Butuan climate

Name: Butuan
Address: PH

Butuan is warmest in May, with average highs of 31 °C, and coldest in February, when nights average 23 °C. January is the wettest month (277 mm) and April the driest (105 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Butuan averages 2,145 mm of rain and 363 days above 25 °C.

Philippines · population 309,709 · 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 May 31 °C
Coldest month February 23 °C
Driest month April 105 mm
Wettest month January 277 mm
Least cloud April 61 % cloud
Hottest on record April 38 °C
Coldest on record February 19 °C
Warmest sea June 29 °C

What to expectButuan through the year

Butuan 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, 363 days a year reach 25 °C, 160 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. January averages 277 mm against 105 mm in April — 2.6 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Butuan is warmest in June at 29 °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	28.2 °C	277 mm	76 %
February	28.6 °C	192 mm	71 %
March	29.4 °C	151 mm	66 %
April	30.6 °C	105 mm	61 %
May	30.8 °C	145 mm	74 %
June	30.4 °C	197 mm	84 %
July	30.0 °C	171 mm	87 %
August	30.6 °C	139 mm	85 %
September	30.6 °C	132 mm	84 %
October	29.9 °C	190 mm	82 %
November	29.5 °C	223 mm	75 %
December	28.9 °C	224 mm	76 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	28.2 °C	23.1 °C	25.3 °C	34.3 °C	18.8 °C	30	3
February	28.6 °C	22.9 °C	25.4 °C	33.5 °C	18.6 °C	28	4
March	29.4 °C	23.1 °C	25.9 °C	33.9 °C	19.3 °C	31	9
April	30.6 °C	23.8 °C	26.9 °C	37.6 °C	20.5 °C	30	18
May	30.8 °C	24.4 °C	27.3 °C	35.5 °C	22.2 °C	31	23
June	30.4 °C	24.4 °C	27.0 °C	34.3 °C	22.6 °C	30	18
July	30.0 °C	24.1 °C	26.8 °C	34.6 °C	22.0 °C	31	15
August	30.6 °C	24.4 °C	27.2 °C	36.7 °C	22.4 °C	31	21
September	30.6 °C	24.3 °C	27.1 °C	36.4 °C	22.3 °C	30	20
October	29.9 °C	24.0 °C	26.6 °C	35.0 °C	22.1 °C	31	14
November	29.5 °C	23.8 °C	26.3 °C	34.0 °C	20.9 °C	30	10
December	28.9 °C	23.6 °C	25.9 °C	33.0 °C	19.0 °C	31	6

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	277 mm	22	12 h/day	76 %	84 %	9.8 km/h	27.2 °C
February	192 mm	17	12 h/day	71 %	83 %	9.8 km/h	27.1 °C
March	151 mm	17	12 h/day	66 %	81 %	9.9 km/h	27.5 °C
April	105 mm	15	12 h/day	61 %	79 %	10 km/h	28.2 °C
May	145 mm	22	13 h/day	74 %	80 %	11 km/h	29.0 °C
June	197 mm	24	13 h/day	84 %	81 %	11 km/h	29.4 °C
July	171 mm	22	13 h/day	87 %	81 %	12 km/h	29.3 °C
August	139 mm	19	12 h/day	85 %	79 %	13 km/h	29.3 °C
September	132 mm	20	12 h/day	84 %	79 %	13 km/h	29.4 °C
October	190 mm	24	12 h/day	82 %	82 %	13 km/h	29.3 °C
November	223 mm	24	12 h/day	75 %	83 %	11 km/h	28.9 °C
December	224 mm	23	12 h/day	76 %	84 %	9.9 km/h	28.1 °C

How Butuan 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
Butuan	31 °C	23 °C	2,145 mm	363
Libertad · Philippines	31 °C	23 °C	2,114 mm	363
Cagayan de Oro · Philippines	29 °C	22 °C	3,120 mm	361
NIA Valencia · Philippines	30 °C	20 °C	2,207 mm	356
Iligan City · Philippines	28 °C	22 °C	3,474 mm	355
Iligan · Philippines	29 °C	23 °C	2,314 mm	362
Magugpo Poblacion · Philippines	30 °C	23 °C	1,523 mm	361

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Butuan.

QuestionsCommon questions about Butuan’s climate

When is the best time to visit Butuan?

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, May is the warmest month and April the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Butuan get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 31 °C. About 160 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 23 °C in February, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Butuan?

January, averaging 277 mm over 22 days with rain. The driest month is April with 105 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,145 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 Butuan 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
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.