Toamasina
City in Madagascar: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Tamatave - panoramio: Hanspeter Limacher, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Toamasina is a city in Madagascar, in Atsinanana. About 345,107 people live in the city proper, making it the 2nd largest city of Madagascar in our atlas.
It lies at 18.15° S, 49.40° E, about 12 m (39 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Indian/Antananarivo time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Toamasina. Green dots: other major cities of Madagascar. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Toamasina has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). The warmest month is usually Jan, with average highs near 28°C (82°F); the coolest nights come in Aug at about 19°C (67°F). Around 1,951 mm (77 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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- Antananarivo · 214 km
- Imerintsiatosika · 239 km
- Antanifotsy · 276 km
- Antsirabe · 314 km
- Antalaha · 372 km
- Mahajanga · 423 km
- Sambava · 438 km
- Fianarantsoa · 441 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1053384 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q178067 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Tamatave - panoramio: Hanspeter Limacher, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)