Climate and average weather in Itampolo

In Itampolo, the summers are muggy, hot, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are warm and clear.

Best: late April to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Itampolo typically varies from 17°C to 31°C, and is rarely below 16°C or above 34°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Feb
31°
Coldest
Jul
17°
Wettest
Jan
113 mm
Driest
Aug
6 mm
Rain / yr
367 mm
54 wet days
Daylight
10.5–13.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
14 m
24.7°S
Clearest
Sep
14% cloud

Itampolo 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 late October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Itampolo stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 31°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 17°C and high of 25°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights year-round.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3125
Feb3125
Mar3124
Apr2922
May2720
Jun2518
Jul2517
Aug2618
Sep2719
Oct2820
Nov2922
Dec3024

How hot and cold Itampolo 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, Itampolo feels like about 35°C (around January 19). About 117 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in January.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan34312525
Feb35312525
Mar34312424
Apr31292222
May27272020
Jun25251818
Jul25251717
Aug26261818
Sep27271919
Oct29282020
Nov31292222
Dec33302324

Average hourly temperature in Itampolo

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 February afternoons, near 31°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 17°C.

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

Itampolo 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
Jan31° / 25°11312.213.44.4
Feb31° / 25°859.512.94.6
Mar31° / 24°346.112.25.3
Apr29° / 22°214.211.46.7
May27° / 20°132.910.88.3
Jun25° / 18°81.910.58.9
Jul25° / 17°61.610.69.2
Aug26° / 18°61.211.19.0
Sep27° / 19°61.211.88.7
Oct28° / 20°101.912.67.7
Nov29° / 22°233.613.26.6
Dec30° / 24°437.813.55.5

Chance of rain

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

Itampolo gets about 367 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is mostly dry, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.2 months, from around Nov 20 to Mar 26, peaking in January at about 43% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Sep 19.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 113 mm over about 12 wet days; August is the driest, with 6 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJan 18 · 43%Sep 19 · 4%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3912
Feb3410
Mar206
Apr134
May93
Jun72
Jul52
Aug41
Sep41
Oct62
Nov124
Dec258

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Itampolo collects about 367 mm of rain across 54 wet days — roughly 31 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 113 mm, while August is the driest at just 6 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 65% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec113853421138666102343
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan11312
Feb8510
Mar346
Apr214
May133
Jun82
Jul62
Aug61
Sep61
Oct102
Nov234
Dec438

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Itampolo, 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 21 and lasts for 6.7 months, ending around November 9. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 98% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 10 and lasts for 5.3 months, ending around April 20. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 30% 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 24 · 99%Jan 17 · 67%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7030
Feb7228
Mar8119
Apr8416
May919
Jun955
Jul982
Aug964
Sep946
Oct8812
Nov8317
Dec7624

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 30 min of light; the shortest, around June 5, only 10 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 3 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan13.45:326:55
Feb12.95:536:45
Mar12.26:086:19
Apr11.46:225:47
May10.86:365:25
Jun10.56:505:19
Jul10.66:525:28
Aug11.16:345:42
Sep11.86:035:54
Oct12.65:326:07
Nov13.25:136:26
Dec13.55:156:46

Sunny days

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

Itampolo averages about 23 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 15 and 28 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.4 months, from around Apr 20 to Oct 31. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 27 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is January, down near 16 sunny days — about 41% fewer than the July peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2428 daysJan 1815 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan16Bright
Feb15Bright
Mar21Bright
Apr22Bright
May26Brilliant
Jun26Brilliant
Jul28Brilliant
Aug27Brilliant
Sep26Brilliant
Oct24Brilliant
Nov21Bright
Dec19Bright

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 Itampolo, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.5 months, from around October 6 to May 22. The muggiest month is January, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around May 23 to October 5, and July is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 68% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 12 · 71%Jan 24 · 0%miserableoppressivemuggyhumidcomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan01522648
Feb00328618
Mar01834544
Apr172149220
May415463320
Jun143542900
Jul234530100
Aug194435200
Sep1330441300
Oct513334630
Nov172052200
Dec03833561

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.

Wind in Itampolo is steady company: average speeds sit near 17 km/hlight breeze — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezebreezyOct 11 · 18 km/hDec 20 · 16 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan16light breeze
Feb17light breeze
Mar17light breeze
Apr17light breeze
May16light breeze
Jun16light breeze
Jul17light breeze
Aug16light breeze
Sep17light breeze
Oct18light breeze
Nov17light breeze
Dec16light breeze

Hazard calendar for Itampolo

In seasonPeak

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

Itampolo sits in the South Indian Ocean cyclone belt; the season peaks January–March.

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

Best time to visit Itampolo

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid October, Itampolo is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

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 Itampolo for general outdoor tourist activities is from late April to late October, with a peak score in the third week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 19 · 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
Jan4.4fair
Feb4.6fair
Mar5.3fair
Apr6.7good
May8.3ideal
Jun8.9ideal
Jul9.2ideal
Aug9.0ideal
Sep8.7ideal
Oct7.7ideal
Nov6.6good
Dec5.4fair

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 Itampolo for hot-weather activities is from early March to late December, with a peak score in the last week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 23 · 8.9

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 Itampolo, 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 February (highs near 31°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 25°C), pack light clothes.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Itampolo sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 10 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Itampolo

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea offshore is warmest in February at about 29°C and coldest in August near 24°C.

The water stays above 20°C all year — warm enough for a swim any month.

22°24°26°28°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan28Tropical
Feb29Tropical
Mar28Tropical
Apr27Warm
May26Warm
Jun25Warm
Jul24Refreshing
Aug24Refreshing
Sep24Warm
Oct25Warm
Nov26Warm
Dec27Warm

UV index (midday) in Itampolo 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 Itampolo peaks around January 19 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 21 at about 5 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highHighVery highExtremeJan 19UV 14Jun 21UV 5
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr9Very high
May6High
Jun5High
Jul5High
Aug7High
Sep8Very high
Oct11Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec13Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Itampolo

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 January the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 9 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
Feb8.56.5
Mar86
Apr6.54
May5.52
Jun4.50
Jul50
Aug62.5
Sep74
Oct85.5
Nov8.56.5
Dec97
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Itampolo 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. Itampolo banks about 5,357 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan551
Feb499
Mar539
Apr468
May416
Jun354
Jul344
Aug365
Sep388
Oct444
Nov467
Dec522

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.

Itampolo receives about 5.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.8 and 7.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.6 months, from around Sep 8 to Mar 27. The brightest month is November, averaging about 7.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 3.8 kWh/m² — roughly 49% less than the November peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseNov 147.5 kWhJun 243.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan7.0Intense
Feb6.6Intense
Mar6.1Intense
Apr5.1Bright
May4.3Bright
Jun3.8Moderate
Jul4.0Bright
Aug4.9Bright
Sep6.1Intense
Oct7.0Intense
Nov7.5Intense
Dec7.5Intense

Where is Itampolo?

Itampolo sits at 24.7°S, 44.0°E, 14 m above sea level, in Madagascar. The nearest listed city is Ampanihy, 80 km away.

BetiokyAnakaoBelohaBekilyToliaraJafaroTsiombe

Topography around Itampolo

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Itampolo has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 115 m around an average of 23 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 191 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 405 m.

The land around Itampolo is covered by shrubs (57%) and water (27%) within 3 km, shrubs (52%) and water (41%) within 16 km, and shrubs (53%) and water (34%) within 80 km.

3 km
115 m
16 km
191 m
80 km
405 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandbare terrainwater
Nearby: Ampanihy 80 km · Betioky 116 km · Anakao 117 km · Beloha 123 km · Bekily 148 km · Toliara 151 km · Jafaro 160 km · Tsiombe 169 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 Itampolo (-24.6833°, 43.95°, elevation 14 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. Tropical-cyclone seasons are the published climatological basin seasons (NOAA National Hurricane Center / regional warning centres). Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).