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Cebu City in May

Hot and wet, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Cebu City is hot: highs near 88°F, lows near 79°F. Rain falls on about six days a week, more often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 11 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Cebu City is hot: highs near 31°C, lows near 26°C. Rain falls on about six days a week, more often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 11 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
88°F31°Caverage
Low
79°F26°Caverage
Wet days
6a week · 79% of days
Daylight
12h 36mon average

Is May a good time to visit Cebu City?

A good month, just outside Cebu City's best months, which run from January to April.

How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 70°F to 80°F, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 21°C to 27°C, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.

How May sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Highs near 88°F in May, against 84°F to 88°F through the year.Highs near 31°C in May, against 29°C to 31°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

79% of days in May, against 54% to 92% through the year.

Cloud cover

78% cover in May, against 65% to 79% through the year.

Daylight

12h 36m in May, against 11h 32m to 12h 43m through the year.

Week by week, lightly smoothed, with May shaded. The olive line marks the best months. Hover or tap a week for its figures.

Either side

  1. April87°31°low 79°low 26°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.
  2. May88°31°low 79°low 26°6 wet days a weekRain on about six days a week.
  3. June88°31°low 79°low 26°6 wet days a weekRain on about six days a week.

Where Cebu City sits, in May

Asia/Manila
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
5:23 AMsets 5:58 PM
Above the sea
10 mlow-lying
Latitude
10.3°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
General Luna254 km east

The land around Cebu City, shaded by its typical high in May, the planning map's own layer. Hover the map for the figure at that spot; tap it on a phone. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

Elsewhere in Philippines in May

high · low · wet days
See May on the planning mapThe whole year in Cebu City

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), read 16 km north-east of Cebu City. Its own grid square is mostly sea and holds only a daily average, so the page reads the nearest square with a true high and low near the town's height. Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 3.1°F cold in the source data and are raised to match.Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 1.7°C cold in the source data and are raised to match. Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not. Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.

Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not.

Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.