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Santo Domingo in May

Hot and wet, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Santo Domingo is hot: highs near 88°F, lows near 73°F. Rain falls on about six days a week, more often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 19 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Santo Domingo is hot: highs near 31°C, lows near 23°C. Rain falls on about six days a week, more often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 19 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
88°F31°Caverage
Low
73°F23°Caverage
Wet days
6a week · 79% of days
Daylight
13h 00mon average

Is May a good time to visit Santo Domingo?

A good month, just outside Santo Domingo's best months, which run from December to March.

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 88°F in May, against 85°F to 90°F through the year.Highs near 31°C in May, against 29°C to 32°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

79% of days in May, against 47% to 84% through the year.

Cloud cover

60% cover in May, against 27% to 69% 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. April87°31°low 71°low 22°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.
  2. May88°31°low 73°low 23°6 wet days a weekRain on about six days a week.
  3. June89°32°low 74°low 23°6 wet days a weekRain on about six days a week.

Where Santo Domingo sits, in May

America/Santo Domingo
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
6:06 AMsets 7:05 PM
Above the sea
20 mlow-lying
Latitude
18.5°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Río San Juan132 km north

The land around Santo Domingo, 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 Santo Domingo

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Santo Domingo. 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.