Climate averages 1991–2020

Dipolog weather
in January.

A warm, wet month: one of the coolest and the 4th 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 24.4°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 138 mm 19 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Dipolog: daytime highs average 27.3°C and nights cool to about 24.4°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the coolest months of the year.

Expect about 138 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes January a wet month (the 4th 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 Oroquieta (52 km away). In January its highs average 26.7°C, 0.6°C cooler than Dipolog, with 255 mm of rain.

Among the 151 cities listed in the Philippines, Dipolog ranks joint 105th of 151 for the warmest January highs and 92nd of 151 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 151 cities is 27.8°C; Dipolog is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 27.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 138 mm to 116 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

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

Every month, side by side

Dipolog climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Dipolog, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	27.3°C24.4°C	24.4°C	138	18.9	11.712 h
February	27.3°C24.3°C	24.3°C	116	15.1	11.812 h
March	28.1°C24.6°C	24.6°C	94	15.2	12.112 h
April	29.0°C25.2°C	25.2°C	92	15.2	12.312 h
May	29.4°C25.5°C	25.5°C	175	25.6	12.513 h
June	29.1°C25.3°C	25.3°C	236	27.2	12.613 h
July	29.0°C25.1°C	25.1°C	221	27.3	12.613 h
August	29.2°C25.2°C	25.2°C	204	26.3	12.412 h
September	29.0°C25.1°C	25.1°C	237	26.4	12.212 h
October	28.6°C24.9°C	24.9°C	247	27.4	11.912 h
November	28.4°C24.9°C	24.9°C	191	24.2	11.712 h
December	27.9°C24.8°C	24.8°C	193	23.2	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

January in nearby cities

Distance from Dipolog

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 Dipolog) is explained once on the Dipolog year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.