Dumaguete
Dumaguete, Philippines: the weather, the air, the distance to the coast and what a month costs, each with its source. This page assesses no one.
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A year here
5 of 12 months have a mean temperature inside 10–26 °C, a band we chose and apply to every city alike. Thirty-year normals from NASA POWER, measured at this city’s own coordinates.
- Jan282523
- Feb282523
- Mar302624
- Apr312825
- May312826
- Jun292725
- Jul282624
- Aug282624
- Sept282624
- Oct282625
- Nov282624
- Dec282624
Each cell: average daily high, monthly mean, average daily low, in °C. These are averages of daily values over 2001–2020, not records — the hottest day is higher and is not shown.
How near the sea is
2.4 km
Straight-line distance from this city’s coordinates to the nearest coastline, computed from Natural Earth 1:10m Physical Vectors — Coastline (ne_10m_coastline) v5.1.2 at 1:10,000,000. Natural Earth is public domain, and anyone can download the same file and get the same number.
It is a distance and not an access. A city 8 km from the coast across a mountain ridge is not 8 km from the sea in any sense you would use, and the figure says nothing about what is on that coast — a container terminal and a bay give the same number. The coastline is the outline of the dataset’s land, so a river wide enough to separate land counts as coast.
How this city rates
- Safety
- 80 / 100measured
- Healthcare
- 40 / 100measured
- Air quality
- not held
A month here, for a reference household
Reference household: two adults aged 38 and 37, a one-bedroom home, no children.
Residence fees and health cover are those of Special Resident Retiree's Visa (SRRV). The low, middle and high figures are the 25th, 50th and 75th percentiles where a publisher states them; each line says who published it.
illustrative Money figures on this page are illustrative unless the figure names its publisher. The illustrative ones are arranged so the shape is right — a larger flat costs more than a smaller one, and the expensive cities are the expensive ones — and they are accurate in nothing. Do not plan on them.
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| Line | P25The lower quartile of the estimate range: a quarter of observations fall below it. Read it as the cheaper end of what is realistic, not as a bargain you can count on. | P50The middle of the estimate range: half the observations fall below it and half above. It is the figure to read first — not a promise, but the most representative single number we have. | P75The upper quartile of the estimate range: a quarter of observations fall above it. Budget against this one if you want room to be wrong. | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rent, 1-bedroom | €270 | €385 | €501 | Illustrative — nothing measured this More about this figureDumaguete, observed 9 September 2026 |
| Electricity, gas and fuel | €36 | €45 | €54 | Illustrative — nothing measured this More about this figurePer household |
| Water, sewerage and waste | €10 | €12 | €15 | Illustrative — nothing measured this More about this figurePer household |
| Internet and phone | €20 | €25 | €30 | Illustrative — nothing measured this More about this figurePer household |
| Groceries | €264 | €330 | €396 | Illustrative — nothing measured this More about this figureAdults: 2 · children: 0 |
| Transport | €46 | €66 | €86 | Illustrative — nothing measured this More about this figureAdults: 2 |
| Health cover* | €20 | €20 | €20 | Published figurePublished by Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) More about this figureA premium or rate the state sets.Per member, by age bandMeasured in 2026.A price the publisher states is in force, not a statistic about a market.What this price is for: PhilHealth’s premium for a foreign member under the Informal Economy Program: «Annual Premium Contribution Rate» «Php 17,000.00» for «Citizens of other countries working and/or residing in the Philippines and holders of valid Alien Certificate of Registration Identity Card (ACR I-Card)», and «Php 15,000.00» for PRA foreign retirees holding a Special Resident Retiree’s Visa (Circular 2017-0003, s. III and VII). The figure here is the ACR I-Card rate: which of the two applies turns on the reader’s visa, and that is a route condition this line does not test — an SRRV holder pays 15,000 pesos a year, about 12 % less. One membership also covers «either the foreign spouse or one (1) of their children below 21 who is not a Filipino citizen», and a Filipino spouse and children below 21 not otherwise covered, so the household pays one premium for every two of its members who are not Filipino citizens; a member who is a Filipino citizen is outside this premium. Benefits start once three months’ premium has been paid within the six months before a confinement. PhilHealth Advisory 2020-0020 states that the circular «shall apply and remain effective» under the Universal Health Care Act, and PhilHealth’s 2026 Citizen’s Charter lists the same two annual figures.This is the price the publisher charges, so there is no range: the low and high figures are the price itself.Published per year; shown per month (÷ 12). |
| Schooling (state schooling) | €0 | €0 | €0 | Illustrative — nothing measured this More about this figureChildren: 0 |
| Building or service charge | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePer household |
| Statutory levies and licences | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePer household |
| Residence permit renewals | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePer household |
| Domestic help | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePer household |
| Household and leisure baseline | €100 | €144 | €186 | Illustrative — nothing measured this More about this figurePeople: 2 |
| Total | €766 | €1,027 | €1,288 | This total does not include Building or service charge, Statutory levies and licences, Residence permit renewals and Domestic help, which nobody publishes for this city. It is the sum of what we hold, not of what the household will pay. |
Routes we hold for Philippines
- Special Resident Retiree's Visa (SRRV) — Draft — not checked by us yet
Every requirement, as its rule states it, is on the page for Philippines
Provenance
Rule set 1.58.0-2026-10-11 · read on 26 October 2026. Every figure on this page was computed by the engine from versioned rule files. No language model produced any number here, and translation happens only after the calculation.
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