Climate and average weather in City of Isabela

In City of Isabela, the weather is muggy, hot, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around June.

Best: late December to early April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in City of Isabela typically varies from 25°C to 29°C, and is rarely below 24°C or above 30°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Apr
29°
Coldest
Jul
25°
Wettest
Jun
224 mm
Driest
Feb
94 mm
Rain / yr
1917 mm
270 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
10 m
6.7°N
Clearest
Mar
66% cloud

City of Isabela is city of the Philippines in the province of Basilan.

Density
301/km²
people per km²
Founded
1848

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

City of Isabela 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 April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in City of Isabela stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 29°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 25°C and high of 28°C.

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

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2825
Feb2825
Mar2925
Apr2925
May2926
Jun2825
Jul2825
Aug2825
Sep2825
Oct2825
Nov2825
Dec2825

How hot and cold City of Isabela 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, City of Isabela feels like about 34°C (around May 4). About 124 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in May.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan31282525
Feb31282525
Mar32292525
Apr33292525
May33292626
Jun32282525
Jul31282525
Aug31282525
Sep32282525
Oct32282525
Nov32282525
Dec32282525

Average hourly temperature in City of Isabela

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 29°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 25°C.

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

City of Isabela 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° / 25°1151711.74.8
Feb28° / 25°9413.911.84.9
Mar29° / 25°10417.7124.6
Apr29° / 25°1182212.13.8
May29° / 26°18326.112.33.4
Jun28° / 25°22426.112.43.5
Jul28° / 25°20426.212.43.8
Aug28° / 25°17824.812.23.9
Sep28° / 25°16923.6123.8
Oct28° / 25°21226.311.93.6
Nov28° / 25°1762411.73.7
Dec28° / 25°14122.411.64.1

Chance of rain

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

City of Isabela gets about 1917 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 8.1 months, from around Apr 15 to Dec 17, peaking in June at about 88% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 2.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 224 mm over about 26 wet days; February is the driest, with 94 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 23 · 88%Feb 2 · 48%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan5517
Feb5014
Mar5718
Apr7422
May8426
Jun8726
Jul8426
Aug8025
Sep7924
Oct8526
Nov8024
Dec7222

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, City of Isabela collects about 1917 mm of rain across 270 wet days — roughly 160 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 224 mm, while February is the driest at just 94 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 33% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec11594104118183224204178169212176141
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan11517
Feb9414
Mar10418
Apr11822
May18326
Jun22426
Jul20426
Aug17825
Sep16924
Oct21226
Nov17624
Dec14122

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In City of Isabela, 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 10 and lasts for 5.9 months, ending around May 8. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 40% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 9 and lasts for 6.1 months, ending around November 9. The cloudiest month is June, 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 4 · 44%Jun 26 · 8%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2872
Feb3268
Mar4060
Apr3862
May2080
Jun1189
Jul1189
Aug1486
Sep1387
Oct1585
Nov2377
Dec2476

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 29, brings about 12 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 0 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.76:125:51
Feb11.86:136:00
Mar12.06:036:00
Apr12.15:485:57
May12.35:395:57
Jun12.45:416:04
Jul12.45:476:08
Aug12.25:506:03
Sep12.05:455:48
Oct11.95:425:33
Nov11.75:475:28
Dec11.66:005:37

Sunny days

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

City of Isabela averages about 3 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 7 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.6 months, from around Nov 16 to May 5. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 6 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is July, down near 1 sunny days — about 88% fewer than the March peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedMar 267 daysJul 31 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan5Gloomy
Feb5Gloomy
Mar6Gloomy
Apr6Gloomy
May2Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct1Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
Dec4Gloomy

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.

City of Isabela 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressive
Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan1945
Feb2962
Mar1936
Apr07624
May05248
Jun06436
Jul07723
Aug07822
Sep08020
Oct07624
Nov07426
Dec07821

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 City of Isabela is typically calm, near 7 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.4 months, from around Jun 16 to Oct 28. The windiest month is August, averaging about 9 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Feb 16 to Jun 15, with April the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeAug 5 · 10 km/hApr 24 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun7calm
Jul9calm
Aug9calm
Sep8calm
Oct8calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for City of Isabela

In seasonPeak

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

City of Isabela 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 City of Isabela

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 31 · 5.1

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
Jan4.8fair
Feb4.9fair
Mar4.6fair
Apr3.8fair
May3.4poor
Jun3.5poor
Jul3.8fair
Aug3.9fair
Sep3.8fair
Oct3.6fair
Nov3.7fair
Dec4.1fair

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 City of Isabela for hot-weather activities is from mid December to late April, with a peak score in the first week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 3 · 5.9

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 City of Isabela, 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.

City of Isabela packs about the same all year — highs hold near 29°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, City of Isabela sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 22 days see rain.

Sea temperature near City of Isabela

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 14 km away) is warmest in June at about 29°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°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan28Warm
Feb28Warm
Mar28Tropical
Apr29Tropical
May29Tropical
Jun29Tropical
Jul29Tropical
Aug29Tropical
Sep29Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov29Tropical
Dec29Tropical

UV index (midday) in City of Isabela 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 City of Isabela peaks around March 17 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near November 22 at about 10 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeExtremeMar 17UV 14Nov 22UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec10Extreme

Average hourly UV index in City of Isabela

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 8.5 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)
Jan7.56
Feb86
Mar8.56.5
Apr86.5
May86
Jun86
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec7.55

Air quality in City of Isabela 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 City of Isabela is worst in March — around 39 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 2.6× the cleanest month (August, 15 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateMar 1938 µg/m³Aug 1015 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan29Moderate
Feb33Moderate
Mar39Poor
Apr36Poor
May25Moderate
Jun19Moderate
Jul15Moderate
Aug15Moderate
Sep19Moderate
Oct26Moderate
Nov30Moderate
Dec28Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

City of Isabela 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. City of Isabela banks about 6,109 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan512
Feb465
Mar524
Apr517
May532
Jun502
Jul509
Aug512
Sep498
Oct515
Nov503
Dec519

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.

City of Isabela receives about 5.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.0 and 6.4 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 36.4 kWhJun 245.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.4Bright
Feb5.8Bright
Mar6.3Intense
Apr6.3Intense
May5.6Bright
Jun5.1Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug5.6Bright
Sep5.6Bright
Oct5.4Bright
Nov5.2Bright
Dec5.1Bright

Where is City of Isabela?

City of Isabela sits at 6.7°N, 122.0°E, 10 m above sea level, in Philippines. The nearest listed city is Maluso, 21 km away.

SioconJoloIpilPagadian

Topography around City of Isabela

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around City of Isabela has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 187 m around an average of 38 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 942 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,347 m.

The land around City of Isabela is covered by trees (60%) and water (21%) within 3 km, trees (49%) and water (48%) within 16 km, and water (83%) within 80 km.

3 km
187 m
16 km
942 m
80 km
1,347 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfaceswatermangroves
Nearby: Maluso 21 km · Zamboanga City 26 km · Recodo 28 km · Al-Barka 33 km · Siocon 113 km · Jolo 129 km · Ipil 138 km · Pagadian 204 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 City of Isabela (6.7041°, 121.9712°, elevation 10 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).