Vigan weather by month
The best time to visit Vigan is January to March — 82/100 in February, 30°C and 4 rainy days. The best season is the dry season, November to May (72/100 on average).
The worst month is August at 42/100 — sweltering, soaked, clean air. See August →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
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Best season: November to May (72/100 on average) · worst August (42/100)
- Days
- 30°C
- Nights
- 21°C
- Wet days
- 4
- Sun
- 10.3 h
- Humidity
- 71%
- Daylight
- 12 h
Vigan, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Vigan 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.
What's on in Vigan through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
Crowds in Vigan in February
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.
Busyschool holidays in 2 of the markets that fill it, one of its best months for weather(estimated)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Traveller notes on Vigan
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
Forum posters place Vigan within the broader December-May window locals consider its most festive and visitor-friendly stretch, with January through March singled out as a particularly easy time weather-wise and less busy than the December and April peaks. Early February specifically is described as a transition point out of the rainy season and into summer, generally good but with the usual caveat that Philippine weather can shift unpredictably regardless of season. For the visit itself, Vigan's 400-year-old Spanish colonial old town (a UNESCO World Heritage site) is called compact enough to see well in about two days.
Philippines forum posters are upfront that August sits in the thick of the rainy season nationwide, and Vigan's Ilocos coast gets its share - expect a two-to-three-hour downpour most days rather than an all-day soak. Typhoon season technically runs August through early December, and while the Philippines is spread out enough that one region can be flooding while another stays clear, this stretch of the northern coast is more exposed than the southern Visayas. It's still workable for wandering Vigan's cobblestone heritage streets between showers, just keep plans flexible around the afternoon rain window.
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