Climate averages 1991–2020
Jolo weather
in May.
A hot, wet month: one of the warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Jolo: daytime highs average 28.5°C and nights cool to about 26.3°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 104 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes May a wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 24 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Zamboanga (152 km away). In May its highs average 29.1°C, 0.6°C warmer than Jolo, with 208 mm of rain.
Among the 151 cities listed in the Philippines, Jolo ranks 144th of 151 for the warmest May highs and 3rd of 151 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 151 cities is 30.7°C; Jolo is 2.2°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 28.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 104 mm to 135 mm.
The annual picture
May 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 | 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, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Zamboanga in MayPhilippines · 152 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 25.5°C · 208 mm rain
- Lahad Datu in MayMalaysia · 317 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 24.4°C · 177 mm rain
- Sandakan in MayMalaysia · 320 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 24.9°C · 237 mm rain
- Pagadian in MayPhilippines · 333 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 25.3°C · 181 mm rain
- Muricay in MayPhilippines · 337 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 24.8°C · 181 mm rain
- Dipolog in MayPhilippines · 380 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 25.5°C · 175 mm rain
- Cotabato in MayPhilippines · 381 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 25.0°C · 292 mm rain
- Sultan Kudarat in MayPhilippines · 383 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 24.5°C · 292 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.