Sambava
City in Madagascar: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Sambava, rue du marché: Tonton Bernardo, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Sambava is a city in Madagascar, in Sava. About 89,003 people live in the city proper, making it the 8th largest city of Madagascar in our atlas.
It lies at 14.27° S, 50.17° E, about 10 m (33 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Indian/Antananarivo time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Sambava. Green dots: other major cities of Madagascar. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Sambava has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). The warmest month is usually Dec, with average highs near 29°C (84°F); the coolest nights come in Aug at about 18°C (64°F). Around 2,250 mm (89 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Mar.
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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- Antalaha · 71 km
- Antsiranana · 236 km
- Toamasina · 439 km
- Mahajanga · 444 km
- Antananarivo · 588 km
- Imerintsiatosika · 607 km
- Antanifotsy · 672 km
- Antsirabe · 707 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1056899 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q254480 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Sambava, rue du marché: Tonton Bernardo, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)