Climate averages 1991–2020
Toamasina weather
in March.
A warm, very wet month: the 4th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a warm month in Toamasina: daytime highs average 27.3°C and nights cool to about 23.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 346 mm of rain on roughly 26 days, which makes March a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 12 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Antananarivo (214 km away). In March its highs average 24.3°C, 3.0°C cooler than Toamasina, with 143 mm of rain.
Among the 12 cities listed in Madagascar, Toamasina ranks 7th of 12 for the warmest March highs and 12th of 12 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 12 cities is 26.9°C; Toamasina is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 0.9°C to 26.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 346 mm to 200 mm.
The annual picture
March in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Toamasina climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.9°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 305 | 24.9 | 13.113 h |
| February | 27.9°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 324 | 23.2 | 12.713 h |
| March, selected | 27.3°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 346 | 26.2 | 12.212 h |
| April | 26.4°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 200 | 24.2 | 11.712 h |
| May | 25.0°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 201 | 23.5 | 11.311 h |
| June | 23.3°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 174 | 24.2 | 11.111 h |
| July | 22.4°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 180 | 24.3 | 11.111 h |
| August | 22.7°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 112 | 20.8 | 11.512 h |
| September | 23.5°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 76 | 17.7 | 12.012 h |
| October | 24.9°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 77 | 17.0 | 12.512 h |
| November | 26.3°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 79 | 16.1 | 13.013 h |
| December | 27.4°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 186 | 22.0 | 13.213 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
March in nearby cities
- Antananarivo in MarchMadagascar · 214 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 16.5°C · 143 mm rain
- Imerintsiatosika in MarchMadagascar · 239 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 16.3°C · 147 mm rain
- Antanifotsy in MarchMadagascar · 276 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 14.3°C · 188 mm rain
- Antsirabe in MarchMadagascar · 314 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 14.8°C · 213 mm rain
- Antalaha in MarchMadagascar · 373 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 23.8°C · 256 mm rain
- Mahajanga in MarchMadagascar · 425 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 24.6°C · 197 mm rain
- Sambava in MarchMadagascar · 439 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 23.8°C · 304 mm rain
- Fianarantsoa in MarchMadagascar · 440 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 17.1°C · 146 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Toamasina) is explained once on the Toamasina year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.