Tsaratanana climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Tsaratanana?

Tsaratanana has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 21.0 °C and it receives 1,695 mm of precipitation per year.

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

The hottest day measured in Tsaratanana between 1940 and 2025 was 26 October 2019, reaching 35.2 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Tsaratanana?

The coldest day measured in Tsaratanana between 1940 and 2025 was 2 August 1996, at 8.4 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Tsaratanana?

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

Q: Has the climate of Tsaratanana warmed?

Yes: Tsaratanana warmed by +1.9 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Tsaratanana?

The wettest day measured in Tsaratanana between 1940 and 2025 was 16 March 2007, with 290 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Tsaratanana?

The windiest day measured in Tsaratanana between 1940 and 2025 was 16 March 2007, with winds reaching 49.4 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Tsaratanana?

The warmest month in Tsaratanana is November (22.9 °C on average); the coldest is July (18.0 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Tsaratanana?

Tsaratanana receives on average 1,695 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 133 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Tsaratanana?

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

Tsaratanana (Madagascar) has a tropical savanna climate (Aw) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 21.0 °C and it receives 1,695 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 November (22.9 °C on average) and the coldest is July (18.0 °C). Rainfall peaks in January.

Tsaratanana averages 0 frost days, 27 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 133 rainy days per year.

Tsaratanana has warmed by +1.9 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.22 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 35.2 °C (on 26 October 2019) and the coldest 8.4 °C (on 2 August 1996).

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

TsaratananaBetsiboka

coords: -16.80°, 47.65°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

AwTropical savannaWarmest monthNovemberColdest monthJulyWettest monthJanuaryDriest monthJuly

Mean daily temperature

21.0°C

Average daily high

26.6°C

Average daily low

16.8°C

Annual rainfall

1,695mm

Sunshine / day

10.7h

Mean relative humidity

73%

Average peak wind

16.8km/h

Seasonal range

4.9°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

27 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

133 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

27.9 °C

Average feels-like low

17.1 °C

Average peak gust

42.0 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

30 d/yr

Solar radiation

19.9 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.9 °C

since 1940

+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.80 · 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

35.2 °C

26 October 2019

Coldest day

8.4 °C

2 August 1996

Wettest day

290 mm

16 March 2007

Windiest day

49.4 km/h

16 March 2007

Strongest gust

130.3 km/h

22 January 1976

Hottest feels-like

39.2 °C

18 February 2021

Coldest feels-like

5.6 °C

31 August 1969

Sunniest day

12.8 h

23 November 2025

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	33.4 °C10 January 2025	11.1 °C29 August 2025	21.9 °C	1,724 mm	58
2024	34.8 °C13 December 2024	10.5 °C30 June 2024	22.3 °C	1,683 mm	100
2023	33.9 °C12 December 2023	10.7 °C29 June 2023	22.2 °C	2,064 mm	61
2022	33.0 °C11 November 2022	10.9 °C23 June 2022	21.2 °C	1,811 mm	40
2021	33.0 °C8 November 2021	10.9 °C24 July 2021	21.7 °C	1,380 mm	59
2020	33.2 °C19 November 2020	10.1 °C10 August 2020	21.8 °C	1,629 mm	75
2019	35.2 °C26 October 2019	9.9 °C23 July 2019	22.2 °C	1,869 mm	74
2018	32.4 °C24 November 2018	11.1 °C9 August 2018	21.6 °C	1,936 mm	34
2017	32.5 °C20 December 2017	11.4 °C20 July 2017	21.9 °C	1,721 mm	54
2016	33.3 °C23 November 2016	10.0 °C10 July 2016	21.6 °C	1,439 mm	53
2015	34.3 °C19 November 2015	10.7 °C12 July 2015	21.8 °C	2,545 mm	55
2014	33.2 °C9 October 2014	11.5 °C8 July 2014	21.8 °C	1,740 mm	45
2013	35.1 °C3 November 2013	9.6 °C6 June 2013	21.8 °C	1,460 mm	63
2012	32.4 °C6 November 2012	10.6 °C8 July 2012	21.4 °C	1,646 mm	40
2011	33.9 °C28 October 2011	11.0 °C27 July 2011	22.0 °C	1,879 mm	65
2010	34.6 °C30 October 2010	11.0 °C12 July 2010	21.8 °C	1,480 mm	51
2009	32.9 °C16 November 2009	10.6 °C21 July 2009	21.8 °C	1,574 mm	48
2008	31.2 °C30 October 2008	10.4 °C23 July 2008	21.3 °C	2,161 mm	14
2007	33.6 °C8 November 2007	10.6 °C22 June 2007	21.4 °C	2,294 mm	34
2006	34.0 °C6 October 2006	11.6 °C19 August 2006	21.7 °C	1,244 mm	47
2005	33.5 °C18 November 2005	8.6 °C27 July 2005	21.5 °C	1,232 mm	37
2004	34.7 °C12 November 2004	10.0 °C31 May 2004	21.4 °C	2,027 mm	46
2003	32.6 °C8 October 2003	10.1 °C4 August 2003	21.5 °C	1,989 mm	27
2002	34.1 °C5 November 2002	11.4 °C23 June 2002	21.5 °C	1,708 mm	43
2001	33.6 °C28 November 2001	10.9 °C13 July 2001	21.7 °C	1,224 mm	60
2000	33.1 °C24 October 2000	10.1 °C12 September 2000	21.2 °C	1,413 mm	43
1999	33.9 °C8 December 1999	11.2 °C3 August 1999	21.4 °C	954 mm	55
1998	33.6 °C13 November 1998	11.1 °C21 July 1998	21.6 °C	1,480 mm	49
1997	34.3 °C10 November 1997	11.4 °C2 September 1997	21.4 °C	1,843 mm	38
1996	33.3 °C24 November 1996	8.4 °C2 August 1996	21.1 °C	1,793 mm	32
1995	33.4 °C20 November 1995	11.0 °C29 August 1995	21.3 °C	1,672 mm	32
1994	32.8 °C24 November 1994	12.4 °C15 July 1994	21.3 °C	1,769 mm	26
1993	31.8 °C7 December 1993	9.6 °C17 August 1993	20.9 °C	1,771 mm	24
1992	31.7 °C30 October 1992	9.7 °C24 July 1992	20.9 °C	1,524 mm	20
1991	32.9 °C29 January 1991	9.2 °C26 August 1991	21.1 °C	1,745 mm	21
1990	32.3 °C16 October 1990	9.2 °C6 July 1990	21.2 °C	1,293 mm	24
1989	31.1 °C20 October 1989	11.4 °C4 July 1989	21.0 °C	1,689 mm	11
1988	33.3 °C11 November 1988	11.4 °C30 July 1988	21.5 °C	1,349 mm	41
1987	34.1 °C15 December 1987	10.4 °C10 July 1987	21.7 °C	1,037 mm	47
1986	31.3 °C11 November 1986	9.6 °C14 August 1986	20.8 °C	1,648 mm	5
1985	31.8 °C2 November 1985	11.3 °C21 July 1985	20.7 °C	1,592 mm	15
1984	31.1 °C14 October 1984	9.9 °C4 September 1984	20.6 °C	2,212 mm	8
1983	32.5 °C14 November 1983	10.9 °C15 September 1983	21.2 °C	1,836 mm	14
1982	31.1 °C3 November 1982	11.6 °C28 July 1982	21.2 °C	1,825 mm	8
1981	31.7 °C29 January 1981	10.2 °C28 June 1981	21.2 °C	1,446 mm	19
1980	31.8 °C7 November 1980	10.6 °C24 July 1980	21.1 °C	1,724 mm	21
1979	31.7 °C30 October 1979	9.9 °C28 June 1979	21.2 °C	1,715 mm	17
1978	32.6 °C13 January 1978	10.7 °C30 August 1978	21.2 °C	1,432 mm	18
1977	32.0 °C1 December 1977	10.1 °C5 July 1977	21.4 °C	1,797 mm	20
1976	31.5 °C20 December 1976	10.9 °C8 August 1976	21.0 °C	1,785 mm	11
1975	30.7 °C15 October 1975	10.5 °C26 June 1975	20.5 °C	1,696 mm	5
1974	30.1 °C11 April 1974	10.2 °C28 July 1974	20.4 °C	1,612 mm	1
1973	33.1 °C6 October 1973	10.5 °C29 August 1973	21.2 °C	1,759 mm	17
1972	31.4 °C7 October 1972	9.7 °C5 June 1972	21.1 °C	2,475 mm	15
1971	31.0 °C15 December 1971	10.4 °C7 September 1971	20.4 °C	1,703 mm	1
1970	32.1 °C5 October 1970	10.2 °C15 September 1970	20.6 °C	1,419 mm	5
1969	34.6 °C25 November 1969	8.8 °C31 August 1969	21.1 °C	1,735 mm	32
1968	30.6 °C22 October 1968	10.6 °C14 June 1968	20.6 °C	1,534 mm	6
1967	30.7 °C3 October 1967	11.7 °C3 September 1967	20.7 °C	1,853 mm	4
1966	31.6 °C28 September 1966	10.6 °C29 July 1966	20.7 °C	1,210 mm	21
1965	32.8 °C8 November 1965	8.6 °C24 June 1965	20.0 °C	1,777 mm	13
1964	30.6 °C20 October 1964	11.5 °C25 August 1964	20.1 °C	1,580 mm	5
1963	32.4 °C19 October 1963	10.2 °C24 August 1963	20.4 °C	1,430 mm	25
1962	32.0 °C31 October 1962	10.4 °C13 September 1962	20.2 °C	1,722 mm	9
1961	33.9 °C26 October 1961	11.4 °C12 June 1961	21.0 °C	1,734 mm	32
1960	32.4 °C18 November 1960	11.5 °C4 July 1960	20.4 °C	1,319 mm	17
1959	31.0 °C6 October 1959	11.5 °C1 September 1959	20.2 °C	1,868 mm	3
1958	31.6 °C7 December 1958	11.3 °C19 July 1958	20.4 °C	2,104 mm	11
1957	34.1 °C9 November 1957	11.0 °C21 July 1957	20.5 °C	1,808 mm	35
1956	30.4 °C9 October 1956	9.5 °C22 August 1956	20.0 °C	1,529 mm	5
1955	31.3 °C17 October 1955	10.0 °C24 August 1955	20.1 °C	1,733 mm	6
1954	32.5 °C26 October 1954	11.6 °C18 June 1954	20.3 °C	1,702 mm	9
1953	30.8 °C5 November 1953	10.4 °C6 September 1953	20.5 °C	2,091 mm	8
1952	29.7 °C2 October 1952	9.9 °C6 July 1952	20.3 °C	1,864 mm	0
1951	31.5 °C24 November 1951	10.1 °C22 July 1951	20.5 °C	1,595 mm	16
1950	31.4 °C21 October 1950	10.5 °C23 May 1950	20.1 °C	2,125 mm	4
1949	32.4 °C20 November 1949	10.1 °C20 August 1949	20.6 °C	1,725 mm	9
1948	31.7 °C25 October 1948	10.1 °C14 August 1948	20.5 °C	2,014 mm	17
1947	30.6 °C22 December 1947	10.0 °C16 August 1947	20.4 °C	1,550 mm	8
1946	30.5 °C31 October 1946	10.0 °C6 August 1946	20.3 °C	1,849 mm	2
1945	31.5 °C8 November 1945	10.1 °C5 August 1945	20.2 °C	1,477 mm	19
1944	32.8 °C20 October 1944	9.6 °C10 July 1944	20.4 °C	1,381 mm	17
1943	33.1 °C6 October 1943	9.0 °C3 June 1943	19.9 °C	1,739 mm	24
1942	32.1 °C6 November 1942	9.7 °C19 July 1942	20.3 °C	1,281 mm	11
1941	33.7 °C13 October 1941	10.6 °C20 June 1941	20.4 °C	2,344 mm	21
1940	31.2 °C19 November 1940	11.2 °C7 August 1940	20.6 °C	1,661 mm	7

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

27.9 °C

+1.3 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

58 d/yr

+31

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

1724 mm

+29 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	29.3 °C	+2.4 °C	253 mm	-181 mm
Feb	27.7 °C	+0.8 °C	460 mm	+65 mm
Mar	28.3 °C	+1.1 °C	224 mm	-47 mm
Apr	29.7 °C	+2.3 °C	33 mm	-25 mm
May	28.0 °C	+1.9 °C	4 mm	-10 mm
Jun	26.0 °C	+1.6 °C	1 mm	-5 mm
Jul	24.6 °C	+0.7 °C	2 mm	-3 mm
Aug	26.2 °C	+1.5 °C	4 mm	-2 mm
Sep	28.4 °C	+1.7 °C	1 mm	-5 mm
Oct	29.8 °C	+1.1 °C	11 mm	-30 mm
Nov	28.8 °C	0.0 °C	303 mm	+154 mm
Dec	27.6 °C	-0.2 °C	429 mm	+117 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

33.4 °C

10 Jan 2025

Coldest day

11.1 °C

29 Aug 2025

Wettest day

64.4 mm

30 Nov 2025

Windiest day

35.5 km/h

18 Aug 2025

Strongest gust

81.0 km/h

8 Mar 2025

Hottest feels-like

38.4 °C

21 Jan 2025

Coldest feels-like

7.9 °C

5 Aug 2025

Sunniest day

12.8 h

23 Nov 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Tsaratanana?

Tsaratanana has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 21.0 °C and it receives 1,695 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Tsaratanana?

The hottest day measured in Tsaratanana between 1940 and 2025 was 26 October 2019, reaching 35.2 °C.

What is the coldest day in Tsaratanana?

The coldest day measured in Tsaratanana between 1940 and 2025 was 2 August 1996, at 8.4 °C.

Does it snow in Tsaratanana?

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

Has the climate of Tsaratanana warmed?

Yes: Tsaratanana warmed by +1.9 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Tsaratanana?

The wettest day measured in Tsaratanana between 1940 and 2025 was 16 March 2007, with 290 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Tsaratanana?

The windiest day measured in Tsaratanana between 1940 and 2025 was 16 March 2007, with winds reaching 49.4 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Tsaratanana?

The warmest month in Tsaratanana is November (22.9 °C on average); the coldest is July (18.0 °C).

How much does it rain in Tsaratanana?

Tsaratanana receives on average 1,695 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 133 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Tsaratanana?

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

Are there tropical nights in Tsaratanana?

Yes: Tsaratanana has on average 30 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Tsaratanana?

In Tsaratanana, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 39.2 °C on 18 February 2021, and the lowest was 5.6 °C on 31 August 1969.

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