Climate averages 1991–2020
Jolo weather
in January.
A warm, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a warm month in Jolo: daytime highs average 27.4°C and nights cool to about 25.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 89 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 49 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Zamboanga (152 km away). In January its highs average 28.4°C, 1.0°C warmer than Jolo, with 119 mm of rain.
Among the 151 cities listed in the Philippines, Jolo ranks joint 103rd of 151 for the warmest January highs and 69th of 151 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 151 cities is 27.8°C; Jolo is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 27.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 89 mm to 57 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
Jolo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 27.4°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 89 | 14.8 | 11.812 h |
| February | 27.5°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 57 | 10.5 | 11.912 h |
| March | 27.9°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 58 | 11.1 | 12.112 h |
| April | 28.5°C26.1°C | 26.1°C | 56 | 12.1 | 12.312 h |
| May | 28.5°C26.3°C | 26.3°C | 104 | 18.8 | 12.412 h |
| June | 28.1°C26.2°C | 26.2°C | 135 | 21.0 | 12.512 h |
| July | 27.9°C26.1°C | 26.1°C | 129 | 20.4 | 12.412 h |
| August | 28.0°C26.1°C | 26.1°C | 106 | 18.0 | 12.312 h |
| September | 28.1°C26.1°C | 26.1°C | 101 | 17.9 | 12.212 h |
| October | 28.0°C25.9°C | 25.9°C | 145 | 21.3 | 12.012 h |
| November | 28.0°C25.9°C | 25.9°C | 130 | 20.3 | 11.912 h |
| December | 27.8°C25.8°C | 25.8°C | 110 | 19.7 | 11.812 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
- Zamboanga in JanuaryPhilippines · 152 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 24.7°C · 119 mm rain
- Lahad Datu in JanuaryMalaysia · 317 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 23.5°C · 160 mm rain
- Sandakan in JanuaryMalaysia · 320 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 23.8°C · 287 mm rain
- Pagadian in JanuaryPhilippines · 333 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 24.5°C · 62 mm rain
- Muricay in JanuaryPhilippines · 337 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 24.0°C · 62 mm rain
- Dipolog in JanuaryPhilippines · 380 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 24.4°C · 138 mm rain
- Cotabato in JanuaryPhilippines · 381 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 24.0°C · 169 mm rain
- Sultan Kudarat in JanuaryPhilippines · 383 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 23.5°C · 169 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 Jolo) is explained once on the Jolo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.