Climate averages 1991–2020
Cotabato weather
in January.
A hot, wet month: the 7th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a hot month in Cotabato: daytime highs average 29.2°C and nights cool to about 24.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 169 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes January a wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 45 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sultan Kudarat (1 km away). In January its highs average 30.0°C, 0.8°C warmer than Cotabato, with 169 mm of rain.
Among the 151 cities listed in the Philippines, Cotabato ranks joint 11th of 151 for the warmest January highs and joint 110th of 151 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 151 cities is 27.8°C; Cotabato is 1.5°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 29.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 169 mm to 144 mm.
The annual picture
January 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, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Sultan Kudarat in JanuaryPhilippines · 1 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 23.5°C · 169 mm rain
- Budta in JanuaryPhilippines · 21 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 23.3°C · 146 mm rain
- Malingao in JanuaryPhilippines · 26 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 23.2°C · 146 mm rain
- Tacurong in JanuaryPhilippines · 76 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 22.6°C · 230 mm rain
- Isulan in JanuaryPhilippines · 77 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 23.4°C · 129 mm rain
- Marawi City in JanuaryPhilippines · 87 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 20.1°C · 264 mm rain
- Kidapawan in JanuaryPhilippines · 96 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 22.0°C · 320 mm rain
- Don Carlos in JanuaryPhilippines · 98 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 20.3°C · 133 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.