Climate averages 1991–2020

Bantayan weather
in May.

A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 4th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 29.6°C Daytime mean, May
Average low 26.7°C Night-time mean, May
Rainfall 127 mm 21 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Bantayan · average highYear overview

May is a hot month in Bantayan: daytime highs average 29.6°C and nights cool to about 26.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 127 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes May a wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 38 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Daanbantayan (33 km away). In May its highs average 29.4°C, about as warm as Bantayan, with 101 mm of rain.

Among the 151 cities listed in the Philippines, Bantayan ranks joint 125th of 151 for the warmest May highs and joint 15th of 151 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 151 cities is 30.7°C; Bantayan is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.

From May to June, average highs fall by 0.3°C to 29.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 127 mm to 233 mm.

The annual picture

May in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 20253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 3000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Bantayan climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Bantayan, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 27.1°C25.3°C25.3°C14517.711.512 h
February 27.3°C25.2°C25.2°C10412.911.812 h
March 28.1°C25.7°C25.7°C8812.412.112 h
April 29.1°C26.5°C26.5°C7010.912.412 h
May, selected 29.6°C26.7°C26.7°C12720.512.613 h
June 29.3°C26.4°C26.4°C23325.112.813 h
July 28.8°C26.2°C26.2°C23525.112.713 h
August 29.0°C26.4°C26.4°C16620.112.512 h
September 28.8°C26.2°C26.2°C21323.012.212 h
October 28.4°C25.9°C25.9°C26626.711.912 h
November 28.2°C26.1°C26.1°C25623.111.612 h
December 27.6°C25.8°C25.8°C26623.311.511 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

May in nearby cities

Distance from Bantayan

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Bantayan) is explained once on the Bantayan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.