Weather in Budta in January

A hard month. January asks something of you. Go in knowing what. You should expect rain on 17 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

Budta barely has seasons. January scores 44 out of 100 against a best of 51 in February — a gap small enough that the month you choose matters far less here than the week you choose. That is not a contradiction: January is among the best months Budta has, and it is still hard going. This is a city with no easy season rather than a city you have caught at a bad time.

Rain on 17 days, 4 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Natural fibres and a second shirt for the day. At 85% nothing dries, including you.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 24 days top 30 °C, making the heat continuous rather than occasional. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest January day reached 36 °C and the coldest night fell to 19 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 54 mm — roughly 43% of the month's rain in one day.

January is moderately variable: 12 mm in the driest year against 228 mm in the wettest, around an average of 126 mm. Roughly two Januarys in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 4 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity at 85% is the real story though — it is the number that decides how the day feels, not the 31.1 °C.

How January sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 31.2 °C in December, 31.1 here, 31.8 in February. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in January

Budta sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 11.7 hours in January, against a range of just 0.8 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 10.8 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights.

How busy it gets

Shoulder. The value months — prices ease off and you get the place closer to itself. January is the value pick for Budta: it scores within 7 points of February without carrying February's prices.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

January in Budta versus nearby

If Budta is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Davao is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 4 days more rain. Cagayan de Oro is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.2 °C cooler, 3 days more rain.

So: January works, with February the better month by 7 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

Every month in Budta

See all twelve months in Budta, or where else to go in January.