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Palms on a white beach at Cap Cana, Punta Cana
Punta CanaPalms on a white beach at Cap Cana
Half-timbered houses on the canal, Petite France, Strasbourg
StrasbourgHalf-timbered houses on the canal, Petite France

Photos: Punta Cana by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, CC0; Strasbourg by Edoardo Colombo, Pexels License.

Punta Cana or Strasbourg?

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 Punta Cana for

  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Punta Cana’s own page.

Choose Strasbourg for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Strasbourg’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. Punta Cana 94, Strasbourg 10: Punta Cana leads by 84 points.
Food & drink. Punta Cana 30, Strasbourg 66: Strasbourg leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Punta Cana 8, Strasbourg 70: Strasbourg leads by 62 points.
Nightlife. Punta Cana and Strasbourg are level on 40.
Nature & outdoors. Punta Cana 52, Strasbourg 62: Strasbourg leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Punta Cana 35, Strasbourg 80: Strasbourg leads by 45 points.
Good for families. Punta Cana 68, Strasbourg 66: Punta Cana leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Punta Cana 15, Strasbourg 79: Strasbourg leads by 64 points.
Shopping & style. Punta Cana 30, Strasbourg 52: Strasbourg leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Punta Cana and Strasbourg are level on 44.
Live music & performing arts. Punta Cana 15, Strasbourg 56: Strasbourg leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Punta Cana 52, Strasbourg 55: Strasbourg leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Punta Cana and Strasbourg.

Your match

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

Punta Cana
40match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Strasbourg
Best match
57match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Punta Cana in July

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

Strasbourg in July

26 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
72 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Punta Cana 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Punta Cana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (0.9 km from centre). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePunta CanaStrasbourg
Official languageSpanishFrench
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation28 m132 m
Main airportPunta Cana International Airport (PUJ)1 km from centre93 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePunta CanaStrasbourg
City population138,919293,771
People per km²2923,752
Museums within 10 km021
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.