Bacolod
Elevation 105 m10.68° N, 122.95° E
When to go?
Mean 27 °C, 14 rain days in the month (138 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 30 °C
Mean 27 °C, 9 rain days in the month (95 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 27 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 30 °C
Mean 28 °C, 8 rain days in the month (91 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 28 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 32 °C
Mean 29 °C, 8 rain days in the month (107 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 29 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 33 °C
Mean 29 °C, 15 rain days in the month (300 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 33 °C
- Often rainyrain on 5 days in 10
- Torrential rain20 mm per rain day
Mean 28 °C, 20 rain days in the month (483 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 32 °C
- Often rainyrain on 7 days in 10
- Torrential rain24 mm per rain day
Mean 28 °C, 24 rain days in the month (499 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 31 °C
- Often rainyrain on 8 days in 10
- Torrential rain21 mm per rain day
Mean 28 °C, 23 rain days in the month (381 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 31 °C
- Often rainyrain on 7 days in 10
- Torrential rain17 mm per rain day
Mean 28 °C, 21 rain days in the month (390 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 31 °C
- Often rainyrain on 7 days in 10
- Torrential rain19 mm per rain day
Mean 28 °C, 21 rain days in the month (429 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 31 °C
- Often rainyrain on 7 days in 10
- Torrential rain20 mm per rain day
Mean 28 °C, 20 rain days in the month (310 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 29 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 31 °C
- Often rainyrain on 7 days in 10
- Torrential rain16 mm per rain day
Mean 28 °C, 18 rain days in the month (252 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 31 °C
- Often rainyrain on 6 days in 10
- Typhoonsone within 300 km, 1 year in 4
No ideal month: the best months are February–March, the least hot. Ideal for the sea: February–April, November. Avoid April–November (hot, at times often rainy and torrential rain), January (hot), December (hot and often rainy and typhoons).
What is the climate like?
Temperature and rain
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
Temperatures brought to the town's elevation: −0.7 °C (cells at -4 m).
How much it rains
Rain days and how much water
Rain days and how much water
Bars: length = rain days, thickness = mm on a rain day, area = the month's rain. 3 mm a day7 mm a day15 mm a day
Colour = the month's rain: 103060100160250400mm
Daylight hours
Daylight and sky: sunrise, sunset and cloud cover
daylight under a clear sky (average share)daylight under cloud
daylight under a clear sky (average share)daylight under cloud
Times on the 15th of each month, in local time: daylight saving where and when it applies, standard time in the other months.
Sea temperature: Visayan Sea
Monthly mean sea temperature: Visayan Sea (°C)
Monthly mean sea temperature: Visayan Sea (°C)
Effect of climate change
Today's climate (1996–2025) compared with 1961–1990:
In short
Year by year
Temperature of each year
Against 1961–1990 the mean temperature of today (1996–2025) has changed by +0.4 °C; in the last ten years by +0.7 °C. Warmest year: 1998 (+1.2 °C), coldest: 1965 (−0.6 °C).
January and November warmed the most (+0.6 and +0.6 °C), May the least (+0.1 °C).
Warming stripes: after an idea by Ed Hawkins (University of Reading), showyourstripes.info, CC BY 4.0.
Rain of each year (% against 1961–1990)
more rain than in 1961–1990less rain
Rain in a year: +5 % every ten years.
The sea, then and now
+0.6 °Cthe sea today, compared with 1961–1990