Climate averages 1991–2020

Palhoça weather
in April.

A warm, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 4th driest of the year.

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

Average high 25.2°C Daytime mean, April

Average low 18.6°C Night-time mean, April

Rainfall 100 mm 13 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

April is a warm month in Palhoça: daytime highs average 25.2°C and nights cool to about 18.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 100 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes April a wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 27 min on an average April day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is São José (Santa Catarina, 27.62°S 48.63°W), Brazil (5 km away). In April its highs average 25.2°C, about as warm as Palhoça, with 95 mm of rain.

Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Palhoça ranks joint 340th of 448 for the warmest April highs and joint 273rd of 448 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 448 cities is 27.0°C; Palhoça is 1.8°C cooler than that mean.

From April to May, average highs fall by 2.9°C to 22.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 100 mm to 119 mm.

The annual picture

April in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

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

Every month, side by side

Palhoça climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Palhoça, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	27.8°C21.6°C	21.6°C	241	22.5	13.714 h
February	27.8°C21.8°C	21.8°C	221	20.9	13.113 h
March	26.9°C20.8°C	20.8°C	157	20.3	12.312 h
April, selected	25.2°C18.6°C	18.6°C	100	12.5	11.511 h
May	22.2°C15.5°C	15.5°C	119	11.0	10.811 h
June	20.6°C13.4°C	13.4°C	96	9.3	10.410 h
July	19.9°C12.5°C	12.5°C	88	9.6	10.611 h
August	20.9°C13.3°C	13.3°C	89	9.2	11.111 h
September	21.6°C15.1°C	15.1°C	147	13.3	11.912 h
October	23.3°C17.1°C	17.1°C	145	15.8	12.713 h
November	24.8°C18.5°C	18.5°C	154	16.2	13.513 h
December	27.0°C20.4°C	20.4°C	169	18.7	13.914 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 Palhoça

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 Palhoça) is explained once on the Palhoça year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.