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Bantayan climate by month
What the weather is like
Bantayan has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af): .
The warmest month is May, when afternoons average 29° and nights 27°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 27° and lows of 25°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 2°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 1,912 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. October is the wettest month (241 mm, 28 wet days) and April the driest (68 mm, 14 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 26% in April to 67% in July.
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, Bantayan is 3.1° cooler on a May afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 29° · May
- Coldest nights
- 25° · January
- Wettest month
- October
- Driest month
- April
- Clearest skies
- April · 26% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 30° · June
- Longest day
- 12 h 46 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 29 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° | 27° | 27° | 28° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 28° | 28° | 27° |
| Average low | 25° | 25° | 26° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 26° |
| Precipitation | 143 mm | 105 mm | 82 mm | 68 mm | 104 mm | 151 mm | 171 mm | 137 mm | 178 mm | 241 mm | 290 mm | 242 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 25 | 18.7 | 17.2 | 13.7 | 22.5 | 26.5 | 26.8 | 23.7 | 26 | 28.3 | 25.8 | 27.5 |
| Cloud cover | 41% | 36% | 28% | 26% | 44% | 61% | 67% | 67% | 65% | 58% | 50% | 44% |
| Sea temperature | 27° | 27° | 28° | 29° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 28° |
| Daylight | 11h 32 | 11h 46 | 12h 03 | 12h 22 | 12h 38 | 12h 46 | 12h 43 | 12h 30 | 12h 12 | 11h 54 | 11h 37 | 11h 29 |
| Month score | 56 | 58 | 57 | 54 | 45 | 38 | 36 | 36 | 38 | 42 | 47 | 52 |