Egypt vs Punta Cana

White resort buildings overlook multiple blue pools with palm trees and loungers at Steigenberger Resort Alaya Marsa Alam, with the Red Sea beyond.

White multi-story resort building with pool, loungers, umbrellas, and palm trees on manicured lawn at Excellence El Carmen.

Egypt and Punta Cana, side by side: live travel advisories, our resort catalog's real guest data, and each destination's honest weather picture. Everything you need to break the tie.

Egypt guide · Punta Cana guide · How we score

By the numbers

Egypt compared with Punta Cana
Egypt	Measure	Punta Cana
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
20	Resorts in our catalog	30 (better)
★ 4.7 (better)	Average guest rating	★ 4.7
$62–$303/night pp (better)	Nightly rates	$68–$505/night pp
4 of 20	Adults-only resorts	11 of 30
No hurricane season (better)	Hurricane exposure	In the hurricane belt
None to speak of	Rainy season	May and August–October, mostly brief tropical downpours
October–May; high summer is very hot (but dry, and the sea is warm)	Sweet spot	December–April
Egyptian pound (EGP) – USD and euro often accepted	Currency	Dominican peso; USD accepted everywhere tourists go
~11–13h from the US East Coast (via Europe or the Gulf)	Flight time	~3.5–4.5h from the US East Coast

Advisory levels sync from travel.state.gov; catalog figures reflect the resorts we've researched, not every hotel in the country. A marked row is one we are willing to call; rows without a mark are a matter of taste, or we have no comparable figure for both sides.

On the map

Egypt

Punta Cana

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Egypt and Punta Cana
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Egypt · high °F	71	73	78	85	91	95	97	97	93	87	80	74
Punta Cana · high °F	84	84	85	86	87	88	89	89	88	87	86	84
Egypt · rain (in)	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1
Punta Cana · rain (in)	2.0	1.7	1.7	2.5	4.5	3.0	2.5	3.5	3.5	4.5	3.5	2.5

Approximate climate normals for Red Sea coast (Hurghada) and Punta Cana / Bávaro: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.