Climate averages 1991–2020
Cotabato weather
in March.
A hot, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a hot month in Cotabato: daytime highs average 30.2°C and nights cool to about 24.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 159 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes March a wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 05 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sultan Kudarat (1 km away). In March its highs average 31.2°C, 1.0°C warmer than Cotabato, with 159 mm of rain.
Among the 151 cities listed in the Philippines, Cotabato ranks joint 51st of 151 for the warmest March highs and joint 136th of 151 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 151 cities is 29.5°C; Cotabato is 0.6°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 30.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 159 mm to 173 mm.
The annual picture
March 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, selected | 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
March in nearby cities
- Sultan Kudarat in MarchPhilippines · 1 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 23.8°C · 159 mm rain
- Budta in MarchPhilippines · 21 kmHigh 32.0°C · Low 23.7°C · 121 mm rain
- Malingao in MarchPhilippines · 26 kmHigh 32.5°C · Low 23.6°C · 121 mm rain
- Tacurong in MarchPhilippines · 76 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 23.1°C · 191 mm rain
- Isulan in MarchPhilippines · 77 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 24.0°C · 112 mm rain
- Marawi City in MarchPhilippines · 87 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 20.4°C · 234 mm rain
- Kidapawan in MarchPhilippines · 96 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 22.4°C · 265 mm rain
- Don Carlos in MarchPhilippines · 98 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 20.5°C · 90 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.