Climate averages 1991–2020
Lobito weather
in April.
A hot, fairly dry month: the warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a hot month in Lobito: daytime highs average 29.6°C and nights cool to about 24.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 39 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 50 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Benguela (28 km away). In April its highs average 29.9°C, about as warm as Lobito, with 47 mm of rain.
Among the 47 cities listed in Angola, Lobito ranks 14th of 47 for the warmest April highs and 5th of 47 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 47 cities is 28.1°C; Lobito is 1.5°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 0.7°C to 28.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 39 mm to 3.5 mm.
The annual picture
April in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Lobito climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.9°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 29 | 3.8 | 12.813 h |
| February | 29.5°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 40 | 4.0 | 12.513 h |
| March | 29.4°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 97 | 8.8 | 12.212 h |
| April, selected | 29.6°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 39 | 4.3 | 11.812 h |
| May | 28.9°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 3.5 | 0.1 | 11.612 h |
| June | 26.2°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 1.7 | 0.1 | 11.411 h |
| July | 24.5°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 1.7 | 0.2 | 11.511 h |
| August | 24.4°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 0.3 | 0.0 | 11.712 h |
| September | 25.8°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 0.6 | 0.2 | 12.012 h |
| October | 27.7°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 2.6 | 0.7 | 12.412 h |
| November | 28.7°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 13 | 2.3 | 12.713 h |
| December | 28.5°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 25 | 4.1 | 12.813 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
April in nearby cities
- Benguela in AprilAngola · 28 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 24.6°C · 47 mm rain
- Baía Farta in AprilAngola · 45 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 25.1°C · 24 mm rain
- Bocoio in AprilAngola · 66 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 18.8°C · 159 mm rain
- Cubal in AprilAngola · 107 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 18.5°C · 79 mm rain
- Sumbe in AprilAngola · 133 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 25.0°C · 53 mm rain
- Balombo in AprilAngola · 134 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 16.6°C · 115 mm rain
- Porto Amboim in AprilAngola · 183 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 25.3°C · 61 mm rain
- Gabela in AprilAngola · 192 kmHigh 26.0°C · Low 19.0°C · 239 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Lobito) is explained once on the Lobito year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.