Ideal weather days in Manila
The best time to visit Manila for warm, dry weather is January, with about 28 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Manila's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in January.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Manila, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too wet137
- Too hot99
- Too cold0
- Too windy0
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Manila averaged 152 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in the Philippines, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in February and March (up to 12 a month, 69 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are rare: no month averaged more than 0.
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are wet (more than 1 mm of rain): 137 a year, mostly in June to October. Another 99 are too hot (over 33 °C), mostly in April and May. A day can fail more than one test.
Manila weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30 °C 86 °F | 4 | 0 | 1 | 28 of 31 |
| February | 32 °C 89 °F | 4 | 0 | 4 | 22 of 28 |
| March | 33 °C 91 °F | 3 | 0 | 4 | 19 of 31 |
| April | 35 °C 94 °F | 4 | 0 | 3 | 4 of 30 |
| May | 35 °C 94 °F | 13 | 0 | 2 | 4 of 31 |
| June | 33 °C 91 °F | 19 | 0 | 3 | 7 of 30 |
| July | 32 °C 89 °F | 23 | 0 | 1 | 6 of 31 |
| August | 33 °C 91 °F | 19 | 0 | 2 | 7 of 31 |
| September | 32 °C 90 °F | 21 | 0 | 1 | 8 of 30 |
| October | 32 °C 89 °F | 19 | 0 | 2 | 13 of 31 |
| November | 33 °C 91 °F | 11 | 0 | 2 | 17 of 30 |
| December | 31 °C 87 °F | 12 | 0 | 1 | 18 of 31 |
| Year | 151 | 0 | 26 | 152 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 159 warm, dry days
- 2024 144 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Manila for good weather?
The best time to visit Manila for warm, dry weather is January, with about 28 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in February and March (up to 12 a month, 69 a year). Counted from measured days at Science Garden station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Manila?
On average 151 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was July (23 rain days), the driest March (3).
How many sunny days does Manila get a year?
About 26 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in March (4).
How warm does Manila get?
The median daily high ranged from 30 °C (86 °F) in January to 35 °C (94 °F) in April.
Nearby
- Cebu570 km188 days
- Hong Kong1120 km, Hong Kong208 days
- Guangzhou1250 km, China154 days
- Da Nang1380 km, Vietnam161 days
Where is the best climate in the Philippines?
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Source: Science Garden weather station (98430099999), 9 km from the centre of Manila, 46 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 87% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.