Climate averages 1991–2020
Tôlanaro weather
in April.
A warm, wet month: the 6th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a warm month in Tôlanaro: daytime highs average 26.1°C and nights cool to about 21.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 101 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes April a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 31 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Toliara (385 km away). In April its highs average 30.5°C, 4.4°C warmer than Tôlanaro, with 23 mm of rain.
Among the 12 cities listed in Madagascar, Tôlanaro ranks 7th of 12 for the warmest April highs and 9th of 12 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 12 cities is 26.3°C; Tôlanaro is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 1.6°C to 24.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 101 mm to 74 mm.
The annual picture
April 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
Tôlanaro climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.2°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 173 | 16.6 | 13.513 h |
| February | 28.0°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 185 | 15.7 | 13.013 h |
| March | 27.6°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 140 | 14.8 | 12.312 h |
| April, selected | 26.1°C21.5°C | 21.5°C | 101 | 13.6 | 11.512 h |
| May | 24.5°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 74 | 11.4 | 10.911 h |
| June | 23.1°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 49 | 8.7 | 10.611 h |
| July | 22.4°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 52 | 9.0 | 10.711 h |
| August | 23.2°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 46 | 7.2 | 11.211 h |
| September | 24.6°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 41 | 6.0 | 11.912 h |
| October | 25.7°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 68 | 9.5 | 12.713 h |
| November | 26.8°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 84 | 11.0 | 13.313 h |
| December | 27.8°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 129 | 14.8 | 13.714 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
April in nearby cities
- Toliara in AprilMadagascar · 385 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 22.6°C · 23 mm rain
- Fianarantsoa in AprilMadagascar · 398 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 15.6°C · 49 mm rain
- Antsirabe in AprilMadagascar · 575 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 13.1°C · 73 mm rain
- Antanifotsy in AprilMadagascar · 599 kmHigh 21.8°C · Low 12.8°C · 67 mm rain
- Imerintsiatosika in AprilMadagascar · 674 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 14.9°C · 38 mm rain
- Antananarivo in AprilMadagascar · 683 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 15.2°C · 32 mm rain
- Toamasina in AprilMadagascar · 805 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 22.9°C · 200 mm rain
- Mahajanga in AprilMadagascar · 1038 kmHigh 31.9°C · Low 24.5°C · 43 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 Tôlanaro) is explained once on the Tôlanaro year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.