Santa climate by month
What the weather is like
Santa 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 2,888 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (585 mm, 30 wet days) and February the driest (6 mm, 7 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 15% in February 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, Santa is 2.7° 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
- February · 15% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 30° · June
- Longest day
- 13 h 10 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 05 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° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 28° | 28° | 29° | 29° | 28° |
| Average low | 23° | 23° | 24° | 25° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 25° | 25° | 25° | 25° | 23° |
| Precipitation | 8 mm | 6 mm | 14 mm | 49 mm | 281 mm | 361 mm | 585 mm | 780 mm | 519 mm | 221 mm | 57 mm | 7 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 | 18% | 15% | 15% | 17% | 46% | 59% | 63% | 71% | 61% | 44% | 33% | 23% |
| Sea temperature | 27° | 27° | 28° | 29° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 28° |
| Daylight | 11h 11 | 11h 34 | 12h 01 | 12h 32 | 12h 57 | 13h 10 | 13h 05 | 12h 44 | 12h 15 | 11h 46 | 11h 19 | 11h 05 |
| Month score | 72 | 71 | 68 | 62 | 42 | 38 | 39 | 36 | 40 | 44 | 49 | 54 |