Climate averages 1991–2020
Tôlanaro weather
in May.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 9th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Tôlanaro: daytime highs average 24.5°C and nights cool to about 19.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 74 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 55 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Toliara (385 km away). In May its highs average 28.7°C, 4.2°C warmer than Tôlanaro, with 6.7 mm of rain.
Among the 12 cities listed in Madagascar, Tôlanaro ranks 7th of 12 for the warmest May highs and 10th of 12 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 12 cities is 24.9°C; Tôlanaro is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 1.4°C to 23.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 74 mm to 49 mm.
The annual picture
May 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 | 26.1°C21.5°C | 21.5°C | 101 | 13.6 | 11.512 h |
| May, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Toliara in MayMadagascar · 385 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 20.2°C · 6.7 mm rain
- Fianarantsoa in MayMadagascar · 398 kmHigh 21.0°C · Low 13.8°C · 24 mm rain
- Antsirabe in MayMadagascar · 575 kmHigh 21.0°C · Low 11.0°C · 20 mm rain
- Antanifotsy in MayMadagascar · 599 kmHigh 19.8°C · Low 10.8°C · 24 mm rain
- Imerintsiatosika in MayMadagascar · 674 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 12.9°C · 15 mm rain
- Antananarivo in MayMadagascar · 683 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 13.3°C · 12 mm rain
- Toamasina in MayMadagascar · 805 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 21.6°C · 201 mm rain
- Mahajanga in MayMadagascar · 1038 kmHigh 31.8°C · Low 23.3°C · 6.4 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.