Cebu City climate

Name: Cebu City
Address: PH

Cebu City is warmest in May, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in February, when nights average 25 °C. October is the wettest month (238 mm) and April the driest (100 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Cebu City averages 2,128 mm of rain and 364 days above 25 °C.

Philippines · population 965,332 · 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 30 °C
Coldest month February 25 °C
Driest month April 100 mm
Wettest month October 238 mm
Least cloud April 56 % cloud
Hottest on record April 34 °C
Coldest on record December 21 °C
Warmest sea June 30 °C

What to expectCebu City through the year

Cebu City changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 27 and 30 °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, 34 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. October averages 238 mm against 100 mm in April — 2.4 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Cebu City is warmest in June 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	27.0 °C	156 mm	70 %
February	27.2 °C	120 mm	65 %
March	27.9 °C	110 mm	59 %
April	29.0 °C	100 mm	56 %
May	29.6 °C	162 mm	73 %
June	29.3 °C	226 mm	84 %
July	29.0 °C	223 mm	89 %
August	29.2 °C	170 mm	86 %
September	29.1 °C	183 mm	86 %
October	28.6 °C	238 mm	84 %
November	28.1 °C	219 mm	74 %
December	27.6 °C	220 mm	74 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	27.0 °C	24.7 °C	25.7 °C	29.8 °C	22.4 °C	30	0
February	27.2 °C	24.6 °C	25.7 °C	30.4 °C	21.9 °C	28	0
March	27.9 °C	25.0 °C	26.3 °C	31.9 °C	22.4 °C	31	1
April	29.0 °C	25.8 °C	27.2 °C	33.6 °C	23.8 °C	30	3
May	29.6 °C	26.1 °C	27.7 °C	32.6 °C	24.5 °C	31	8
June	29.3 °C	25.9 °C	27.4 °C	32.7 °C	24.3 °C	30	6
July	29.0 °C	25.7 °C	27.1 °C	31.1 °C	24.1 °C	31	3
August	29.2 °C	25.8 °C	27.2 °C	31.4 °C	23.7 °C	31	6
September	29.1 °C	25.7 °C	27.1 °C	31.4 °C	24.2 °C	30	5
October	28.6 °C	25.5 °C	26.8 °C	31.4 °C	24.1 °C	31	1
November	28.1 °C	25.5 °C	26.6 °C	31.3 °C	22.8 °C	30	0
December	27.6 °C	25.2 °C	26.2 °C	30.1 °C	20.8 °C	31	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	156 mm	19	12 h/day	70 %	83 %	18 km/h	27.4 °C
February	120 mm	15	12 h/day	65 %	82 %	17 km/h	27.2 °C
March	110 mm	16	12 h/day	59 %	81 %	16 km/h	27.7 °C
April	100 mm	17	12 h/day	56 %	81 %	14 km/h	28.6 °C
May	162 mm	24	13 h/day	73 %	82 %	12 km/h	29.4 °C
June	226 mm	26	13 h/day	84 %	83 %	12 km/h	29.6 °C
July	223 mm	25	13 h/day	89 %	83 %	13 km/h	29.4 °C
August	170 mm	22	12 h/day	86 %	82 %	15 km/h	29.2 °C
September	183 mm	23	12 h/day	86 %	83 %	14 km/h	29.3 °C
October	238 mm	26	12 h/day	84 %	84 %	12 km/h	29.4 °C
November	219 mm	24	12 h/day	74 %	84 %	14 km/h	29.0 °C
December	220 mm	24	12 h/day	74 %	85 %	16 km/h	28.3 °C

How Cebu 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
Cebu City	30 °C	25 °C	2,128 mm	364
Lapu-Lapu City · Philippines	30 °C	25 °C	2,104 mm	365
Toledo · Philippines	30 °C	24 °C	2,400 mm	364
Ormoc · Philippines	31 °C	23 °C	2,130 mm	365
Bacolod City · Philippines	31 °C	24 °C	2,875 mm	364
Bago City · Philippines	31 °C	24 °C	2,376 mm	364

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Cebu City’s climate

When is the best time to visit Cebu 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, May is the warmest month and April the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Cebu City get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 34 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 25 °C in February, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Cebu City?

October, averaging 238 mm over 26 days with rain. The driest month is April with 100 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,128 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 Cebu 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
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.