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Sainte Marie in March

Warm and wet, as the days shorten.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

March in Sainte Marie is warm, around 78°F through the day and night. Rain falls on almost every day, and the days shorten by 27 minutes from the first week to the last.March in Sainte Marie is warm, around 26°C through the day and night. Rain falls on almost every day, and the days shorten by 27 minutes from the first week to the last.

Typical
78°F26°Caverage
Wet days
7a week · 93% of days
Daylight
12h 13mon average

Is March a good time to visit Sainte Marie?

A good month, just outside Sainte Marie's best months, which run from September to December.

How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 70°F to 80°F, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 21°C to 27°C, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.

How March sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Around 78°F in March, against 69°F to 79°F through the year.Around 26°C in March, against 21°C to 26°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

93% of days in March, against 77% to 93% through the year.

Cloud cover

70% cover in March, against 32% to 78% through the year.

Daylight

12h 13m in March, against 11h 09m to 13h 07m through the year.

Week by week, lightly smoothed, with March shaded. The olive line marks the best months. Hover or tap a week for its figures.

Either side

  1. February79°26°6 wet days a weekRain on about six days a week.
  2. March78°26°7 wet days a weekRain on almost every day.
  3. April76°24°6 wet days a weekRain on about six days a week.

Where Sainte Marie sits, in March

Indian/Antananarivo
this place
typical high in March 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-March
5:43 AMsets 5:56 PM
Above the sea
0 mlow-lying
Latitude
16.7°Ssouthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Antonibe352 km north-west

The land around Sainte Marie, shaded by its typical high in March, the planning map's own layer. Hover the map for the figure at that spot; tap it on a phone. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

Elsewhere in Madagascar in March

typical · wet days
See March on the planning mapThe whole year in Sainte Marie

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024). Sainte Marie sits on a grid square that is mostly sea, where the data hold only a daily average, so the page shows one typical temperature, not a high and a low. Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not. Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.

Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not.

Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.