🇲🇺Mauritius

Mauritius lies at 19°59′–20°31′S as a small Indian Ocean island nation of approximately 2,040 km² positioned roughly 890 km east of Madagascar and 170 km northeast of Réunion. The country comprises the main island of Mauritius plus Rodrigues, Agalega, and the Cargados Carajos shoals, all surrounded by the world's third-largest coral reef system.

Volcanic in origin, the landscape features a central plateau rising to Piton de la Petite Rivière Noire at 828 m — the nation's highest peak — encircled by the dramatic mountain remnants of an eroded ancient volcano including Le Morne Brabant, Pieter Both, and Trois Mamelles.

The climate is uniformly tropical maritime, with tropical rainforest (Af) dominating the wet southeastern windward coast and central plateau, transitioning to tropical savanna (Aw) on the drier leeward northwest coast around Port Louis and Pamplemousses, all modulated by steady southeast trade winds.

Port Louis averages 20°C in July and 27°C in February with 950 mm of rainfall almost entirely concentrated in the austral summer November through April. Curepipe on the central plateau at 550 m elevation records 16°C in July and 22°C in February with 4,000 mm — one of the wettest stations in southern Africa. Vacoas averages 16°C in July and 22°C in February with 2,500 mm.

Plaisance Airport registers 20°C in July and 25°C in February with 1,840 mm. Rodrigues Island averages 22°C in July and 26°C in February with 1,070 mm. Major climate events include severe Tropical Cyclone Carol (February 1960, Category 4 direct hit on Port Louis), Cyclone Gervaise (February 1975, the most intense to strike the country at peak intensity), Cyclone Berguitta in 2018, the August 2020 MV Wakashio oil spill compounded by climate stress, recurrent severe southwest Indian Ocean cyclone strikes, the 2007 historic flash flood at Mon Goût, the severe March 2013 Port Louis flash floods that killed 11 people, accelerating coral bleaching since 1998, severe Indian Ocean Dipole-driven rainfall extremes, and growing sea-level rise threatening lagoon-bounded coastal villages.

Our archive covers 0 Mauritian cities with daily ERA5 reanalysis data going back to 1940.