Balatan climate by month
What the weather is like
Balatan has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af): .
The warmest month is April, when afternoons average 30° and nights 26°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 27° and lows of 24°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 3°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 2,472 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. October is the wettest month (286 mm, 30 wet days) and April the driest (88 mm, 20 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 25% in April to 69% in August.
The sea reaches about 30° in June. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Manila, the capital, Balatan is 2.6° cooler on a April afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 30° · April
- Coldest nights
- 24° · January
- Wettest month
- October
- Driest month
- April
- Clearest skies
- April · 25% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 30° · June
- Longest day
- 12 h 54 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 21 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 27° | 28° | 29° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 28° | 28° |
| Average low | 24° | 24° | 25° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 25° | 24° |
| Precipitation | 155 mm | 117 mm | 80 mm | 88 mm | 148 mm | 202 mm | 284 mm | 232 mm | 290 mm | 286 mm | 305 mm | 285 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 28 | 24.7 | 23.5 | 20.2 | 24.2 | 26 | 29.5 | 27.5 | 28.7 | 30.3 | 29 | 30.2 |
| Cloud cover | 35% | 31% | 26% | 25% | 43% | 57% | 66% | 69% | 65% | 56% | 46% | 39% |
| Sea temperature | 26° | 26° | 27° | 28° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 28° | 27° |
| Daylight | 11h 25 | 11h 42 | 12h 02 | 12h 25 | 12h 44 | 12h 54 | 12h 50 | 12h 35 | 12h 13 | 11h 51 | 11h 31 | 11h 21 |
| Month score | 56 | 56 | 52 | 46 | 41 | 38 | 36 | 36 | 38 | 41 | 46 | 53 |