Weather in Iloilo in April

Shoulder season. April is shoulder season in Iloilo — cheaper, quieter, and a genuine gamble. Highs average 32.2 °C, lows 26.8 °C, and rain falls on 10 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

April ranks 4 of 12 in Iloilo: past the worst of the year but short of February, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 10 days, 2 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Pack for 32.2 °C days and 26.8 °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: 27 days top 30 °C, making the heat continuous rather than occasional; the day barely swings — 5.4 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest April day reached 34.8 °C and the coldest night fell to 23.9 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 30 mm — roughly 50% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. April rainfall has ranged from 10 mm to 187 mm across the twenty years measured — a 177 mm spread around an average of 60 mm. The average is real but almost no individual April looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 12.2 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 73%.

How April sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 30.7 °C in March, 32.2 here, 31.4 in May. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain is the thing that moves: May brings 10 days more of it, so the earlier half of a flexible trip is the safer half.

Daylight in April

Iloilo sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12.4 hours in April, against a range of just 1.2 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: 7.3 °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. April is the value pick for Iloilo: it scores within 9 points of February without carrying February's prices.

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

April in Iloilo versus nearby

If Iloilo is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Cebu City is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain. Cagayan de Oro is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain.

So: April works, with February the better month by 9 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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