Malay climate by month
What the weather is like
Malay has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am): .
The warmest month is May, when afternoons average 29° and nights 27°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 26° 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 2,735 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. October is the wettest month (361 mm, 29 wet days) and April the driest (58 mm, 10 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 25% in April to 68% 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, Malay is 3.5° cooler on a May afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 29° · May
- Coldest nights
- 25° · January
- Wettest month
- October
- Driest month
- April
- Clearest skies
- April · 25% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 30° · June
- Longest day
- 12 h 49 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 26 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 | 26° | 26° | 27° | 28° | 29° | 28° | 28° | 28° | 28° | 28° | 28° | 27° |
| Average low | 25° | 25° | 26° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 26° |
| Precipitation | 76 mm | 44 mm | 49 mm | 58 mm | 184 mm | 355 mm | 410 mm | 384 mm | 371 mm | 361 mm | 268 mm | 175 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 20.5 | 18 | 12.7 | 10.2 | 20.7 | 26.7 | 28.3 | 24.7 | 26 | 29.2 | 26 | 25.8 |
| Cloud cover | 37% | 32% | 27% | 25% | 46% | 62% | 68% | 68% | 66% | 59% | 48% | 42% |
| Sea temperature | 27° | 27° | 27° | 29° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 28° |
| Daylight | 11h 30 | 11h 45 | 12h 03 | 12h 23 | 12h 40 | 12h 49 | 12h 46 | 12h 32 | 12h 12 | 11h 53 | 11h 35 | 11h 26 |
| Month score | 59 | 61 | 62 | 64 | 46 | 40 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 43 | 49 | 54 |