Morombe climate by month
What the weather is like
Morombe has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh): little rain, large day–night swings and strong sunshine.
The warmest month is March, when afternoons average 30° and nights 26°. July is the coolest month, with highs of 26° and lows of 19°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 5°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 465 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (178 mm, 19 wet days) and September the driest (4 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 3% in July to 35% in January.
The sea reaches about 30° in February. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Antananarivo, the capital, Morombe is 5.6° warmer on a March afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 30° · March
- Coldest nights
- 19° · July
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- September
- Clearest skies
- July · 3% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 30° · February
- Longest day
- 13 h 27 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 49 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 | 30° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 28° | 27° | 26° | 27° | 28° | 29° | 29° | 30° |
| Average low | 26° | 26° | 26° | 24° | 22° | 20° | 19° | 20° | 21° | 23° | 24° | 25° |
| Precipitation | 178 mm | 115 mm | 57 mm | 14 mm | 7 mm | 2 mm | 1 mm | 2 mm | 4 mm | 5 mm | 18 mm | 62 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 19 | 16.2 | 10.5 | 2.3 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0 | 1.2 | 2.3 | 8.5 |
| Cloud cover | 35% | 33% | 21% | 11% | 8% | 4% | 3% | 4% | 5% | 9% | 14% | 24% |
| Sea temperature | 30° | 30° | 30° | 28° | 27° | 26° | 25° | 25° | 25° | 26° | 27° | 29° |
| Daylight | 13h 19 | 12h 49 | 12h 14 | 11h 36 | 11h 05 | 10h 49 | 10h 55 | 11h 21 | 11h 57 | 12h 34 | 13h 09 | 13h 27 |
| Month score | 45 | 46 | 53 | 74 | 83 | 90 | 94 | 91 | 89 | 82 | 76 | 60 |