Palawan
11.26° N, 119.51° E
When to go?
Mean 26 °C, 13 rain days in the month (97 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 28 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
Mean 26 °C, 9 rain days in the month (61 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 27 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 30 °C
Mean 27 °C, 10 rain days in the month (68 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 28 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 31 °C
Mean 28 °C, 13 rain days in the month (72 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 29 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 31 °C
Mean 28 °C, 21 rain days in the month (186 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 31 °C
- Often rainyrain on 7 days in 10
Mean 27 °C, 24 rain days in the month (263 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 30 °C
- Often rainyrain on 8 days in 10
Mean 27 °C, 25 rain days in the month (296 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 30 °C
- Often rainyrain on 8 days in 10
Mean 27 °C, 24 rain days in the month (252 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 30 °C
- Often rainyrain on 8 days in 10
Mean 27 °C, 24 rain days in the month (276 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 30 °C
- Often rainyrain on 8 days in 10
Mean 27 °C, 26 rain days in the month (285 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 30 °C
- Often rainyrain on 8 days in 10
Mean 27 °C, 23 rain days in the month (215 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 29 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 30 °C
- Often rainyrain on 8 days in 10
- Typhoonsone within 300 km, 1 year in 5
Mean 27 °C, 18 rain days in the month (180 mm).
Good for
- Ideal for the seawater at 29 °C
Against
- Hothighs of 30 °C
- Often rainyrain on 6 days in 10
- Typhoonsone within 300 km, 1 year in 5
No ideal month: the best months are February–March, the least hot. Ideal for the sea: November–April. Avoid April–October (hot, at times often rainy), January (hot), November–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)
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: Sulu Sea
Monthly mean sea temperature: Sulu Sea (°C)
Monthly mean sea temperature: Sulu 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: 2024 (+1.2 °C), coldest: 1956 (−0.5 °C).
November and December warmed the most (+0.6 and +0.6 °C), May the least (+0.3 °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: +2 % every ten years.
The sea, then and now
+0.4 °Cthe sea today, compared with 1961–1990
Climate zones
- Freezing, dry
- Freezing
- Freezing, wet
- Cold, dry
- Cold
- Cold, wet
- Mild, dry
- Mild
- Mild, wet
- Hot, arid
- Hot
- Hot, wet
- Torrid, arid
- Torrid
- Torrid, wet
Mean maximum and minimum temperature and mean monthly precipitation of the season (the mean of its three months), ERA5-Land 1996–2025, at about 9 km resolution: colours are in levels (the same as the city scale) and smaller details are not real.