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Sainte Marie in October

Warm and wet, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

October in Sainte Marie is warm, around 72°F through the day and night. Rain falls on about six days a week, less often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 19 minutes from the first week to the last.October in Sainte Marie is warm, around 22°C through the day and night. Rain falls on about six days a week, less often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 19 minutes from the first week to the last.

Typical
72°F22°Caverage
Wet days
6a week · 82% of days
Daylight
12h 31mon average

Is October a good time to visit Sainte Marie?

Yes. October is one of Sainte Marie's best months (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 October sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Around 72°F in October, against 69°F to 79°F through the year.Around 22°C in October, against 21°C to 26°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

82% of days in October, against 77% to 93% through the year.

Cloud cover

33% cover in October, against 32% to 78% through the year.

Daylight

12h 31m in October, against 11h 09m to 13h 07m through the year.

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

Either side

  1. September70°21°6 wet days a weekRain on about six days a week.
  2. October72°22°6 wet days a weekRain on about six days a week.
  3. November75°24°5 wet days a weekRain on about five days a week.

Where Sainte Marie sits, in October

Indian/Antananarivo
this place
typical high in October 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-October
5:12 AMsets 5:39 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 October, 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 October

typical · wet days
See October 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.