Cristo Rey climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Cristo Rey?

Cristo Rey has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 25.0 °C and it receives 1,057 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Cristo Rey?

The hottest day measured in Cristo Rey between 1940 and 2025 was 14 August 2008, reaching 34.9 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Cristo Rey?

The coldest day measured in Cristo Rey between 1940 and 2025 was 11 January 1956, at 13.5 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Cristo Rey?

Almost never: Cristo Rey sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Q: Has the climate of Cristo Rey warmed?

Yes: Cristo Rey warmed by +1.3 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Cristo Rey?

The wettest day measured in Cristo Rey between 1940 and 2025 was 23 May 1992, with 163 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Cristo Rey?

The windiest day measured in Cristo Rey between 1940 and 2025 was 22 September 1998, with winds reaching 54.7 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Cristo Rey?

The warmest month in Cristo Rey is August (26.3 °C on average); the coldest is January (23.4 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Cristo Rey?

Cristo Rey receives on average 1,057 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 221 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Cristo Rey?

Cristo Rey gets on average 11.1 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 4,052 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Cristo Rey (Dominican Republic) has a tropical savanna climate (Aw) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 25.0 °C and it receives 1,057 mm of precipitation per year.

These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.

The warmest month is August (26.3 °C on average) and the coldest is January (23.4 °C). Rainfall peaks in May.

Cristo Rey averages 0 frost days, 114 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 221 rainy days per year.

Cristo Rey has warmed by +1.3 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.16 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 34.9 °C (on 14 August 2008) and the coldest 13.5 °C (on 11 January 1956).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

Cristo ReyNacional

coords: 18.50°, -69.93°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

AwTropical savannaWarmest monthAugustColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthMayDriest monthJanuary

Mean daily temperature

25.0°C

Average daily high

29.2°C

Average daily low

21.7°C

Annual rainfall

1,057mm

Sunshine / day

11.1h

Mean relative humidity

81%

Average peak wind

13.2km/h

Seasonal range

2.9°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

114 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

221 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

33.4 °C

Average feels-like low

24.4 °C

Average peak gust

34.0 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

312 d/yr

Solar radiation

19.2 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.3 °C

since 1940

+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.64 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.

Records for the period

Hottest day

34.9 °C

14 August 2008

Coldest day

13.5 °C

11 January 1956

Wettest day

163 mm

23 May 1992

Windiest day

54.7 km/h

22 September 1998

Strongest gust

121.0 km/h

22 September 1998

Hottest feels-like

42.4 °C

15 September 2023

Coldest feels-like

13.2 °C

11 January 1956

Sunniest day

12.9 h

7 June 1978

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	34.1 °C16 October 2025	15.7 °C30 December 2025	26.1 °C	1,061 mm	226
2024	33.8 °C21 August 2024	17.3 °C23 February 2024	26.5 °C	1,198 mm	251
2023	34.9 °C5 October 2023	16.1 °C17 January 2023	26.3 °C	1,050 mm	250
2022	33.6 °C6 September 2022	17.6 °C3 January 2022	25.5 °C	1,002 mm	187
2021	33.3 °C24 November 2021	16.3 °C5 January 2021	25.6 °C	837 mm	204
2020	33.6 °C25 September 2020	18.3 °C31 January 2020	25.8 °C	1,063 mm	206
2019	33.4 °C29 July 2019	17.9 °C9 January 2019	25.7 °C	723 mm	204
2018	33.3 °C8 July 2018	16.3 °C2 March 2018	25.3 °C	947 mm	138
2017	34.7 °C6 September 2017	15.5 °C20 January 2017	25.7 °C	1,050 mm	183
2016	33.1 °C21 August 2016	17.6 °C5 February 2016	25.7 °C	1,177 mm	165
2015	34.2 °C31 July 2015	18.5 °C21 January 2015	25.9 °C	620 mm	205
2014	33.7 °C28 June 2014	17.1 °C10 December 2014	25.5 °C	671 mm	156
2013	32.6 °C4 October 2013	17.0 °C13 February 2013	25.4 °C	929 mm	136
2012	33.1 °C3 August 2012	17.7 °C22 February 2012	25.4 °C	1,038 mm	164
2011	33.3 °C19 May 2011	17.3 °C11 March 2011	25.3 °C	1,110 mm	181
2010	34.0 °C17 September 2010	15.2 °C9 March 2010	25.8 °C	1,124 mm	213
2009	33.1 °C4 September 2009	15.8 °C16 February 2009	25.4 °C	824 mm	177
2008	34.9 °C14 August 2008	15.5 °C14 January 2008	25.1 °C	989 mm	132
2007	33.7 °C2 August 2007	17.7 °C20 January 2007	25.5 °C	1,232 mm	167
2006	32.8 °C8 May 2006	16.6 °C31 January 2006	25.5 °C	898 mm	187
2005	33.3 °C8 May 2005	17.2 °C21 January 2005	25.5 °C	1,263 mm	186
2004	33.1 °C14 September 2004	16.5 °C28 January 2004	25.2 °C	960 mm	144
2003	33.4 °C22 March 2003	18.4 °C20 December 2003	25.2 °C	989 mm	146
2002	32.8 °C21 July 2002	17.7 °C21 February 2002	25.3 °C	750 mm	174
2001	34.3 °C29 July 2001	17.2 °C28 February 2001	25.1 °C	823 mm	140
2000	34.1 °C21 August 2000	15.5 °C19 January 2000	25.1 °C	754 mm	143
1999	33.2 °C11 September 1999	16.6 °C18 February 1999	24.8 °C	948 mm	147
1998	33.3 °C5 August 1998	18.4 °C15 April 1998	25.3 °C	1,261 mm	154
1997	34.6 °C6 September 1997	18.2 °C12 January 1997	25.4 °C	749 mm	179
1996	33.5 °C8 July 1996	17.3 °C17 December 1996	24.6 °C	1,142 mm	99
1995	33.6 °C12 August 1995	17.6 °C28 March 1995	25.2 °C	987 mm	154
1994	33.6 °C17 August 1994	18.2 °C18 February 1994	25.0 °C	777 mm	99
1993	32.1 °C10 July 1993	17.3 °C22 February 1993	24.8 °C	1,237 mm	88
1992	32.1 °C28 August 1992	17.7 °C20 January 1992	24.7 °C	1,218 mm	69
1991	33.2 °C8 August 1991	16.4 °C24 December 1991	24.8 °C	915 mm	92
1990	33.4 °C25 September 1990	16.7 °C9 December 1990	24.9 °C	1,263 mm	105
1989	32.8 °C4 August 1989	17.5 °C27 March 1989	24.6 °C	887 mm	65
1988	32.5 °C3 August 1988	17.3 °C28 February 1988	24.8 °C	1,277 mm	70
1987	32.1 °C8 August 1987	17.2 °C3 January 1987	25.2 °C	1,477 mm	81
1986	31.4 °C20 August 1986	17.4 °C24 January 1986	24.6 °C	1,443 mm	30
1985	32.1 °C1 July 1985	16.2 °C9 February 1985	24.6 °C	1,002 mm	62
1984	31.4 °C30 March 1984	17.9 °C20 December 1984	24.7 °C	981 mm	46
1983	31.6 °C20 August 1983	18.5 °C3 February 1983	25.1 °C	1,074 mm	59
1982	31.5 °C11 September 1982	17.1 °C25 January 1982	24.5 °C	1,103 mm	47
1981	31.6 °C29 July 1981	18.1 °C24 January 1981	25.0 °C	1,211 mm	83
1980	32.3 °C3 August 1980	17.6 °C30 January 1980	25.3 °C	1,069 mm	95
1979	32.1 °C29 August 1979	16.8 °C10 February 1979	24.9 °C	1,537 mm	76
1978	33.4 °C31 July 1978	17.6 °C14 February 1978	25.0 °C	1,059 mm	69
1977	31.6 °C17 August 1977	18.0 °C19 January 1977	25.1 °C	1,158 mm	51
1976	32.2 °C3 September 1976	16.9 °C29 January 1976	24.7 °C	792 mm	67
1975	32.3 °C3 July 1975	18.0 °C6 February 1975	24.9 °C	952 mm	64
1974	31.6 °C17 August 1974	18.0 °C18 December 1974	24.8 °C	1,257 mm	50
1973	32.1 °C14 August 1973	17.1 °C22 December 1973	25.3 °C	1,006 mm	103
1972	31.8 °C1 August 1972	18.2 °C14 March 1972	25.1 °C	1,094 mm	86
1971	32.7 °C3 August 1971	18.1 °C22 January 1971	25.0 °C	831 mm	79
1970	33.5 °C17 April 1970	18.0 °C4 March 1970	25.1 °C	1,001 mm	91
1969	33.7 °C27 September 1969	17.9 °C21 February 1969	25.5 °C	969 mm	131
1968	32.4 °C12 September 1968	16.8 °C22 April 1968	24.8 °C	733 mm	91
1967	33.6 °C9 September 1967	17.3 °C25 December 1967	25.0 °C	629 mm	145
1966	33.9 °C22 August 1966	17.8 °C7 February 1966	24.7 °C	964 mm	97
1965	32.2 °C24 April 1965	16.0 °C4 January 1965	24.7 °C	914 mm	141
1964	32.9 °C3 September 1964	17.4 °C26 January 1964	24.8 °C	953 mm	106
1963	31.9 °C6 July 1963	17.6 °C7 January 1963	24.6 °C	1,295 mm	97
1962	31.9 °C8 August 1962	16.4 °C16 February 1962	24.6 °C	967 mm	119
1961	31.9 °C7 August 1961	16.6 °C29 March 1961	24.3 °C	1,308 mm	62
1960	32.5 °C15 July 1960	17.6 °C7 December 1960	24.6 °C	1,113 mm	82
1959	33.3 °C8 September 1959	17.8 °C29 December 1959	24.7 °C	1,027 mm	96
1958	34.1 °C25 April 1958	16.7 °C6 February 1958	25.3 °C	1,258 mm	166
1957	33.5 °C30 July 1957	16.2 °C12 February 1957	25.0 °C	923 mm	134
1956	32.9 °C13 September 1956	13.5 °C11 January 1956	24.5 °C	1,194 mm	74
1955	32.6 °C6 August 1955	16.5 °C7 February 1955	24.4 °C	1,144 mm	64
1954	31.4 °C27 June 1954	17.1 °C30 January 1954	24.2 °C	1,285 mm	36
1953	33.1 °C9 April 1953	17.0 °C3 January 1953	24.6 °C	984 mm	57
1952	32.1 °C4 August 1952	17.2 °C18 January 1952	24.7 °C	870 mm	82
1951	31.9 °C8 September 1951	16.0 °C21 February 1951	24.6 °C	1,242 mm	65
1950	32.3 °C12 August 1950	17.6 °C17 February 1950	24.5 °C	989 mm	67
1949	32.6 °C22 August 1949	17.4 °C12 January 1949	24.6 °C	1,055 mm	73
1948	30.9 °C22 August 1948	16.6 °C27 February 1948	24.5 °C	1,718 mm	34
1947	32.8 °C13 September 1947	18.5 °C19 February 1947	25.1 °C	1,039 mm	132
1946	31.9 °C25 July 1946	18.2 °C9 January 1946	24.5 °C	1,136 mm	84
1945	31.3 °C2 August 1945	17.2 °C14 January 1945	24.4 °C	1,233 mm	26
1944	32.1 °C12 July 1944	16.4 °C6 December 1944	24.7 °C	1,071 mm	69
1943	31.7 °C23 September 1943	18.0 °C28 January 1943	24.2 °C	1,227 mm	57
1942	32.8 °C30 March 1942	17.4 °C31 January 1942	24.3 °C	1,369 mm	80
1941	31.9 °C12 August 1941	14.7 °C12 January 1941	24.3 °C	1,214 mm	58
1940	32.2 °C9 March 1940	17.3 °C4 March 1940	24.3 °C	1,293 mm	91

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

30.3 °C

+1.1 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

226 d/yr

+112

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

1061 mm

+4 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	28.9 °C	+1.1 °C	28 mm	-4 mm
Feb	28.9 °C	+0.8 °C	39 mm	+4 mm
Mar	30.1 °C	+1.3 °C	41 mm	-1 mm
Apr	30.1 °C	+0.8 °C	78 mm	+7 mm
May	30.3 °C	+0.9 °C	157 mm	+19 mm
Jun	30.6 °C	+0.9 °C	78 mm	-50 mm
Jul	31.1 °C	+1.0 °C	72 mm	-44 mm
Aug	32.2 °C	+1.8 °C	64 mm	-63 mm
Sep	31.4 °C	+1.2 °C	141 mm	+14 mm
Oct	30.8 °C	+1.1 °C	278 mm	+150 mm
Nov	30.2 °C	+1.2 °C	64 mm	-10 mm
Dec	29.0 °C	+0.9 °C	22 mm	-19 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

34.1 °C

16 Oct 2025

Coldest day

15.7 °C

30 Dec 2025

Wettest day

75.0 mm

24 Oct 2025

Windiest day

25.1 km/h

21 Apr 2025

Strongest gust

59.4 km/h

18 Aug 2025

Hottest feels-like

40.5 °C

16 Oct 2025

Coldest feels-like

16.5 °C

30 Dec 2025

Sunniest day

12.9 h

18 May 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Cristo Rey?

Cristo Rey has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 25.0 °C and it receives 1,057 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Cristo Rey?

The hottest day measured in Cristo Rey between 1940 and 2025 was 14 August 2008, reaching 34.9 °C.

What is the coldest day in Cristo Rey?

The coldest day measured in Cristo Rey between 1940 and 2025 was 11 January 1956, at 13.5 °C.

Does it snow in Cristo Rey?

Almost never: Cristo Rey sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Has the climate of Cristo Rey warmed?

Yes: Cristo Rey warmed by +1.3 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Cristo Rey?

The wettest day measured in Cristo Rey between 1940 and 2025 was 23 May 1992, with 163 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Cristo Rey?

The windiest day measured in Cristo Rey between 1940 and 2025 was 22 September 1998, with winds reaching 54.7 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Cristo Rey?

The warmest month in Cristo Rey is August (26.3 °C on average); the coldest is January (23.4 °C).

How much does it rain in Cristo Rey?

Cristo Rey receives on average 1,057 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 221 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Cristo Rey?

Cristo Rey gets on average 11.1 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 4,052 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Cristo Rey?

Yes: Cristo Rey has on average 312 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Cristo Rey?

In Cristo Rey, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 42.4 °C on 15 September 2023, and the lowest was 13.2 °C on 11 January 1956.

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