Punta Cana (Dominican Republic), Dominik Cumhuriyeti: yıl boyunca neler var

Çok kalabalık — Virgen de la Altagracia, Dry season and peak weeks

• Doğa

  Humpback whales in Samana Bay

  15 Oca – 31 MarBalina sezonu

  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.

• Tatil

  Virgen de la Altagracia

  20–22 OcaResmî tatilKapanışlarKalabalık

  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. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Dry season and peak weeks (1 Ara – 30 Nis), Christmas and New Year peak (18 Ara – 5 Oca)

Çok kalabalık — Dominican Carnival, Dry season and peak weeks

• Festival

  Dominican Carnival

  1 Şub – 5 Mar · geneldeKalabalık

  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. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Humpback whales in Samana Bay (15 Oca – 31 Mar), Dry season and peak weeks (1 Ara – 30 Nis)

Çok kalabalık — Dominican Carnival, Semana Santa

• Risk

  Sargassum on the east beaches

  15 Mar – 31 Ağu · geneldeSargassum sezonu

  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. Kaynak ↗

• Doğa

  Turtle nesting on the east coast

  15 Mar – 15 Kas · genelde

  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.

• Tatil

  Semana Santa

  29 Mar – 5 NisPaskalya ve Kutsal HaftaKalabalıkErken rezervasyon

  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. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Humpback whales in Samana Bay (15 Oca – 31 Mar), Dominican Carnival (1 Şub – 5 Mar (genelde)), Dry season and peak weeks (1 Ara – 30 Nis)

Çok kalabalık — Semana Santa, Dry season and peak weeks

Nisan ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Sargassum on the east beaches (15 Mar – 31 Ağu (genelde)), Turtle nesting on the east coast (15 Mar – 15 Kas (genelde)), Semana Santa (29 Mar – 5 Nis), Dry season and peak weeks (1 Ara – 30 Nis)

Ara sezon — sıradan bir ay

Mayıs ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Sargassum on the east beaches (15 Mar – 31 Ağu (genelde)), Turtle nesting on the east coast (15 Mar – 15 Kas (genelde))

Ara sezon — burayı dolduran pazarların 3 tanesinde okul tatili, sıradan bir ay

• Risk

  Hurricane season

  1 Haz – 30 Kas

  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. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Sargassum on the east beaches (15 Mar – 31 Ağu (genelde)), Turtle nesting on the east coast (15 Mar – 15 Kas (genelde))

Kalabalık — Summer school-holiday peak, burayı dolduran pazarların 3 tanesinde okul tatili

• Sezon

  Summer school-holiday peak

  1 Tem – 31 AğuOkul tatilleriKalabalıkErken rezervasyon

  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.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Sargassum on the east beaches (15 Mar – 31 Ağu (genelde)), Turtle nesting on the east coast (15 Mar – 15 Kas (genelde)), Hurricane season (1 Haz – 30 Kas)

Kalabalık — Summer school-holiday peak, burayı dolduran pazarların 3 tanesinde okul tatili

Ağustos ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Sargassum on the east beaches (15 Mar – 31 Ağu (genelde)), Turtle nesting on the east coast (15 Mar – 15 Kas (genelde)), Hurricane season (1 Haz – 30 Kas), Summer school-holiday peak (1 Tem – 31 Ağu)

Sakin — burayı dolduran pazarların 2 tanesinde okul tatili, hava açısından en kötü aylarından biri

Eylül ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Turtle nesting on the east coast (15 Mar – 15 Kas (genelde)), Hurricane season (1 Haz – 30 Kas)

Sakin — hava açısından en kötü aylarından biri

Ekim ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Turtle nesting on the east coast (15 Mar – 15 Kas (genelde)), Hurricane season (1 Haz – 30 Kas)

Sakin — hava açısından en kötü aylarından biri

Kasım ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Turtle nesting on the east coast (15 Mar – 15 Kas (genelde)), Hurricane season (1 Haz – 30 Kas)

Çok kalabalık — Dry season and peak weeks, Christmas and New Year peak

• Sezon

  Dry season and peak weeks

  1 Ara – 30 NisKalabalıkErken rezervasyon

  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.

• Tatil

  Christmas and New Year peak

  18 Ara – 5 OcaNoel ve yılbaşıKalabalıkErken rezervasyon

  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. Kaynak ↗