Best time to visit Philippines
Every guide's best months, checked against its own thirty-year rainfall: a filled month is recommended, a hatched one has over 250 mm of rain. Most of Philippines agrees on Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Nov, Dec.
| Place | J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | In words |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PalawanNovember to May (dry season) | November to May (dry season) | ||||||||||||
| BoracayNovember to April — the habagat monsoon covers the other half of the year and the sea turns brown with it | November to April — the habagat monsoon covers the other half of the year and the sea turns brown with it | ||||||||||||
| Cebu & BoholDecember to May (dry season) | December to May (dry season) | ||||||||||||
| SiargaoApril to October for surf and sun — the typhoon season runs through the end of the year and the island has been hit hard | April to October for surf and sun — the typhoon season runs through the end of the year and the island has been hit hard | ||||||||||||
| Banaue & the rice terracesMarch to April, and November — the typhoon months are wet and the mountain roads slip | March to April, and November — the typhoon months are wet and the mountain roads slip |
best month · over 250 mm · the letters are the months, January to December.
The guides in Philippines
PalawanPhilippinesLimestone islands out of the sea, and lagoons you can only reach by boat
BoracayPhilippinesFour kilometres of white sand that the country closed for six months to clean, and reopened with rules
Cebu & BoholPhilippinesWhale sharks, waterfalls, and the country’s oldest city
SiargaoPhilippinesA teardrop island of coconut palms and reef breaks, still half the price of anywhere else this good
Banaue & the rice terracesPhilippinesTwo thousand years of terracing carved into the Cordillera, and villages you can only reach on foot