According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Madagascar is May to June and November. Plan 10–14 days.
Best months for Madagascar
- Best months
- May to June and November
- How long to stay
- 10–14 days
- Continent
- Africa
What Madagascar is best for
Endemic lemurs in rainforests, dramatic limestone pinnacles at Tsingy, baobab avenues, and Nosy Be beaches.
- Prices
- € · cheaper than in Slovakia
Weather in Madagascar by month
Monthly averages around Antananarivo; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January | about 19 °C | a lot of rain (459 mm) |
| February | about 19 °C | a lot of rain (402 mm) |
| March | about 19 °C | a lot of rain (294 mm) |
| April | about 17 °C | a lot of rain (159 mm) |
| May best | about 16 °C | some rain (84 mm) |
| June best | about 13 °C | some rain (84 mm) |
| July | about 12 °C | some rain (84 mm) |
| August | about 13 °C | some rain (57 mm) |
| September | about 15 °C | some rain (48 mm) |
| October | about 17 °C | some rain (93 mm) |
| November best | about 19 °C | a lot of rain (222 mm) |
| December | about 19 °C | a lot of rain (375 mm) |
Sources: what a place is best for — our own travel guides and, for places we have not written about yet, research done with the help of AI (Google Gemini); weather — NASA POWER climate averages; prices — World Bank price levels (CC BY 4.0).
Good to know about Madagascar
- Capital
- Antananarivo
- Languages
- Malagasy, French and English
- Currency
- Malagasy Ariary (MGA)
- Time
- UTC+3
- Plugs
- Type C, E, J, K · 127 / 220 V
- Driving
- On the right
- Calling code
- +261
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
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