Climate averages 1991–2020
Cotabato weather
in December.
A hot, very wet month: the joint 5th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a hot month in Cotabato: daytime highs average 29.3°C and nights cool to about 24.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 184 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes December a very wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 43 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sultan Kudarat (1 km away). In December its highs average 30.0°C, 0.7°C warmer than Cotabato, with 184 mm of rain.
Among the 151 cities listed in the Philippines, Cotabato ranks joint 11th of 151 for the warmest December highs and joint 89th of 151 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 151 cities is 28.1°C; Cotabato is 1.3°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 29.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 184 mm to 169 mm.
The annual picture
December 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
Cotabato climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.2°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 169 | 19.5 | 11.812 h |
| February | 29.6°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 144 | 16.8 | 11.912 h |
| March | 30.2°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 159 | 19.7 | 12.112 h |
| April | 30.4°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 173 | 23.3 | 12.312 h |
| May | 29.8°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 292 | 28.6 | 12.412 h |
| June | 29.1°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 317 | 27.8 | 12.513 h |
| July | 28.7°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 292 | 27.5 | 12.512 h |
| August | 28.8°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 249 | 25.9 | 12.412 h |
| September | 28.9°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 227 | 25.6 | 12.212 h |
| October | 28.9°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 277 | 27.8 | 12.012 h |
| November | 29.3°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 224 | 25.8 | 11.812 h |
| December, selected | 29.3°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 184 | 22.9 | 11.712 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
December in nearby cities
- Sultan Kudarat in DecemberPhilippines · 1 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 23.7°C · 184 mm rain
- Budta in DecemberPhilippines · 21 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 23.5°C · 146 mm rain
- Malingao in DecemberPhilippines · 26 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 23.6°C · 146 mm rain
- Tacurong in DecemberPhilippines · 76 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 22.9°C · 212 mm rain
- Isulan in DecemberPhilippines · 77 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 23.6°C · 130 mm rain
- Marawi City in DecemberPhilippines · 87 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 20.6°C · 293 mm rain
- Kidapawan in DecemberPhilippines · 96 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 22.5°C · 294 mm rain
- Don Carlos in DecemberPhilippines · 98 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 20.4°C · 130 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 Cotabato) is explained once on the Cotabato year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Sultan Kudarat lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.