Climate averages 1991–2020

Sunāmganj weather
in April.

A hot, very wet month: the 7th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 28.6°C Daytime mean, April
Average low 20.3°C Night-time mean, April
Rainfall 519 mm 22 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Sunāmganj · average highYear overview

April is a hot month in Sunāmganj: daytime highs average 28.6°C and nights cool to about 20.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 519 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes April a very wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 44 min on an average April day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Sylhet (51 km away). In April its highs average 29.4°C, 0.7°C warmer than Sunāmganj, with 559 mm of rain.

Among the 63 cities listed in Bangladesh, Sunāmganj ranks 63rd of 63 for the warmest April highs and 62nd of 63 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 63 cities is 32.6°C; Sunāmganj is 3.9°C cooler than that mean.

From April to May, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 29.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 519 mm to 751 mm.

The annual picture

April in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 5101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 9500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Sunāmganj climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Sunāmganj, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 22.7°C10.6°C10.6°C9.51.610.811 h
February 24.9°C12.9°C12.9°C384.511.311 h
March 27.9°C16.8°C16.8°C15510.212.012 h
April, selected 28.6°C20.3°C20.3°C51921.912.713 h
May 29.0°C22.5°C22.5°C75128.113.313 h
June 29.0°C24.2°C24.2°C91829.613.714 h
July 29.0°C24.5°C24.5°C91630.813.514 h
August 29.4°C24.6°C24.6°C72330.613.013 h
September 29.2°C23.9°C23.9°C52127.812.312 h
October 28.7°C21.1°C21.1°C21915.711.612 h
November 26.8°C16.2°C16.2°C282.810.911 h
December 24.0°C12.3°C12.3°C111.210.611 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

Distance from Sunāmganj

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Sunāmganj) is explained once on the Sunāmganj year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.