Climate and average weather in Siargao

In Siargao, the weather is muggy, hot, wet, and mostly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around January.

Best: mid January to late June

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Siargao typically varies from 25°C to 29°C, and is rarely below 25°C or above 30°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Siargao for warm-weather activities are from mid January to late June and late June to late November.

Hottest
Aug
29°
Coldest
Jan
26°
Wettest
Jan
388 mm
Driest
Aug
94 mm
Rain / yr
2316 mm
258 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
0 m
9.9°N
Clearest
Apr
57% cloud

Siargao 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 January to late June.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Siargao stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is August, with an average high of 29°C and low of 27°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 26°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 2°C warmer than nights year-round.

18°20°22°24°26°28°30°32°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2726
Feb2725
Mar2726
Apr2826
May2827
Jun2927
Jul2927
Aug2927
Sep2927
Oct2827
Nov2826
Dec2726

How hot and cold Siargao 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, Siargao feels like about 34°C (around May 31). About 215 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in May.

24°26°28°30°32°34°36°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan28272526
Feb27272525
Mar30272626
Apr32282626
May34282727
Jun34292727
Jul33292727
Aug33292727
Sep33292727
Oct33282727
Nov32282626
Dec31272626

Average hourly temperature in Siargao

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 August afternoons, near 29°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 26°C.

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

Siargao 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° / 26°38827.311.53.9
Feb27° / 25°2802311.74.2
Mar27° / 26°20523.311.94.5
Apr28° / 26°12420.112.24.9
May28° / 27°9918.112.44.7
Jun29° / 27°13520.312.64.1
Jul29° / 27°1261912.54.2
Aug29° / 27°941512.34.6
Sep29° / 27°1121712.14.4
Oct28° / 27°16722.111.84.1
Nov28° / 26°26425.311.54.0
Dec27° / 26°32127.711.43.8

Chance of rain

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

Siargao gets about 2316 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 5.6 months, from around Oct 18 to Apr 4, peaking in January at about 91% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 10.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 388 mm over about 27 wet days; August is the driest, with 94 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJan 1 · 91%Aug 10 · 47%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan8827
Feb8223
Mar7523
Apr6720
May5818
Jun6720
Jul6119
Aug5015
Sep5817
Oct7122
Nov8425
Dec8928

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Siargao collects about 2316 mm of rain across 258 wet days — roughly 193 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 388 mm, while August is the driest at just 94 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 43% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec3882802051249913512694112167264321
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan38827
Feb28023
Mar20523
Apr12420
May9918
Jun13520
Jul12619
Aug9415
Sep11217
Oct16722
Nov26425
Dec32128

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Siargao, 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 January 17 and lasts for 4.5 months, ending around June 1. The clearest month is April, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 53% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 2 and lasts for 5.2 months, ending around November 6. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 83% 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 5 · 57%Jul 30 · 13%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3268
Feb3961
Mar4555
Apr5347
May3862
Jun2179
Jul1783
Aug2179
Sep2179
Oct2575
Nov3367
Dec2971

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 6, 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)
Jan11.56:015:30
Feb11.76:005:41
Mar11.95:475:43
Apr12.25:295:43
May12.45:195:46
Jun12.65:195:53
Jul12.55:265:57
Aug12.35:305:50
Sep12.15:295:32
Oct11.85:285:14
Nov11.55:355:07
Dec11.45:495:15

Sunny days

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

Siargao averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 12 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.1 months, from around Jan 28 to Jun 2. The sunniest month is April, with roughly 11 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is July, down near 2 sunny days — about 79% fewer than the April peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedApr 712 daysJul 302 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan5Gloomy
Feb6Gloomy
Mar8Gloomy
Apr11Mixed
May7Gloomy
Jun3Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug3Gloomy
Sep3Gloomy
Oct5Gloomy
Nov5Gloomy
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.

Siargao 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 (%)
Jan37720
Feb68311
Mar37719
Apr04852
May01882
Jun03169
Jul05149
Aug05149
Sep05149
Oct04060
Nov03169
Dec14158

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 Siargao is typically light breeze, near 16 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.9 months, from around Nov 17 to Apr 13. The windiest month is January, averaging about 22 km/h (breezy).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 14 to Nov 16, with August the calmest month at about 13 km/h.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezywindyJan 31 · 22 km/hAug 24 · 13 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan22breezy
Feb21breezy
Mar19light breeze
Apr16light breeze
May14light breeze
Jun14light breeze
Jul14light breeze
Aug13light breeze
Sep14light breeze
Oct14light breeze
Nov16light breeze
Dec19light breeze

Hazard calendar for Siargao

In seasonPeak

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

Siargao sits in the Pacific typhoon belt; the season peaks July–October.

Siargao's rainy season runs November–March, when most of the year's rain falls.

Pacific typhoon
Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Siargao

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 14 · 4.9

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
Jan3.9fair
Feb4.2fair
Mar4.5fair
Apr4.9fair
May4.7fair
Jun4.2fair
Jul4.2fair
Aug4.6fair
Sep4.4fair
Oct4.1fair
Nov4.0fair
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 Siargao for hot-weather activities is from late March to late October, with a peak score in the second week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 12 · 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 Siargao, 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.

Siargao packs about the same all year — highs hold near 29°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear, sun protection and a windbreaker.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Siargao sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 27°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 15 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Siargao

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 28°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
Jan28Warm
Feb28Warm
Mar28Warm
Apr29Tropical
May29Tropical
Jun30Tropical
Jul30Tropical
Aug29Tropical
Sep29Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov29Tropical
Dec28Tropical

UV index (midday) in Siargao 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 Siargao peaks around April 10 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 16 at about 10 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highApr 10UV 14Dec 16UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul13Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec10Very high

Average hourly UV index in Siargao

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 April 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
Feb7.56
Mar86.5
Apr86.5
May86.5
Jun86
Jul86.5
Aug86.5
Sep86.5
Oct7.55.5
Nov7.55
Dec75
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Siargao 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. Siargao banks about 6,255 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan503
Feb452
Mar509
Apr509
May545
Jun530
Jul552
Aug557
Sep536
Oct540
Nov508
Dec515

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.

Siargao receives about 5.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.1 and 6.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 3.7 months, from around Mar 1 to Jun 20. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.1 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.1 kWh/m² — roughly 32% less than the April peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 186.1 kWhDec 224.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.2Bright
Feb4.8Bright
Mar5.6Bright
Apr6.1Intense
May5.9Bright
Jun5.3Bright
Jul5.3Bright
Aug5.7Bright
Sep5.5Bright
Oct5.2Bright
Nov4.6Bright
Dec4.1Bright

Where is Siargao?

Siargao sits at 9.9°N, 126.1°E, 0 m above sea level, in Philippines. The nearest listed city is Surigao, 62 km away.

TandagCabadbaranButuanLibertadBuenavistaBayugan

Topography around Siargao

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Siargao has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 226 m around an average of 63 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 254 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,784 m.

The land around Siargao is covered by trees (84%) within 3 km, water (46%) and trees (40%) within 16 km, and water (73%) and trees (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
226 m
16 km
254 m
80 km
1,784 m
treesgrasslandcroplandwatermangroves
Nearby: Surigao 62 km · San Jose 63 km · Tandag 90 km · Cabadbaran 101 km · Butuan 117 km · Libertad 119 km · Buenavista 122 km · Bayugan 128 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 Siargao (9.8708°, 126.0511°, elevation 0 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).