Bacolod City climate

Name: Bacolod City
Address: PH

Bacolod City is warmest in April, with average highs of 31 °C, and coldest in February, when nights average 24 °C. July is the wettest month (357 mm) and April the driest (105 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Bacolod City averages 2,875 mm of rain and 364 days above 25 °C.

Philippines · population 454,898 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month April 31 °C
Coldest month February 24 °C
Driest month April 105 mm
Wettest month July 357 mm
Least cloud April 55 % cloud
Hottest on record April 38 °C
Coldest on record December 20 °C
Warmest sea May 30 °C

What to expectBacolod City through the year

Bacolod City changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 29 and 31 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 364 days a year reach 25 °C, 132 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 357 mm against 105 mm in April — 3.4 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Bacolod City is warmest in May at 30 °C and coldest in February at 27 °C. Sea temperature lags the air by a month or two, which is why late summer swims warmer than early summer at the same air temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	28.4 °C	182 mm	71 %
February	28.9 °C	149 mm	65 %
March	30.1 °C	132 mm	59 %
April	31.5 °C	105 mm	55 %
May	31.2 °C	210 mm	73 %
June	30.0 °C	330 mm	85 %
July	29.1 °C	357 mm	89 %
August	29.2 °C	288 mm	88 %
September	29.1 °C	285 mm	87 %
October	29.2 °C	300 mm	84 %
November	29.4 °C	249 mm	74 %
December	28.8 °C	287 mm	75 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	28.4 °C	24.3 °C	25.9 °C	32.9 °C	20.5 °C	30	3
February	28.9 °C	24.2 °C	26.1 °C	32.8 °C	21.0 °C	28	6
March	30.1 °C	24.7 °C	27.0 °C	36.1 °C	21.2 °C	31	15
April	31.5 °C	25.5 °C	28.2 °C	37.9 °C	22.2 °C	30	25
May	31.2 °C	25.9 °C	28.2 °C	36.9 °C	24.2 °C	31	24
June	30.0 °C	25.4 °C	27.4 °C	35.2 °C	23.8 °C	30	16
July	29.1 °C	25.1 °C	26.7 °C	33.3 °C	24.0 °C	31	9
August	29.2 °C	25.1 °C	26.8 °C	31.9 °C	23.4 °C	31	8
September	29.1 °C	25.0 °C	26.7 °C	32.8 °C	23.5 °C	30	7
October	29.2 °C	24.9 °C	26.7 °C	32.8 °C	23.4 °C	31	7
November	29.4 °C	25.1 °C	26.8 °C	33.5 °C	22.0 °C	30	8
December	28.8 °C	24.8 °C	26.3 °C	33.2 °C	20.2 °C	31	4

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	182 mm	20	12 h/day	71 %	84 %	22 km/h	27.1 °C
February	149 mm	15	12 h/day	65 %	82 %	21 km/h	27.0 °C
March	132 mm	15	12 h/day	59 %	80 %	19 km/h	27.7 °C
April	105 mm	14	12 h/day	55 %	78 %	16 km/h	28.9 °C
May	210 mm	24	13 h/day	73 %	81 %	13 km/h	29.9 °C
June	330 mm	28	13 h/day	85 %	85 %	13 km/h	29.9 °C
July	357 mm	29	13 h/day	89 %	86 %	16 km/h	29.4 °C
August	288 mm	28	12 h/day	88 %	86 %	19 km/h	29.0 °C
September	285 mm	28	12 h/day	87 %	87 %	17 km/h	29.1 °C
October	300 mm	28	12 h/day	84 %	86 %	15 km/h	29.2 °C
November	249 mm	24	12 h/day	74 %	85 %	17 km/h	28.9 °C
December	287 mm	25	12 h/day	75 %	86 %	20 km/h	28.1 °C

How Bacolod City compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Bacolod City	31 °C	24 °C	2,875 mm	364
Bago City · Philippines	31 °C	24 °C	2,376 mm	364
Iloilo · Philippines	31 °C	24 °C	1,937 mm	364
Kabankalan · Philippines	32 °C	23 °C	2,752 mm	365
Toledo · Philippines	30 °C	24 °C	2,400 mm	364
Roxas City · Philippines	30 °C	24 °C	2,852 mm	363
Cebu City · Philippines	30 °C	25 °C	2,128 mm	364

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Bacolod City.

QuestionsCommon questions about Bacolod City’s climate

When is the best time to visit Bacolod City?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. January, February, December sit closest to 20 °C on average, April is the warmest month and April the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Bacolod City get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 31 °C. About 132 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 24 °C in February, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Bacolod City?

July, averaging 357 mm over 29 days with rain. The driest month is April with 105 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,875 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Bacolod City rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: 10.667°, 122.950° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.