A lot of people ask "When is the best time to visit the Dominican Republic?"
Well, quite simple really...the DR is a year round holiday destination with average temperatures a beautiful and balmy 27 degrees centigrade. Of course, these days it is impossible to avoid the climate's growing unpredictability.
It starts to get busy in July and August and from December to mid February as these are the two high tourist seasons. On average, it gets about 50% more rainfall per year than London for example, but don't worry too much about that, as it tends to fall in short sharp tropical downpours and most of it falls on the lush mountain ranges in the Cibao Valley in the centre of the island. The northern beaches actually have their driest month in June, whereas the east is a little wetter.
The so called "cool" season runs from November to April, during time the notoriously high humidity is somewhat lower. It also cools down in the evenings more.
The Dominican Republic is in hurricane territory though, but while the season officially runs from the beginning of June to the end of November, most hurricanes tend to give the country a wide berth and we have been quite fortunate in recent seasons to have not been affected by any major hurricane.
