Climate · Maamendhoo

Maamendhoo in January

Warm and wet, as the days hold steady.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

January in Maamendhoo is warm, around 80°F through the day and night. Rain falls on about four days a week, and daylight holds at about 12 hours 2 minutes.January in Maamendhoo is warm, around 27°C through the day and night. Rain falls on about four days a week, and daylight holds at about 12 hours 2 minutes.

Typical
80°F27°Caverage
Wet days
4a week · 54% of days
Daylight
12h 02mon average

Is January a good time to visit Maamendhoo?


Yes. January is one of Maamendhoo's best months (January to March).

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 January sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Around 80°F in January, against 80°F to 82°F through the year.Around 27°C in January, against 27°C to 28°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

54% of days in January, against 42% to 81% through the year.

Cloud cover

67% cover in January, against 64% to 76% through the year.

Daylight

12h 02m in January, against 12h 01m to 12h 13m through the year.

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

Either side


  1. December80°27°5 wet days a weekRain on about five days a week.
  2. January80°27°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.
  3. February81°27°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.

Where Maamendhoo sits, in January

Indian/Maldives

this place
typical high in January 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-January
6:14 AMsets 6:16 PM
Above the sea
0 mlow-lying
Latitude
1.8°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Ribudhoo136 km north-west

The land around Maamendhoo, shaded by its typical high in January, 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 Maldives in January

typical · wet days

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024). Maamendhoo 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.