Climate of The Philippines - Seasons

Seasons

PAGASA divides the climate of the country into two main seasons--rainy and dry--with the dry season further subdivided into two:

Using temperature and rainfall as bases, the climate of the country can be divided into two major seasons: (1) the rainy season, from June to November; and (2) the dry season, from December to May. The dry season may be subdivided further into (a) the cool dry season, from December to February; and (b) the hot dry season, from March to May.

Graphically the seasons can be represented this way:

Month Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov
Rainfall
DRY
RAINY
Temperature
COOL
HOT

The months of April and May, the hot and dry months when schools are on their long, between-years break, is referred to as summer while in most of the Northern Hemisphere those months are part of spring.

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