Basey climate by month
What the weather is like
Basey has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af): .
The warmest month is May, when afternoons average 30° and nights 26°. 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 2,852 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. December is the wettest month (402 mm, 30 wet days) and April the driest (138 mm, 23 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 30% in April to 67% 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, Basey is 2.5° cooler on a May afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 30° · May
- Coldest nights
- 25° · January
- Wettest month
- December
- Driest month
- April
- Clearest skies
- April · 30% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 30° · June
- Longest day
- 12 h 47 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 28 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° | 28° | 29° | 30° | 29° | 29° | 30° | 29° | 29° | 28° | 28° |
| Average low | 25° | 25° | 25° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 25° | 25° | 25° |
| Precipitation | 330 mm | 260 mm | 204 mm | 138 mm | 158 mm | 198 mm | 195 mm | 164 mm | 189 mm | 260 mm | 354 mm | 402 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 29.7 | 25.3 | 24.8 | 23.2 | 25 | 28.3 | 29 | 27.2 | 29 | 30 | 29.5 | 30.2 |
| Cloud cover | 46% | 40% | 33% | 30% | 44% | 59% | 66% | 67% | 64% | 57% | 53% | 49% |
| Sea temperature | 27° | 27° | 28° | 29° | 29° | 30° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 28° |
| Daylight | 11h 32 | 11h 46 | 12h 03 | 12h 22 | 12h 38 | 12h 47 | 12h 44 | 12h 30 | 12h 12 | 11h 53 | 11h 37 | 11h 28 |
| Month score | 51 | 52 | 53 | 50 | 42 | 37 | 35 | 33 | 35 | 40 | 44 | 48 |