Cabarete Guide for Digital Nomads

Weather in Cabarete by month

The warmest month is September, at about 93°F (34°C) in the afternoon, and the coolest is January, at about 85°F (30°C).

The most rain falls in November.

From NOAA's monthly station summaries for Puerto Plata, Dr (14.8 km away), averaged over 2011 to 2025.

Internet in Cabarete

In M-Lab's open speed tests within 25 km of Cabarete, half came in above 29 Mbps download and 18 Mbps upload, and the fastest quarter of lines above 63 Mbps.

That's 5,446 download tests from September 2025 to September 2026.

The typical figure counts every line, cheap and mobile ones too; a fiber line in a good apartment or coworking space is closer to the fastest quarter.

Test yours when you get there with my internet speed test.

Cost of living in Cabarete

One person spends about $995 a month in Cabarete, with a furnished place to stay:

The rent is estimated from the Dominican Republic's housing prices, as Inside Airbnb doesn't cover Cabarete.

The rest is what a one-person US household spends (the Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2024 survey), at the Dominican Republic's prices for each (the World Bank's 2021 price comparison).

Coworking, insurance and flights come on top.

Air quality in Cabarete

By an estimate, the air in Cabarete carries about 16 µg/m³ of fine particles (PM2.5) over a year, 3.3 times the WHO's guideline of 5 µg/m³.

The cleanest month is January, at about 12 µg/m³, and the haziest is July.

No open air quality station is within 25 km of Cabarete, so these are estimates from Copernicus's CAMS air model for the surrounding area (an 80 km grid, 2023 to 2025, CC BY 4.0), adjusted to what stations measure elsewhere.

Take them as a guide: the model can be well off in big cities, and a measured figure replaces it once a station opens.

Is Cabarete safe?

The US State Department rates the Dominican Republic Level 2 ("Exercise increased caution", updated 2025-06-12), the same level it gives France, Germany, the UK and Spain.

Levels 1 and 2 are both everyday travel; the US only asks you to reconsider a trip at Level 3.

Some advisories raise the level for parts of a country, so read the full advisory before you book.

Work and stay in Cabarete

Where to work and live with other remote workers, from each finder:

See them all on a map, with hours, photos and directions, in the free Wi-Fi spots.

Visas, taxes and residency in the Dominican Republic

Before you plan a long stay, check what your passport allows and what staying does to your taxes:

• Can you stay? – see where your passport goes without a visa on the visa-free countries map, and whether the Dominican Republic has a visa for remote workers in the digital nomad visa finder
• Tax – compare the Dominican Republic's income tax with other countries in tax rates by country
• Foreign income – the Dominican Republic taxes only income earned inside the country, not income from abroad; see the rule and its exceptions on the territorial tax map

Each tool reads the official rules, so the answer is for your own passport and income.

Money in Cabarete

A card with no foreign fee and an account that holds several currencies make a stay much cheaper:

• Accounts – the best bank accounts for digital nomads, by where you live
• Cards – what a card costs you abroad in the card fees abroad calculator
• Sending money – the cheapest way to move money there in the money transfer comparison

The finders show only accounts and cards you can open from where you live.

Time zone

Cabarete runs on Santo Domingo time (America/Santo_Domingo).

See how many working hours you'd share with your clients or team in the time zone overlap calculator.