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The church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón, La Romana
La RomanaThe church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón
The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach

Photos: La Romana by Edgar El, CC BY 3.0, cropped; St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License.

La Romana or St. Pete Beach?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose La Romana for

  • prices
  • shopping
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on La Romana’s own page.

Choose St. Pete Beach for

  • families
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. La Romana 84, St. Pete Beach 87: St. Pete Beach leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. La Romana 38, St. Pete Beach 40: St. Pete Beach leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. La Romana 24, St. Pete Beach 18: La Romana leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. La Romana 30, St. Pete Beach 28: La Romana leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Romana 62, St. Pete Beach 57: La Romana leads by 5 points.
Day trips. La Romana 52, St. Pete Beach 58: St. Pete Beach leads by 6 points.
Good for families. La Romana 56, St. Pete Beach 72: St. Pete Beach leads by 16 points.
Getting around. La Romana 24, St. Pete Beach 30: St. Pete Beach leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. La Romana 28, St. Pete Beach 20: La Romana leads by 8 points.
Affordability. La Romana 50, St. Pete Beach 32: La Romana leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Romana 17, St. Pete Beach 20: St. Pete Beach leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Romana 44, St. Pete Beach 42: La Romana leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Romana and St. Pete Beach.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

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La Romana
42match

Wins on prices and shopping with your weighting.

St. Pete Beach
42match

Wins on families and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

La Romana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

La Romana's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Punta Cana.

La Romana has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

St. Pete Beach has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. La Romana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (65.4 km from centre). St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa RomanaSt. Pete Beach
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation10 m2 m
Main airportCasa De Campo International Airport (LRM)7 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa RomanaSt. Pete Beach
City population139,2388,879
People per km²512173
Museums within 10 km02
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months8 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.