Climate averages 1991–2020
Sorsogon weather
in January.
A warm, very wet month: the coolest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a warm month in Sorsogon: daytime highs average 26.6°C and nights cool to about 24.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 293 mm of rain on roughly 26 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 27 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Legaspi (33 km away). In January its highs average 27.5°C, 0.9°C warmer than Sorsogon, with 194 mm of rain.
Among the 151 cities listed in the Philippines, Sorsogon ranks joint 130th of 151 for the warmest January highs and 147th of 151 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 151 cities is 27.8°C; Sorsogon is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 26.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 293 mm to 185 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
Sorsogon climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 26.6°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 293 | 26.0 | 11.511 h |
| February | 26.8°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 185 | 20.6 | 11.712 h |
| March | 27.5°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 161 | 22.3 | 12.112 h |
| April | 28.6°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 101 | 19.5 | 12.412 h |
| May | 29.5°C26.2°C | 26.2°C | 144 | 22.4 | 12.713 h |
| June | 29.5°C26.2°C | 26.2°C | 197 | 24.9 | 12.913 h |
| July | 29.0°C25.8°C | 25.8°C | 269 | 27.5 | 12.813 h |
| August | 29.1°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 199 | 24.6 | 12.613 h |
| September | 29.0°C25.8°C | 25.8°C | 229 | 25.7 | 12.212 h |
| October | 28.5°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 256 | 26.9 | 11.912 h |
| November | 27.9°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 296 | 27.8 | 11.512 h |
| December | 27.2°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 402 | 28.5 | 11.411 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
- Legaspi in JanuaryPhilippines · 33 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 23.6°C · 194 mm rain
- Polangui in JanuaryPhilippines · 65 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 22.8°C · 109 mm rain
- Virac in JanuaryPhilippines · 73 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 24.5°C · 195 mm rain
- Iriga City in JanuaryPhilippines · 81 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 22.7°C · 180 mm rain
- Catarman in JanuaryPhilippines · 88 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 23.7°C · 177 mm rain
- Naga (Bicol Region), Philippines in JanuaryPhilippines · 113 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 23.4°C · 88 mm rain
- Calabanga in JanuaryPhilippines · 118 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 23.4°C · 132 mm rain
- Catbalogan in JanuaryPhilippines · 165 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 24.2°C · 139 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 Sorsogon) is explained once on the Sorsogon year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.