Climate averages 1991–2020
Sorsogon weather
in May.
A hot, wet month: one of the warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Sorsogon: daytime highs average 29.5°C and nights cool to about 26.2°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 144 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes May a wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 43 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Legaspi (33 km away). In May its highs average 30.9°C, 1.4°C warmer than Sorsogon, with 150 mm of rain.
Among the 151 cities listed in the Philippines, Sorsogon ranks joint 127th of 151 for the warmest May highs and joint 30th of 151 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 151 cities is 30.7°C; Sorsogon is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 29.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 144 mm to 197 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
Sorsogon climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 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, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Legaspi in MayPhilippines · 33 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 25.7°C · 150 mm rain
- Polangui in MayPhilippines · 65 kmHigh 31.7°C · Low 25.4°C · 203 mm rain
- Virac in MayPhilippines · 73 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 26.3°C · 139 mm rain
- Iriga City in MayPhilippines · 81 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 25.1°C · 211 mm rain
- Catarman in MayPhilippines · 88 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 25.4°C · 168 mm rain
- Naga (Bicol Region), Philippines in MayPhilippines · 113 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 25.7°C · 164 mm rain
- Calabanga in MayPhilippines · 118 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 25.7°C · 148 mm rain
- Catbalogan in MayPhilippines · 165 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 25.8°C · 134 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.