Climate averages 1991–2020
Manila weather
in May.
A hot, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Manila: daytime highs average 31.9°C and nights cool to about 25.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 114 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes May a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 48 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Caloocan (5 km away). In May its highs average 32.0°C, about as warm as Manila, with 198 mm of rain.
Among the 151 cities listed in the Philippines, Manila ranks joint 35th of 151 for the warmest May highs and joint 6th of 151 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 151 cities is 30.7°C; Manila is 1.2°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 1.5°C to 30.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 114 mm to 167 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
Manila climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.1°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 28 | 2.8 | 11.411 h |
| February | 29.0°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 18 | 2.7 | 11.712 h |
| March | 30.6°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 22 | 2.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 32.4°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 17 | 3.6 | 12.512 h |
| May, selected | 31.9°C25.8°C | 25.8°C | 114 | 14.6 | 12.813 h |
| June | 30.4°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 167 | 22.2 | 13.013 h |
| July | 29.1°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 313 | 27.1 | 12.913 h |
| August | 28.7°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 289 | 27.2 | 12.613 h |
| September | 28.8°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 277 | 25.9 | 12.212 h |
| October | 29.2°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 159 | 16.1 | 11.812 h |
| November | 29.2°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 74 | 7.8 | 11.511 h |
| December | 28.3°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 103 | 7.4 | 11.311 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
- Caloocan in MayPhilippines · 5 kmHigh 32.0°C · Low 25.8°C · 198 mm rain
- Quezon City in MayPhilippines · 9 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 25.4°C · 198 mm rain
- Valenzuela in MayPhilippines · 11 kmHigh 32.1°C · Low 25.8°C · 198 mm rain
- Taguig in MayPhilippines · 14 kmHigh 31.9°C · Low 25.9°C · 114 mm rain
- Commonwealth in MayPhilippines · 15 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 25.2°C · 198 mm rain
- Las Piñas in MayPhilippines · 17 kmHigh 32.2°C · Low 25.8°C · 114 mm rain
- Imus in MayPhilippines · 20 kmHigh 32.5°C · Low 25.9°C · 114 mm rain
- San Jose del Monte in MayPhilippines · 24 kmHigh 32.0°C · Low 25.3°C · 198 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 Manila) is explained once on the Manila year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Taguig, Las Piñas and Imus lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.