Climate averages 1991–2020
Cairns weather
in April.
A warm, wet month: the 7th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a warm month in Cairns: daytime highs average 27.3°C and nights cool to about 22.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 94 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes April a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 44 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Townsville (283 km away). In April its highs average 28.3°C, 1.1°C warmer than Cairns, with 49 mm of rain.
Among the 32 cities listed in Australia, Cairns ranks 4th of 32 for the warmest April highs and 30th of 32 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 32 cities is 22.4°C; Cairns is 4.9°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 1.6°C to 25.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 94 mm to 41 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
Cairns climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.7°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 245 | 21.2 | 13.013 h |
| February | 29.6°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 256 | 20.9 | 12.713 h |
| March | 28.7°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 206 | 17.9 | 12.212 h |
| April, selected | 27.3°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 94 | 12.7 | 11.712 h |
| May | 25.6°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 41 | 9.5 | 11.311 h |
| June | 24.2°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 27 | 7.0 | 11.111 h |
| July | 23.5°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 27 | 5.9 | 11.211 h |
| August | 24.3°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 23 | 5.5 | 11.512 h |
| September | 26.3°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 14 | 4.1 | 12.012 h |
| October | 27.7°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 31 | 6.5 | 12.512 h |
| November | 29.0°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 57 | 10.4 | 12.913 h |
| December | 29.7°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 142 | 16.1 | 13.113 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
- Townsville in AprilAustralia · 283 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 21.6°C · 49 mm rain
- Mackay in AprilAustralia · 591 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 22.0°C · 89 mm rain
- Sunshine Coast in AprilAustralia · 1319 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 18.7°C · 69 mm rain
- Caloundra in AprilAustralia · 1334 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 18.7°C · 69 mm rain
- Toowoomba in AprilAustralia · 1343 kmHigh 22.9°C · Low 12.8°C · 22 mm rain
- Brisbane in AprilAustralia · 1390 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 17.0°C · 43 mm rain
- Logan City in AprilAustralia · 1410 kmHigh 24.6°C · Low 17.3°C · 35 mm rain
- Gold Coast in AprilAustralia · 1461 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 18.8°C · 73 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 Cairns) is explained once on the Cairns year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.