Mahé climate by month
What the weather is like
Mahé has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am): .
The warmest month is April, when afternoons average 31° and nights 26°. July is the coolest month, with highs of 27° and lows of 24°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 3°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 3,702 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (998 mm, 31 wet days) and February the driest (5 mm, 1 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 13% in February to 74% in July.
The sea reaches about 30° in April. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with New Delhi, the capital, Mahé is 5.1° cooler on a April afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 31° · April
- Coldest nights
- 22° · January
- Wettest month
- July
- Driest month
- February
- Clearest skies
- February · 13% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 30° · April
- Longest day
- 12 h 48 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 27 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 29° | 30° | 31° | 31° | 30° | 28° | 27° | 27° | 28° | 28° | 29° | 29° |
| Average low | 22° | 23° | 24° | 26° | 26° | 25° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 23° |
| Precipitation | 7 mm | 5 mm | 20 mm | 81 mm | 261 mm | 993 mm | 998 mm | 560 mm | 309 mm | 292 mm | 137 mm | 39 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 5.2 | 1 | 6.5 | 15 | 28.3 | 29.5 | 31 | 27.8 | 26.7 | 25.7 | 18.2 | 8.2 |
| Cloud cover | 18% | 13% | 15% | 31% | 49% | 69% | 74% | 70% | 60% | 53% | 41% | 24% |
| Sea temperature | 28° | 29° | 29° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 28° | 29° | 29° |
| Daylight | 11h 30 | 11h 45 | 12h 03 | 12h 23 | 12h 40 | 12h 48 | 12h 45 | 12h 31 | 12h 12 | 11h 53 | 11h 36 | 11h 27 |
| Month score | 69 | 77 | 60 | 41 | 37 | 40 | 40 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 47 | 63 |