Lake Sebu climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Lake Sebu?

Lake Sebu has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 24.2 °C and it receives 2,510 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Lake Sebu?

The hottest day measured in Lake Sebu between 1940 and 2025 was 3 April 2020, reaching 35.6 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Lake Sebu?

The coldest day measured in Lake Sebu between 1940 and 2025 was 25 January 1965, at 16.3 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Lake Sebu?

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

Q: Has the climate of Lake Sebu warmed?

Yes: Lake Sebu warmed by +2.7 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Lake Sebu?

The wettest day measured in Lake Sebu between 1940 and 2025 was 9 May 2004, with 235 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Lake Sebu?

The windiest day measured in Lake Sebu between 1940 and 2025 was 16 October 2017, with winds reaching 22.7 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Lake Sebu?

The warmest month in Lake Sebu is April (25.0 °C on average); the coldest is January (23.7 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Lake Sebu?

Lake Sebu receives on average 2,510 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 311 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Lake Sebu?

Lake Sebu gets on average 9.8 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,577 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Lake Sebu (Philippines) has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 24.2 °C and it receives 2,510 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 April (25.0 °C on average) and the coldest is January (23.7 °C). Rainfall peaks in June.

Lake Sebu averages 0 frost days, 42 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 311 rainy days per year.

Lake Sebu has warmed by +2.7 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.32 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 35.6 °C (on 3 April 2020) and the coldest 16.3 °C (on 25 January 1965).

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

Lake SebuSoccsksargen

coords: 6.22°, 124.71°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

AfTropical rainforestWarmest monthAprilColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthJuneDriest monthFebruary

Mean daily temperature

24.2°C

Average daily high

28.1°C

Average daily low

21.2°C

Annual rainfall

2,510mm

Sunshine / day

9.8h

Mean relative humidity

86%

Average peak wind

5.9km/h

Seasonal range

1.3°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

42 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

311 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

33.7 °C

Average feels-like low

25.0 °C

Average peak gust

25.0 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

333 d/yr

Solar radiation

18.3 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+2.7 °C

since 1940

+0.3 °C per decade · r² = 0.81 · 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

35.6 °C

3 April 2020

Coldest day

16.3 °C

25 January 1965

Wettest day

235 mm

9 May 2004

Windiest day

22.7 km/h

16 October 2017

Strongest gust

64.1 km/h

29 November 1955

Hottest feels-like

40.8 °C

8 May 2020

Coldest feels-like

17.6 °C

25 January 1965

Sunniest day

12.2 h

6 June 1997

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	31.9 °C9 May 2025	20.7 °C23 August 2025	25.2 °C	3,442 mm	88
2024	34.4 °C19 April 2024	20.6 °C21 February 2024	25.9 °C	2,928 mm	169
2023	31.7 °C11 May 2023	20.2 °C15 March 2023	25.4 °C	3,024 mm	112
2022	31.5 °C1 June 2022	19.7 °C13 February 2022	25.1 °C	3,219 mm	91
2021	31.6 °C29 September 2021	19.9 °C28 January 2021	25.2 °C	2,979 mm	108
2020	35.6 °C3 April 2020	19.5 °C22 January 2020	26.0 °C	2,704 mm	202
2019	34.8 °C30 April 2019	20.0 °C18 February 2019	26.3 °C	1,798 mm	261
2018	32.8 °C7 October 2018	21.0 °C22 January 2018	25.7 °C	2,072 mm	182
2017	31.5 °C1 May 2017	20.8 °C13 February 2017	25.2 °C	3,277 mm	94
2016	35.1 °C16 April 2016	20.9 °C19 February 2016	26.2 °C	2,772 mm	207
2015	33.8 °C12 April 2015	20.6 °C7 February 2015	25.6 °C	2,126 mm	132
2014	31.8 °C5 June 2014	19.8 °C1 February 2014	25.2 °C	2,639 mm	96
2013	31.4 °C19 May 2013	20.5 °C1 February 2013	25.1 °C	3,348 mm	64
2012	30.9 °C13 October 2012	19.9 °C30 December 2012	24.9 °C	2,776 mm	39
2011	31.6 °C4 April 2011	20.2 °C6 January 2011	24.9 °C	3,209 mm	61
2010	34.2 °C2 May 2010	19.5 °C6 February 2010	25.4 °C	2,617 mm	141
2009	31.6 °C26 May 2009	20.5 °C22 November 2009	25.2 °C	2,461 mm	84
2008	31.2 °C2 October 2008	20.4 °C28 January 2008	24.9 °C	3,133 mm	34
2007	33.6 °C12 April 2007	20.0 °C3 January 2007	25.2 °C	2,656 mm	92
2006	32.1 °C6 May 2006	20.2 °C1 April 2006	25.1 °C	2,311 mm	59
2005	34.3 °C29 April 2005	18.9 °C21 January 2005	25.3 °C	2,424 mm	112
2004	32.5 °C14 April 2004	19.6 °C31 December 2004	24.7 °C	2,198 mm	37
2003	31.2 °C15 April 2003	19.2 °C12 February 2003	24.6 °C	2,628 mm	22
2002	31.2 °C25 March 2002	18.8 °C25 January 2002	24.7 °C	2,046 mm	32
2001	30.3 °C16 October 2001	19.3 °C11 February 2001	24.2 °C	2,482 mm	2
2000	30.3 °C18 May 2000	19.0 °C4 January 2000	23.9 °C	2,813 mm	1
1999	30.0 °C13 April 1999	19.1 °C2 January 1999	23.9 °C	3,141 mm	2
1998	34.6 °C13 April 1998	19.2 °C27 February 1998	25.0 °C	2,591 mm	113
1997	30.6 °C7 December 1997	18.4 °C26 March 1997	24.1 °C	1,879 mm	4
1996	31.6 °C12 April 1996	18.1 °C22 February 1996	23.9 °C	2,872 mm	6
1995	32.1 °C6 May 1995	18.7 °C3 March 1995	24.2 °C	2,590 mm	30
1994	31.2 °C12 April 1994	18.4 °C16 January 1994	24.2 °C	2,067 mm	13
1993	32.2 °C28 May 1993	17.9 °C4 January 1993	24.3 °C	2,247 mm	21
1992	33.9 °C10 April 1992	18.7 °C10 December 1992	24.8 °C	1,868 mm	96
1991	33.8 °C16 April 1991	18.9 °C4 January 1991	24.7 °C	1,712 mm	47
1990	33.4 °C20 April 1990	18.1 °C21 December 1990	24.7 °C	1,967 mm	63
1989	30.3 °C5 November 1989	18.8 °C31 December 1989	24.2 °C	2,551 mm	2
1988	31.7 °C20 March 1988	19.6 °C27 January 1988	24.6 °C	2,318 mm	40
1987	32.1 °C25 April 1987	18.7 °C23 January 1987	24.7 °C	1,856 mm	62
1986	31.6 °C4 May 1986	18.4 °C30 December 1986	24.2 °C	2,461 mm	18
1985	30.6 °C9 April 1985	18.8 °C22 December 1985	24.1 °C	2,603 mm	6
1984	29.7 °C19 August 1984	19.2 °C8 February 1984	23.9 °C	2,779 mm	0
1983	33.8 °C13 April 1983	18.2 °C13 January 1983	24.6 °C	2,189 mm	85
1982	29.8 °C28 March 1982	19.2 °C3 January 1982	24.0 °C	2,247 mm	0
1981	31.0 °C29 April 1981	17.9 °C1 March 1981	24.1 °C	2,273 mm	15
1980	31.2 °C16 April 1980	19.1 °C9 January 1980	24.2 °C	2,480 mm	11
1979	31.7 °C2 April 1979	18.8 °C20 March 1979	24.3 °C	2,388 mm	33
1978	31.9 °C3 April 1978	18.0 °C3 January 1978	24.1 °C	2,718 mm	12
1977	30.8 °C3 May 1977	19.0 °C27 February 1977	23.9 °C	2,619 mm	6
1976	30.4 °C30 April 1976	19.1 °C25 February 1976	23.7 °C	2,553 mm	1
1975	30.7 °C19 April 1975	17.4 °C5 February 1975	23.7 °C	2,924 mm	3
1974	29.7 °C27 March 1974	18.5 °C16 January 1974	23.5 °C	2,507 mm	0
1973	33.9 °C9 April 1973	19.2 °C13 January 1973	24.6 °C	2,572 mm	80
1972	31.8 °C6 November 1972	18.0 °C12 January 1972	23.9 °C	1,856 mm	19
1971	30.6 °C2 May 1971	18.9 °C18 January 1971	23.7 °C	2,670 mm	3
1970	30.4 °C21 October 1970	18.4 °C7 February 1970	24.0 °C	2,706 mm	4
1969	34.2 °C21 April 1969	18.1 °C2 February 1969	24.0 °C	2,184 mm	40
1968	31.5 °C24 April 1968	18.4 °C8 February 1968	23.7 °C	2,062 mm	13
1967	30.1 °C20 April 1967	18.1 °C30 November 1967	23.4 °C	2,005 mm	1
1966	30.7 °C7 April 1966	17.8 °C11 January 1966	23.3 °C	2,195 mm	3
1965	28.0 °C20 April 1965	16.3 °C25 January 1965	22.8 °C	2,061 mm	0
1964	30.1 °C4 January 1964	17.7 °C21 January 1964	23.1 °C	2,748 mm	1
1963	32.6 °C7 December 1963	18.8 °C8 February 1963	24.1 °C	1,922 mm	61
1962	30.2 °C12 October 1962	18.4 °C19 January 1962	23.8 °C	2,590 mm	7
1961	32.6 °C21 April 1961	18.6 °C25 December 1961	24.0 °C	2,153 mm	20
1960	32.2 °C5 April 1960	18.6 °C29 February 1960	24.1 °C	2,320 mm	37
1959	33.2 °C18 March 1959	17.8 °C20 January 1959	24.0 °C	2,037 mm	45
1958	32.2 °C25 March 1958	18.8 °C21 December 1958	24.1 °C	2,241 mm	32
1957	30.5 °C4 December 1957	18.4 °C11 January 1957	23.6 °C	2,441 mm	3
1956	29.8 °C30 March 1956	18.6 °C3 January 1956	23.2 °C	3,271 mm	0
1955	30.1 °C14 May 1955	18.6 °C27 January 1955	23.4 °C	2,985 mm	1
1954	29.6 °C21 April 1954	18.4 °C24 March 1954	23.5 °C	2,861 mm	0
1953	32.8 °C28 April 1953	17.9 °C19 February 1953	23.9 °C	1,917 mm	20
1952	30.5 °C29 October 1952	18.3 °C15 February 1952	23.6 °C	2,271 mm	2
1951	29.8 °C22 April 1951	18.1 °C24 March 1951	23.4 °C	2,162 mm	0
1950	29.4 °C17 March 1950	17.9 °C29 December 1950	23.4 °C	2,674 mm	0
1949	29.4 °C3 April 1949	18.4 °C22 February 1949	23.2 °C	4,292 mm	0
1948	28.0 °C5 May 1948	17.9 °C26 February 1948	22.7 °C	2,733 mm	0
1947	27.9 °C17 March 1947	18.1 °C18 January 1947	22.8 °C	2,764 mm	0
1946	27.7 °C22 June 1946	18.6 °C5 February 1946	22.6 °C	2,364 mm	0
1945	28.5 °C21 April 1945	17.2 °C21 February 1945	22.8 °C	2,795 mm	0
1944	29.0 °C23 April 1944	17.8 °C13 February 1944	22.9 °C	2,386 mm	0
1943	27.8 °C14 June 1943	18.2 °C4 January 1943	22.5 °C	2,538 mm	0
1942	29.1 °C23 April 1942	17.8 °C27 February 1942	22.7 °C	2,345 mm	0
1941	31.0 °C22 April 1941	17.5 °C27 January 1941	23.0 °C	2,255 mm	5
1940	28.3 °C3 September 1940	17.6 °C16 February 1940	22.8 °C	1,980 mm	0

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

29.1 °C

+1.0 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

88 d/yr

+46

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

3442 mm

+932 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	28.9 °C	+1.5 °C	280 mm	+108 mm
Feb	28.3 °C	+0.6 °C	245 mm	+91 mm
Mar	29.0 °C	+0.5 °C	292 mm	+120 mm
Apr	29.3 °C	+0.1 °C	270 mm	+80 mm
May	29.8 °C	+1.0 °C	442 mm	+176 mm
Jun	28.8 °C	+0.8 °C	331 mm	+59 mm
Jul	29.0 °C	+1.3 °C	176 mm	-58 mm
Aug	28.6 °C	+0.7 °C	349 mm	+127 mm
Sep	29.3 °C	+1.3 °C	251 mm	+31 mm
Oct	29.4 °C	+1.3 °C	371 mm	+137 mm
Nov	29.1 °C	+1.1 °C	222 mm	+16 mm
Dec	29.3 °C	+1.6 °C	214 mm	+47 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

31.9 °C

9 May 2025

Coldest day

20.7 °C

23 Aug 2025

Wettest day

107.5 mm

6 Oct 2025

Windiest day

15.0 km/h

8 Nov 2025

Strongest gust

53.3 km/h

4 Nov 2025

Hottest feels-like

38.4 °C

8 May 2025

Coldest feels-like

24.0 °C

23 Aug 2025

Sunniest day

12.0 h

12 May 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Lake Sebu?

Lake Sebu has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 24.2 °C and it receives 2,510 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Lake Sebu?

The hottest day measured in Lake Sebu between 1940 and 2025 was 3 April 2020, reaching 35.6 °C.

What is the coldest day in Lake Sebu?

The coldest day measured in Lake Sebu between 1940 and 2025 was 25 January 1965, at 16.3 °C.

Does it snow in Lake Sebu?

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

Has the climate of Lake Sebu warmed?

Yes: Lake Sebu warmed by +2.7 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Lake Sebu?

The wettest day measured in Lake Sebu between 1940 and 2025 was 9 May 2004, with 235 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Lake Sebu?

The windiest day measured in Lake Sebu between 1940 and 2025 was 16 October 2017, with winds reaching 22.7 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Lake Sebu?

The warmest month in Lake Sebu is April (25.0 °C on average); the coldest is January (23.7 °C).

How much does it rain in Lake Sebu?

Lake Sebu receives on average 2,510 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 311 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Lake Sebu?

Lake Sebu gets on average 9.8 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,577 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Lake Sebu?

Yes: Lake Sebu has on average 333 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Lake Sebu?

In Lake Sebu, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 40.8 °C on 8 May 2020, and the lowest was 17.6 °C on 25 January 1965.

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