Boracay in July: Weather and Sea Conditions

No PAGASA station exists on Boracay. The rainfall in the first column is the PAGASA climatological normal for Roxas City, Capiz, the nearest listed station, on a different coast of Panay¹. The second column is NASA POWER’s 2001-2020 climatology, a reanalysis model evaluated at the island’s coordinates and multiplied from a daily rate to a monthly total². Temperatures come from the same model. Sea-surface values are monthly means of hourly Open-Meteo model values for 2015-2024³.

Sources:¹ for the gauge column,² for rainfall and temperature in the model,³ for sea temperature.

Sources disagree The gauge puts July slightly below June (253.4 against 259.0 mm); the model puts it well above (461 against 371 mm) and as the wettest month of the year¹². The model figure is about 1.8 times the gauge figure, the widest gap of any month in millimetres. Roxas City is across Panay and the model is a smoothed grid-cell estimate, so neither is a measurement on the island. Plan around the range of 253 to 461 mm, and expect July to be wet on either reading.

The mean daily high of 30.8 C is 1.6 C below June’s in the model, and relative humidity rises to 84% from 82%². PAGASA places June to November in the rainy season⁴. The PAGASA normals page describes the values as 30-year averages but does not name the years or label the rainfall unit; the figures behave as millimetres of monthly rainfall¹.

Daylight

timeanddate lists sunset at Kalibo at 6:18 p.m. on 1 July 2027 and on 15 July, and 6:16 p.m. on 30 July⁶. Kalibo is a little east of Boracay, so sunset on the island falls slightly later.

Boracay has two monsoons. Amihan is the northeast monsoon; Habagat is the southwest monsoon, which GMA News reported as starting on 30 May in 2025⁷. A University of the Philippines study models the island as oriented northwest to southeast. White Beach faces the southwesterly winds directly and Bulabog the northeasterly ones, so under southwest conditions the study finds higher wind and wave setup at White Beach and lower at Bulabog. It also finds sediment concentrations slightly higher in the southwest monsoon than in the northeast⁵.

Boats between Caticlan and Boracay have been limited at Public Storm Warning Signal No. 1¹⁰ and stopped at Signal No. 2⁸⁹ in the cases found. Those storms fell in November and December; the sources used here do not date a July storm on the island. How signals stop the crossing is on typhoons and cancelled boats, and the sources behind this page do not give a port for July: see the ports page.

The sources used for this page date no festival or programme on Boracay in July, so none is listed. Dated peaks elsewhere in the year are on Boracay peak dates.

No arrivals report in the sources gives a July figure. The Malay tourism office recorded 1,759,592 tourists in 2022, about 146,600 a month by simple division, and January 2023 was the busiest month in that year’s first half at 177,860¹¹. February 2025 totalled 174,966, and the local government expected March and April to be the peak¹². A July count is not in these reports, so this page does not call the month busy or quiet.

Leave a spare day before any onward flight from Caticlan. Passengers have been stranded when sea trips were suspended, in the cases on the typhoons page, and the Coast Guard decides on the day. Entry steps at the jetty port are in Boracay entry requirements.