Siargao (Cloud 9) weather by month

The best time to visit Siargao (Cloud 9) is April, June and September — 85/100 in September, 29°C and 17 rainy days. The best season is the dry season, March to October (80/100 on average).

The worst month is December at 58/100 — hot, soaked, clean air. See December →

Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis

Planning the wider trip? Best time to visit Philippines →

Siargao🇵🇭 Philippines · Philippines · Island85
  1. 59Jan
  2. 68Feb
  3. 75Mar
  4. 82Apr
  5. 80May
  6. 83Jun
  7. 78Jul
  8. 82Aug
  9. 85Sep
  10. 73Oct
  11. 63Nov
  12. 58Dec

Best season: March to October (80/100 on average) · worst December (58/100)

Days
29°C
Nights
26°C
Wet days
17
Sun
9.7 h
Humidity
80%
Daylight
12 h
Siargao, Philippines
Photo: John Matthew · Pexels

Siargao, month by month

Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Siargao is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.

MonthScoreTierHighRainSunCrowdsOn
Jan59D27°C27 d9 hPeak1
Feb68C27°C24 d9 hShoulder—
Mar75B27°C24 d10 hPeak2
Apr82A28°C21 d11 hPeak2
May80A28°C22 d11 hPeak1
Jun83A29°C22 d10 hPeak1
Jul78B29°C21 d10 hShoulder—
Aug82A29°C17 d10 hBusy1
Sep85A29°C17 d10 hPeak3
Oct73B28°C25 d10 hPeak3
Nov63C28°C26 d9 hBusy2
Dec58D27°C28 d9 hPeak2

What's on in Siargao through the year

Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.

March
  • Holy Week20 Mar – 20 Apr (usually)Holiday
  • Amihan, the dry months1 Mar – 30 Jun (usually)Season
August
  • Cloud 9 surf season1 Aug – 30 Nov (usually)Season
September
  • Siargao International Surfing Cup1 Sep – 15 Oct (usually)Festival
  • Typhoon season1 Sep – 31 DecHazard
December
  • Christmas and New Year peak18 Dec – 5 JanHoliday

Everything on in Siargao through the year →

Crowds in Siargao in September

How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.

Peak crowdsCloud 9 surf season, Siargao International Surfing Cup, Term 1 wellness break in Philippines(estimated)

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Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet

Good to know before you go to Siargao

Real experiences from travellers' own write-ups, quoted with a link to the original.

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We started at Jacking Horse near Cloud 9 rather than the famous break itself, since it's genuinely more forgiving for anyone not already an experienced surfer, and only paddled out at Cloud 9 to watch once we understood how hollow and powerful those waves actually break over the reef. Reef booties turned out to be non-negotiable, one member of our group who skipped them picked up a coral cut on the first day. We came in April for the calmer conditions rather than the stronger September-to-November swells, which suited our still-improving skills better. The three-island boat tour to Naked, Daku and Guyam was the perfect rest day between surf sessions.
Marielle C. · Read the original ↗

Traveller notes on Siargao

What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.

Forum posters describe March as the start of Siargao's summer peak season and a genuine improvement on the wetter December-February stretch, with clearer, more reliably sunny conditions becoming more common from March into June - though posters are direct that being in the tropics means rain or even a passing storm remains a real possibility, with one visitor specifically recalling a typhoon passing through during a March stay. The destination's own climate data shows March still averaging well over 20 rainy days, easing only modestly from the January-February peak and continuing to improve into the true driest stretch around April-September. Posters also flag March as the end of the school year, meaning more crowds at Siargao's popular beaches and surf spots than the quieter months surrounding it. Posters generally rate March as improving but still genuinely rain-prone for Siargao, with the driest conditions still a couple of months off.
Tripadvisor community · March · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗
September and October are Siargao's peak surf months — the waves are good, competitions run in September, and Cloud 9 works on Pacific swell. The forum's typhoon answer is geographic: Siargao sits in the southern Philippines, near the equator and outside the main typhoon belt, so when the Visayas are being hit Mindanao is often bright and sunny — though the island is close enough to Leyte that a storm passing nearby still matters. On rain, regulars note September is drier here than January, while the record still shows about seventeen wet days. Days near 29°C, nights 27, sea at 30.
Tripadvisor community · September · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗

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