At night, the temperature can drop to as low as 18 degrees in the winter . The winter, or cool period, is from October to February. May. The hottest months are March and April. The Philippines is part of the typhoon belt, a belt between 10 and 40 degrees North latitude where typhoons are common. The Philippines is visited yearly by approximately 22 typhoons.
Typhoons are very strong storms with wind velocities of two to three hundred kilometers per hour.
Cebu is situated on 10 degrees North, which means the southern edge of typhoon belt. Typhoons therefore hit the island only very seldom, statistically once in every forty years. The last strong typhoon that hit the island was typhoon Ruping in November 1991. This typhoon hit the island with winds of 325 kilometers per hour. Damage was extensive, but loss of life was limited.