Mahé, Seychelles

There are 127 tropical destinations in our catalog, and Mahé's numbers hold their own: an 89/100 sun score at its October peak, when rain interrupts roughly 63% of days. For a sand-and-sea holiday at a tropical latitude, the data is a good starting point.

Across a typical year, afternoon temperatures swing between 24°C (July) and 26°C (April). The wet–dry contrast is modest: 78% rain-day odds in December against 59% in March. The genuinely warm window — average highs of 24°C or better — covers January–June and September–December.

Averaged by season, sun scores land at 85 for spring, 86 for summer, 85 for autumn and 79 for winter — with typical afternoons of 26°, 24°, 25° and 25°C respectively. Summer wins on the numbers and winter loses them; everything in between is a trade-off between warmth and crowds. If your dates are flexible, December buys you 25°C warmth at the quiet end of the season.

Best months to visit Mahé

Ranked purely on sunshine odds, the podium is October at 89/100, then March at 87 and July at 87. Anything in January–December clears our 70-point reliability bar. The month to avoid on pure weather odds is January (77/100).

Put against its 126 tropical peers in October, it lands in the sunnier half of the group, ahead of 66% of them.

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As of the latest refresh, Mahé's next 15 days span 22°C to 27°C; one day looks mostly sunny while 10 look likely to be wet — a live sun score of 81/100.