Climate and average weather in Carcar

In Carcar, 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 December.

Best: early January to late April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Carcar typically varies from 25°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 24°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 Carcar for warm-weather activities is from early January to late April.

Hottest
May
30°
Coldest
Jan
25°
Wettest
Dec
234 mm
Driest
Apr
84 mm
Rain / yr
1791 mm
254 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
21 m
10.1°N
Clearest
Apr
54% cloud

Carcar 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 late April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Carcar 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 26°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 25°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 3°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2725
Feb2825
Mar2825
Apr2926
May3026
Jun2926
Jul2926
Aug2926
Sep2926
Oct2926
Nov2826
Dec2825

How hot and cold Carcar 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, Carcar feels like about 36°C (around May 29). About 248 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in May.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan30272525
Feb30282525
Mar31282525
Apr34292626
May35302626
Jun34292626
Jul33292626
Aug33292626
Sep33292626
Oct33292626
Nov32282626
Dec31282525

Average hourly temperature in Carcar

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 25°C.

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

Carcar 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
Jan27° / 25°17821.911.54.6
Feb28° / 25°13816.311.75.2
Mar28° / 25°11215.911.95.2
Apr29° / 26°8413.312.24.9
May30° / 26°11521.312.53.8
Jun29° / 26°16924.512.63.3
Jul29° / 26°15924.212.53.5
Aug29° / 26°11219.512.34.0
Sep29° / 26°12821.812.13.7
Oct29° / 26°16824.511.83.6
Nov28° / 26°19624.511.53.8
Dec28° / 25°23425.911.44.0

Chance of rain

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

Carcar gets about 1791 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 4.6 months, from around Aug 30 to Jan 16, peaking in December at about 86% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Apr 8.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 234 mm over about 26 wet days; April is the driest, with 84 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetDec 12 · 86%Apr 8 · 44%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan7122
Feb5816
Mar5016
Apr4613
May6821
Jun8125
Jul7724
Aug6520
Sep7222
Oct7925
Nov8225
Dec8326

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Carcar collects about 1791 mm of rain across 254 wet days — roughly 149 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 234 mm, while April is the driest at just 84 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 34% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec17813811284115169159112128168196234
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan17822
Feb13816
Mar11216
Apr8413
May11521
Jun16925
Jul15924
Aug11220
Sep12822
Oct16825
Nov19625
Dec23426

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Carcar, 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 November 8 and lasts for 6.5 months, ending around May 24. The clearest month is April, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 56% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 25 and lasts for 5.5 months, ending around November 7. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 89% 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 10 · 58%Jul 29 · 10%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3367
Feb4258
Mar5149
Apr5644
May3565
Jun1783
Jul1189
Aug1585
Sep1486
Oct2080
Nov3367
Dec3268

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 2, 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)
Jan11.56:115:39
Feb11.76:105:50
Mar11.95:575:53
Apr12.25:395:52
May12.55:285:56
Jun12.65:286:03
Jul12.55:356:07
Aug12.35:396:00
Sep12.15:385:41
Oct11.85:375:24
Nov11.55:455:17
Dec11.45:595:24

Sunny days

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

Carcar averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 13 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.7 months, from around Dec 28 to May 19. The sunniest month is April, with roughly 12 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is July, down near 2 sunny days — about 87% fewer than the April peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyergloomymixedApr 1013 daysJul 311 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan6Gloomy
Feb6Gloomy
Mar9Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May6Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct3Gloomy
Nov5Gloomy
Dec5Gloomy

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.

Carcar 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 (%)
Jan6877
Feb8893
Mar4898
Apr06832
May03565
Jun04852
Jul07426
Aug06931
Sep07525
Oct07228
Nov05842
Dec26929

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 Carcar is typically calm, near 12 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.1 months, from around Nov 9 to Apr 12. The windiest month is January, averaging about 16 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 13 to Nov 8, with May the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 30 · 17 km/hMay 30 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan16light breeze
Feb16light breeze
Mar14light breeze
Apr11calm
May8calm
Jun8calm
Jul9calm
Aug10calm
Sep9calm
Oct9calm
Nov12light breeze
Dec15light breeze

Hazard calendar for Carcar

In seasonPeak

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

Carcar 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 Carcar

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late April, Carcar 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 Carcar for general outdoor tourist activities is from early January to late April, with a peak score in the last week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 27 · 5.5

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
Jan4.6fair
Feb5.2fair
Mar5.2fair
Apr4.8fair
May3.8fair
Jun3.3poor
Jul3.6fair
Aug4.0fair
Sep3.7fair
Oct3.6fair
Nov3.8fair
Dec4.0fair

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 Carcar for hot-weather activities is from mid February to mid May, with a peak score in the second week of April.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 8 · 6.6

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 Carcar, 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.

Carcar 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, Carcar sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 21 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Carcar

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

The sea offshore 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
Jul29Tropical
Aug29Tropical
Sep29Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov29Tropical
Dec28Tropical

UV index (midday) in Carcar 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 Carcar peaks around March 24 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 13 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 highMar 24UV 14Dec 13UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul13Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Carcar

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 March 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)
Jan7.55.5
Feb86
Mar86.5
Apr8.56.5
May86
Jun8.56.5
Jul86
Aug86.5
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55
Dec74.5
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Carcar 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. Carcar banks about 6,251 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)
Jan497
Feb451
Mar517
Apr527
May558
Jun532
Jul542
Aug546
Sep527
Oct536
Nov508
Dec512

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.

Carcar receives about 5.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.3 and 6.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.0 months, from around Feb 20 to Jun 20. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.3 kWh/m² — roughly 30% less than the April peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 136.3 kWhDec 184.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.5Bright
Feb5.1Bright
Mar5.8Bright
Apr6.3Intense
May5.9Bright
Jun5.4Bright
Jul5.1Bright
Aug5.5Bright
Sep5.3Bright
Oct5.0Bright
Nov4.6Bright
Dec4.3Bright

Where is Carcar?

Carcar sits at 10.1°N, 123.6°E, 21 m above sea level, in Philippines. The nearest listed city is San Fernando, 10 km away.

Topography around Carcar

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Carcar has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 293 m around an average of 59 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 676 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,455 m.

The land around Carcar is covered by trees (68%) within 3 km, trees (58%) and water (37%) within 16 km, and water (47%) and trees (45%) within 80 km.

3 km
293 m
16 km
676 m
80 km
2,455 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswatermangroves
Nearby: San Fernando 10 km · Sibonga 10 km · Naga 17 km · Pinamungahan 19 km · Minglanilla 23 km · Talisay 28 km · Toledo 30 km · Cebu City 36 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 Carcar (10.1061°, 123.6402°, elevation 21 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).