Climate and average weather in Catanauan

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

Best: early January to early April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Catanauan typically varies from 24°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 23°C or above 32°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

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

Hottest
May
30°
Coldest
Jan
24°
Wettest
Jul
259 mm
Driest
Apr
50 mm
Rain / yr
1787 mm
217 wet days
Daylight
11.2–12.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
7 m
13.6°N
Clearest
Apr
47% cloud

Catanauan 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 early April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Catanauan 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 27°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 24°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)
Jan2724
Feb2824
Mar2925
Apr3026
May3027
Jun3027
Jul2926
Aug2926
Sep2926
Oct2926
Nov2826
Dec2825

How hot and cold Catanauan 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, Catanauan feels like about 37°C (around May 30). About 258 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)
Jan29272424
Feb30282424
Mar32292525
Apr35302626
May37302727
Jun36302727
Jul35292626
Aug35292626
Sep35292626
Oct34292626
Nov33282526
Dec31282525

Average hourly temperature in Catanauan

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

Catanauan 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° / 24°639.511.36.4
Feb28° / 24°587.111.56.6
Mar29° / 25°569.411.95.8
Apr30° / 26°509.912.35.0
May30° / 27°13220.412.63.7
Jun30° / 27°19725.112.83.2
Jul29° / 26°25926.912.73.2
Aug29° / 26°18023.512.53.5
Sep29° / 26°2292512.13.4
Oct29° / 26°21423.811.73.7
Nov28° / 26°17019.811.44.4
Dec28° / 25°17916.311.25.4

Chance of rain

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

Catanauan gets about 1787 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 6.7 months, from around May 11 to Nov 30, peaking in June at about 88% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 14.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 259 mm over about 27 wet days; April is the driest, with 50 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 28 · 88%Feb 14 · 26%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3210
Feb277
Mar299
Apr3410
May6420
Jun8425
Jul8627
Aug7724
Sep8325
Oct7724
Nov6620
Dec5116

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Catanauan collects about 1787 mm of rain across 217 wet days — roughly 149 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 259 mm, while April is the driest at just 50 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 39% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec63585650132197259180229214170179
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan6310
Feb587
Mar569
Apr5010
May13220
Jun19725
Jul25927
Aug18024
Sep22925
Oct21424
Nov17020
Dec17916

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Catanauan, 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 5 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around May 18. The clearest month is April, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 67% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 19 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around November 4. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 88% 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 8 · 69%Jul 28 · 9%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4753
Feb5644
Mar6436
Apr6733
May4258
Jun2377
Jul1288
Aug1387
Sep1387
Oct2674
Nov4258
Dec4456

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 3, brings about 12 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 12 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.36:225:38
Feb11.56:195:52
Mar11.96:035:58
Apr12.35:426:00
May12.65:286:06
Jun12.85:276:15
Jul12.75:346:18
Aug12.55:416:08
Sep12.15:435:47
Oct11.75:455:26
Nov11.45:555:17
Dec11.26:115:23

Sunny days

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

Catanauan averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 15 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.3 months, from around Nov 7 to May 18. The sunniest month is April, with roughly 15 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is July, down near 2 sunny days — about 89% fewer than the April peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightApr 715 daysJul 281 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan8Gloomy
Feb9Mixed
Mar13Mixed
Apr15Mixed
May9Mixed
Jun4Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct4Gloomy
Nov8Gloomy
Dec8Gloomy

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.

Catanauan 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 99% 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
Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan123742
Feb126711
Mar014815
Apr027127
May002476
Jun001090
Jul001882
Aug001585
Sep002278
Oct013960
Nov034849
Dec096921

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

The windier part of the year lasts 4.9 months, from around Oct 18 to Mar 16. The windiest month is December, averaging about 16 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Mar 17 to Oct 17, with May the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeDec 24 · 16 km/hMay 21 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan16light breeze
Feb14light breeze
Mar12calm
Apr9calm
May8calm
Jun9calm
Jul10calm
Aug11calm
Sep10calm
Oct12calm
Nov14light breeze
Dec16light breeze

Hazard calendar for Catanauan

In seasonPeak

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

Catanauan 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 Catanauan

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late March, Catanauan 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 Catanauan for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid December to early April, with a peak score in the first week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 6 · 6.7

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
Jan6.4good
Feb6.6good
Mar5.8good
Apr5.0fair
May3.8fair
Jun3.2poor
Jul3.2poor
Aug3.5poor
Sep3.4poor
Oct3.7fair
Nov4.4fair
Dec5.4fair

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 Catanauan for hot-weather activities is from late December to early May, with a peak score in the last week of March.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 25 · 7.3

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 Catanauan, 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.

Catanauan 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, Catanauan sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 27°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 20 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Catanauan

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 January near 26°C.

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

24°26°28°30°32°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan26Warm
Feb27Warm
Mar27Warm
Apr29Tropical
May30Tropical
Jun30Tropical
Jul30Tropical
Aug29Tropical
Sep29Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov28Tropical
Dec27Warm

UV index (midday) in Catanauan 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 Catanauan peaks around August 18 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 11 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 highAug 18UV 14Dec 11UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Very high
Feb12Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Catanauan

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)
Jan75
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr86.5
May86
Jun86
Jul8.56.5
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec74.5

Air quality in Catanauan 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 Catanauan is worst in May — around 17 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.7× the cleanest month (February, 10 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateModerateGoodMay 1316 µg/m³Feb 1310 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan11Good
Feb10Good
Mar12Good
Apr15Moderate
May17Moderate
Jun12Good
Jul12Moderate
Aug12Moderate
Sep11Good
Oct10Good
Nov11Good
Dec10Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Catanauan 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. Catanauan banks about 6,282 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)
Jan486
Feb445
Mar521
Apr542
May573
Jun543
Jul548
Aug549
Sep526
Oct535
Nov509
Dec504

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.

Catanauan receives about 5.1 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 4.7 months, from around Feb 19 to Jul 12. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.0 kWh/m² — roughly 36% less than the April peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 186.4 kWhDec 144.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.3Bright
Feb5.0Bright
Mar5.7Bright
Apr6.4Intense
May6.0Bright
Jun5.5Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug5.2Bright
Sep5.0Bright
Oct4.7Bright
Nov4.4Bright
Dec4.0Moderate

Where is Catanauan?

Catanauan sits at 13.6°N, 122.3°E, 7 m above sea level, in Philippines. The nearest listed city is Lopez, 33 km away.

Lucena

Topography around Catanauan

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Catanauan has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 149 m around an average of 14 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 383 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,472 m.

The land around Catanauan is covered by trees (48%) and water (36%) within 3 km, trees (58%) and water (40%) within 16 km, and water (62%) and trees (36%) within 80 km.

3 km
149 m
16 km
383 m
80 km
1,472 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswatermangroves
Nearby: Lopez 33 km · Aurora 35 km · Calauag 41 km · Gumaca 44 km · Atimonan 63 km · Pagbilao 79 km · Labo 83 km · Lucena 85 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 Catanauan (13.5926°, 122.3215°, elevation 7 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).