Climate and average weather in Maro

In Maro, the summers are sweltering, dry, and mostly clear and the winters are hot and mostly cloudy.

Best: mid October to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Maro typically varies from 18°C to 39°C, and is rarely below 15°C or above 41°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Maro for warm-weather activities are from early January to late January and mid October to late December.

Hottest
Mar
39°
Coldest
Aug
22°
Wettest
Aug
280 mm
Driest
Jan
0 mm
Rain / yr
1048 mm
138 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
414 m
9.2°N
Clearest
Dec
32% cloud

Maro weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around mid October to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Maro, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 2.6 months, from February 12 to May 1, with daily high temperatures above 36°C. The hottest month of the year in Maro is March, with an average high of 39°C and low of 25°C.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from June 24 to October 5, with daily high temperatures below 31°C. The coldest month of the year in Maro is August, with an average low of 22°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 16°C) in January.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3418
Feb3721
Mar3925
Apr3827
May3525
Jun3124
Jul2922
Aug2922
Sep3022
Oct3222
Nov3421
Dec3418

How hot and cold Maro really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Maro feels like about 39°C (around April 18). About 348 days a year carry some heat stress, and 21 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in April.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan34341818
Feb37372121
Mar38392525
Apr39382727
May38352525
Jun35312424
Jul33292222
Aug32292222
Sep33302222
Oct35322222
Nov34342121
Dec34341818

Average hourly temperature in Maro

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on March afternoons, near 39°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 22°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Maro weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan34° / 18°0011.54.0
Feb37° / 21°00.111.72.2
Mar39° / 25°41.411.90.9
Apr38° / 27°307.512.21.2
May35° / 25°8413.812.42.4
Jun31° / 24°12217.712.53.4
Jul29° / 22°23127.112.53.2
Aug29° / 22°28027.912.33.2
Sep30° / 22°20225.112.13.2
Oct32° / 22°9116.411.83.6
Nov34° / 21°41.111.63.8
Dec34° / 18°0011.54.2

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Maro gets about 1048 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.7 months, from around May 5 to Oct 24, peaking in August at about 93% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 1.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 280 mm over about 28 wet days; January is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 1 · 93%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar51
Apr248
May4514
Jun6018
Jul8727
Aug9028
Sep8325
Oct5216
Nov61
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Maro collects about 1048 mm of rain across 138 wet days — roughly 87 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 280 mm, while January is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 68% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec043084122231280202914
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar41
Apr308
May8414
Jun12218
Jul23127
Aug28028
Sep20225
Oct9116
Nov41
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Maro, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around October 23 and lasts for 5.8 months, ending around April 16. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 79% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 20 and lasts for 5.1 months, ending around October 22. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 84% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecDec 13 · 81%Aug 30 · 15%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6931
Feb6634
Mar6040
Apr5050
May4852
Jun4555
Jul2674
Aug1684
Sep2278
Oct4456
Nov6931
Dec7921

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around May 22, brings about 12 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 1 hour.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.56:135:44
Feb11.76:135:55
Mar11.96:015:57
Apr12.25:435:55
May12.45:335:58
Jun12.55:336:05
Jul12.55:406:09
Aug12.35:446:02
Sep12.15:425:45
Oct11.85:405:28
Nov11.65:475:22
Dec11.56:015:29

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Maro averages about 10 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 20 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.7 months, from around Oct 24 to Apr 15. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 19 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 1 sunny days — about 96% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 1420 daysAug 231 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan17Bright
Feb14Bright
Mar13Mixed
Apr10Mixed
May8Mixed
Jun6Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct8Gloomy
Nov16Bright
Dec20Bright

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Maro, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.1 months, from around April 8 to November 10. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 11 to April 7, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 13 · 100%May 19 · 0%muggyhumiddryoppressivecomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan9910000
Feb9641000
Mar631516600
Apr13112935110
May01739540
Jun00010900
Jul0001990
Aug00001000
Sep0000991
Oct01411832
Nov28241718130
Dec9072100

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Maro is typically calm, near 8 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.5 months, from around Nov 25 to Jun 10. The windiest month is February, averaging about 10 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jun 11 to Nov 24, with September the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 6 · 11 km/hSep 21 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb10calm
Mar10calm
Apr10calm
May9calm
Jun8calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov8calm
Dec10calm

Hazard calendar for Maro

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Maro's monsoon runs July–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

Maro sees seasonal dust haze (March–April), heaviest in March.

Monsoon
Dust
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Maro

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Maro throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around late October, Maro is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Maro for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid October to late January, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 1 · 4.5

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan3.9fair
Feb2.2poor
Mar0.9poor
Apr1.2poor
May2.4poor
Jun3.4poor
Jul3.2poor
Aug3.2poor
Sep3.2poor
Oct3.6fair
Nov3.8fair
Dec4.2fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Maro for hot-weather activities is from late October to early February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 28 · 8.0

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Maro, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around March (highs near 39°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 29°C), pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In March, Maro sees daytime highs around 39°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Maro by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Maro peaks around March 19 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 14 at about 9 (very high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highMar 19UV 14Dec 14UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May10Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep11Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Maro

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in March the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan7.55.5
Feb86
Mar86.5
Apr86.5
May85.5
Jun86
Jul86
Aug86
Sep85.5
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec74.5

Air quality in Maro by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Maro is worst in March — around 46 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 3.6× the cleanest month (July, 13 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorModerateMar 1344 µg/m³Jul 2013 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan40Poor
Feb38Poor
Mar46Poor
Apr26Moderate
May15Moderate
Jun16Moderate
Jul13Moderate
Aug14Moderate
Sep16Moderate
Oct22Moderate
Nov25Moderate
Dec38Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Maro is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Maro banks about 6,468 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan492
Feb525
Mar671
Apr666
May621
Jun524
Jul490
Aug476
Sep477
Oct525
Nov515
Dec486

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Maro receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.7 and 6.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.8 months, from around Oct 30 to May 23. The brightest month is March, averaging about 6.8 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 4.8 kWh/m² — roughly 30% less than the March peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 36.8 kWhAug 134.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.3Intense
Feb6.7Intense
Mar6.8Intense
Apr6.4Intense
May5.9Bright
Jun5.6Bright
Jul5.1Bright
Aug4.7Bright
Sep5.2Bright
Oct5.7Bright
Nov6.1Intense
Dec6.0Intense

Where is Maro?

Maro sits at 9.2°N, 17.7°E, 414 m above sea level, in Chad. The nearest listed city is Koumra, 38 km away.

DobaKyabéBébédjaGoré

Topography around Maro

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Maro.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Maro has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 42 m around an average of 418 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 308 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 352 m.

The land around Maro is covered by trees (54%) and shrubs (24%) within 3 km, trees (41%) and shrubs (30%) within 16 km, and shrubs (46%) and cropland (25%) within 80 km.

3 km
42 m
16 km
308 m
80 km
352 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandwaterwetland
Nearby: Koumra 38 km · Sarh 74 km · Bédiondo 88 km · Moïssala 98 km · Doba 113 km · Kyabé 138 km · Bébédja 140 km · Goré 146 km

Chad travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Power plugs
Type C / D / E / F
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 35% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$1,022
2025
Happiness
4.4 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
6%
of population, 2024
Road deaths
32.4
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
Religion
Muslim 52%Protestant 24%Roman Catholic 20%none 3%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Maro (9.2235°, 17.7102°, elevation 414 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).