Climate averages 1991–2020
Kamloops weather
in April.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 6th warmest and the joint 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Kamloops: daytime highs average 13.6°C and nights cool to about 3.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 30 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the joint 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 46 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kelowna (105 km away). In April its highs average 13.2°C, about as warm as Kamloops, with 43 mm of rain.
Among the 86 cities listed in Canada, Kamloops ranks 1st of 86 for the warmest April highs and 2nd of 86 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 86 cities is 10.3°C; Kamloops is 3.3°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 6.4°C to 19.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 30 mm to 43 mm.
The annual picture
April in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Kamloops climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -1.0°C-7.1°C | -7.1°C | 41 | 10.5 | 8.59 h |
| February | 2.4°C-5.2°C | -5.2°C | 25 | 7.2 | 10.010 h |
| March | 7.2°C-1.3°C | -1.3°C | 30 | 8.6 | 11.812 h |
| April, selected | 13.6°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 30 | 7.4 | 13.814 h |
| May | 19.9°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 43 | 9.2 | 15.515 h |
| June | 23.1°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 47 | 9.1 | 16.416 h |
| July | 27.4°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 34 | 6.1 | 16.016 h |
| August | 27.2°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 23 | 5.2 | 14.515 h |
| September | 21.4°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 35 | 7.0 | 12.713 h |
| October | 12.4°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 45 | 10.1 | 10.811 h |
| November | 4.3°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 56 | 12.2 | 9.09 h |
| December | -0.7°C-5.6°C | -5.6°C | 47 | 11.3 | 8.18 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Kelowna in AprilCanada · 105 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 3.9°C · 43 mm rain
- Chilliwack in AprilCanada · 204 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 4.1°C · 172 mm rain
- Abbotsford in AprilCanada · 226 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 2.5°C · 160 mm rain
- Maple Ridge in AprilCanada · 229 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 3.2°C · 224 mm rain
- Coquitlam in AprilCanada · 234 kmHigh 13.0°C · Low 3.9°C · 198 mm rain
- Langley in AprilCanada · 242 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 3.9°C · 129 mm rain
- Burnaby in AprilCanada · 244 kmHigh 12.3°C · Low 4.4°C · 175 mm rain
- New Westminster in AprilCanada · 246 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 3.5°C · 175 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 Kamloops) is explained once on the Kamloops year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.