Climate and average weather in Baybay

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

Best: late December to early May

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Baybay typically varies from 24°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 23°C or above 31°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Baybay for warm-weather activities is from late December to early May.

Hottest
May
30°
Coldest
Jan
24°
Wettest
Jul
284 mm
Driest
Apr
71 mm
Rain / yr
2303 mm
268 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
5 m
10.7°N
Clearest
Apr
59% cloud

Baybay is city of the Philippines in the province of Leyte.

Density
38/km²
people per km²
Founded
1620

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

Baybay 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 late December to early May.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Baybay stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is May, with an average high of 30°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 24°C and high of 28°C.

Days typically run about 5°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2824
Feb2824
Mar2924
Apr3025
May3025
Jun3025
Jul3025
Aug3025
Sep3025
Oct2925
Nov2925
Dec2924

How hot and cold Baybay 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, Baybay feels like about 38°C (around May 28). About 294 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in May.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan31282424
Feb31282424
Mar33292424
Apr35302525
May37302525
Jun37302525
Jul36302525
Aug36302525
Sep36302525
Oct35292525
Nov34292525
Dec33292424

Average hourly temperature in Baybay

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 May afternoons, near 30°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 24°C.

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

Baybay 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° / 24°18921.811.44.5
Feb28° / 24°14017.311.64.6
Mar29° / 24°11017.311.94.7
Apr30° / 25°7113.812.24.6
May30° / 25°13920.712.53.6
Jun30° / 25°25625.312.63.0
Jul30° / 25°28427.212.63.0
Aug30° / 25°21523.712.43.3
Sep30° / 25°24825.412.13.1
Oct29° / 25°24226.911.83.1
Nov29° / 25°18624.311.53.5
Dec29° / 24°22424.311.43.8

Chance of rain

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

Baybay gets about 2303 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 7.4 months, from around May 25 to Jan 5, peaking in June at about 89% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Apr 10.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 284 mm over about 27 wet days; April is the driest, with 71 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 29 · 89%Apr 10 · 45%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan7022
Feb6217
Mar5517
Apr4814
May6721
Jun8425
Jul8727
Aug7824
Sep8525
Oct8627
Nov8124
Dec7824

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Baybay collects about 2303 mm of rain across 268 wet days — roughly 192 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 284 mm, while April is the driest at just 71 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 34% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec18914011071139256284215248242186224
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan18922
Feb14017
Mar11017
Apr7114
May13921
Jun25625
Jul28427
Aug21524
Sep24825
Oct24227
Nov18624
Dec22424

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Baybay, 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 December 29 and lasts for 4.9 months, ending around May 27. The clearest month is April, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 52% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 28 and lasts for 5.5 months, ending around November 9. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 91% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 4 · 55%Aug 1 · 7%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2971
Feb3763
Mar4753
Apr5248
May3466
Jun1684
Jul991
Aug1189
Sep1486
Oct1882
Nov2872
Dec2674

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 May 27, brings about 12 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 24 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.46:075:33
Feb11.66:065:45
Mar11.95:535:48
Apr12.25:345:48
May12.55:225:52
Jun12.65:226:00
Jul12.65:296:03
Aug12.45:345:56
Sep12.15:335:37
Oct11.85:335:19
Nov11.55:415:11
Dec11.45:565:18

Sunny days

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

Baybay averages about 4 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 11 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.3 months, from around Jan 18 to May 27. The sunniest month is April, with roughly 10 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is August, down near 1 sunny days — about 89% fewer than the April peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyergloomymixedApr 911 daysAug 11 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb5Gloomy
Mar8Gloomy
Apr10Mixed
May5Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov4Gloomy
Dec3Gloomy

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.

Baybay 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 January, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 100% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 0% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressivemuggy
Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan68113
Feb8839
Mar47719
Apr04653
May01387
Jun01189
Jul01783
Aug01981
Sep01882
Oct02278
Nov13664
Dec35443

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 Baybay is typically calm, near 8 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.2 months, from around Nov 23 to Mar 30. The windiest month is January, averaging about 10 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Mar 31 to Jul 17, with May the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 29 · 10 km/hMay 26 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb10calm
Mar9calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul8calm
Aug9calm
Sep8calm
Oct7calm
Nov8calm
Dec9calm

Hazard calendar for Baybay

In seasonPeak

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

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

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

Best time to visit Baybay

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late December, Baybay is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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 Baybay for general outdoor tourist activities is from late December to mid May, with a peak score in the first week of April.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 3 · 4.8

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
Jan4.5fair
Feb4.6fair
Mar4.7fair
Apr4.6fair
May3.6fair
Jun3.1poor
Jul3.0poor
Aug3.3poor
Sep3.1poor
Oct3.2poor
Nov3.5poor
Dec3.8fair

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 Baybay for hot-weather activities is from late January to mid May, with a peak score in the first week of April.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 7 · 6.3

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 Baybay, 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.

Baybay 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 May, Baybay sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 21 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Baybay

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 20 km away) is warmest in June at about 30°C and coldest in February near 28°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
Jan28Warm
Feb28Warm
Mar28Tropical
Apr29Tropical
May30Tropical
Jun30Tropical
Jul30Tropical
Aug30Tropical
Sep30Tropical
Oct30Tropical
Nov29Tropical
Dec29Tropical

UV index (midday) in Baybay 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 Baybay peaks around April 11 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 15 at about 9 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highApr 11UV 14Dec 15UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul13Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Extreme
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Baybay

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 April the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 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)
Jan75
Feb7.56
Mar86
Apr86.5
May86
Jun86
Jul8.56.5
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec74.5
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Baybay 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. Baybay banks about 6,176 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan492
Feb445
Mar508
Apr516
May550
Jun528
Jul536
Aug539
Sep518
Oct530
Nov506
Dec509

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.

Baybay receives about 5.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.3 and 6.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.1 months, from around Feb 22 to Jun 25. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.4 kWh/m² — roughly 31% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 156.4 kWhDec 204.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.6Bright
Feb5.2Bright
Mar5.9Bright
Apr6.4Intense
May6.2Intense
Jun5.6Bright
Jul5.4Bright
Aug5.7Bright
Sep5.5Bright
Oct5.2Bright
Nov4.8Bright
Dec4.3Bright

Where is Baybay?

Baybay sits at 10.7°N, 124.8°E, 5 m above sea level, in Philippines. The nearest listed city is Inopacan, 21 km away.

Topography around Baybay

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Baybay has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 85 m around an average of 7 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,219 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,303 m.

The land around Baybay is covered by water (46%) and trees (29%) within 3 km, trees (56%) and water (42%) within 16 km, and water (63%) and trees (31%) within 80 km.

3 km
85 m
16 km
1,219 m
80 km
1,303 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswatermangroves
Nearby: Inopacan 21 km · Abuyog 24 km · Burauen 35 km · Ormoc 42 km · Tanauan 53 km · Palo 57 km · Maasin 61 km · Tacloban 67 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 Baybay (10.6785°, 124.8006°, elevation 5 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. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).