Climate averages 1991–2020
Brookes Point weather
in May.
A hot, very wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Brookes Point: daytime highs average 30.2°C and nights cool to about 26.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 256 mm of rain on roughly 28 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 31 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Puerto Princesa (146 km away). In May its highs average 30.2°C, about as warm as Brookes Point, with 185 mm of rain.
Among the 151 cities listed in the Philippines, Brookes Point ranks joint 99th of 151 for the warmest May highs and 136th of 151 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 151 cities is 30.7°C; Brookes Point is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.7°C to 29.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 256 mm to 313 mm.
The annual picture
May in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Brookes Point climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.5°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 142 | 19.7 | 11.712 h |
| February | 28.9°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 100 | 15.0 | 11.812 h |
| March | 29.7°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 116 | 17.4 | 12.112 h |
| April | 30.5°C25.8°C | 25.8°C | 135 | 20.3 | 12.312 h |
| May, selected | 30.2°C26.2°C | 26.2°C | 256 | 28.2 | 12.513 h |
| June | 29.5°C25.9°C | 25.9°C | 313 | 28.1 | 12.613 h |
| July | 29.1°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 315 | 29.1 | 12.613 h |
| August | 29.2°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 310 | 29.1 | 12.412 h |
| September | 29.3°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 312 | 27.7 | 12.212 h |
| October | 29.1°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 332 | 29.3 | 11.912 h |
| November | 29.0°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 246 | 28.0 | 11.712 h |
| December | 28.7°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 234 | 26.0 | 11.612 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
- Puerto Princesa in MayPhilippines · 146 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 26.0°C · 185 mm rain
- Sandakan in MayMalaysia · 327 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 24.9°C · 237 mm rain
- Kota Kinabalu in MayMalaysia · 367 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 24.8°C · 163 mm rain
- Putatan in MayMalaysia · 372 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 24.5°C · 163 mm rain
- Lahad Datu in MayMalaysia · 420 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 24.4°C · 177 mm rain
- Keningau in MayMalaysia · 424 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 22.1°C · 163 mm rain
- Jolo in MayPhilippines · 462 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 26.3°C · 104 mm rain
- Labuan in MayMalaysia · 482 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 25.8°C · 114 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Brookes Point) is explained once on the Brookes Point year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.