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Punta Cana in May

Hot and wet, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Punta Cana is hot: highs near 85°F, lows near 77°F. Rain falls on about five days a week, more often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 20 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Punta Cana is hot: highs near 29°C, lows near 25°C. Rain falls on about five days a week, more often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 20 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
85°F29°Caverage
Low
77°F25°Caverage
Wet days
5a week · 67% of days
Daylight
13h 00mon average

Is May a good time to visit Punta Cana?

A good month, just outside Punta Cana's best months, which run from January to April.

How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 70°F to 80°F, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 21°C to 27°C, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.

How May sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Highs near 85°F in May, against 82°F to 88°F through the year.Highs near 29°C in May, against 28°C to 31°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

67% of days in May, against 47% to 81% through the year.

Cloud cover

59% cover in May, against 25% to 68% through the year.

Daylight

13h 00m in May, against 11h 02m to 13h 13m through the year.

Week by week, lightly smoothed, with May shaded. The olive line marks the best months. Hover or tap a week for its figures.

Either side

  1. April84°29°low 75°low 24°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.
  2. May85°29°low 77°low 25°5 wet days a weekRain on about five days a week.
  3. June87°31°low 79°low 26°5 wet days a weekRain on about five days a week.

Where Punta Cana sits, in May

America/Puerto Rico
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
6:00 AMsets 6:59 PM
Above the sea
10 mlow-lying
Latitude
18.6°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Santo Domingo161 km west

The land around Punta Cana, shaded by its typical high in May, the planning map's own layer. Hover the map for the figure at that spot; tap it on a phone. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

Elsewhere in Dominican Republic in May

high · low · wet days
See May on the planning mapThe whole year in Punta Cana

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Punta Cana. Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 3.1°F cold in the source data and are raised to match.Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 1.7°C cold in the source data and are raised to match. Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not. Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.

Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not.

Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.