Iligan City climate

Name: Iligan City
Address: PH

Iligan City is warmest in May, with average highs of 28 °C, and coldest in February, when nights average 22 °C. June is the wettest month (370 mm) and August the driest (216 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Iligan City averages 3,474 mm of rain and 355 days above 25 °C.

Philippines · population 312,323 · 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 28 °C
Coldest month February 22 °C
Driest month August 216 mm
Wettest month June 370 mm
Least cloud April 67 % cloud
Hottest on record September 32 °C
Coldest on record February 17 °C

What to expectIligan City through the year

Iligan City changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 26 and 28 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 355 days a year reach 25 °C, 5 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 32 °C, in September.

Rain is spread fairly evenly through the year, from 216 mm in August to 370 mm in June. There is no dry season to aim for.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	26.3 °C	322 mm	79 %
February	26.5 °C	268 mm	75 %
March	27.2 °C	272 mm	70 %
April	28.0 °C	241 mm	67 %
May	28.1 °C	325 mm	81 %
June	27.7 °C	370 mm	87 %
July	27.6 °C	300 mm	89 %
August	28.0 °C	216 mm	86 %
September	27.9 °C	221 mm	86 %
October	27.5 °C	290 mm	85 %
November	27.2 °C	324 mm	80 %
December	26.8 °C	325 mm	80 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	26.3 °C	21.9 °C	23.9 °C	29.9 °C	17.5 °C	28	0
February	26.5 °C	21.7 °C	23.9 °C	30.4 °C	16.5 °C	26	0
March	27.2 °C	22.0 °C	24.4 °C	30.7 °C	17.9 °C	30	0
April	28.0 °C	22.7 °C	25.2 °C	31.4 °C	19.3 °C	30	1
May	28.1 °C	23.2 °C	25.5 °C	31.1 °C	20.5 °C	31	1
June	27.7 °C	22.9 °C	25.2 °C	30.8 °C	20.9 °C	30	0
July	27.6 °C	22.6 °C	24.9 °C	30.9 °C	20.5 °C	31	0
August	28.0 °C	22.6 °C	25.1 °C	31.5 °C	20.6 °C	31	1
September	27.9 °C	22.5 °C	25.0 °C	31.7 °C	20.4 °C	30	1
October	27.5 °C	22.5 °C	24.8 °C	30.6 °C	20.6 °C	31	0
November	27.2 °C	22.3 °C	24.6 °C	30.1 °C	18.1 °C	29	0
December	26.8 °C	22.2 °C	24.4 °C	30.3 °C	17.1 °C	30	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	322 mm	27	12 h/day	79 %	89 %	9.8 km/h
February	268 mm	23	12 h/day	75 %	88 %	10 km/h
March	272 mm	24	12 h/day	70 %	87 %	10 km/h
April	241 mm	24	12 h/day	67 %	85 %	10.0 km/h
May	325 mm	28	13 h/day	81 %	86 %	8.6 km/h
June	370 mm	27	13 h/day	87 %	86 %	8.1 km/h
July	300 mm	25	13 h/day	89 %	85 %	8.8 km/h
August	216 mm	22	12 h/day	86 %	84 %	9.4 km/h
September	221 mm	24	12 h/day	86 %	85 %	9.1 km/h
October	290 mm	27	12 h/day	85 %	87 %	8.9 km/h
November	324 mm	27	12 h/day	80 %	88 %	8.7 km/h
December	325 mm	28	12 h/day	80 %	89 %	9.1 km/h

How Iligan 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
Iligan City	28 °C	22 °C	3,474 mm	355
Iligan · Philippines	29 °C	23 °C	2,314 mm	362
Mantampay · Philippines	28 °C	22 °C	2,314 mm	352
Marawi City · Philippines	26 °C	20 °C	3,385 mm	230
Cagayan de Oro · Philippines	29 °C	22 °C	3,120 mm	361
NIA Valencia · Philippines	30 °C	20 °C	2,207 mm	356
Cotabato · Philippines	31 °C	24 °C	2,645 mm	365

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Iligan City’s climate

When is the best time to visit Iligan 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 August the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Iligan City get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 28 °C. About 5 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 32 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 22 °C in February, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Iligan City?

June, averaging 370 mm over 27 days with rain. The driest month is August with 216 mm. The year as a whole averages 3,474 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 Iligan 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: 8.250°, 124.400° (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.