Climate averages 1991–2020

Cagayan de Oro weather
in January.

A warm, very wet month: the coolest and the 6th driest of the year.

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

Average high 27.3°C Daytime mean, January
Average low 22.2°C Night-time mean, January
Rainfall 256 mm 23 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Cagayan de Oro · average highYear overview

January is a warm month in Cagayan de Oro: daytime highs average 27.3°C and nights cool to about 22.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 256 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 41 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Manolo Fortich (27 km away). In January its highs average 26.0°C, 1.3°C cooler than Cagayan de Oro, with 266 mm of rain.

Among the 151 cities listed in the Philippines, Cagayan de Oro ranks joint 105th of 151 for the warmest January highs and 134th of 151 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 151 cities is 27.8°C; Cagayan de Oro is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 27.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 256 mm to 217 mm.

The annual picture

January 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 4500

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

Every month, side by side

Cagayan de Oro climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Cagayan de Oro, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January, selected 27.3°C22.2°C22.2°C25623.111.712 h
February 27.5°C22.0°C22.0°C21719.211.912 h
March 28.2°C22.2°C22.2°C20020.512.112 h
April 28.8°C22.8°C22.8°C22522.112.312 h
May 28.6°C23.5°C23.5°C33027.412.513 h
June 28.1°C23.3°C23.3°C40326.612.613 h
July 27.9°C23.0°C23.0°C29724.212.613 h
August 28.2°C22.9°C22.9°C22520.512.412 h
September 28.0°C22.9°C22.9°C23122.812.212 h
October 27.8°C22.8°C22.8°C29626.811.912 h
November 27.9°C22.7°C22.7°C31026.211.712 h
December 27.7°C22.5°C22.5°C26226.011.612 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

January in nearby cities

Distance from Cagayan de Oro

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 Cagayan de Oro) is explained once on the Cagayan de Oro year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.