Fianarantsoa
City in Madagascar: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Vue globale de la ville Fianarantsoa 2: HoneyGaLe, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Fianarantsoa is a city in Madagascar, in Upper Matsiatra. About 203,105 people live in the city proper, making it the 5th largest city of Madagascar in our atlas.
It lies at 21.45° S, 47.09° E, about 1,117 m (3,665 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Indian/Antananarivo time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Fianarantsoa. Green dots: other major cities of Madagascar. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Fianarantsoa has a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb). The warmest month is usually Dec, with average highs near 26°C (79°F); the coolest nights come in Jul at about 9°C (49°F). Around 1,775 mm (70 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Jan.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
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- Antsirabe · 176 km
- Antanifotsy · 202 km
- Imerintsiatosika · 275 km
- Antananarivo · 286 km
- Tôlanaro · 398 km
- Toliara · 411 km
- Toamasina · 438 km
- Mahajanga · 642 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1064890 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q527441 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Vue globale de la ville Fianarantsoa 2: HoneyGaLe, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)