Rain, Fog & the Road Out

Rain and visibility along the Halsema corridor — Sagada, Bontoc, Abatan, the high ridge at Atok and Baguio — with the channels that actually announce closures.

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Where closures are announced

Check these before you set out — they are the road status; this page is only the weather.

Whether the Halsema or the Sagada road is open is decided on the ground: the DPWH clears and closes national roads, and the municipality and the province announce local closures. Their advisories — not this page — are the road status.

DPWH – Cordillera on FacebookWhere road-cut and clearing updates are posted storm by storm. It is a Facebook page — some posts may need an account to view.

Sagada Tourism Office — travel advisoriesThe municipality's own advisories — including its standing warning not to drive the Halsema or other mountain sections at night.

PAGASA — official weather bulletinsThe national weather authority: typhoon warnings and heavy-rainfall advisories for the Cordillera.

Mountain Province PDRRMO — via the Bontoc LGU contacts pageThe provincial disaster office (PDRRMO): 0920-946-3373 (Smart) or 0977-834-6308 (Globe). In a life-threatening emergency call 911.

Point by point

Along the Halsema Highway, from town to the far end — the order the trip goes.

Sagada town (~1,500 m)

Where the trip starts — on the Dantay–Sagada spur off the highway.

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Rain, last two days

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Next two days, expected

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Lowest visibility, next 24 h

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Bontoc (~870 m)

The provincial capital in the Chico River valley — the hospital, the banks, and the road east towards Banaue.

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Next two days, expected

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Lowest visibility, next 24 h

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Abatan, Buguias (~1,800 m)

The junction town midway along the Halsema — a few kilometres from the Pilando section that collapsed in August 2024, the road's most fragile stretch.

What this page cannot see

Every figure here is a weather model’s estimate for an area, not a rain gauge and not a road camera. A model cannot see a landslide, a rockfall, roadworks or a closure.

Rain and landslides do not line up neatly here. In August 2024 the Halsema's roadbed gave way at Pilando, Buguias, after days of rain; in November 2025, Super Typhoon Uwan cut the Baguio–Bontoc road and the Dantay–Sagada road at the same time. A clear morning in Sagada says nothing about a slide two hours down the road — and no weather model can see one coming.

This page describes the weather along the corridor. It cannot say whether the road is open, and it is never a judgement that driving is safe.

Knowing the road

The wet season is the road's hard season

Sagada's rains run roughly June to October — typhoon season — and that is when landslides close sections of the Halsema and the asphalt turns slippery. The dry months, November to April, are the corridor at its kindest. The municipality's standing advice stands all year: do not drive the mountain sections at night.

Source: Sagada Tourism Office, checked July 2, 2026 (3 months ago).

Big storms close options in every direction at once

When Super Typhoon Uwan crossed Luzon in November 2025, landslides blocked the Baguio–Bontoc Road and the Dantay–Sagada Road among dozens of Cordillera routes — and the eastern way out through Banaue was cut too. That is why residents wait for the clearing crews' word rather than trying another way around.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer, 10 November 2025, checked July 2, 2026 (3 months ago).

The buses that run the corridor

GL Trans runs Baguio–Sagada from the Dangwa terminal, about six hours over the Halsema — around six trips a day from early morning, cash only, no advance booking. Coda Lines comes the other way from Manila via Banaue and Bontoc, about twelve hours, leaving in the evening. In storm weather both wait on the same clearing crews everyone else does.

Source: Sagada Tourism Office, checked July 2, 2026 (3 months ago).

Rain, Fog & the Road Out

About these tools

Where closures are announced

What the weather model says along the road

Point by point

Sagada town (~1,500 m)

Bontoc (~870 m)

Abatan, Buguias (~1,800 m)

What this page cannot see

Knowing the road

The wet season is the road's hard season

Big storms close options in every direction at once

The buses that run the corridor

The Halsema high point, Atok (~2,255 m)

Baguio City (~1,450 m)