Climate and average weather in Iriga City

In Iriga City, 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: early January to late April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Iriga City typically varies from 23°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 21°C or above 33°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 Iriga City for warm-weather activities are from early January to late April and mid December to late December.

Hottest
May
32°
Coldest
Jan
23°
Wettest
Jul
428 mm
Driest
Apr
85 mm
Rain / yr
3013 mm
288 wet days
Daylight
11.2–12.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
30 m
13.4°N
Clearest
Apr
55% cloud

Iriga City is city of the Philippines in the province of Camarines Sur.

Density
840/km²
people per km²
Founded
1578

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

Iriga City 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 Iriga City, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Iriga City stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is May, with an average high of 32°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 23°C and high of 28°C.

Days typically run about 6°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2823
Feb2823
Mar3023
Apr3124
May3225
Jun3125
Jul3024
Aug3024
Sep3024
Oct3024
Nov2924
Dec2823

How hot and cold Iriga City 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, Iriga City feels like about 40°C (around June 3). About 296 days a year carry some heat stress, and 46 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in June.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan31282323
Feb31282323
Mar34302323
Apr37312424
May39322525
Jun39312525
Jul38302424
Aug38302424
Sep37302424
Oct36302424
Nov35292424
Dec32282323

Average hourly temperature in Iriga City

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 32°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 23°C.

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

Iriga City 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° / 23°17821.111.34.6
Feb28° / 23°12516.211.64.7
Mar30° / 23°12117.411.94.3
Apr31° / 24°851512.33.9
May32° / 25°21122.912.62.9
Jun31° / 25°30227.412.82.5
Jul30° / 24°42830.212.72.5
Aug30° / 24°36929.612.42.6
Sep30° / 24°3832912.12.5
Oct30° / 24°29528.211.72.8
Nov29° / 24°2312611.43.2
Dec28° / 23°28525.311.23.8

Chance of rain

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

Iriga City gets about 3013 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 7.0 months, from around May 21 to Dec 19, peaking in July at about 98% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Apr 5.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 428 mm over about 30 wet days; April is the driest, with 85 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 23 · 98%Apr 5 · 50%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan6821
Feb5916
Mar5517
Apr5115
May7323
Jun9227
Jul9730
Aug9630
Sep9729
Oct9128
Nov8726
Dec8125

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Iriga City collects about 3013 mm of rain across 288 wet days — roughly 251 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 428 mm, while April is the driest at just 85 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 39% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec17812512185211302428369383295231285
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan17821
Feb12516
Mar12117
Apr8515
May21123
Jun30227
Jul42830
Aug36930
Sep38329
Oct29528
Nov23126
Dec28525

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Iriga City, 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 4 and lasts for 6.5 months, ending around May 20. The clearest month is April, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 58% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 21 and lasts for 5.5 months, ending around November 3. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 93% 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 7 · 60%Jul 27 · 5%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3367
Feb4258
Mar5050
Apr5842
May3664
Jun1981
Jul892
Aug892
Sep793
Oct1882
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 5, 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)
Jan11.36:175:34
Feb11.66:145:48
Mar11.95:595:53
Apr12.35:385:56
May12.65:246:01
Jun12.85:236:10
Jul12.75:306:14
Aug12.45:376:04
Sep12.15:385:43
Oct11.75:415:22
Nov11.45:515:13
Dec11.26:065:19

Sunny days

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

Iriga City averages about 4 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 10 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.8 months, from around Jan 26 to May 21. The sunniest month is April, with roughly 10 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is September, down near 0 sunny days — about 97% fewer than the April peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedApr 710 daysSep 110 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan3Gloomy
Feb5Gloomy
Mar8Gloomy
Apr10Mixed
May5Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
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.

Iriga City 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecoppressivemiserablemuggy
Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan13779
Feb14806
Mar67420
Apr04951
May01486
Jun0397
Jul0793
Aug0595
Sep0991
Oct02080
Nov13168
Dec55738

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

The windier part of the year lasts 5.0 months, from around Oct 24 to Mar 24. The windiest month is December, averaging about 10 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Mar 25 to Jul 27, with May the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeDec 31 · 10 km/hMay 24 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb9calm
Mar8calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul7calm
Aug8calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov8calm
Dec10calm

Hazard calendar for Iriga City

In seasonPeak

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

Iriga City 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 Iriga City

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 23 · 4.7

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
Jan4.6fair
Feb4.7fair
Mar4.4fair
Apr3.9fair
May2.9poor
Jun2.5poor
Jul2.5poor
Aug2.5poor
Sep2.5poor
Oct2.8poor
Nov3.2poor
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 Iriga City for hot-weather activities is from early January to mid May, with a peak score in the first week of April.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 2 · 6.0

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 Iriga City, 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.

Iriga City packs about the same all year — highs hold near 32°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, Iriga City sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 23 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Iriga City

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 31 km away) is warmest in June at about 30°C and coldest in January 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
May29Tropical
Jun30Tropical
Jul29Tropical
Aug29Tropical
Sep29Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov28Tropical
Dec28Warm

UV index (midday) in Iriga City 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 Iriga City peaks around August 18 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 highAug 18UV 14Dec 15UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Very high
Feb12Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Iriga City

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
Apr8.56.5
May8.56.5
Jun8.56.5
Jul86
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec74.5

Air quality in Iriga City 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 Iriga City is worst in September — around 21 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.0× the cleanest month (April, 10 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodModerateSep 921 µg/m³Apr 1210 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan14Moderate
Feb14Moderate
Mar12Good
Apr10Good
May14Moderate
Jun19Moderate
Jul20Moderate
Aug21Moderate
Sep21Moderate
Oct16Moderate
Nov12Moderate
Dec12Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Iriga City 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. Iriga City banks about 6,148 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)
Jan473
Feb433
Mar504
Apr526
May564
Jun537
Jul538
Aug537
Sep517
Oct527
Nov499
Dec493

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.

Iriga City receives about 5.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.9 and 6.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.8 months, from around Feb 22 to Jul 18. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.0 kWh/m² — roughly 38% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 206.5 kWhDec 163.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.2Bright
Feb5.0Bright
Mar5.7Bright
Apr6.4Intense
May6.1Intense
Jun5.7Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug5.3Bright
Sep5.1Bright
Oct4.8Bright
Nov4.4Bright
Dec3.9Moderate

Where is Iriga City?

Iriga City sits at 13.4°N, 123.4°E, 30 m above sea level, in Philippines. The nearest listed city is Nabua, 5.0 km away.

Topography around Iriga City

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Iriga City has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 421 m around an average of 64 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,154 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,410 m.

The land around Iriga City is covered by trees (71%) within 3 km, trees (58%) and cropland (27%) within 16 km, and water (58%) and trees (35%) within 80 km.

3 km
421 m
16 km
1,154 m
80 km
2,410 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetlandmangroves
Nearby: Nabua 5.0 km · Baao 6.0 km · Bato 10 km · Buhi 11 km · Libon 15 km · Polangui 18 km · San Jose 18 km · Oas 21 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 Iriga City (13.4324°, 123.4115°, elevation 30 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).