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 21.8°C · 133 mm rain
- La Romana in OctoberDominican Republic · 98 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 24.3°C · 88 mm rain
- San Francisco de Macorís in OctoberDominican Republic · 99 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 21.7°C · 66 mm rain
- La Vega in OctoberDominican Republic · 107 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 21.7°C · 68 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Santo Domingo) is explained once on the Santo Domingo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Santo Domingo Oeste and San Cristóbal lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.