Villa Altagracia climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Villa Altagracia?

Villa Altagracia has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 21.5 °C and it receives 1,503 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Villa Altagracia?

The hottest day measured in Villa Altagracia between 1940 and 2025 was 7 September 1997, reaching 32.0 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Villa Altagracia?

The coldest day measured in Villa Altagracia between 1940 and 2025 was 11 January 1956, at 9.3 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Villa Altagracia?

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

Q: Has the climate of Villa Altagracia warmed?

Yes: Villa Altagracia warmed by +1.4 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Villa Altagracia?

The wettest day measured in Villa Altagracia between 1940 and 2025 was 22 September 1998, with 179 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Villa Altagracia?

The windiest day measured in Villa Altagracia between 1940 and 2025 was 22 September 1998, with winds reaching 41.3 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Villa Altagracia?

The warmest month in Villa Altagracia is August (23.0 °C on average); the coldest is January (19.5 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Villa Altagracia?

Villa Altagracia receives on average 1,503 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 251 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Villa Altagracia?

Villa Altagracia gets on average 10.9 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,979 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Villa Altagracia (Dominican Republic) has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 21.5 °C and it receives 1,503 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 (23.0 °C on average) and the coldest is January (19.5 °C). Rainfall peaks in May.

Villa Altagracia averages 0 frost days, 3 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 251 rainy days per year.

Villa Altagracia has warmed by +1.4 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.17 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 32.0 °C (on 7 September 1997) and the coldest 9.3 °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

Villa AltagraciaSan Cristóbal

coords: 18.67°, -70.17°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

AfTropical rainforestWarmest monthAugustColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthMayDriest monthJanuary

Mean daily temperature

21.5°C

Average daily high

26.0°C

Average daily low

18.0°C

Annual rainfall

1,503mm

Sunshine / day

10.9h

Mean relative humidity

86%

Average peak wind

9.9km/h

Seasonal range

3.5°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

3 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

251 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

29.4 °C

Average feels-like low

20.1 °C

Average peak gust

32.5 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

45 d/yr

Solar radiation

18.7 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.4 °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

32.0 °C

7 September 1997

Coldest day

9.3 °C

11 January 1956

Wettest day

179 mm

22 September 1998

Windiest day

41.3 km/h

22 September 1998

Strongest gust

125.6 km/h

22 September 1998

Hottest feels-like

38.4 °C

5 October 2023

Coldest feels-like

8.2 °C

11 January 1956

Sunniest day

12.9 h

22 May 1940

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	31.6 °C21 August 2025	11.8 °C30 December 2025	22.6 °C	1,483 mm	13
2024	31.0 °C16 August 2024	13.0 °C23 February 2024	23.2 °C	1,662 mm	29
2023	31.7 °C11 September 2023	10.8 °C19 January 2023	22.9 °C	1,329 mm	50
2022	30.3 °C13 June 2022	11.6 °C3 January 2022	22.1 °C	1,293 mm	4
2021	30.4 °C5 September 2021	11.9 °C5 January 2021	22.0 °C	1,332 mm	5
2020	31.0 °C29 August 2020	14.0 °C31 January 2020	22.5 °C	1,420 mm	11
2019	30.4 °C24 July 2019	13.5 °C9 January 2019	22.3 °C	1,037 mm	5
2018	30.1 °C8 August 2018	12.4 °C2 March 2018	21.9 °C	1,313 mm	1
2017	30.2 °C25 August 2017	11.5 °C21 January 2017	22.2 °C	1,691 mm	2
2016	30.8 °C18 October 2016	12.6 °C5 February 2016	22.3 °C	1,680 mm	4
2015	31.7 °C3 October 2015	14.4 °C23 January 2015	22.3 °C	1,100 mm	12
2014	30.9 °C18 August 2014	13.1 °C5 March 2014	22.0 °C	1,000 mm	5
2013	30.4 °C4 August 2013	10.9 °C13 February 2013	21.8 °C	1,404 mm	1
2012	30.3 °C28 October 2012	12.6 °C22 February 2012	21.8 °C	1,754 mm	5
2011	29.9 °C16 September 2011	12.1 °C22 February 2011	21.8 °C	1,520 mm	0
2010	31.1 °C7 October 2010	11.0 °C9 March 2010	22.4 °C	1,646 mm	10
2009	29.9 °C16 July 2009	11.6 °C19 February 2009	21.8 °C	1,543 mm	0
2008	31.7 °C25 September 2008	10.3 °C14 January 2008	21.6 °C	1,509 mm	8
2007	30.8 °C20 April 2007	13.7 °C20 January 2007	22.0 °C	1,749 mm	4
2006	29.8 °C17 September 2006	11.6 °C31 January 2006	21.9 °C	1,399 mm	0
2005	31.0 °C25 May 2005	11.9 °C22 February 2005	22.0 °C	1,697 mm	4
2004	30.3 °C20 September 2004	10.6 °C27 January 2004	21.6 °C	1,691 mm	2
2003	29.7 °C22 March 2003	14.4 °C20 December 2003	21.8 °C	1,503 mm	0
2002	29.5 °C1 August 2002	11.1 °C22 February 2002	21.6 °C	1,186 mm	0
2001	29.9 °C17 July 2001	12.3 °C27 February 2001	21.6 °C	1,342 mm	0
2000	29.8 °C16 July 2000	10.6 °C19 January 2000	21.4 °C	1,140 mm	0
1999	29.6 °C30 April 1999	11.0 °C18 February 1999	21.2 °C	1,482 mm	0
1998	30.4 °C10 May 1998	12.7 °C13 February 1998	21.8 °C	1,819 mm	5
1997	32.0 °C7 September 1997	12.7 °C7 April 1997	21.9 °C	1,009 mm	7
1996	30.2 °C9 July 1996	11.7 °C19 December 1996	21.1 °C	1,651 mm	1
1995	31.0 °C18 September 1995	12.9 °C4 February 1995	21.7 °C	1,250 mm	7
1994	29.8 °C20 June 1994	14.0 °C16 February 1994	21.5 °C	1,146 mm	0
1993	30.0 °C2 June 1993	11.5 °C22 February 1993	21.5 °C	1,737 mm	1
1992	29.5 °C2 July 1992	12.0 °C19 January 1992	21.4 °C	1,779 mm	0
1991	29.9 °C14 August 1991	11.6 °C20 January 1991	21.4 °C	1,270 mm	0
1990	30.0 °C5 April 1990	13.1 °C9 December 1990	21.4 °C	1,626 mm	1
1989	30.3 °C4 August 1989	12.5 °C27 March 1989	21.2 °C	1,254 mm	3
1988	29.6 °C8 June 1988	12.2 °C22 January 1988	21.5 °C	1,842 mm	0
1987	29.3 °C12 August 1987	12.8 °C3 January 1987	22.0 °C	2,130 mm	0
1986	28.5 °C11 May 1986	12.2 °C24 December 1986	21.3 °C	1,829 mm	0
1985	28.9 °C23 August 1985	12.7 °C7 February 1985	21.2 °C	1,487 mm	0
1984	30.0 °C30 March 1984	13.3 °C20 December 1984	21.3 °C	1,427 mm	1
1983	29.6 °C14 June 1983	13.4 °C6 February 1983	21.9 °C	1,475 mm	0
1982	28.9 °C10 June 1982	12.6 °C25 February 1982	21.2 °C	1,556 mm	0
1981	29.3 °C2 October 1981	12.6 °C31 March 1981	21.7 °C	1,706 mm	0
1980	29.7 °C11 October 1980	13.7 °C21 January 1980	22.0 °C	1,398 mm	0
1979	28.9 °C30 July 1979	12.6 °C10 February 1979	21.5 °C	2,011 mm	0
1978	29.9 °C30 July 1978	12.6 °C14 February 1978	21.7 °C	1,652 mm	0
1977	28.8 °C9 July 1977	14.3 °C10 January 1977	21.8 °C	1,511 mm	0
1976	29.6 °C25 August 1976	13.2 °C29 January 1976	21.2 °C	1,181 mm	0
1975	29.2 °C16 July 1975	11.8 °C6 February 1975	21.4 °C	1,269 mm	0
1974	28.6 °C7 October 1974	13.0 °C12 March 1974	21.4 °C	1,785 mm	0
1973	29.3 °C5 July 1973	13.1 °C9 February 1973	21.8 °C	1,465 mm	0
1972	30.4 °C8 October 1972	13.2 °C6 January 1972	21.6 °C	1,491 mm	1
1971	29.5 °C7 September 1971	12.9 °C9 February 1971	21.3 °C	1,382 mm	0
1970	29.3 °C19 August 1970	12.7 °C4 March 1970	21.6 °C	1,504 mm	0
1969	30.3 °C12 July 1969	13.6 °C21 February 1969	22.0 °C	1,528 mm	2
1968	28.9 °C25 August 1968	12.1 °C4 February 1968	21.2 °C	1,221 mm	0
1967	29.9 °C20 July 1967	12.1 °C25 December 1967	21.1 °C	990 mm	0
1966	30.2 °C25 August 1966	12.9 °C13 February 1966	21.1 °C	1,319 mm	2
1965	29.3 °C13 April 1965	11.2 °C4 January 1965	20.9 °C	1,332 mm	0
1964	29.6 °C3 September 1964	11.6 °C26 January 1964	21.1 °C	1,391 mm	0
1963	29.6 °C29 September 1963	12.9 °C24 January 1963	21.1 °C	1,770 mm	0
1962	30.0 °C8 August 1962	11.6 °C16 February 1962	21.0 °C	1,367 mm	1
1961	28.8 °C17 June 1961	11.0 °C29 March 1961	20.8 °C	1,723 mm	0
1960	29.3 °C24 August 1960	13.2 °C27 February 1960	21.1 °C	1,575 mm	0
1959	30.0 °C30 June 1959	12.7 °C29 December 1959	21.2 °C	1,371 mm	1
1958	30.6 °C17 April 1958	11.7 °C7 February 1958	21.8 °C	1,584 mm	4
1957	30.4 °C30 July 1957	11.4 °C12 February 1957	21.3 °C	1,308 mm	1
1956	29.8 °C3 November 1956	9.3 °C11 January 1956	20.8 °C	1,682 mm	0
1955	29.6 °C11 August 1955	10.8 °C23 January 1955	20.8 °C	1,563 mm	0
1954	28.9 °C27 June 1954	12.0 °C6 January 1954	20.6 °C	1,748 mm	0
1953	29.8 °C8 April 1953	11.6 °C3 January 1953	21.0 °C	1,419 mm	0
1952	30.1 °C4 May 1952	11.4 °C3 February 1952	21.1 °C	1,341 mm	1
1951	30.7 °C8 September 1951	11.1 °C21 February 1951	21.1 °C	1,595 mm	1
1950	29.6 °C31 May 1950	13.0 °C12 February 1950	20.6 °C	1,649 mm	0
1949	30.0 °C8 September 1949	13.1 °C12 January 1949	21.1 °C	1,400 mm	1
1948	29.3 °C3 June 1948	11.4 °C27 February 1948	21.1 °C	1,884 mm	0
1947	29.7 °C19 October 1947	13.7 °C13 December 1947	21.5 °C	1,378 mm	0
1946	29.1 °C25 July 1946	13.7 °C6 February 1946	20.9 °C	1,444 mm	0
1945	29.1 °C12 September 1945	12.9 °C14 January 1945	20.9 °C	1,651 mm	0
1944	29.2 °C6 April 1944	10.9 °C7 February 1944	21.2 °C	1,442 mm	0
1943	29.6 °C24 September 1943	13.2 °C16 January 1943	20.8 °C	1,656 mm	0
1942	29.3 °C2 October 1942	12.4 °C31 January 1942	20.9 °C	1,880 mm	0
1941	29.5 °C28 July 1941	9.8 °C4 March 1941	21.0 °C	1,743 mm	0
1940	29.9 °C27 August 1940	12.3 °C13 January 1940	21.0 °C	1,739 mm	0

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

27.2 °C

+1.2 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

13 d/yr

+10

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

1483 mm

-20 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	25.6 °C	+1.5 °C	51 mm	-14 mm
Feb	25.3 °C	+0.9 °C	68 mm	-7 mm
Mar	26.8 °C	+1.6 °C	82 mm	-18 mm
Apr	26.2 °C	+0.4 °C	200 mm	+36 mm
May	27.4 °C	+1.0 °C	230 mm	+11 mm
Jun	27.5 °C	+0.4 °C	95 mm	-40 mm
Jul	28.0 °C	+0.8 °C	95 mm	-37 mm
Aug	29.3 °C	+1.9 °C	91 mm	-55 mm
Sep	28.8 °C	+1.3 °C	143 mm	-2 mm
Oct	28.0 °C	+1.0 °C	283 mm	+140 mm
Nov	27.2 °C	+1.5 °C	117 mm	+14 mm
Dec	26.0 °C	+1.5 °C	28 mm	-48 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

31.6 °C

21 Aug 2025

Coldest day

11.8 °C

30 Dec 2025

Wettest day

50.1 mm

24 Oct 2025

Windiest day

20.9 km/h

29 Oct 2025

Strongest gust

59.0 km/h

29 Oct 2025

Hottest feels-like

37.3 °C

21 Aug 2025

Coldest feels-like

12.0 °C

30 Dec 2025

Sunniest day

12.9 h

23 May 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Villa Altagracia?

Villa Altagracia has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 21.5 °C and it receives 1,503 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Villa Altagracia?

The hottest day measured in Villa Altagracia between 1940 and 2025 was 7 September 1997, reaching 32.0 °C.

What is the coldest day in Villa Altagracia?

The coldest day measured in Villa Altagracia between 1940 and 2025 was 11 January 1956, at 9.3 °C.

Does it snow in Villa Altagracia?

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

Has the climate of Villa Altagracia warmed?

Yes: Villa Altagracia warmed by +1.4 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Villa Altagracia?

The wettest day measured in Villa Altagracia between 1940 and 2025 was 22 September 1998, with 179 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Villa Altagracia?

The windiest day measured in Villa Altagracia between 1940 and 2025 was 22 September 1998, with winds reaching 41.3 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Villa Altagracia?

The warmest month in Villa Altagracia is August (23.0 °C on average); the coldest is January (19.5 °C).

How much does it rain in Villa Altagracia?

Villa Altagracia receives on average 1,503 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 251 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Villa Altagracia?

Villa Altagracia gets on average 10.9 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,979 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Villa Altagracia?

Yes: Villa Altagracia has on average 45 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Villa Altagracia?

In Villa Altagracia, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 38.4 °C on 5 October 2023, and the lowest was 8.2 °C on 11 January 1956.

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