Cebu City, the largest city of the central Visayas, sits on the eastern coast of Cebu island in the central Philippines, on a narrow coastal plain backed by hills at approximately 10.32°N, 123.90°E. It has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) — hot and humid year-round — with a less pronounced wet and dry season than Manila, and it sits within the typhoon belt.

There is no summer in the temperate sense: temperatures stay hot and steady, with daytime highs around 31–33°C, hottest and driest from March to May, when humidity is high and beaches busy. The wetter months run from June to November, with frequent heavy afternoon downpours and thunderstorms, and this stretch coincides with the peak of the typhoon season.

There is no true winter, but from December to February the northeast monsoon brings cooler, drier air from mainland Asia, with slightly lower humidity, more sunshine and comfortable nights near 23–24°C. Temperatures barely change, but this bright, breezy, drier stretch is comfortably the most pleasant time of year in the Visayas.

Cebu City receives on the order of 1,600–1,700 mm of rain a year, more evenly distributed than in Manila thanks to its sheltered position between islands, with the wettest months from June to November and a relatively dry stretch from February to April. Live rainfall, humidity, and pressure readings for the city are shown in the panels above.

Cebu sits in the central Visayas, where the wet and dry seasons are less sharply divided than in western Luzon, and the surrounding islands offer some shelter. Typhoons remain the chief hazard: the Philippines is struck by more tropical cyclones than any country on earth, and Typhoon Haiyan in 2013 devastated the region north of the city.

To follow any single measurement in Cebu more closely, use our live instruments: the online barometer for atmospheric pressure, the thermometer for temperature, the hygrometer for humidity, the anemometer for wind speed, the wind vane for wind direction, and the rain gauge for rainfall.