WEATHER · CLIMATE NORMALS · 1991–2020
Manila Climate — Averages by Month
What the weather in Manila, PHaverages across a standard 30-year period. Each month's figure is the 1991–2020 mean temperature and total rainfall from the ERA5 reanalysis — the long-run normal a place settles around, not a forecast for any particular day.
Month-by-month normals
| Month | Avg temperature | Avg rainfall |
|---|---|---|
| January | 26.3 °C · coldest | 33.0 mm |
| February | 26.8 °C | 23.4 mm |
| March | 28.0 °C | 26.0 mm |
| April | 29.5 °C | 22.0 mm |
| May | 29.7 °C · warmest | 123.5 mm |
| June | 28.9 °C | 178.5 mm |
| July | 28.0 °C | 325.2 mm · wettest |
| August | 27.7 °C | 297.7 mm |
| September | 27.7 °C | 290.7 mm |
| October | 27.9 °C | 167.9 mm |
| November | 27.7 °C | 83.8 mm |
| December | 26.8 °C | 111.0 mm |
How to read these numbers
These are reanalysis normals, not readings from a single weather station. They come from the ERA5 0.25° (~25 km) global reanalysis grid, sampled at the grid cell nearest Manila — centred at 14.50°N, 121.00°E. A reanalysis blends observations with a physics model onto an even grid, so a coastal or mountain city's cell can read a little cooler, warmer, wetter or drier than the city centre itself. The month-to-month shape — when it's hot, when it rains — is what these normals capture best.
“Normal” means the 1991–2020 average, the current World Meteorological Organization standard period. A normal is what a place tends toward over decades — any single day, month or year can and will depart from it.