Weather in Cagayan de Oro in December

Shoulder season. December is shoulder season in Cagayan de Oro — cheaper, quieter, and a genuine gamble. You should expect rain on 22 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

Cagayan de Oro barely has seasons. December scores 50 out of 100 against a best of 62 in February — a gap small enough that the month you choose matters far less here than the week you choose.

Rain on 22 of the month's 31 days, 5 of them heavy. At that frequency a wet-weather backup is not a contingency, it is the itinerary — book the indoor things first and treat the clear days as the bonus. 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: 10 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break; the day barely swings — 3.5 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest December day reached 31.9 °C and the coldest night fell to 23.4 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 98 mm — roughly 57% of the month's rain in one day.

December is moderately variable: 57 mm in the driest year against 330 mm in the wettest, around an average of 173 mm. Roughly two Decembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 11 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 29.4 °C.

How December sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 29.7 °C in November, 29.4 here, 28.9 in January. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in December

Cagayan de Oro sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 11.6 hours in December, against a range of just 1 hour 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: 7 °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.

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

December in Cagayan de Oro versus nearby

If Cagayan de Oro is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Budta is the weaker option in December — within a degree on temperature, 3 days less rain. Davao is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain.

So: December works, with February the better month by 12 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

Every month in Cagayan de Oro

See all twelve months in Cagayan de Oro, or where else to go in December.