Climate averages 1991–2020
Tacloban weather
in April.
A hot, moderately wet month: the joint 5th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a hot month in Tacloban: daytime highs average 29.6°C and nights cool to about 24.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 87 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 22 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ormoc (51 km away). In April its highs average 30.6°C, 1.0°C warmer than Tacloban, with 53 mm of rain.
Among the 151 cities listed in the Philippines, Tacloban ranks 121st of 151 for the warmest April highs and joint 91st of 151 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 151 cities is 30.9°C; Tacloban is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 30.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 87 mm to 122 mm.
The annual picture
April 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
Tacloban climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.7°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 205 | 21.5 | 11.512 h |
| February | 27.9°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 149 | 17.8 | 11.812 h |
| March | 28.6°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 132 | 18.9 | 12.112 h |
| April, selected | 29.6°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 87 | 18.2 | 12.412 h |
| May | 30.2°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 122 | 22.3 | 12.613 h |
| June | 29.8°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 189 | 25.2 | 12.813 h |
| July | 29.6°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 209 | 25.7 | 12.713 h |
| August | 29.9°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 150 | 22.1 | 12.512 h |
| September | 29.8°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 184 | 24.0 | 12.212 h |
| October | 29.2°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 196 | 26.2 | 11.912 h |
| November | 28.7°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 204 | 24.5 | 11.612 h |
| December | 28.1°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 261 | 25.1 | 11.511 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
April in nearby cities
- Ormoc in AprilPhilippines · 51 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 24.8°C · 53 mm rain
- Catbalogan in AprilPhilippines · 61 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 25.3°C · 64 mm rain
- Borongan in AprilPhilippines · 62 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 24.5°C · 120 mm rain
- Daanbantayan in AprilPhilippines · 108 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 26.4°C · 44 mm rain
- Danao in AprilPhilippines · 134 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 26.3°C · 66 mm rain
- Bantayan in AprilPhilippines · 140 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 26.5°C · 70 mm rain
- Catarman in AprilPhilippines · 145 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 24.8°C · 89 mm rain
- Cebu City in AprilPhilippines · 159 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 26.6°C · 67 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 Tacloban) is explained once on the Tacloban year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.