Cotabato climate

Name: Cotabato
Address: PH

Cotabato is warmest in April, with average highs of 31 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 24 °C. June is the wettest month (309 mm) and February the driest (143 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Cotabato averages 2,645 mm of rain and 365 days above 25 °C.

Philippines · population 383,383 · 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 January 24 °C
Driest month February 143 mm
Wettest month June 309 mm
Least cloud March 65 % cloud
Hottest on record April 36 °C
Coldest on record January 21 °C
Warmest sea May 30 °C

What to expectCotabato through the year

Cotabato 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, 365 days a year reach 25 °C, 116 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. June averages 309 mm against 143 mm in February — 2.2 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Cotabato is warmest in May at 30 °C and coldest in February at 29 °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	29.4 °C	169 mm	73 %
February	29.8 °C	143 mm	70 %
March	30.4 °C	159 mm	65 %
April	30.6 °C	175 mm	66 %
May	30.0 °C	291 mm	80 %
June	29.2 °C	309 mm	86 %
July	28.8 °C	277 mm	87 %
August	28.9 °C	243 mm	85 %
September	29.0 °C	217 mm	85 %
October	29.1 °C	262 mm	84 %
November	29.5 °C	219 mm	77 %
December	29.5 °C	181 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	29.4 °C	24.0 °C	26.3 °C	34.0 °C	21.0 °C	31	8
February	29.8 °C	24.0 °C	26.5 °C	35.5 °C	21.1 °C	28	12
March	30.4 °C	24.3 °C	26.9 °C	34.4 °C	21.3 °C	31	18
April	30.6 °C	24.8 °C	27.3 °C	35.8 °C	23.0 °C	30	19
May	30.0 °C	25.0 °C	27.0 °C	34.4 °C	23.4 °C	31	14
June	29.2 °C	24.6 °C	26.5 °C	32.6 °C	23.2 °C	30	8
July	28.8 °C	24.3 °C	26.2 °C	32.6 °C	22.4 °C	31	4
August	28.9 °C	24.3 °C	26.3 °C	32.5 °C	22.9 °C	31	5
September	29.0 °C	24.4 °C	26.3 °C	33.3 °C	22.6 °C	30	5
October	29.1 °C	24.4 °C	26.4 °C	33.0 °C	23.0 °C	31	6
November	29.5 °C	24.4 °C	26.5 °C	32.3 °C	22.8 °C	30	9
December	29.5 °C	24.3 °C	26.5 °C	33.2 °C	21.5 °C	31	9

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	169 mm	19	12 h/day	73 %	82 %	9.7 km/h	28.7 °C
February	143 mm	17	12 h/day	70 %	79 %	10 km/h	28.6 °C
March	159 mm	20	12 h/day	65 %	79 %	11 km/h	28.9 °C
April	175 mm	23	12 h/day	66 %	81 %	12 km/h	29.4 °C
May	291 mm	28	12 h/day	80 %	85 %	11 km/h	29.7 °C
June	309 mm	28	13 h/day	86 %	86 %	11 km/h	29.6 °C
July	277 mm	27	13 h/day	87 %	86 %	11 km/h	29.4 °C
August	243 mm	26	12 h/day	85 %	86 %	12 km/h	29.3 °C
September	217 mm	25	12 h/day	85 %	85 %	12 km/h	29.3 °C
October	262 mm	27	12 h/day	84 %	86 %	12 km/h	29.4 °C
November	219 mm	25	12 h/day	77 %	85 %	9.9 km/h	29.4 °C
December	181 mm	22	12 h/day	76 %	84 %	9.6 km/h	29.2 °C

How Cotabato 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
Cotabato	31 °C	24 °C	2,645 mm	365
Budta · Philippines	32 °C	23 °C	1,965 mm	365
Malingao · Philippines	33 °C	23 °C	1,966 mm	365
Marawi City · Philippines	26 °C	20 °C	3,385 mm	230
Koronadal · Philippines	31 °C	23 °C	1,922 mm	364
Mantampay · Philippines	28 °C	22 °C	2,314 mm	352
Pagadian · Philippines	30 °C	24 °C	2,377 mm	365

Where Cotabato ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Warmest sea temperatures in Asia in December	32ndof 50	29 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Asia year-round	32ndof 50	29 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in the world year-round	34thof 50	29 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in the world in December	39thof 50	29 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Asia in November	41stof 50	29 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Asia in January	43rdof 50	29 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Cotabato’s climate

When is the best time to visit Cotabato?

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

How hot does Cotabato get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 31 °C. About 116 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

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

Which month is wettest in Cotabato?

June, averaging 309 mm over 28 days with rain. The driest month is February with 143 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,645 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 Cotabato 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.