Weather in Davao in December

A hard month. December asks something of you. Go in knowing what. You should expect rain on 21 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

Davao barely has seasons. December scores 48 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 21 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 82% nothing dries, including you.

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 — 4.9 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest December day reached 34.6 °C and the coldest night fell to 22.9 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 94 mm — roughly 55% of the month's rain in one day.

December is moderately variable: 50 mm in the driest year against 366 mm in the wettest, around an average of 172 mm. Roughly two Decembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 5.2 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 82%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How December sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 30.7 °C in November, 30.4 here, 29.8 in January. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in December

Davao sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 11.7 hours in December, 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.

December 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, 2 days less rain. Cagayan de Oro is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain.

So: December is effectively as good as it gets here — 6 points behind February, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

Every month in Davao

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