Tarlac City climate

Name: Tarlac City
Address: PH

Tarlac City is warmest in April, with average highs of 34 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 20 °C. July is the wettest month (358 mm) and February the driest (23 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Tarlac City averages 1,890 mm of rain and 364 days above 25 °C.

Philippines · population 401,892 · 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 34 °C
Coldest month January 20 °C
Driest month February 23 mm
Wettest month July 358 mm
Least cloud March 43 % cloud
Hottest on record May 39 °C
Coldest on record January 16 °C

What to expectTarlac City through the year

Tarlac City has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 29 °C in January to 34 °C in April, a swing of 3.9 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 364 days a year reach 25 °C, 229 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 358 mm against 23 mm in February — 16 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	29.4 °C	25 mm	50 %
February	30.3 °C	23 mm	46 %
March	32.1 °C	37 mm	43 %
April	33.8 °C	47 mm	45 %
May	33.3 °C	179 mm	70 %
June	31.4 °C	230 mm	79 %
July	30.2 °C	358 mm	86 %
August	29.8 °C	340 mm	89 %
September	29.8 °C	305 mm	86 %
October	29.9 °C	180 mm	71 %
November	29.9 °C	95 mm	58 %
December	29.4 °C	70 mm	55 %

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	20.4 °C	24.4 °C	33.8 °C	15.9 °C	31	10
February	30.3 °C	20.8 °C	25.1 °C	34.4 °C	16.9 °C	28	17
March	32.1 °C	21.9 °C	26.6 °C	36.9 °C	17.3 °C	31	28
April	33.8 °C	23.7 °C	28.3 °C	37.7 °C	20.0 °C	30	29
May	33.3 °C	24.7 °C	28.3 °C	39.1 °C	21.4 °C	31	29
June	31.4 °C	24.3 °C	27.3 °C	36.9 °C	22.0 °C	30	25
July	30.2 °C	24.0 °C	26.5 °C	35.1 °C	22.3 °C	31	18
August	29.8 °C	23.9 °C	26.3 °C	32.9 °C	21.6 °C	31	15
September	29.8 °C	23.7 °C	26.2 °C	32.5 °C	21.3 °C	30	14
October	29.9 °C	23.1 °C	26.1 °C	33.5 °C	19.4 °C	31	17
November	29.9 °C	22.4 °C	25.7 °C	32.3 °C	17.8 °C	30	16
December	29.4 °C	21.4 °C	25.0 °C	33.4 °C	17.1 °C	31	11

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	25 mm	4	11 h/day	50 %	74 %	13 km/h
February	23 mm	4	12 h/day	46 %	71 %	14 km/h
March	37 mm	7	12 h/day	43 %	69 %	14 km/h
April	47 mm	10	12 h/day	45 %	68 %	12 km/h
May	179 mm	21	13 h/day	70 %	75 %	10 km/h
June	230 mm	26	13 h/day	79 %	82 %	10 km/h
July	358 mm	29	13 h/day	86 %	86 %	9.5 km/h
August	340 mm	29	13 h/day	89 %	87 %	9.5 km/h
September	305 mm	27	12 h/day	86 %	87 %	8.9 km/h
October	180 mm	19	12 h/day	71 %	84 %	9.7 km/h
November	95 mm	11	11 h/day	58 %	80 %	11 km/h
December	70 mm	8	11 h/day	55 %	77 %	13 km/h

How Tarlac 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
Tarlac City	34 °C	20 °C	1,890 mm	364
Capas · Philippines	33 °C	20 °C	1,874 mm	364
Concepcion · Philippines	34 °C	20 °C	1,769 mm	364
Angeles City · Philippines	33 °C	20 °C	1,883 mm	363
Cabanatuan City · Philippines	34 °C	21 °C	2,203 mm	363
San Fernando · Philippines	33 °C	22 °C	1,691 mm	363

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Tarlac City’s climate

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

How hot does Tarlac City get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 34 °C. About 229 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 20 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Tarlac City?

July, averaging 358 mm over 29 days with rain. The driest month is February with 23 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,890 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 Tarlac 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.