El Nido Digital

El Nido, month by month

El Nido has no weather station. That single fact explains most of the contradictory "best time to visit" advice: everyone is quoting modeled numbers without saying so. This section quotes measured ones — 30-year rainfall normals from the three nearest PAGASA stations, each labelled with its distance from town.

The shape of the year

JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC mm at Coron station, ~127 km from El Nido · teal = inside the Nov–Apr peak season

The dry months and the peak season line up almost exactly — the operator-defined peak (November to April El Nido Tours2026-08-26) covers Coron's six driest months PAGASA2026-08-26. That is not a coincidence; it is the whole pattern of the west-monsoon coast.

Pick a month

18.5 mm at Coron · peak season

January

One of the dry months — Coron's 3rd-driest.

14 mm at Coron · peak season

February

One of the dry months — Coron's driest.

15.4 mm at Coron · peak season

March

One of the dry months — Coron's 2nd-driest.

38.1 mm at Coron · peak season

April

One of the dry months — Coron's 4th-driest.

198.1 mm at Coron · off-peak

May

Between the seasons — most days work, keep a spare one.

360.8 mm at Coron · off-peak

June

Deep wet season — 14.5% of Coron's annual rain falls here.

479.9 mm at Coron · off-peak

July

Deep wet season — 19.3% of Coron's annual rain falls here.

466.3 mm at Coron · off-peak

August

Deep wet season — 18.8% of Coron's annual rain falls here.

447.1 mm at Coron · off-peak

September

Deep wet season — 18% of Coron's annual rain falls here.

250.8 mm at Coron · off-peak

October

Between the seasons — most days work, keep a spare one.

118.6 mm at Coron · peak season

November

Between the seasons — most days work, keep a spare one.

74 mm at Coron · peak season

December

Between the seasons — most days work, keep a spare one.

What this section does not claim. No temperature figures (not yet readable from the primary source), no typhoon counts (not yet sourced), and no pretence that a station 127 km away is El Nido itself. The station distances are printed on every page because they are the honest error bar.

Collected 26 August 2026. How sources work here.