Climate and average weather in Ilagan

In Ilagan, the summers are muggy, hot, wet, and mostly cloudy and the winters are warm and mostly cloudy.

Best: mid November to mid April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ilagan typically varies from 19°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 17°C or above 34°C. June is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Ilagan for warm-weather activities is from mid November to mid April.

Hottest
Jun
32°
Coldest
Jan
19°
Wettest
Jul
364 mm
Driest
Mar
102 mm
Rain / yr
2741 mm
282 wet days
Daylight
11.0–13.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
55 m
17.1°N
Clearest
Apr
58% cloud

Ilagan is city of the Philippines and capital of the province of Isabela.

Density
141/km²
people per km²
Founded
1686

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

Ilagan 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 mid November to mid April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Ilagan stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is June, with an average high of 32°C and low of 23°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 19°C and high of 25°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 9°C) in May.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2519
Feb2619
Mar2820
Apr3022
May3123
Jun3223
Jul3123
Aug3023
Sep3023
Oct2822
Nov2721
Dec2520

How hot and cold Ilagan 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, Ilagan feels like about 37°C (around June 14). About 184 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in June.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan25251919
Feb25261919
Mar29282020
Apr33302222
May36312323
Jun36322323
Jul35312323
Aug35302323
Sep34302323
Oct31282222
Nov28272121
Dec25252020

Average hourly temperature in Ilagan

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 June afternoons, near 32°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 19°C.

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

Ilagan 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
Jan25° / 19°11920.411.15.1
Feb26° / 19°10618.411.45.1
Mar28° / 20°10217.911.95.2
Apr30° / 22°11617.112.44.1
May31° / 23°23324.112.82.9
Jun32° / 23°23025.9132.5
Jul31° / 23°36428.712.92.6
Aug30° / 23°32928.312.62.6
Sep30° / 23°30126.912.12.9
Oct28° / 22°26725.611.63.7
Nov27° / 21°2632411.24.2
Dec25° / 20°31324.8114.4

Chance of rain

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

Ilagan gets about 2741 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 7.3 months, from around May 16 to Dec 23, peaking in July at about 94% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Mar 18.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 364 mm over about 29 wet days; March is the driest, with 102 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 22 · 94%Mar 18 · 56%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan6620
Feb6518
Mar5818
Apr5917
May7724
Jun8726
Jul9329
Aug9228
Sep8927
Oct8326
Nov8024
Dec7825

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ilagan collects about 2741 mm of rain across 282 wet days — roughly 228 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 364 mm, while March is the driest at just 102 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 37% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec119106102116233230364329301267263313
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan11920
Feb10618
Mar10218
Apr11617
May23324
Jun23026
Jul36429
Aug32928
Sep30127
Oct26726
Nov26324
Dec31325

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ilagan, 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 February 7 and lasts for 3.3 months, ending around May 17. The clearest month is April, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 51% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 27 and lasts for 3.8 months, ending around October 19. The cloudiest month is August, 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 13 · 53%Aug 1 · 11%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2278
Feb3367
Mar4555
Apr5149
May3070
Jun2575
Jul1684
Aug1189
Sep1783
Oct2674
Nov3070
Dec2080

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 13 hours of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 hours — a swing of roughly 2 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.16:295:34
Feb11.46:245:50
Mar11.96:065:58
Apr12.45:416:04
May12.85:256:13
Jun13.05:226:23
Jul12.95:306:26
Aug12.65:396:14
Sep12.15:445:50
Oct11.65:495:26
Nov11.26:025:13
Dec11.06:195:18

Sunny days

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

Ilagan averages about 3 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 8 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.3 months, from around Feb 9 to May 18. The sunniest month is April, with roughly 7 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is July, down near 2 sunny days — about 78% fewer than the April peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedApr 88 daysJul 310 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan2Gloomy
Feb3Gloomy
Mar6Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May4Gloomy
Jun3Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct3Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
Dec2Gloomy

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.

Ilagan 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 February, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 82% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 1% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserablemuggyoppressivehumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan12064140
Feb11765170
Mar0651430
Apr0018811
May003889
Jun0008416
Jul0008911
Aug0008614
Sep001936
Oct0014851
Nov0225740
Dec01052390

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.

Wind in Ilagan is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmOct 25 · 6 km/hSep 3 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr5calm
May4calm
Jun5calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct6calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Ilagan

In seasonPeak

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

Ilagan 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 Ilagan

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late November, Ilagan 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 Ilagan for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid November to mid April, with a peak score in the second week of March.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 12 · 5.3

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
Jan5.0fair
Feb5.1fair
Mar5.1fair
Apr4.1fair
May2.9poor
Jun2.5poor
Jul2.6poor
Aug2.6poor
Sep2.9poor
Oct3.7fair
Nov4.2fair
Dec4.4fair

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 5 · 5.8

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 Ilagan, 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.

For a warm-season trip around June (highs near 32°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 25°C), pack light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In June, Ilagan sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 26 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Ilagan

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 57 km away) is warmest in June at about 30°C and coldest in February 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
Feb26Warm
Mar27Warm
Apr28Tropical
May29Tropical
Jun30Tropical
Jul30Tropical
Aug30Tropical
Sep29Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov28Warm
Dec27Warm

UV index (midday) in Ilagan 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 Ilagan peaks around August 19 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 11 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 19UV 14Dec 11UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct10Extreme
Nov8Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Ilagan

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)
Jan74.5
Feb75
Mar86
Apr86
May8.56.5
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56.5
Aug8.56.5
Sep86.5
Oct75
Nov6.54
Dec6.53.5
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ilagan 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. Ilagan banks about 5,469 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around June.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan363
Feb343
Mar427
Apr473
May528
Jun525
Jul523
Aug519
Sep489
Oct470
Nov421
Dec387

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.

Ilagan receives about 4.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.5 and 6.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.7 months, from around Mar 10 to Sep 30. The brightest month is June, averaging about 6.0 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.6 kWh/m² — roughly 56% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 156.0 kWhDec 182.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.0Moderate
Feb3.6Moderate
Mar4.8Bright
Apr5.8Bright
May5.9Bright
Jun6.0Bright
Jul5.4Bright
Aug5.2Bright
Sep4.9Bright
Oct4.1Bright
Nov3.3Moderate
Dec2.5Moderate

Where is Ilagan?

Ilagan sits at 17.1°N, 121.9°E, 55 m above sea level, in Philippines. The nearest listed city is Roxas, 29 km away.

Topography around Ilagan

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ilagan has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 85 m around an average of 36 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 722 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,277 m.

The land around Ilagan is covered by cropland (63%) within 3 km, cropland (57%) and trees (32%) within 16 km, and trees (55%) and cropland (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
85 m
16 km
722 m
80 km
2,277 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Roxas 29 km · Cabagan 34 km · San Mateo 44 km · Alicia 46 km · Tuguegarao 55 km · Ramon 55 km · Tabuk 58 km · Solana 60 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 Ilagan (17.1485°, 121.8892°, elevation 55 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).