Climate and average weather in Bangued

In Bangued, the weather is muggy, hot, wet, and mostly clear and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around July.

Best: early January to mid March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Bangued typically varies from 18°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 16°C or above 32°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Bangued for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid March and early December to late December.

Hottest
Apr
30°
Coldest
Jan
18°
Wettest
Jul
597 mm
Driest
Jan
22 mm
Rain / yr
2782 mm
221 wet days
Daylight
10.9–13.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
48 m
17.6°N
Clearest
Feb
41% cloud

Bangued is municipality of the Philippines and capital of the province of Abra.

Density
457/km²
people per km²

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Bangued weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early January to mid March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Bangued, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Bangued stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 30°C and low of 21°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 18°C and high of 28°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 10°C) in March.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2818
Feb2819
Mar3020
Apr3021
May3021
Jun2921
Jul2821
Aug2821
Sep2821
Oct2921
Nov2920
Dec2819

How hot and cold Bangued really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Bangued feels like about 33°C (around May 3). About 85 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in May.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan28281818
Feb29281919
Mar31302020
Apr33302121
May33302121
Jun32292121
Jul31282121
Aug30282121
Sep31282121
Oct31292121
Nov30292020
Dec29281919

Average hourly temperature in Bangued

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on April afternoons, near 30°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 18°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Bangued weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan28° / 18°224.311.17.4
Feb28° / 19°264.711.46.9
Mar30° / 20°399.411.95.6
Apr30° / 21°8017.712.44.2
May30° / 21°22025.712.83.3
Jun29° / 21°38927.4133.1
Jul28° / 21°59729.712.93.1
Aug28° / 21°50528.912.63.4
Sep28° / 21°41127.812.13.4
Oct29° / 21°2992111.64.2
Nov29° / 20°12414.911.25.1
Dec28° / 19°709.3116.5

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Bangued gets about 2782 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.2 months, from around Apr 18 to Oct 22, peaking in July at about 96% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 13.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 597 mm over about 30 wet days; January is the driest, with 22 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 23 · 96%Jan 13 · 14%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan154
Feb165
Mar319
Apr5918
May8226
Jun9227
Jul9630
Aug9329
Sep9228
Oct6921
Nov4815
Dec299

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Bangued collects about 2782 mm of rain across 221 wet days — roughly 232 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 597 mm, while January is the driest at just 22 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 54% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450500550600650700JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2226398022038959750541129912470
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan224
Feb265
Mar399
Apr8018
May22026
Jun38927
Jul59730
Aug50529
Sep41128
Oct29921
Nov12415
Dec709

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Bangued, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around October 23 and lasts for 6.5 months, ending around May 9. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 79% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 10 and lasts for 5.5 months, ending around October 22. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 94% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMar 6 · 81%Jul 31 · 5%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7030
Feb7723
Mar7921
Apr7129
May3367
Jun1387
Jul991
Aug694
Sep1288
Oct3664
Nov5446
Dec6337

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 18, brings about 13 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around December 17, only 10 h 54 min — a swing of roughly 2 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.16:355:38
Feb11.46:305:54
Mar11.96:116:03
Apr12.45:466:10
May12.85:296:18
Jun13.05:266:29
Jul12.95:346:32
Aug12.65:446:20
Sep12.15:495:55
Oct11.65:555:30
Nov11.26:085:17
Dec11.06:255:22

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Bangued averages about 8 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 18 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.3 months, from around Oct 23 to May 2. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 17 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is July, down near 0 sunny days — about 98% fewer than the March peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantMar 518 daysJul 250 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan15Mixed
Feb15Bright
Mar17Bright
Apr12Mixed
May4Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct6Gloomy
Nov10Mixed
Dec13Mixed

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

Bangued is humid all year round — on a typical day the air feels at least humid, and there is no real dry season to wait for.

The stickiest month is April, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 97% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 12% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 28 · 13%Apr 4 · 0%muggyoppressivehumidcomfortablecomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan111454220
Feb08434720
Mar022166110
Apr00346510
May00010900
Jun0002971
Jul0004950
Aug0006940
Sep00011890
Oct00233650
Nov001054360
Dec052758100

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Bangued is typically calm, near 6 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.7 months, from around Oct 19 to Mar 11. The windiest month is December, averaging about 8 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Mar 12 to Aug 5, with May the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeDec 16 · 8 km/hMay 4 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar6calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug6calm
Sep5calm
Oct6calm
Nov7calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Bangued

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Bangued sits in the Pacific typhoon belt; the season peaks July–October.

Bangued's monsoon runs June–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

Pacific typhoon
Monsoon
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Bangued

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Bangued throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around early March, Bangued is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Bangued for general outdoor tourist activities is from early December to mid March, with a peak score in the second week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 11 · 7.4

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan7.4good
Feb6.9good
Mar5.6good
Apr4.2fair
May3.3poor
Jun3.1poor
Jul3.1poor
Aug3.4poor
Sep3.4poor
Oct4.2fair
Nov5.1fair
Dec6.6good

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Bangued for hot-weather activities is from late November to early April, with a peak score in the last week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 28 · 8.0

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Bangued, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

Bangued packs about the same all year — highs hold near 30°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Bangued sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 18 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Bangued

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 28 km away) is warmest in June at about 30°C and coldest in February near 27°C.

The water stays above 20°C all year — warm enough for a swim any month.

26°28°30°32°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan27Warm
Feb27Warm
Mar28Warm
Apr29Tropical
May30Tropical
Jun30Tropical
Jul30Tropical
Aug29Tropical
Sep29Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov29Tropical
Dec28Tropical

UV index (midday) in Bangued by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Bangued peaks around August 18 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 14 at about 8 (very high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highAug 18UV 14Dec 14UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul13Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct10Extreme
Nov8Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Bangued

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in August the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan6.54.5
Feb7.55.5
Mar7.56
Apr86
May86
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56.5
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct7.55
Nov6.54
Dec6.53.5

Air quality in Bangued by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Bangued is worst in March — around 16 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.7× the cleanest month (December, 9 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodMar 2416 µg/m³Dec 159 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan10Good
Feb12Moderate
Mar16Moderate
Apr16Moderate
May11Good
Jun10Good
Jul9Good
Aug10Good
Sep10Good
Oct10Good
Nov10Good
Dec9Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Bangued is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Bangued banks about 5,262 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan400
Feb377
Mar450
Apr459
May476
Jun453
Jul456
Aug450
Sep435
Oct453
Nov431
Dec421

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Bangued receives about 5.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.0 and 6.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.9 months, from around Feb 12 to Jul 10. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.1 kWh/m² — roughly 36% less than the April peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 196.4 kWhDec 154.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.5Bright
Feb5.1Bright
Mar5.9Bright
Apr6.3Intense
May5.7Bright
Jun5.5Bright
Jul4.9Bright
Aug4.5Bright
Sep4.6Bright
Oct4.7Bright
Nov4.4Bright
Dec4.0Moderate

Where is Bangued?

Bangued sits at 17.6°N, 120.6°E, 48 m above sea level, in Philippines. The nearest listed city is Bantay, 27 km away.

Topography around Bangued

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Bangued.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Bangued has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 92 m around an average of 49 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,090 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,660 m.

The land around Bangued is covered by cropland (48%) and trees (24%) within 3 km, trees (69%) within 16 km, and trees (60%) and water (28%) within 80 km.

3 km
92 m
16 km
1,090 m
80 km
2,660 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Bantay 27 km · Vigan 27 km · Batac City 50 km · San Nicolas 63 km · Laoag 66 km · Bontoc 68 km · Santa Maria 76 km · Tagudin 78 km

Philippines travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type A / B / C
230 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 33% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$4,171
2025
Happiness
6.2 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
48%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
4.3
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
12
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
High
EF EPI 569
Religion
Roman Catholic 79%other 8%Muslim 6%other Christian 4%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Bangued (17.6083°, 120.6381°, elevation 48 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. Tropical-cyclone seasons are the published climatological basin seasons (NOAA National Hurricane Center / regional warning centres). Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).