Weather in Iloilo in March

A good month. March works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs average 30.7 °C, lows 25.5 °C, and rain falls on 11 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

March ranks 2 of 12 in Iloilo. Only February scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain on 11 days, 1 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Pack for 30.7 °C days and 25.5 °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: 22 days top 30 °C, making the heat continuous rather than occasional; the day barely swings — 5.2 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest March day reached 34 °C and the coldest night fell to 23.1 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 43 mm — roughly 72% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. March rainfall has ranged from 4 mm to 197 mm across the twenty years measured — a 193 mm spread around an average of 60 mm. The average is real but almost no individual March looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 15.1 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 77%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How March sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 29.3 °C in February, 30.7 here, 32.2 in April. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in March

Iloilo sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12.1 hours in March, 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

Busy. Popular without being frantic; book the things you care about, improvise the rest.

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

March 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: March is effectively as good as it gets here — 3 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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