Cosa c'è in programma a Punta Cana (Dominican Republic) (Repubblica Dominicana) durante l'anno

Folla al massimo — Virgen de la Altagracia, Dry season and peak weeks

• Natura

  Humpback whales in Samana Bay

  15 gen – 31 marStagione delle balene

  Thousands of North Atlantic humpbacks calve in Samana Bay, and the environment ministry opens and closes the watching season by decree each year. It is a long day trip from here, three hours each way, and February is the thick of it.

• Festività

  Virgen de la Altagracia

  20–22 genFesta nazionaleChiusureAffollato

  The country's patron day on 21 January, and the basilica at Higuey half an hour inland takes pilgrims through the night. Offices and banks close and the road west of Punta Cana crawls. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Dry season and peak weeks (1 dic – 30 apr), Christmas and New Year peak (18 dic – 5 gen)

Folla al massimo — Dominican Carnival, Dry season and peak weeks

• Festival

  Dominican Carnival

  1 feb – 5 mar · di solitoAffollato

  The diablos cojuelos parade every Sunday in February, loudest at La Vega, and the national parade closes it on Santo Domingo's Malecon at the end of the month. Almost none of it reaches the resort strip, so it is a drive. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Humpback whales in Samana Bay (15 gen – 31 mar), Dry season and peak weeks (1 dic – 30 apr)

Folla al massimo — Dominican Carnival, Semana Santa

• Rischio

  Sargassum on the east beaches

  15 mar – 31 ago · di solitoStagione del sargasso

  Bavaro and Macao face east into the drift and take the brunt of it; hotels rake at dawn and the sheltered coves clear faster. It swings hugely week to week, so a live tracker beats any average. Fonte ↗

• Natura

  Turtle nesting on the east coast

  15 mar – 15 nov · di solito

  Hawksbills and the odd leatherback come up the Bavaro and Macao sand from spring to late autumn. The resorts stake the nests off and dim the beach lights; the hatchlings go out after dark.

• Festività

  Semana Santa

  29 mar – 5 aprPasqua e Settimana SantaAffollatoPrenota presto

  Dominicans take the whole week off and drive to the coast, so the east fills with domestic traffic on top of the flights. Expect road checkpoints and restricted alcohol sales around Good Friday. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Humpback whales in Samana Bay (15 gen – 31 mar), Dominican Carnival (1 feb – 5 mar (di solito)), Dry season and peak weeks (1 dic – 30 apr)

Folla al massimo — Semana Santa, Dry season and peak weeks

In aprile non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Ancora in corso: Sargassum on the east beaches (15 mar – 31 ago (di solito)), Turtle nesting on the east coast (15 mar – 15 nov (di solito)), Semana Santa (29 mar – 5 apr), Dry season and peak weeks (1 dic – 30 apr)

Media stagione — un mese nella media

In maggio non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Ancora in corso: Sargassum on the east beaches (15 mar – 31 ago (di solito)), Turtle nesting on the east coast (15 mar – 15 nov (di solito))

Media stagione — vacanze scolastiche in 3 dei paesi da cui arrivano i visitatori, un mese nella media

• Rischio

  Hurricane season

  1 giu – 30 nov

  Hispaniola sits in the main track and the risk is loaded into the September and October half of the season. Most weeks pass without a warning, and the resorts price it accordingly, but the change policy is the thing to read. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Sargassum on the east beaches (15 mar – 31 ago (di solito)), Turtle nesting on the east coast (15 mar – 15 nov (di solito))

Affollato — Summer school-holiday peak, vacanze scolastiche in 3 dei paesi da cui arrivano i visitatori

• Stagione

  Summer school-holiday peak

  1 lug – 31 agoVacanze scolasticheAffollatoPrenota presto

  The second peak and a different crowd: Dominican, Latin American and Spanish families on school holidays rather than the winter sun crowd. Family rooms and connecting doors go first.

Ancora in corso: Sargassum on the east beaches (15 mar – 31 ago (di solito)), Turtle nesting on the east coast (15 mar – 15 nov (di solito)), Hurricane season (1 giu – 30 nov)

Affollato — Summer school-holiday peak, vacanze scolastiche in 3 dei paesi da cui arrivano i visitatori

In agosto non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Ancora in corso: Sargassum on the east beaches (15 mar – 31 ago (di solito)), Turtle nesting on the east coast (15 mar – 15 nov (di solito)), Hurricane season (1 giu – 30 nov), Summer school-holiday peak (1 lug – 31 ago)

Tranquillo — vacanze scolastiche in 2 dei paesi da cui arrivano i visitatori, uno dei mesi con il clima peggiore

In settembre non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Ancora in corso: Turtle nesting on the east coast (15 mar – 15 nov (di solito)), Hurricane season (1 giu – 30 nov)

Tranquillo — uno dei mesi con il clima peggiore

In ottobre non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Ancora in corso: Turtle nesting on the east coast (15 mar – 15 nov (di solito)), Hurricane season (1 giu – 30 nov)

Tranquillo — uno dei mesi con il clima peggiore

In novembre non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Ancora in corso: Turtle nesting on the east coast (15 mar – 15 nov (di solito)), Hurricane season (1 giu – 30 nov)

Folla al massimo — Dry season and peak weeks, Christmas and New Year peak

• Stagione

  Dry season and peak weeks

  1 dic – 30 aprAffollatoPrenota presto

  The drier half of the year and the reason every seat from the north is full: the trade wind blows most afternoons, the sea flattens, and the all-inclusive strip runs at capacity from mid-December to mid-April.

• Festività

  Christmas and New Year peak

  18 dic – 5 genNatale e CapodannoAffollatoPrenota presto

  The most expensive fortnight of the year here by a wide margin, with minimum-stay rules at most of the bigger resorts and New Year's Eve dinners sold separately. Book it in spring or take January instead. Fonte ↗