Climate averages 1991–2020

Tôlanaro weather
in January.

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

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

Average high 28.2°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 23.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 173 mm 17 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Tôlanaro: daytime highs average 28.2°C and nights cool to about 23.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 173 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes January a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 30 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Toliara (385 km away). In January its highs average 31.2°C, 3.0°C warmer than Tôlanaro, with 210 mm of rain.

Among the 12 cities listed in Madagascar, Tôlanaro ranks 6th of 12 for the warmest January highs and 1st of 12 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 12 cities is 27.1°C; Tôlanaro is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 28.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 173 mm to 185 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

Tôlanaro climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Tôlanaro, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	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	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

January in nearby cities

Distance from Tôlanaro

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 Tôlanaro) is explained once on the Tôlanaro year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.