Basco climate by month
What the weather is like
Basco has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af): .
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 29° and nights 27°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 23° and lows of 22°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 5°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 2,716 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (342 mm, 28 wet days) and February the driest (105 mm, 11 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 26% in April to 55% in August.
The sea reaches about 29° in July. 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, Basco is 0.8° cooler on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 29° · July
- Coldest nights
- 22° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- February
- Clearest skies
- April · 26% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 29° · July
- Longest day
- 13 h 22 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 54 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 | 23° | 24° | 25° | 26° | 28° | 29° | 29° | 28° | 28° | 27° | 26° | 24° |
| Average low | 22° | 22° | 24° | 25° | 26° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 26° | 25° | 23° |
| Precipitation | 189 mm | 105 mm | 85 mm | 60 mm | 246 mm | 263 mm | 278 mm | 342 mm | 346 mm | 361 mm | 278 mm | 163 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 15.2 | 10.5 | 11.8 | 11.3 | 18 | 24.3 | 24.8 | 28 | 22.8 | 22.2 | 19.5 | 21.3 |
| Cloud cover | 41% | 35% | 31% | 26% | 42% | 52% | 49% | 55% | 46% | 36% | 37% | 42% |
| Sea temperature | 26° | 25° | 26° | 27° | 28° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 28° | 27° | 26° |
| Daylight | 11h 01 | 11h 28 | 12h 00 | 12h 36 | 13h 06 | 13h 22 | 13h 16 | 12h 51 | 12h 17 | 11h 42 | 11h 11 | 10h 54 |
| Month score | 62 | 73 | 72 | 68 | 51 | 43 | 44 | 42 | 47 | 55 | 61 | 62 |