Cebu City climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Cebu City?

Cebu City has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 26.7 °C and it receives 1,733 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Cebu City?

The hottest day measured in Cebu City between 1940 and 2025 was 8 June 2005, reaching 32.5 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Cebu City?

The coldest day measured in Cebu City between 1940 and 2025 was 1 March 1963, at 22.6 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Cebu City?

Almost never: Cebu City sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Q: Has the climate of Cebu City warmed?

Yes: Cebu City warmed by +1.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Cebu City?

The wettest day measured in Cebu City between 1940 and 2025 was 7 December 1953, with 287 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Cebu City?

The windiest day measured in Cebu City between 1940 and 2025 was 16 December 2021, with winds reaching 80.8 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Cebu City?

The warmest month in Cebu City is May (27.5 °C on average); the coldest is January (25.7 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Cebu City?

Cebu City receives on average 1,733 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 255 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Cebu City?

Cebu City gets on average 10.3 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,760 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Cebu City (Philippines) has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 26.7 °C and it receives 1,733 mm of precipitation per year.

These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.

The warmest month is May (27.5 °C on average) and the coldest is January (25.7 °C). Rainfall peaks in November.

Cebu City averages 0 frost days, 23 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 255 rainy days per year.

Cebu City has warmed by +1.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.12 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 32.5 °C (on 8 June 2005) and the coldest 22.6 °C (on 1 March 1963).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

Cebu CityCentral Visayas

coords: 10.32°, 123.89°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

AfTropical rainforestWarmest monthMayColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthNovemberDriest monthApril

Mean daily temperature

26.7°C

Average daily high

28.1°C

Average daily low

25.5°C

Annual rainfall

1,733mm

Sunshine / day

10.3h

Mean relative humidity

82%

Average peak wind

18.4km/h

Seasonal range

1.8°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

23 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

255 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

32.8 °C

Average feels-like low

29.0 °C

Average peak gust

29.4 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

365 d/yr

Solar radiation

19.3 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.1 °C

since 1940

+0.1 °C per decade · r² = 0.75 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.

Records for the period

Hottest day

32.5 °C

8 June 2005

Coldest day

22.6 °C

1 March 1963

Wettest day

287 mm

7 December 1953

Windiest day

80.8 km/h

16 December 2021

Strongest gust

132.8 km/h

24 January 1975

Hottest feels-like

39.9 °C

3 June 2024

Coldest feels-like

20.4 °C

19 January 1961

Sunniest day

12.6 h

9 June 1941

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	31.5 °C1 June 2025	24.8 °C12 October 2025	27.3 °C	3,061 mm	37
2024	32.0 °C3 June 2024	24.9 °C13 February 2024	27.6 °C	2,093 mm	76
2023	31.5 °C5 September 2023	24.2 °C11 April 2023	27.4 °C	2,501 mm	59
2022	31.0 °C12 September 2022	24.3 °C9 January 2022	27.1 °C	2,924 mm	38
2021	31.3 °C7 August 2021	24.2 °C22 February 2021	27.2 °C	2,548 mm	48
2020	31.3 °C25 August 2020	24.7 °C22 January 2020	27.3 °C	2,039 mm	46
2019	32.5 °C6 May 2019	23.9 °C25 December 2019	27.3 °C	1,209 mm	74
2018	31.1 °C15 June 2018	23.2 °C19 November 2018	27.2 °C	1,815 mm	41
2017	30.9 °C11 June 2017	23.3 °C17 December 2017	27.0 °C	2,551 mm	35
2016	31.4 °C30 August 2016	24.6 °C29 January 2016	27.3 °C	1,830 mm	44
2015	31.2 °C10 May 2015	23.8 °C11 January 2015	27.0 °C	1,380 mm	40
2014	31.1 °C8 June 2014	23.4 °C25 January 2014	26.8 °C	2,801 mm	34
2013	31.2 °C19 May 2013	24.4 °C12 January 2013	27.0 °C	2,092 mm	22
2012	31.0 °C20 June 2012	24.0 °C18 March 2012	26.9 °C	1,690 mm	21
2011	30.9 °C25 June 2011	24.3 °C16 January 2011	26.7 °C	2,578 mm	21
2010	32.2 °C1 June 2010	24.6 °C2 February 2010	27.1 °C	1,667 mm	45
2009	31.0 °C10 August 2009	23.7 °C16 January 2009	26.9 °C	1,516 mm	26
2008	30.5 °C14 July 2008	24.1 °C16 January 2008	26.8 °C	2,450 mm	18
2007	31.2 °C22 May 2007	24.3 °C30 November 2007	27.0 °C	1,621 mm	36
2006	30.6 °C4 July 2006	24.5 °C11 March 2006	27.0 °C	1,539 mm	19
2005	32.5 °C8 June 2005	24.1 °C17 January 2005	26.9 °C	1,550 mm	40
2004	31.2 °C23 May 2004	24.2 °C17 February 2004	26.9 °C	1,325 mm	25
2003	31.0 °C1 June 2003	24.1 °C12 March 2003	26.8 °C	1,581 mm	42
2002	31.5 °C27 May 2002	23.9 °C25 January 2002	26.8 °C	1,255 mm	36
2001	31.0 °C27 September 2001	24.3 °C21 September 2001	26.9 °C	1,790 mm	29
2000	30.8 °C15 May 2000	23.6 °C1 December 2000	26.8 °C	2,055 mm	22
1999	30.7 °C6 June 1999	24.3 °C13 February 1999	26.7 °C	2,260 mm	10
1998	31.7 °C22 May 1998	23.8 °C1 February 1998	27.2 °C	1,347 mm	56
1997	31.5 °C31 May 1997	23.1 °C2 January 1997	26.7 °C	1,334 mm	29
1996	31.1 °C13 August 1996	23.2 °C28 December 1996	26.6 °C	2,201 mm	20
1995	31.2 °C15 May 1995	23.8 °C31 December 1995	26.7 °C	1,677 mm	31
1994	30.8 °C7 August 1994	24.2 °C15 January 1994	26.8 °C	1,470 mm	24
1993	31.5 °C6 June 1993	23.8 °C7 February 1993	26.8 °C	1,728 mm	20
1992	32.1 °C31 May 1992	23.8 °C28 November 1992	26.8 °C	865 mm	34
1991	32.0 °C24 June 1991	23.9 °C28 January 1991	26.8 °C	1,084 mm	44
1990	31.1 °C1 September 1990	23.8 °C18 January 1990	26.8 °C	1,611 mm	29
1989	30.3 °C27 July 1989	23.7 °C9 March 1989	26.6 °C	1,702 mm	4
1988	31.6 °C28 May 1988	23.6 °C14 December 1988	27.1 °C	1,956 mm	26
1987	31.4 °C16 June 1987	22.6 °C6 February 1987	26.9 °C	1,119 mm	37
1986	31.6 °C23 May 1986	23.7 °C23 January 1986	26.6 °C	1,704 mm	32
1985	30.8 °C29 August 1985	23.6 °C14 January 1985	26.6 °C	1,621 mm	25
1984	30.2 °C29 July 1984	23.9 °C26 February 1984	26.5 °C	1,625 mm	9
1983	31.3 °C4 June 1983	23.7 °C26 February 1983	26.8 °C	1,664 mm	14
1982	30.3 °C10 August 1982	23.2 °C8 February 1982	26.5 °C	1,317 mm	9
1981	30.8 °C15 June 1981	23.3 °C21 January 1981	26.7 °C	1,545 mm	27
1980	31.2 °C21 May 1980	23.7 °C31 January 1980	26.7 °C	1,879 mm	14
1979	31.5 °C1 June 1979	23.7 °C12 January 1979	26.8 °C	1,240 mm	25
1978	30.9 °C31 May 1978	23.3 °C17 February 1978	26.6 °C	1,694 mm	21
1977	31.9 °C17 May 1977	23.6 °C19 February 1977	26.6 °C	1,880 mm	11
1976	30.7 °C3 July 1976	22.7 °C3 February 1976	26.3 °C	1,707 mm	5
1975	30.7 °C17 August 1975	23.4 °C21 January 1975	26.4 °C	1,863 mm	7
1974	31.0 °C1 September 1974	23.2 °C9 January 1974	26.4 °C	1,571 mm	23
1973	31.1 °C20 July 1973	23.6 °C24 February 1973	26.7 °C	1,506 mm	21
1972	31.0 °C17 August 1972	23.5 °C8 March 1972	26.6 °C	1,640 mm	25
1971	31.1 °C21 September 1971	23.1 °C14 January 1971	26.2 °C	1,849 mm	10
1970	31.3 °C5 September 1970	23.9 °C25 February 1970	26.8 °C	1,496 mm	17
1969	31.0 °C12 June 1969	23.6 °C7 February 1969	26.7 °C	1,348 mm	14
1968	31.9 °C2 September 1968	23.4 °C4 March 1968	26.7 °C	1,162 mm	52
1967	31.7 °C31 May 1967	23.5 °C22 March 1967	26.6 °C	983 mm	61
1966	30.8 °C23 August 1966	23.7 °C22 January 1966	26.5 °C	1,211 mm	15
1965	30.0 °C30 May 1965	22.6 °C24 January 1965	26.0 °C	1,531 mm	1
1964	30.1 °C5 June 1964	22.8 °C28 February 1964	26.2 °C	1,950 mm	2
1963	32.1 °C9 June 1963	22.6 °C1 March 1963	26.4 °C	1,104 mm	38
1962	30.5 °C1 September 1962	23.2 °C4 February 1962	26.4 °C	1,397 mm	6
1961	31.0 °C16 September 1961	23.0 °C20 January 1961	26.5 °C	1,428 mm	24
1960	31.5 °C24 August 1960	23.7 °C18 December 1960	26.7 °C	1,372 mm	29
1959	30.4 °C16 September 1959	22.8 °C21 January 1959	26.4 °C	1,166 mm	7
1958	32.0 °C4 June 1958	23.9 °C28 November 1958	26.6 °C	1,625 mm	27
1957	30.4 °C12 June 1957	23.5 °C13 February 1957	26.5 °C	1,405 mm	9
1956	29.7 °C15 August 1956	23.5 °C13 February 1956	26.1 °C	2,820 mm	0
1955	30.3 °C17 July 1955	23.2 °C22 February 1955	26.2 °C	2,008 mm	5
1954	30.3 °C17 August 1954	24.0 °C30 November 1954	26.5 °C	1,855 mm	3
1953	30.3 °C30 June 1953	24.1 °C4 January 1953	26.6 °C	1,530 mm	5
1952	30.5 °C11 June 1952	23.8 °C21 January 1952	26.5 °C	1,702 mm	7
1951	30.9 °C21 August 1951	23.8 °C29 January 1951	26.4 °C	1,745 mm	10
1950	31.0 °C11 August 1950	23.8 °C24 January 1950	26.4 °C	1,510 mm	17
1949	29.8 °C20 June 1949	23.6 °C20 January 1949	26.1 °C	2,759 mm	0
1948	30.9 °C2 June 1948	23.5 °C18 January 1948	26.1 °C	1,842 mm	5
1947	29.7 °C21 June 1947	23.8 °C31 January 1947	26.3 °C	1,852 mm	0
1946	29.8 °C16 May 1946	23.8 °C3 November 1946	26.2 °C	2,034 mm	0
1945	30.5 °C14 May 1945	23.8 °C11 July 1945	26.4 °C	1,976 mm	3
1944	30.5 °C26 May 1944	23.1 °C18 February 1944	26.2 °C	1,615 mm	5
1943	30.0 °C21 June 1943	23.3 °C14 March 1943	25.8 °C	1,558 mm	1
1942	29.7 °C16 August 1942	23.1 °C19 February 1942	26.1 °C	1,812 mm	0
1941	30.7 °C26 April 1941	23.5 °C8 February 1941	26.3 °C	1,688 mm	5
1940	30.0 °C31 May 1940	23.4 °C17 January 1940	26.0 °C	1,443 mm	1

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

28.7 °C

+0.6 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

37 d/yr

+14

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

3062 mm

+1329 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	27.9 °C	+1.2 °C	253 mm	+99 mm
Feb	27.7 °C	+1.0 °C	208 mm	+105 mm
Mar	27.9 °C	+0.6 °C	269 mm	+186 mm
Apr	28.9 °C	+0.7 °C	69 mm	-4 mm
May	29.2 °C	+0.1 °C	278 mm	+161 mm
Jun	29.1 °C	0.0 °C	251 mm	+91 mm
Jul	29.6 °C	+0.8 °C	148 mm	-12 mm
Aug	28.9 °C	-0.1 °C	259 mm	+128 mm
Sep	29.1 °C	+0.2 °C	247 mm	+94 mm
Oct	28.7 °C	+0.3 °C	369 mm	+181 mm
Nov	28.7 °C	+0.8 °C	447 mm	+242 mm
Dec	28.2 °C	+1.0 °C	262 mm	+59 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

31.5 °C

1 Jun 2025

Coldest day

24.8 °C

12 Oct 2025

Wettest day

168.4 mm

4 Nov 2025

Windiest day

49.3 km/h

4 Nov 2025

Strongest gust

74.5 km/h

4 Nov 2025

Hottest feels-like

38.9 °C

1 Jun 2025

Coldest feels-like

25.1 °C

25 Nov 2025

Sunniest day

12.3 h

1 Jun 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Cebu City?

Cebu City has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 26.7 °C and it receives 1,733 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Cebu City?

The hottest day measured in Cebu City between 1940 and 2025 was 8 June 2005, reaching 32.5 °C.

What is the coldest day in Cebu City?

The coldest day measured in Cebu City between 1940 and 2025 was 1 March 1963, at 22.6 °C.

Does it snow in Cebu City?

Almost never: Cebu City sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Has the climate of Cebu City warmed?

Yes: Cebu City warmed by +1.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Cebu City?

The wettest day measured in Cebu City between 1940 and 2025 was 7 December 1953, with 287 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Cebu City?

The windiest day measured in Cebu City between 1940 and 2025 was 16 December 2021, with winds reaching 80.8 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Cebu City?

The warmest month in Cebu City is May (27.5 °C on average); the coldest is January (25.7 °C).

How much does it rain in Cebu City?

Cebu City receives on average 1,733 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 255 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Cebu City?

Cebu City gets on average 10.3 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,760 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Cebu City?

Yes: Cebu City has on average 365 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Cebu City?

In Cebu City, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 39.9 °C on 3 June 2024, and the lowest was 20.4 °C on 19 January 1961.

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