Climate and average weather in Neiba

In Neiba, the weather is humid, hot, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around May.

Best: early January to mid March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Neiba typically varies from 17°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 16°C or above 32°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Neiba for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid March and late November to late December.

Hottest
Aug
30°
Coldest
Jan
17°
Wettest
May
113 mm
Driest
Jan
10 mm
Rain / yr
683 mm
120 wet days
Daylight
10.9–13.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
50 m
18.5°N
Clearest
Jan
32% cloud

Neiba weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early January to mid March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Neiba, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Neiba stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is August, with an average high of 30°C and low of 21°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 17°C and high of 28°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights year-round.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2817
Feb2818
Mar2819
Apr2920
May2920
Jun2921
Jul3021
Aug3021
Sep3021
Oct2921
Nov2920
Dec2818

How hot and cold Neiba really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Neiba feels like about 33°C (around August 9). About 58 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in August.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan28281717
Feb28281818
Mar29281919
Apr30292020
May30292020
Jun31292021
Jul32302121
Aug32302121
Sep32302121
Oct31292021
Nov30291920
Dec29281818

Average hourly temperature in Neiba

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on August afternoons, near 30°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 17°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Neiba weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan28° / 17°102.6118.0
Feb28° / 18°184.311.47.4
Mar28° / 19°501011.96.1
Apr29° / 20°8214.112.45.2
May29° / 20°11316.112.94.8
Jun29° / 21°5210.113.15.2
Jul30° / 21°398.7135.1
Aug30° / 21°7612.312.64.6
Sep30° / 21°8315.212.14.3
Oct29° / 21°9514.811.64.8
Nov29° / 20°488.411.16.0
Dec28° / 18°17310.97.6

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Neiba gets about 683 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 3.2 months, from around Aug 7 to Nov 12, peaking in September at about 54% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 20.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 113 mm over about 16 wet days; January is the driest, with 10 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 26 · 54%Jan 20 · 7%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan93
Feb164
Mar3210
Apr4714
May5116
Jun3410
Jul299
Aug3912
Sep5115
Oct4815
Nov298
Dec103

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Neiba collects about 683 mm of rain across 120 wet days — roughly 57 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 113 mm, while January is the driest at just 10 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 43% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1018508211352397683954817
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan103
Feb184
Mar5010
Apr8214
May11316
Jun5210
Jul399
Aug7612
Sep8315
Oct9515
Nov488
Dec173

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Neiba, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around November 16 and lasts for 5.4 months, ending around April 28. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 87% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 29 and lasts for 6.6 months, ending around November 15. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 55% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 16 · 88%May 28 · 35%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8713
Feb8614
Mar7822
Apr7030
May4654
Jun4555
Jul6238
Aug5743
Sep4852
Oct5248
Nov6634
Dec8020

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 5, brings about 13 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 54 min — a swing of roughly 2 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.07:256:25
Feb11.47:196:42
Mar11.96:596:51
Apr12.46:336:58
May12.96:167:08
Jun13.16:137:19
Jul13.06:217:22
Aug12.66:317:09
Sep12.16:376:43
Oct11.66:446:18
Nov11.16:586:04
Dec10.97:156:09

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Neiba averages about 13 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 5 and 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.5 months, from around Nov 12 to Mar 27. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is May, down near 7 sunny days — about 68% fewer than the February peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 522 daysMay 285 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan22Bright
Feb19Bright
Mar15Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May7Gloomy
Jun8Gloomy
Jul12Mixed
Aug10Mixed
Sep8Gloomy
Oct9Mixed
Nov14Mixed
Dec20Bright

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Neiba, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.2 months, from around March 30 to December 5. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around December 6 to March 29, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 23% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 28 · 29%May 11 · 0%oppressivehumidmuggycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1216890
Feb3236680
Mar11566180
Apr0447481
May0016786
Jun006859
Jul0011819
Aug0058214
Sep0038215
Oct0058114
Nov0227674
Dec1960290

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Neiba is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmJun 30 · 6 km/hNov 11 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep5calm
Oct4calm
Nov4calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Neiba

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Neiba sits in the Atlantic hurricane belt; the season peaks August–October.

Atlantic hurricane
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Neiba

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Neiba throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around early March, Neiba is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Neiba for general outdoor tourist activities is from late November to mid March, with a peak score in the third week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 16 · 8.0

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan7.9ideal
Feb7.4good
Mar6.1good
Apr5.2fair
May4.9fair
Jun5.2fair
Jul5.1fair
Aug4.6fair
Sep4.3fair
Oct4.8fair
Nov6.0good
Dec7.5ideal

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Neiba for hot-weather activities run from mid June to early August and again from late October to late March, with a peak score in the third week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 19 · 8.5

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Neiba, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

Neiba packs about the same all year — highs hold near 30°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Neiba sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 12 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Neiba

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 59 km away) is warmest in September at about 29°C and coldest in February near 27°C.

The water stays above 20°C all year — warm enough for a swim any month.

26°28°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan27Warm
Feb27Warm
Mar27Warm
Apr27Warm
May28Warm
Jun29Tropical
Jul29Tropical
Aug29Tropical
Sep29Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov29Tropical
Dec28Warm

UV index (midday) in Neiba by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Neiba peaks around March 23 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 15 at about 7 (high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highMar 23UV 13Dec 15UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb10Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct10Extreme
Nov8Very high
Dec7High

Average hourly UV index in Neiba

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in March the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan6.54
Feb75
Mar86
Apr86.5
May8.56.5
Jun8.56.5
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55
Nov6.53.5
Dec62.5

Air quality in Neiba by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Neiba is worst in June — around 30 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.2× the cleanest month (February, 14 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateJun 2230 µg/m³Feb 1014 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan14Moderate
Feb14Moderate
Mar16Moderate
Apr16Moderate
May21Moderate
Jun30Moderate
Jul29Moderate
Aug25Moderate
Sep22Moderate
Oct23Moderate
Nov18Moderate
Dec15Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Neiba is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Neiba banks about 5,199 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan389
Feb359
Mar417
Apr426
May448
Jun446
Jul479
Aug488
Sep463
Oct460
Nov421
Dec403

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Neiba receives about 5.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.6 and 6.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.7 months, from around Mar 5 to Sep 23. The brightest month is July, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.6 kWh/m² — roughly 31% less than the July peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 56.8 kWhDec 154.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.8Bright
Feb5.4Bright
Mar5.9Bright
Apr6.3Intense
May6.2Intense
Jun6.6Intense
Jul6.7Intense
Aug6.4Intense
Sep5.9Bright
Oct5.2Bright
Nov4.7Bright
Dec4.6Bright

Where is Neiba?

Neiba sits at 18.5°N, 71.4°W, 50 m above sea level, in Dominican Republic. The nearest listed city is San Juan de la Maguana, 41 km away.

San Juan de la MaguanaLas Matas de FarfánSanta Cruz de BarahonaFond ParisienGrand GosierAzuaThomazeauConstanza

Topography around Neiba

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Neiba.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Neiba has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 303 m around an average of 54 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,018 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,109 m.

The land around Neiba is covered by trees (39%) and shrubs (27%) within 3 km, trees (39%) and grassland (21%) within 16 km, and trees (42%) and grassland (28%) within 80 km.

3 km
303 m
16 km
2,018 m
80 km
3,109 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetland
Nearby: San Juan de la Maguana 41 km · Las Matas de Farfán 44 km · Santa Cruz de Barahona 46 km · Fond Parisien 59 km · Grand Gosier 63 km · Azua 72 km · Thomazeau 73 km · Constanza 85 km

Dominican Republic travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type A / B / C
120 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 39% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$11,059
2025
Happiness
6.1 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
45%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
10.9
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
64.6
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 503

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Neiba (18.4898°, -71.4189°, elevation 50 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. Tropical-cyclone seasons are the published climatological basin seasons (NOAA National Hurricane Center / regional warning centres). Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).