Climate averages 1991–2020
Zamboanga weather
in January.
A hot, wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a hot month in Zamboanga: daytime highs average 28.4°C and nights cool to about 24.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 119 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes January a wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 46 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jolo (152 km away). In January its highs average 27.4°C, 1.0°C cooler than Zamboanga, with 89 mm of rain.
Among the 151 cities listed in the Philippines, Zamboanga ranks joint 43rd of 151 for the warmest January highs and 85th of 151 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 151 cities is 27.8°C; Zamboanga is 0.6°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.3°C to 28.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 119 mm to 99 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
Zamboanga climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 28.4°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 119 | 17.8 | 11.812 h |
| February | 28.7°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 99 | 14.6 | 11.912 h |
| March | 29.1°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 108 | 18.4 | 12.112 h |
| April | 29.4°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 130 | 22.6 | 12.312 h |
| May | 29.1°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 208 | 26.9 | 12.412 h |
| June | 28.5°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 247 | 26.2 | 12.513 h |
| July | 28.1°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 216 | 26.5 | 12.512 h |
| August | 28.3°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 192 | 24.8 | 12.312 h |
| September | 28.4°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 190 | 24.6 | 12.212 h |
| October | 28.4°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 244 | 27.2 | 12.012 h |
| November | 28.6°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 197 | 25.1 | 11.812 h |
| December | 28.5°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 157 | 23.1 | 11.712 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
- Jolo in JanuaryPhilippines · 152 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 25.6°C · 89 mm rain
- Pagadian in JanuaryPhilippines · 182 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 24.5°C · 62 mm rain
- Muricay in JanuaryPhilippines · 185 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 24.0°C · 62 mm rain
- Dipolog in JanuaryPhilippines · 231 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 24.4°C · 138 mm rain
- Ozamiz City in JanuaryPhilippines · 238 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 23.7°C · 197 mm rain
- Cotabato in JanuaryPhilippines · 242 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 24.0°C · 169 mm rain
- Sultan Kudarat in JanuaryPhilippines · 244 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 23.5°C · 169 mm rain
- Oroquieta in JanuaryPhilippines · 259 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 24.4°C · 255 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 Zamboanga) is explained once on the Zamboanga year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.