Ambodifotatra climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Ambodifotatra?

Ambodifotatra has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 24.4 °C and it receives 2,481 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Ambodifotatra?

The hottest day measured in Ambodifotatra between 1940 and 2025 was 5 February 2004, reaching 32.8 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Ambodifotatra?

The coldest day measured in Ambodifotatra between 1940 and 2025 was 4 September 1943, at 18.3 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Ambodifotatra?

Almost never: Ambodifotatra sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Q: Has the climate of Ambodifotatra warmed?

Yes: Ambodifotatra warmed by +1.0 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Ambodifotatra?

The wettest day measured in Ambodifotatra between 1940 and 2025 was 17 March 2018, with 270 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Ambodifotatra?

The windiest day measured in Ambodifotatra between 1940 and 2025 was 17 February 2008, with winds reaching 105.0 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Ambodifotatra?

The warmest month in Ambodifotatra is February (26.5 °C on average); the coldest is August (22.0 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Ambodifotatra?

Ambodifotatra receives on average 2,481 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 296 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Ambodifotatra?

Ambodifotatra gets on average 10.7 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,905 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Ambodifotatra (Madagascar) has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 24.4 °C and it receives 2,481 mm of precipitation per year.

These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.

The warmest month is February (26.5 °C on average) and the coldest is August (22.0 °C). Rainfall peaks in March.

Ambodifotatra averages 0 frost days, 2 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 296 rainy days per year.

Ambodifotatra has warmed by +1.0 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.12 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 32.8 °C (on 5 February 2004) and the coldest 18.3 °C (on 4 September 1943).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

AmbodifotatraAnalanjirofo

coords: -16.98°, 49.85°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

AfTropical rainforestWarmest monthFebruaryColdest monthAugustWettest monthMarchDriest monthOctober

Mean daily temperature

24.4°C

Average daily high

25.3°C

Average daily low

23.5°C

Annual rainfall

2,481mm

Sunshine / day

10.7h

Mean relative humidity

81%

Average peak wind

22.1km/h

Seasonal range

4.5°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

2 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

296 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

28.1 °C

Average feels-like low

25.3 °C

Average peak gust

32.4 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

361 d/yr

Solar radiation

18.4 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.0 °C

since 1940

+0.1 °C per decade · r² = 0.61 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.

Records for the period

Hottest day

32.8 °C

5 February 2004

Coldest day

18.3 °C

4 September 1943

Wettest day

270 mm

17 March 2018

Windiest day

105.0 km/h

17 February 2008

Strongest gust

161.3 km/h

17 February 2008

Hottest feels-like

40.3 °C

23 January 1980

Coldest feels-like

14.5 °C

25 July 1996

Sunniest day

13.0 h

2 December 1940

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	32.7 °C28 February 2025	20.5 °C21 July 2025	25.2 °C	2,831 mm	7
2024	31.3 °C3 January 2024	20.4 °C26 July 2024	25.3 °C	2,698 mm	2
2023	30.7 °C5 March 2023	20.6 °C7 August 2023	25.2 °C	2,323 mm	3
2022	31.5 °C5 February 2022	20.1 °C11 September 2022	24.5 °C	2,462 mm	5
2021	31.2 °C6 March 2021	19.7 °C27 July 2021	24.8 °C	2,279 mm	1
2020	30.7 °C20 January 2020	19.7 °C6 September 2020	24.8 °C	2,654 mm	1
2019	29.7 °C27 January 2019	20.5 °C19 August 2019	25.3 °C	2,365 mm	0
2018	31.3 °C8 January 2018	19.6 °C20 July 2018	24.9 °C	3,216 mm	6
2017	30.4 °C10 March 2017	20.4 °C14 August 2017	24.9 °C	2,479 mm	2
2016	31.6 °C10 February 2016	19.7 °C29 July 2016	24.8 °C	2,296 mm	2
2015	32.1 °C17 January 2015	20.0 °C4 August 2015	24.9 °C	2,095 mm	2
2014	29.3 °C5 February 2014	20.5 °C14 August 2014	24.9 °C	2,398 mm	0
2013	32.2 °C23 February 2013	19.7 °C6 August 2013	24.7 °C	1,855 mm	5
2012	30.3 °C10 January 2012	20.3 °C27 July 2012	24.7 °C	2,311 mm	3
2011	31.5 °C18 February 2011	20.4 °C26 July 2011	24.9 °C	1,927 mm	6
2010	31.8 °C3 February 2010	20.0 °C14 August 2010	24.9 °C	2,305 mm	2
2009	31.4 °C7 February 2009	20.3 °C11 August 2009	24.8 °C	2,431 mm	2
2008	30.8 °C7 January 2008	19.2 °C23 July 2008	24.4 °C	2,550 mm	2
2007	31.4 °C14 February 2007	19.9 °C26 July 2007	24.7 °C	2,452 mm	6
2006	30.5 °C6 March 2006	18.7 °C10 October 2006	24.6 °C	2,544 mm	1
2005	30.7 °C25 March 2005	19.8 °C4 September 2005	24.7 °C	1,810 mm	2
2004	32.8 °C5 February 2004	20.3 °C8 July 2004	24.5 °C	2,414 mm	6
2003	29.6 °C25 February 2003	19.8 °C1 August 2003	24.6 °C	2,476 mm	0
2002	31.3 °C4 January 2002	19.5 °C7 August 2002	24.6 °C	2,704 mm	5
2001	29.2 °C7 January 2001	19.6 °C15 July 2001	24.5 °C	1,963 mm	0
2000	30.9 °C13 January 2000	19.1 °C2 July 2000	24.2 °C	2,250 mm	4
1999	28.7 °C10 February 1999	19.2 °C26 July 1999	24.2 °C	1,761 mm	0
1998	31.6 °C6 February 1998	19.8 °C19 July 1998	24.8 °C	2,403 mm	6
1997	29.3 °C25 January 1997	19.6 °C13 July 1997	24.5 °C	2,281 mm	0
1996	31.1 °C2 February 1996	19.7 °C24 July 1996	24.3 °C	2,125 mm	2
1995	30.1 °C9 January 1995	20.1 °C12 August 1995	24.5 °C	2,387 mm	2
1994	29.7 °C5 February 1994	19.5 °C4 September 1994	24.5 °C	2,314 mm	0
1993	30.8 °C21 January 1993	19.6 °C22 July 1993	24.3 °C	2,067 mm	3
1992	29.0 °C28 January 1992	19.5 °C29 July 1992	24.2 °C	2,247 mm	0
1991	30.6 °C19 February 1991	19.4 °C18 July 1991	24.6 °C	2,906 mm	2
1990	29.8 °C12 February 1990	19.6 °C24 July 1990	24.4 °C	2,266 mm	0
1989	30.2 °C27 February 1989	19.7 °C17 September 1989	24.3 °C	2,615 mm	2
1988	29.1 °C10 March 1988	20.0 °C25 August 1988	24.6 °C	2,678 mm	0
1987	31.3 °C17 February 1987	20.5 °C23 June 1987	24.8 °C	1,844 mm	4
1986	29.1 °C6 February 1986	19.4 °C15 August 1986	24.1 °C	2,372 mm	0
1985	31.0 °C21 February 1985	19.7 °C28 June 1985	23.9 °C	2,288 mm	2
1984	30.7 °C25 January 1984	19.5 °C26 August 1984	24.0 °C	2,176 mm	3
1983	30.4 °C22 February 1983	20.0 °C4 September 1983	24.6 °C	2,744 mm	2
1982	29.9 °C31 January 1982	19.6 °C26 August 1982	24.7 °C	2,975 mm	0
1981	30.3 °C9 March 1981	19.8 °C20 July 1981	24.5 °C	2,371 mm	2
1980	32.4 °C23 January 1980	19.8 °C30 July 1980	24.5 °C	3,085 mm	5
1979	29.3 °C6 February 1979	20.2 °C10 September 1979	24.5 °C	2,385 mm	0
1978	30.9 °C27 December 1978	19.9 °C7 July 1978	24.3 °C	2,465 mm	2
1977	30.2 °C1 February 1977	20.2 °C29 July 1977	24.5 °C	2,594 mm	3
1976	28.3 °C21 February 1976	20.4 °C3 October 1976	24.2 °C	2,620 mm	0
1975	29.5 °C2 February 1975	19.3 °C16 August 1975	24.0 °C	2,672 mm	0
1974	28.3 °C9 March 1974	18.9 °C18 August 1974	23.7 °C	2,090 mm	0
1973	32.7 °C1 February 1973	20.0 °C24 August 1973	24.4 °C	3,415 mm	6
1972	30.5 °C9 February 1972	19.9 °C10 August 1972	24.5 °C	2,936 mm	1
1971	29.7 °C1 February 1971	19.7 °C15 August 1971	24.1 °C	2,491 mm	0
1970	31.4 °C22 February 1970	19.7 °C7 August 1970	24.4 °C	2,484 mm	5
1969	30.2 °C6 February 1969	19.4 °C12 August 1969	24.7 °C	2,509 mm	1
1968	30.6 °C21 February 1968	19.2 °C18 August 1968	24.0 °C	2,688 mm	1
1967	29.2 °C29 March 1967	19.1 °C24 August 1967	24.2 °C	2,637 mm	0
1966	29.7 °C24 February 1966	19.7 °C13 August 1966	24.2 °C	1,807 mm	0
1965	28.0 °C13 January 1965	18.4 °C12 August 1965	23.8 °C	2,309 mm	0
1964	29.5 °C14 January 1964	19.1 °C14 September 1964	23.9 °C	2,733 mm	0
1963	29.7 °C17 January 1963	19.7 °C4 August 1963	24.0 °C	2,301 mm	0
1962	30.3 °C23 February 1962	20.0 °C9 August 1962	24.1 °C	2,233 mm	2
1961	28.6 °C24 December 1961	19.7 °C23 July 1961	24.2 °C	2,303 mm	0
1960	30.2 °C26 January 1960	19.7 °C27 July 1960	24.0 °C	2,929 mm	1
1959	31.2 °C27 March 1959	19.3 °C23 July 1959	24.1 °C	2,945 mm	6
1958	30.8 °C23 January 1958	19.2 °C28 July 1958	24.3 °C	2,938 mm	1
1957	30.2 °C6 February 1957	19.3 °C8 August 1957	24.0 °C	2,775 mm	1
1956	28.4 °C27 January 1956	18.9 °C14 July 1956	23.6 °C	3,471 mm	0
1955	28.8 °C11 January 1955	19.2 °C22 July 1955	23.9 °C	2,175 mm	0
1954	32.1 °C22 January 1954	19.2 °C14 August 1954	24.1 °C	2,567 mm	7
1953	30.1 °C17 January 1953	19.5 °C21 July 1953	24.3 °C	2,958 mm	1
1952	31.9 °C20 March 1952	19.1 °C15 August 1952	24.3 °C	2,333 mm	3
1951	30.8 °C30 January 1951	19.4 °C12 August 1951	24.2 °C	2,353 mm	3
1950	30.7 °C15 January 1950	18.9 °C20 July 1950	23.8 °C	2,727 mm	1
1949	30.2 °C24 February 1949	19.4 °C3 August 1949	24.2 °C	2,182 mm	1
1948	29.7 °C29 January 1948	19.8 °C27 July 1948	24.4 °C	2,389 mm	0
1947	29.0 °C12 March 1947	19.2 °C9 September 1947	24.1 °C	2,038 mm	0
1946	29.2 °C28 February 1946	19.8 °C4 August 1946	24.2 °C	3,103 mm	0
1945	31.9 °C18 January 1945	19.5 °C23 September 1945	23.8 °C	2,870 mm	7
1944	29.5 °C19 January 1944	19.2 °C17 July 1944	23.9 °C	2,388 mm	0
1943	29.6 °C19 January 1943	18.3 °C4 September 1943	23.9 °C	2,716 mm	0
1942	29.5 °C6 January 1942	18.9 °C28 July 1942	24.1 °C	1,849 mm	0
1941	31.3 °C18 March 1941	19.8 °C20 July 1941	24.2 °C	2,572 mm	3
1940	30.5 °C19 February 1940	19.9 °C8 August 1940	24.1 °C	3,381 mm	1

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

26.1 °C

+0.8 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

7 d/yr

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

2832 mm

+351 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	28.1 °C	+0.7 °C	252 mm	-40 mm
Feb	29.0 °C	+1.5 °C	226 mm	-67 mm
Mar	28.0 °C	+0.8 °C	398 mm	+45 mm
Apr	27.5 °C	+1.1 °C	167 mm	-115 mm
May	26.3 °C	+1.1 °C	482 mm	+271 mm
Jun	24.9 °C	+1.0 °C	161 mm	-46 mm
Jul	23.6 °C	+0.6 °C	179 mm	-27 mm
Aug	23.2 °C	+0.4 °C	157 mm	+7 mm
Sep	23.9 °C	+0.6 °C	90 mm	-9 mm
Oct	24.9 °C	+0.6 °C	126 mm	+38 mm
Nov	26.7 °C	+1.1 °C	204 mm	+97 mm
Dec	27.1 °C	+0.4 °C	391 mm	+197 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

32.7 °C

28 Feb 2025

Coldest day

20.5 °C

21 Jul 2025

Wettest day

112.7 mm

11 Jan 2025

Windiest day

46.5 km/h

24 May 2025

Strongest gust

69.5 km/h

8 Mar 2025

Hottest feels-like

39.9 °C

28 Feb 2025

Coldest feels-like

16.7 °C

5 Aug 2025

Sunniest day

13.0 h

3 Dec 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Ambodifotatra?

Ambodifotatra has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 24.4 °C and it receives 2,481 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Ambodifotatra?

The hottest day measured in Ambodifotatra between 1940 and 2025 was 5 February 2004, reaching 32.8 °C.

What is the coldest day in Ambodifotatra?

The coldest day measured in Ambodifotatra between 1940 and 2025 was 4 September 1943, at 18.3 °C.

Does it snow in Ambodifotatra?

Almost never: Ambodifotatra sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Has the climate of Ambodifotatra warmed?

Yes: Ambodifotatra warmed by +1.0 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Ambodifotatra?

The wettest day measured in Ambodifotatra between 1940 and 2025 was 17 March 2018, with 270 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Ambodifotatra?

The windiest day measured in Ambodifotatra between 1940 and 2025 was 17 February 2008, with winds reaching 105.0 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Ambodifotatra?

The warmest month in Ambodifotatra is February (26.5 °C on average); the coldest is August (22.0 °C).

How much does it rain in Ambodifotatra?

Ambodifotatra receives on average 2,481 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 296 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Ambodifotatra?

Ambodifotatra gets on average 10.7 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,905 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Ambodifotatra?

Yes: Ambodifotatra has on average 361 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Ambodifotatra?

In Ambodifotatra, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 40.3 °C on 23 January 1980, and the lowest was 14.5 °C on 25 July 1996.

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