Weather in Iloilo in October

Shoulder season. October is shoulder season in Iloilo — cheaper, quieter, and a genuine gamble. You should expect rain on 26 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

October ranks 9 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 26 of the month's 31 days, 9 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 84% nothing dries, including you.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: the day barely swings — 2.3 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest October day reached 31 °C and the coldest night fell to 25.2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 141 mm — roughly 51% of the month's rain in one day.

October is statistically steady but not small: the year-to-year variation is modest in relative terms, yet the wettest October on record still delivered 665 mm against 130 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 277 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 11.7 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 84%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How October sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 28.6 °C in September, 29 here, 29.2 in November. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in October

Iloilo sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 11.9 hours in October, 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

Quiet. Few other visitors, cheaper rooms, and a real chance some seasonal operators are shut.

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

October 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, the same number of rain days. Cagayan de Oro is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days.

So: October works, with February the better month by 15 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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