Weather in Davao in August

A hard month. August asks something of you. Go in knowing what. You should expect rain on 23 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

Davao barely has seasons. August scores 49 out of 100 against a best of 54 in February — a gap small enough that the month you choose matters far less here than the week you choose.

Rain on 23 of the month's 31 days, 7 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. Pack for 30.5 °C days and 26.1 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 21 days top 30 °C, making the heat continuous rather than occasional; the day barely swings — 4.4 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest August day reached 34.8 °C and the coldest night fell to 24.6 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 114 mm — roughly 59% of the month's rain in one day.

August is statistically steady but not small: the year-to-year variation is modest in relative terms, yet the wettest August on record still delivered 326 mm against 48 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 193 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 6.4 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 80%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How August sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 30.4 °C in July, 30.5 here, 30.8 in September. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in August

Davao sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12.4 hours in August, 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: 7.2 °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.

August in Davao versus nearby

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

So: August is effectively as good as it gets here — 5 points behind February, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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