Zamboanga climate

Name: Zamboanga
Address: PH

Zamboanga is warmest in April, with average highs of 29 °C, and coldest in February, when nights average 25 °C. June is the wettest month (231 mm) and February the driest (98 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Zamboanga averages 2,030 mm of rain and 365 days above 25 °C.

Philippines · population 1,018,849 · 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 29 °C
Coldest month February 25 °C
Driest month February 98 mm
Wettest month June 231 mm
Least cloud March 64 % cloud
Hottest on record April 33 °C
Coldest on record March 22 °C
Warmest sea May 29 °C

What to expectZamboanga through the year

Zamboanga changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 29 and 29 °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, 20 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 33 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. June averages 231 mm against 98 mm in February — 2.3 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Zamboanga is warmest in May at 29 °C and coldest in January at 28 °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	28.4 °C	114 mm	72 %
February	28.7 °C	98 mm	69 %
March	29.2 °C	105 mm	64 %
April	29.5 °C	129 mm	66 %
May	29.1 °C	204 mm	80 %
June	28.5 °C	231 mm	87 %
July	28.1 °C	207 mm	87 %
August	28.3 °C	190 mm	85 %
September	28.4 °C	179 mm	85 %
October	28.4 °C	230 mm	84 %
November	28.6 °C	189 mm	78 %
December	28.5 °C	153 mm	75 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	28.4 °C	24.7 °C	26.4 °C	31.6 °C	22.2 °C	31	1
February	28.7 °C	24.7 °C	26.5 °C	32.4 °C	22.1 °C	28	2
March	29.2 °C	24.9 °C	26.9 °C	32.2 °C	22.0 °C	31	5
April	29.5 °C	25.4 °C	27.3 °C	33.0 °C	23.4 °C	30	7
May	29.1 °C	25.5 °C	27.1 °C	32.6 °C	24.2 °C	31	4
June	28.5 °C	25.2 °C	26.7 °C	31.1 °C	23.7 °C	30	0
July	28.1 °C	25.0 °C	26.4 °C	30.1 °C	23.8 °C	31	0
August	28.3 °C	25.0 °C	26.5 °C	30.3 °C	23.6 °C	31	0
September	28.4 °C	25.0 °C	26.6 °C	30.7 °C	23.5 °C	30	0
October	28.4 °C	25.0 °C	26.5 °C	30.4 °C	23.7 °C	31	0
November	28.6 °C	25.1 °C	26.7 °C	31.3 °C	22.9 °C	30	0
December	28.5 °C	25.0 °C	26.6 °C	31.3 °C	22.5 °C	31	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	114 mm	17	12 h/day	72 %	83 %	13 km/h	28.2 °C
February	98 mm	14	12 h/day	69 %	82 %	13 km/h	28.2 °C
March	105 mm	18	12 h/day	64 %	82 %	11 km/h	28.4 °C
April	129 mm	22	12 h/day	66 %	83 %	10 km/h	28.9 °C
May	204 mm	26	12 h/day	80 %	85 %	11 km/h	29.1 °C
June	231 mm	26	13 h/day	87 %	86 %	12 km/h	29.1 °C
July	207 mm	26	12 h/day	87 %	86 %	13 km/h	28.8 °C
August	190 mm	24	12 h/day	85 %	86 %	14 km/h	28.8 °C
September	179 mm	24	12 h/day	85 %	86 %	13 km/h	28.9 °C
October	230 mm	27	12 h/day	84 %	86 %	13 km/h	28.9 °C
November	189 mm	25	12 h/day	78 %	86 %	11 km/h	29.0 °C
December	153 mm	22	12 h/day	75 %	85 %	12 km/h	28.7 °C

How Zamboanga 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
Zamboanga	29 °C	25 °C	2,030 mm	365
Pagadian · Philippines	30 °C	24 °C	2,377 mm	365
Cotabato · Philippines	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
Mantampay · Philippines	28 °C	22 °C	2,314 mm	352

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Zamboanga’s climate

When is the best time to visit Zamboanga?

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 Zamboanga get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 29 °C. About 20 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 33 °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 Zamboanga?

June, averaging 231 mm over 26 days with rain. The driest month is February with 98 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,030 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 Zamboanga 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: 6.910°, 122.074° (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.