På gång i Puerto Plata (Sosua), Dominican Republic under året

Mest folk — Winter high season, Christmas and New Year peak

• Natur

  Humpbacks on the Silver Bank

  15 jan – 31 mar · vanligtvisValsäsong

  Thousands of North Atlantic humpbacks calve on the banks off this coast in late winter. The dependable boats leave from Samaná, a long day each way from Puerto Plata, or from a liveaboard out of Ocean World.

Pågår fortfarande: Winter high season (15 dec – 15 apr (vanligtvis)), Christmas and New Year peak (18 dec – 5 jan)

Mest folk — Carnaval and Independence Day, Winter high season

• Festival

  Carnaval and Independence Day

  1–28 febKarnevalTrångt

  Parades go out every Sunday through February and build to the twenty-seventh, which is Independence Day. Each town runs its own characters and its own costume workshops; the fireworks are municipal, not touristic. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Humpbacks on the Silver Bank (15 jan – 31 mar (vanligtvis)), Winter high season (15 dec – 15 apr (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Semana Santa, Winter high season

• Helg

  Semana Santa

  29 mar – 5 aprPåsk & stilla veckanTrångtBoka tidigt

  Dominicans take Holy Week off and head for beaches and rivers, with Good Friday a public holiday. Hotels fill with domestic travellers at higher rates, roads are busy and police run checkpoints, and beaches are crowded from Thursday. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Humpbacks on the Silver Bank (15 jan – 31 mar (vanligtvis)), Winter high season (15 dec – 15 apr (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Semana Santa, Winter high season

Inget nytt börjar i april.

Pågår fortfarande: Semana Santa (29 mar – 5 apr), Winter high season (15 dec – 15 apr (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — en helt vanlig månad

Inget nytt börjar i maj.

Mellansäsong — skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

• Risk

  Hurricane season

  1 jun – 30 nov

  The north coast catches storms tracking up the Mona Passage and Georges crossed the whole island in 1998. Big resorts stay open through it and discount hard from August. Källa ↗

• Säsong

  Cabarete wind season

  1 jun – 15 sep · vanligtvis

  The thermal wind at Cabarete, twenty minutes east, is at its most reliable through the summer: flat water in the morning, kite and sail conditions from lunchtime. The rest of the year it is a wave beach instead.

Mellansäsong — skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

Inget nytt börjar i juli.

Pågår fortfarande: Hurricane season (1 jun – 30 nov), Cabarete wind season (1 jun – 15 sep (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

Inget nytt börjar i augusti.

Pågår fortfarande: Hurricane season (1 jun – 30 nov), Cabarete wind season (1 jun – 15 sep (vanligtvis))

Lugnt — skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en av dess sämsta vädermånader

Inget nytt börjar i september.

Pågår fortfarande: Hurricane season (1 jun – 30 nov), Cabarete wind season (1 jun – 15 sep (vanligtvis))

Lugnt — en av dess sämsta vädermånader

Inget nytt börjar i oktober.

Pågår fortfarande: Hurricane season (1 jun – 30 nov)

Lugnt — en av dess sämsta vädermånader

Inget nytt börjar i november.

Pågår fortfarande: Hurricane season (1 jun – 30 nov)

Mest folk — Winter high season, Christmas and New Year peak

• Säsong

  Winter high season

  15 dec – 15 apr · vanligtvisVintersolsäsongTrångtBoka tidigt

  Charter flights from Canada and the north-east US fill the all-inclusives along Playa Dorada from mid-December. The town side of the bay, and the cable car up Isabel de Torres, get busy with them.

• Helg

  Christmas and New Year peak

  18 dec – 5 janJul & nyårTrångtBoka tidigt

  Peak season: Dominicans living abroad come home and North American and European visitors arrive, so flights, resorts and rental cars fill and rates are at their highest. Källa ↗