How extreme does General Santos's weather get?

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days General Santos has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.

Based on 50+ years of daily weather observations (1971–present), from the Gen. Santos station 1 km away. Updated through May 2026 — an all-time extreme only changes when a more extreme day actually occurs, so some dates are old. That is normal, not stale data.

The four kinds of extreme

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days General Santos has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.

🔥 Hottest day

102°F Apr 15, 1988

That is about 8°F hotter than a normal April afternoon in General Santos (typical high near 94°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 102°F Apr 15, 1988

2 102°F Mar 28, 1991

3 101°F Apr 20, 1987

❄️ Coldest night

28°F Jan 23, 1978

About 52°F colder than a normal January night in General Santos (typical low near 80°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 28°F Jan 23, 1978

2 28°F Jan 24, 1978

3 28°F Jan 25, 1978

🌧️ Most rain in one day

7.48 in Sep 8, 1977

More rain in a single day than General Santos usually gets in the whole month of September (typical September total about 2.9 in).

The three most extreme on record

1 7.48 in Sep 8, 1977

2 5.59 in Jun 22, 1983

3 4.80 in Apr 26, 2001

How hot and cold it gets, month by month

The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.

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General Santos's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — April's 102°F is about 8°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.

In plain terms

In a normal year, General Santos's warmest days reach the mid-90s°F and its coldest nights drop to the low 70s°F. But across the record it has gone as high as 102°F and as low as 28°F. A single day has delivered over 7 inches of rain. Those are the outer edges worth knowing if you are moving here, planning a trip, or thinking about a house.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.

Precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 11 years of daily observations at Gen. Santos, a weather station, about 1 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →

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