Climate averages 1991–2020
Sunshine Coast weather
in April.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a warm month in Sunshine Coast: daytime highs average 23.9°C and nights cool to about 18.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 69 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 29 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Caloundra (17 km away). In April its highs average 23.9°C, about as warm as Sunshine Coast, with 69 mm of rain.
Among the 32 cities listed in Australia, Sunshine Coast ranks joint 11th of 32 for the warmest April highs and joint 22nd of 32 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 32 cities is 22.4°C; Sunshine Coast is 1.5°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 2.3°C to 21.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 69 mm to 77 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
Sunshine Coast climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.4°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 123 | 14.7 | 13.614 h |
| February | 26.9°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 150 | 15.4 | 13.013 h |
| March | 25.9°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 122 | 16.0 | 12.312 h |
| April, selected | 23.9°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 69 | 12.7 | 11.511 h |
| May | 21.6°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 77 | 10.2 | 10.811 h |
| June | 19.6°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 62 | 8.3 | 10.510 h |
| July | 19.4°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 34 | 5.8 | 10.611 h |
| August | 20.7°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 43 | 5.1 | 11.211 h |
| September | 23.1°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 39 | 6.7 | 11.912 h |
| October | 24.4°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 80 | 8.8 | 12.713 h |
| November | 25.9°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 82 | 10.2 | 13.413 h |
| December | 27.0°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 117 | 12.0 | 13.814 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
- Caloundra in AprilAustralia · 17 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 18.7°C · 69 mm rain
- Brisbane in AprilAustralia · 90 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 17.0°C · 43 mm rain
- Logan City in AprilAustralia · 109 kmHigh 24.6°C · Low 17.3°C · 35 mm rain
- Toowoomba in AprilAustralia · 150 kmHigh 22.9°C · Low 12.8°C · 22 mm rain
- Gold Coast in AprilAustralia · 153 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 18.8°C · 73 mm rain
- Bundaberg in AprilAustralia · 212 kmHigh 26.0°C · Low 19.0°C · 55 mm rain
- Coffs Harbour in AprilAustralia · 405 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 17.3°C · 78 mm rain
- Rockhampton in AprilAustralia · 447 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 19.2°C · 37 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 Sunshine Coast) is explained once on the Sunshine Coast year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Caloundra lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.