Candon climate by month
What the weather is like
Candon has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am): .
The warmest month is May, when afternoons average 29° and nights 26°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 27° and lows of 23°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 3°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 2,955 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (601 mm, 30 wet days) and February the driest (12 mm, 7 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 17% in March to 71% 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, Candon is 2.9° cooler on a May afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 29° · May
- Coldest nights
- 23° · January
- Wettest month
- July
- Driest month
- February
- Clearest skies
- March · 17% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 30° · June
- Longest day
- 13 h 09 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 07 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° | 28° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 28° | 28° | 29° | 29° | 28° |
| Average low | 23° | 23° | 24° | 25° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 25° | 25° | 25° | 24° |
| Precipitation | 13 mm | 12 mm | 23 mm | 68 mm | 276 mm | 379 mm | 601 mm | 727 mm | 498 mm | 271 mm | 73 mm | 14 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 7.8 | 7.3 | 7.8 | 8.7 | 22.2 | 29 | 29.8 | 28.7 | 28.2 | 26.3 | 21.8 | 15.3 |
| Cloud cover | 21% | 18% | 17% | 19% | 47% | 59% | 64% | 71% | 62% | 47% | 35% | 26% |
| Sea temperature | 27° | 27° | 28° | 29° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 28° |
| Daylight | 11h 12 | 11h 35 | 12h 01 | 12h 31 | 12h 56 | 13h 09 | 13h 04 | 12h 43 | 12h 15 | 11h 46 | 11h 20 | 11h 07 |
| Month score | 73 | 73 | 69 | 63 | 43 | 38 | 38 | 36 | 40 | 44 | 49 | 55 |