Male climate

Name: Male
Address: MV

Male is warmest in April, with average highs of 29 °C, and coldest in December, when nights average 26 °C. May is the wettest month (227 mm) and February the driest (38 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Male averages 1,714 mm of rain and 365 days above 25 °C.

Maldives · population 103,693 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month April 29 °C
Coldest month December 26 °C
Driest month February 38 mm
Wettest month May 227 mm
Least cloud March 45 % cloud
Hottest on record May 31 °C
Coldest on record January 24 °C
Warmest sea April 30 °C

What to expectMale through the year

Male changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 27 and 29 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 365 days a year reach 25 °C, 0 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 31 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. May averages 227 mm against 38 mm in February — 6.0 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Male is warmest in April at 30 °C and coldest in January at 28 °C. Sea temperature lags the air by a month or two, which is why late summer swims warmer than early summer at the same air temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	27.3 °C	81 mm	55 %
February	27.6 °C	38 mm	49 %
March	28.2 °C	46 mm	45 %
April	28.6 °C	114 mm	56 %
May	28.5 °C	227 mm	76 %
June	28.3 °C	125 mm	80 %
July	28.0 °C	142 mm	82 %
August	27.8 °C	145 mm	79 %
September	27.7 °C	176 mm	76 %
October	27.6 °C	195 mm	71 %
November	27.4 °C	219 mm	69 %
December	27.3 °C	206 mm	65 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C
January	27.3 °C	26.1 °C	26.8 °C	28.9 °C	23.9 °C	31
February	27.6 °C	26.4 °C	27.1 °C	29.0 °C	24.6 °C	28
March	28.2 °C	26.9 °C	27.7 °C	29.8 °C	24.4 °C	31
April	28.6 °C	26.9 °C	27.9 °C	30.3 °C	25.0 °C	30
May	28.5 °C	26.7 °C	27.7 °C	30.5 °C	25.2 °C	31
June	28.3 °C	26.7 °C	27.6 °C	29.5 °C	24.9 °C	30
July	28.0 °C	26.3 °C	27.3 °C	30.0 °C	24.3 °C	31
August	27.8 °C	26.3 °C	27.2 °C	29.5 °C	24.4 °C	31
September	27.7 °C	26.0 °C	27.0 °C	29.2 °C	24.4 °C	30
October	27.6 °C	26.0 °C	26.9 °C	29.0 °C	24.1 °C	31
November	27.4 °C	25.8 °C	26.7 °C	29.0 °C	24.4 °C	30
December	27.3 °C	25.8 °C	26.6 °C	29.0 °C	24.3 °C	31

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	81 mm	10	12 h/day	55 %	78 %	24 km/h	28.1 °C
February	38 mm	6	12 h/day	49 %	76 %	22 km/h	28.4 °C
March	46 mm	8	12 h/day	45 %	76 %	17 km/h	29.2 °C
April	114 mm	17	12 h/day	56 %	79 %	18 km/h	29.8 °C
May	227 mm	24	12 h/day	76 %	82 %	26 km/h	29.5 °C
June	125 mm	17	12 h/day	80 %	81 %	25 km/h	29.1 °C
July	142 mm	17	12 h/day	82 %	80 %	23 km/h	29.0 °C
August	145 mm	16	12 h/day	79 %	80 %	22 km/h	28.9 °C
September	176 mm	19	12 h/day	76 %	81 %	23 km/h	28.7 °C
October	195 mm	21	12 h/day	71 %	82 %	24 km/h	28.6 °C
November	219 mm	20	12 h/day	69 %	81 %	20 km/h	28.6 °C
December	206 mm	19	12 h/day	65 %	80 %	22 km/h	28.3 °C

Where Male ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Warmest sea temperatures in Asia in March	36thof 50	29 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Asia in April	38thof 50	30 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in the world in April	39thof 50	30 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in the world in March	45thof 50	29 °C

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Male.

QuestionsCommon questions about Male’s climate

When is the best time to visit Male?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. January, November, December sit closest to 20 °C on average, April is the warmest month and February the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Male get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 29 °C. About 0 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 31 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 26 °C in December, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Male?

May, averaging 227 mm over 24 days with rain. The driest month is February with 38 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,714 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Male rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.