Climatology

of Caribbean Hurricanes

Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (MDPC)

Location: 18.57N 68.37W

Tropical systems passing within 60nm (= 69mi.) of the island. Used latitude/longitude coordinates (18.57N, 68.37W) might not be the center of the island. Often the location of the island weather station was used, which is normally at the airport.
Please note that not only hurricanes (h1-h5) are included but also tropical storms (ts). Wind/category reported is maximum measured while the system moved through region (box). Each category storm has its own color (see color bar below; ts=tropical storm; h1=category 1 hurricane; etc., see the guide for definitions). Different projections can be selected, the island projections are most zoomed in (select if you want to see how close the systems passed by the island [not available for regions]), while the world projection most zoomed out (select when you want to see the complete path of the storm). Winds are in miles per hour. It is also calculated how close the center of the storm came to the island, the so-called closest point of approach (cpoa, in miles).

Below you can see all stormtracks since 1851 for Punta Cana (for more details about individual storms skip to another page where storms are separated per decade). In the climatology section there is also a weekly analysis of the data which shows when the real peak of hurricane season is for Punta Cana and a five-year analysis to find out if more storms have passed close by Punta Cana recently.

Projection: Island | Caribbean | Atlantic | World |
[ts=tropical storm; h1=category 1 hurricane; etc.]

1851 - 2019

date wind cat. cpoa name 18 Aug 1851 104 h2 53 UNNAMED 6 Sep 1852 69 ts 5 UNNAMED 26 Aug 1855 69 ts 42 UNNAMED 30 Oct 1867 81 h1 25 UNNAMED 13 Sep 1876 81 h1 8 UNNAMED 29 Nov 1878 69 ts 65 UNNAMED 10 Oct 1887 69 ts 57 UNNAMED 20 Aug 1891 98 h2 3 UNNAMED 17 Aug 1893 109 h2 38 UNNAMED 2 Sep 1896 98 h2 19 UNNAMED 9 Aug 1899 121 h3 28 UNNAMED 1 Sep 1900 52 ts 55 UNNAMED 7 Jul 1901 69 ts 4 UNNAMED 12 Sep 1901 58 ts 3 UNNAMED 22 Aug 1909 92 h1 54 UNNAMED 7 Sep 1910 92 h1 67 UNNAMED 22 Aug 1916 75 h1 8 UNNAMED 4 Sep 1919 52 ts 13 UNNAMED 11 Sep 1921 127 h3 11 UNNAMED 24 Jul 1926 98 h2 14 UNNAMED 14 Sep 1928 150 h4 31 UNNAMED 3 Sep 1930 138 h4 42 UNNAMED 3 Sep 1931 46 ts 63 UNNAMED 11 Sep 1931 75 h1 7 UNNAMED 27 Sep 1932 104 h2 29 UNNAMED 9 Aug 1938 52 ts 43 UNNAMED 15 Oct 1943 92 h1 26 UNNAMED 22 Sep 1949 75 h1 54 UNNAMED 8 Sep 1953 46 ts 59 DOLLY 13 Aug 1956 98 h2 55 BETSY 3 Oct 1961 58 ts 17 FRANCES 27 Sep 1963 75 h1 39 EDITH 16 Sep 1975 75 h1 63 ELOISE 5 Sep 1979 52 ts 53 FREDERIC 9 Sep 1981 46 ts 65 GERT 11 Sep 1996 81 h1 14 HORTENSE 22 Sep 1998 121 h3 27 GEORGES 23 Aug 2000 75 h1 66 DEBBY 10 Oct 2003 46 ts 46 MINDY 16 Sep 2004 81 h1 2 JEANNE 11 Dec 2007 58 ts 5 OLGA 15 Aug 2008 40 ts 5 FAY 22 Aug 2011 86 h1 56 IRENE 2 Aug 2014 46 ts 2 BERTHA 28 Aug 2015 52 ts 67 ERIKA 21 Sep 2017 115 h3 53 MARIA

Punta Cana, Dominican Republic: all dec peak 5yr rank

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