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Punta Cana and Bayahibe · NOAA satellite data of Mon 5 Oct 2026
Sargassum in Punta Cana and Bayahibe tomorrow
High at 11 beaches. Medium or high: Playa Arena Gorda, Playa Dominicus, Playa El Cortecito, Playa La Laguna, Playa Bayahibe and Playa Juanillo and more.
Beach by beach
| Beach | Faces | Sargassum | Sea tomorrow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Playa Arena Gorda Bávaro and Arena Gorda | NE | High | Choppy |
| Playa Bayahibe Bayahibe and La Romana | SW | High | Calm |
| Playa Blanca Punta Cana and Cap Cana | ESE | High | Choppy |
| Playa Cabeza de Toro Bávaro and Arena Gorda | NE | High | Light chop |
| Playa Caleta Bayahibe and La Romana | S | High | Light chop |
| Playa Dominicus Bayahibe and La Romana | SW | High | Calm |
| Playa El Cortecito Bávaro and Arena Gorda | NE | High | Light chop |
| Playa Juanillo Punta Cana and Cap Cana | SE | High | Choppy |
| Playa La Laguna Bayahibe and La Romana | SW | High | Calm |
| Playa Magallanes Bayahibe and La Romana | SW | High | Calm |
| Playa Minitas Bayahibe and La Romana | SSW | High | Light chop |
Sargassum: NOAA's class for the stretch of coast nearest the beach, data of Mon 5 Oct 2026. Sea: our rating from the wind and wave forecast.
Is there seaweed in Punta Cana and Bayahibe tomorrow?
Tomorrow, NOAA's satellite risk for Punta Cana and Bayahibe is high at 11 beaches (data of Mon 5 Oct 2026). Punta Cana, Bávaro and Uvero Alto face east onto the open Atlantic, into the trade wind: a reef off Bávaro and Cabeza de Toro takes some of the waves, Macao and Uvero Alto have none and get real surf. This coast is also where sargassum lands, mostly from spring to autumn. Bayahibe and Saona Island are on the south coast, on the Caribbean, out of the swell and usually flat.
Tomorrow: 6 of the 6 beaches facing the east half of the compass (north-east to south-east) and 5 of the 5 facing the west half have a medium or high risk. Sargassum drifts in from the open Atlantic on the trade wind and the current, so a coast that faces east usually gets it first; NOAA's risk is worked out from the seaweed within 50–100 km of each stretch of coast and does not know which way a beach faces.
The last two weeks
Beaches per risk level, per NOAA satellite file.
| Day | Low | Medium | High | Worst |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 5 Oct | 11 | High | ||
| Sun 4 Oct | 11 | High | ||
| Sat 3 Oct | 6 | 5 | High | |
| Fri 2 Oct | 6 | 5 | High | |
| Thu 1 Oct | 11 | Medium | ||
| Wed 30 Sep | 6 | 5 | High | |
| Tue 29 Sep | 11 | High | ||
| Mon 28 Sep | 5 | 6 | High | |
| Sun 27 Sep | 11 | High | ||
| Sat 26 Sep | 11 | High | ||
| Fri 25 Sep | 11 | High | ||
| Thu 24 Sep | 11 | High | ||
| Wed 23 Sep | 11 | High | ||
| Tue 22 Sep | 6 | 5 | High |
How to read NOAA's risk
NOAA's Sargassum Inundation Risk is an experimental product of NOAA/AOML, NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch and the University of South Florida. Every day it compares the floating seaweed that satellites see within 50–100 km of each stretch of coast with the weeks before, and gives the stretch one of four classes. We show them as three words:
- Low (NOAA: low): little or no seaweed near this coast.
- Medium (NOAA: warning or medium): seaweed at sea nearby; some may wash up, depending on wind and current.
- High (NOAA: high): a lot of seaweed nearby; expect it on the beach and brown water at the edge.
- No data: clouds or no coast segment near the beach; we do not guess.
What it cannot tell you: whether a hotel cleaned its beach this morning, or a raft that arrived overnight. It looks at stretches of coast of a few kilometres, not at one beach. Seaweed on the beach is not dangerous to touch, but rotting piles give off hydrogen sulphide (the smell of rotten eggs), which can bother people with asthma.
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