Climate averages 1991–2020

Sambava weather
in January.

A hot, very wet month: one of the warmest and the 11th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 29.3°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 23.8°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 268 mm 27 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Sambava: daytime highs average 29.3°C and nights cool to about 23.8°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.

Expect about 268 mm of rain on roughly 27 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 52 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Antalaha (71 km away). In January its highs average 29.0°C, about as warm as Sambava, with 294 mm of rain.

Among the 12 cities listed in Madagascar, Sambava ranks 4th of 12 for the warmest January highs and 4th of 12 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 12 cities is 27.1°C; Sambava is 2.2°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 29.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 268 mm to 266 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Sambava climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Sambava, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	29.3°C23.8°C	23.8°C	268	26.8	12.913 h
February	29.3°C23.9°C	23.9°C	266	24.0	12.613 h
March	28.8°C23.8°C	23.8°C	304	25.3	12.212 h
April	28.1°C23.3°C	23.3°C	199	22.5	11.812 h
May	27.0°C22.1°C	22.1°C	120	20.7	11.511 h
June	25.4°C20.6°C	20.6°C	127	21.2	11.311 h
July	24.5°C19.6°C	19.6°C	137	22.6	11.411 h
August	24.6°C19.4°C	19.4°C	109	22.3	11.612 h
September	25.5°C19.9°C	19.9°C	88	20.2	12.012 h
October	27.0°C21.1°C	21.1°C	89	20.0	12.412 h
November	28.3°C22.3°C	22.3°C	85	18.5	12.813 h
December	29.2°C23.4°C	23.4°C	179	23.5	13.013 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

January in nearby cities

Distance from Sambava

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Sambava) is explained once on the Sambava year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.