Tacloban climate

Name: Tacloban
Address: PH

Tacloban is warmest in May, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in February, when nights average 23 °C. December is the wettest month (297 mm) and April the driest (110 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Tacloban averages 2,316 mm of rain and 364 days above 25 °C.

Philippines · population 259,353 · 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 23 °C
Driest month April 110 mm
Wettest month December 297 mm
Least cloud April 59 % cloud
Hottest on record August 34 °C
Coldest on record January 20 °C
Warmest sea June 30 °C

What to expectTacloban through the year

Tacloban changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 28 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, 94 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °C, in August.

Rain is strongly seasonal. December averages 297 mm against 110 mm in April — 2.7 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Tacloban is warmest in June at 30 °C and coldest in January 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	27.8 °C	234 mm	73 %
February	28.0 °C	171 mm	67 %
March	28.7 °C	161 mm	63 %
April	29.6 °C	110 mm	59 %
May	30.2 °C	142 mm	70 %
June	29.8 °C	215 mm	81 %
July	29.6 °C	208 mm	87 %
August	30.0 °C	162 mm	86 %
September	29.8 °C	184 mm	85 %
October	29.3 °C	204 mm	80 %
November	28.7 °C	226 mm	74 %
December	28.1 °C	297 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	27.8 °C	23.5 °C	25.3 °C	30.5 °C	19.9 °C	30	0
February	28.0 °C	23.4 °C	25.3 °C	30.6 °C	20.1 °C	28	0
March	28.7 °C	23.7 °C	25.9 °C	31.6 °C	20.4 °C	31	3
April	29.6 °C	24.5 °C	26.8 °C	32.6 °C	21.6 °C	30	10
May	30.2 °C	25.1 °C	27.3 °C	33.0 °C	23.3 °C	31	17
June	29.8 °C	25.0 °C	27.0 °C	32.9 °C	23.5 °C	30	13
July	29.6 °C	24.7 °C	26.8 °C	33.2 °C	23.3 °C	31	12
August	30.0 °C	24.9 °C	27.1 °C	33.5 °C	23.4 °C	31	16
September	29.8 °C	24.7 °C	26.8 °C	33.2 °C	23.3 °C	30	14
October	29.3 °C	24.4 °C	26.4 °C	31.8 °C	22.7 °C	31	6
November	28.7 °C	24.3 °C	26.1 °C	32.3 °C	21.7 °C	30	2
December	28.1 °C	24.0 °C	25.7 °C	31.5 °C	20.5 °C	31	1

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	234 mm	23	12 h/day	73 %	85 %	20 km/h	27.3 °C
February	171 mm	19	12 h/day	67 %	83 %	20 km/h	27.3 °C
March	161 mm	21	12 h/day	63 %	83 %	18 km/h	27.8 °C
April	110 mm	20	12 h/day	59 %	83 %	16 km/h	28.6 °C
May	142 mm	24	13 h/day	70 %	84 %	14 km/h	29.3 °C
June	215 mm	26	13 h/day	81 %	85 %	14 km/h	29.6 °C
July	208 mm	26	13 h/day	87 %	85 %	13 km/h	29.3 °C
August	162 mm	22	13 h/day	86 %	84 %	13 km/h	29.3 °C
September	184 mm	23	12 h/day	85 %	85 %	13 km/h	29.4 °C
October	204 mm	26	12 h/day	80 %	86 %	13 km/h	29.2 °C
November	226 mm	25	12 h/day	74 %	87 %	16 km/h	28.7 °C
December	297 mm	27	11 h/day	76 %	87 %	19 km/h	28.1 °C

How Tacloban 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
Tacloban	30 °C	23 °C	2,316 mm	364
Ormoc · Philippines	31 °C	23 °C	2,130 mm	365
Lapu-Lapu City · Philippines	30 °C	25 °C	2,104 mm	365
Cebu City · Philippines	30 °C	25 °C	2,128 mm	364
Toledo · Philippines	30 °C	24 °C	2,400 mm	364

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Tacloban’s climate

When is the best time to visit Tacloban?

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 Tacloban get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 94 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 23 °C in February, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Tacloban?

December, averaging 297 mm over 27 days with rain. The driest month is April with 110 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,316 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 Tacloban 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: 11.243°, 125.005° (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.