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Mapun Island

63.5 km² of land in the Sulu Sea.

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Mapun Island seen from space, cut out from the sea (Sentinel-2)
Mapun
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Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX (CC BY 4.0). Outline and points © OpenStreetMap contributors / Natural Earth. North up.

In numbers

63.5km²

Area

54km

Coastline

49m

Highest point

29,801

People

30°C

Warmest sea

May

1,139km

To the mainland

When to go to Mapun Island

Best for the beach from January to May.

The sea is warmest in May (30 °C) and coolest in February (28 °C). You can swim comfortably all year (21 °C or more).

Sea temperature (the water level) Air: night low to afternoon high Wet days Best months

Averages 1991–2020. Sea: NOAA OISST, the water within 35 km of the coast. Air, rain and sun: NASA POWER. Best months weigh warm afternoons (23–30 °C), sea of 24 °C or more and few wet days.

Island in the Philippines

Mapun Island is an island in Philippines. It covers 63.5 km², with 54 km of coastline. Its highest point rises to 49 m. About 29,801 people live on it. The nearest mainland is 1,139 km away.

Read more on Wikipedia

Getting there

Plan the trip

Ferries, stays and things to do

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On the island

What you find on Mapun Island.

  • 2beaches
  • 7named peaksBundok ng Ledan, Mount Tebulian, Bundok ng Salisali and 4 more

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, inside the island's outline. A low number may only mean nobody has mapped it yet.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Mapun Island in our other atlases

Everything Coastya, Peakyas, Lakeyas and Cascadyas know about what lies inside Mapun Island, each with its own numbers.

  • 3lakesLakeyas

  • Largest lake

    0.73km²

    Lake Sapa

    according to Lakeyas

  • Warmest lake

    29.1°C

    Lake Ernestine

    surface water, warmest month · according to Lakeyas

3 lakes

on Lakeyas, the lake atlas

  1. Lake Sapa0.73km²
  2. Lake Singuan0.41km²
  3. Lake Ernestine0.30km²

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The shape of the land.

On average the island stands 62 m above the sea. 98 % of it is below 200 m.

  • 53 %0–50 m
  • 46 %50–200 m
  • 2 %200–500 m

Share of the island's area in each altitude band, from the Copernicus DEM (30 m, read at 30–240 m on large islands).

Size, for real

Next to islands you may know.

Mapun Island63 km²
Santorini76 km²
Manhattan54 km²

10 km

All outlines drawn to the same scale (Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap).

Towns on the island

  • Mapun29,218 people

Month by month

The weather on the island.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Afternoon high (°C)282728282929282828282828
Night low (°C)272727282828282828282828
Sea (°C)282828293030292929292928
Rain (mm)232149136106126152163155159176209238
Wet days221517182226272826282828
Sun h/day6.37.58.08.47.56.35.86.15.85.95.75.7
Wind (km/h)222117121011121412121418

Averages 1991–2020 for the ~55 km NASA POWER cell over the island; the sea from NOAA OISST.

Recent years

Warmer and cooler years at sea.

Each month's sea temperature compared with its 1991–2020 average, in degrees.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2020+0.9+0.4+0.7+0.5+0.4+0.2+0.6+0.7+0.8+0.2+0.4+0.8
2021+0.8+0.5+0.7+0.2+0.3+0.5+0.3+0.7+0.4+0.7+0.5+0.4
2022+0.2+0.4+0.9±0.0−0.1+0.2+0.1+0.4+0.4+0.1+0.4+0.6
2023+0.4+0.5+0.1+0.6+0.4+0.3+0.1+0.5+0.5+0.8+1.1+0.6
2024+0.9+0.6+0.3+0.3+0.3+0.5+0.1+0.3+0.2+0.4+0.8+0.9
2025+0.9+0.9+0.6+0.4+0.2−0.2+0.2+0.2±0.0+0.3+0.2+0.6

+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual

Nearby

More islands nearby.

Banggi IslandMalaysiaMalaysia434 km²520 m146 km awayBalabac IslandPhilippinesPhilippines302 km²525 m191 km awayPalawanPhilippinesPhilippines12,189 km²2,085 m277 km awayTawi-Tawi IslandPhilippinesPhilippines568 km²549 m263 km awaySibutu IslandPhilippinesPhilippines105 km²23 m270 km awaySitangkai IslandPhilippinesPhilippines0.08 km²1 m281 km awayJoloPhilippinesPhilippines810 km²811 m316 km awayLugus IslandPhilippinesPhilippines37 km²68 m301 km away

About these numbers

Names, area, populationWikidata (Q1025713) · CC0
Outline© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Sea temperatureNOAA OISST v2.1 · 1991–2020
ClimateNASA POWER · 1991–2020
Relief, 3D modelCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Beaches, ports, lighthouses, trails© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
TownsGeoNames · CC BY 4.0
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Beaches, mountains, lakes and waterfallsLakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES (Messager et al. 2016) · CC BY 4.0, LakeTEMP (Korver et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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