Climate and average weather in Fenoarivo Be

In Fenoarivo Be, the weather is hot, wet, and mostly clear and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around January.

Best: late April to early October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Fenoarivo Be typically varies from 11°C to 28°C, and is rarely below 9°C or above 31°C. October is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Fenoarivo Be for warm-weather activities is from late April to early October.

Hottest
Oct
28°
Coldest
Jul
11°
Wettest
Jan
429 mm
Driest
Aug
3 mm
Rain / yr
1674 mm
133 wet days
Daylight
10.9–13.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
983 m
18.4°S
Clearest
Aug
27% cloud

Fenoarivo Be 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 late April to early October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Fenoarivo Be stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is October, with an average high of 28°C and low of 16°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 11°C and high of 23°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in September.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2718
Feb2718
Mar2718
Apr2716
May2514
Jun2412
Jul2311
Aug2512
Sep2713
Oct2816
Nov2817
Dec2718

Average hourly temperature in Fenoarivo Be

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 October afternoons, near 28°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 11°C.

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

Fenoarivo Be 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
Jan27° / 18°42926134.0
Feb27° / 18°34823.312.64.1
Mar27° / 18°23419.912.15.0
Apr27° / 16°629.711.66.8
May25° / 14°132.811.18.4
Jun24° / 12°30.810.99.0
Jul23° / 11°40.9119.0
Aug25° / 12°30.611.49.1
Sep27° / 13°71.311.98.4
Oct28° / 16°648.712.46.5
Nov28° / 17°18216.512.95.3
Dec27° / 18°32622.813.14.5

Chance of rain

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

Fenoarivo Be gets about 1674 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 5.6 months, from around Oct 24 to Apr 10, peaking in January at about 86% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 2.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 429 mm over about 26 wet days; August is the driest, with 3 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJan 28 · 86%Jul 2 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan8326
Feb8223
Mar6420
Apr3210
May103
Jun31
Jul31
Aug21
Sep51
Oct289
Nov5517
Dec7423

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Fenoarivo Be collects about 1674 mm of rain across 133 wet days — roughly 139 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 429 mm, while August is the driest at just 3 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 66% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec4293482346213343764182326
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan42926
Feb34823
Mar23420
Apr6210
May133
Jun31
Jul41
Aug31
Sep71
Oct649
Nov18217
Dec32623

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Fenoarivo Be, 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 April 6 and lasts for 7.1 months, ending around November 7. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 91% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 8 and lasts for 4.9 months, ending around April 5. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 83% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 3 · 93%Jan 23 · 15%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1783
Feb2080
Mar4060
Apr7525
May8713
Jun919
Jul9010
Aug8911
Sep8515
Oct7624
Nov5446
Dec2872

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 January 1, brings about 13 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around June 5, only 10 h 54 min — a swing of roughly 2 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan13.05:336:33
Feb12.65:506:27
Mar12.15:596:07
Apr11.66:065:41
May11.16:165:24
Jun10.96:275:21
Jul11.06:305:29
Aug11.46:175:39
Sep11.95:515:45
Oct12.45:265:52
Nov12.95:136:05
Dec13.15:176:23

Sunny days

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

Fenoarivo Be averages about 12 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 23 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.3 months, from around Apr 12 to Oct 20. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is January, down near 2 sunny days — about 91% fewer than the July peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 123 daysJan 132 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan2Gloomy
Feb2Gloomy
Mar6Gloomy
Apr14Mixed
May19Bright
Jun21Bright
Jul22Bright
Aug21Bright
Sep18Bright
Oct14Mixed
Nov7Gloomy
Dec3Gloomy

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 Fenoarivo Be, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.6 months, from around November 8 to April 26. The muggiest month is February, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 98% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around April 27 to November 7, and July 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 3 · 100%Feb 6 · 1%muggyhumiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan043660
Feb023661
Mar084646
Apr532549
May3751111
Jun871210
Jul97300
Aug98200
Sep91720
Oct5331160
Nov16274611
Dec2104444

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 Fenoarivo Be is typically calm, near 9 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.9 months, from around May 17 to Oct 12. The windiest month is July, averaging about 12 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Oct 13 to May 16, with December the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJul 17 · 12 km/hDec 14 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May9calm
Jun11calm
Jul12light breeze
Aug12calm
Sep11calm
Oct9calm
Nov8calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Fenoarivo Be

In seasonPeak

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

Fenoarivo Be's monsoon runs December–March, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit Fenoarivo Be

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early May, Fenoarivo Be 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 Fenoarivo Be for general outdoor tourist activities is from late April to early October, with a peak score in the second week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 11 · 9.2

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
Jan4.0fair
Feb4.1fair
Mar5.0fair
Apr6.8good
May8.4ideal
Jun9.0ideal
Jul9.0ideal
Aug9.1ideal
Sep8.3ideal
Oct6.5good
Nov5.3fair
Dec4.5fair

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 Fenoarivo Be for hot-weather activities is from mid April to late October, with a peak score in the third week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 18 · 8.4

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 Fenoarivo Be, 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.

Fenoarivo Be packs about the same all year — highs hold near 28°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In October, Fenoarivo Be sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 16°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 9 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Fenoarivo Be 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 Fenoarivo Be peaks around February 10 at about 16 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 17 at about 7 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highVery highExtremeFeb 10UV 16Jun 17UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan16Extreme
Feb16Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May9Very high
Jun7High
Jul8Very high
Aug10Very high
Sep12Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov13Extreme
Dec15Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Fenoarivo Be

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 February the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 7 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)
Jan97
Feb8.57
Mar86.5
Apr7.55.5
May6.54
Jun5.52.5
Jul6.54
Aug75
Sep7.55.5
Oct86
Nov8.56.5
Dec97

Air quality in Fenoarivo Be 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 Fenoarivo Be is worst in July — around 24 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 4.7× the cleanest month (January, 5 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodJul 1724 µg/m³Jan 145 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan5Good
Feb7Good
Mar9Good
Apr11Good
May18Moderate
Jun23Moderate
Jul24Moderate
Aug23Moderate
Sep18Moderate
Oct17Moderate
Nov11Good
Dec6Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Fenoarivo Be 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. Fenoarivo Be banks about 3,894 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around December.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan388
Feb351
Mar385
Apr343
May293
Jun229
Jul219
Aug251
Sep303
Oct367
Nov375
Dec391

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.

Fenoarivo Be receives about 5.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.6 and 7.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.4 months, from around Aug 24 to Jan 5. The brightest month is November, averaging about 6.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 4.6 kWh/m² — roughly 33% less than the November peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseNov 77.0 kWhJun 184.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.6Bright
Feb5.5Bright
Mar5.8Bright
Apr5.6Bright
May4.9Bright
Jun4.6Bright
Jul4.8Bright
Aug5.5Bright
Sep6.4Intense
Oct6.9Intense
Nov6.9Intense
Dec6.5Intense

Where is Fenoarivo Be?

Fenoarivo Be sits at 18.4°S, 46.6°E, 983 m above sea level, in Madagascar. The nearest listed city is Ankazobe, 59 km away.

ArivonimamoImerintsiatosikaAmbohidratrimoIvatoMiandrarivo

Topography around Fenoarivo Be

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Fenoarivo Be has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 148 m around an average of 1,032 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 505 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,391 m.

The land around Fenoarivo Be is covered by grassland (79%) within 3 km, grassland (89%) within 16 km, and grassland (87%) within 80 km.

3 km
148 m
16 km
505 m
80 km
1,391 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Ankazobe 59 km · Tsiroanomandidy 66 km · Soavinandriana 83 km · Arivonimamo 92 km · Imerintsiatosika 100 km · Ambohidratrimo 101 km · Ivato 105 km · Miandrarivo 113 km

Madagascar travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / E
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 31% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$599
2025
Happiness
4.2 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
22%
of population, 2024
Road deaths
29.2
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 457
Religion
Church of Jesus Christ in Madagascar/Malagasy Lutheran Church/Anglican Church 34%Roman Catholic 32%none 22%other Christian 8%

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 Fenoarivo Be (-18.4333°, 46.5667°, elevation 983 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).