All major shopping malls and theaters, and most good restaurants, are air-conditioned. Hotels over $15 per day are, too. Most Filipinos do not have air-conditioning in their homes, using fans instead. Foreigners tend to have one or more rooms air-conditioned. Electricity is expensive, so central air-conditioning for the home is not practical, instead the split-type units are widely in use in restaurants and upper class homes. Filipinos tolerate the heat better than most foreigners, so for them, lack of air-conditioning is not a problem.

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Temperatures in the Philippines are generally tropical, from 70 to 95°F, or 21-35°C, with mid-day summer highs over 100°F and 37ºC. December through February is cool while March through May is hot. The rainy season is from June to November. The northern part of the Philippines is in the "typhoon belt," That is one of the reasons I moved south. Typhoons and storms are not my thing. Often they bring flash floods. The belt includes Manila but not the Visayan islands, (where Cebu is the largest city) or Mindanao (where the largest city is Davao.) The rainy seasons outside of the northern island of Luzon where Manila is located, has mild wet and dry seasons. In the north when it rains it rains almost every day for several hours. And in the dry season there is not a drop. Here and below, it rains two or three days a week and several days a week sometimes. But even in the dry season we some days get welcome rain. This is just one more reason for living south of Luzon.

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