Climate averages 1991–2020

São José dos Pinhais weather
in April.

A warm, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the driest of the year.

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

Average high 22.0°C Daytime mean, April
Average low 15.0°C Night-time mean, April
Rainfall 74 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in São José dos Pinhais · average highYear overview

April is a warm month in São José dos Pinhais: daytime highs average 22.0°C and nights cool to about 15.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 74 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 30 min on an average April day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Pinhais (10 km away). In April its highs average 22.3°C, about as warm as São José dos Pinhais, with 74 mm of rain.

Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, São José dos Pinhais ranks joint 439th of 448 for the warmest April highs and joint 162nd of 448 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 448 cities is 27.0°C; São José dos Pinhais is 5.0°C cooler than that mean.

From April to May, average highs fall by 3.0°C to 19.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 74 mm to 92 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. 51015202530 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 2500

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

Every month, side by side

São José dos Pinhais climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for São José dos Pinhais, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 24.5°C17.6°C17.6°C21823.313.514 h
February 24.6°C17.8°C17.8°C19221.013.013 h
March 23.5°C16.9°C16.9°C12618.012.312 h
April, selected 22.0°C15.0°C15.0°C7410.411.512 h
May 19.0°C12.0°C12.0°C929.510.911 h
June 18.1°C10.6°C10.6°C999.010.611 h
July 17.9°C9.8°C9.8°C937.510.711 h
August 19.4°C10.4°C10.4°C827.711.211 h
September 20.2°C12.0°C12.0°C13411.111.912 h
October 21.6°C13.8°C13.8°C13514.612.713 h
November 22.4°C14.8°C14.8°C12515.413.313 h
December 24.1°C16.6°C16.6°C16319.413.714 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 São José dos Pinhais

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 São José dos Pinhais) is explained once on the São José dos Pinhais year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Curitiba and Pinhais lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.