Climate averages 1991–2020
Sydney, Canada weather
in April.
A cold, wet month: the 8th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cold month in Sydney, Canada: daytime highs average 5.9°C and nights cool to about -0.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 106 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes April a wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 31 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dartmouth (311 km away). In April its highs average 8.1°C, 2.2°C warmer than Sydney, Canada, with 92 mm of rain.
Among the 86 cities listed in Canada, Sydney, Canada ranks 84th of 86 for the warmest April highs and 74th of 86 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 86 cities is 10.3°C; Sydney, Canada is 4.4°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 5.6°C to 11.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 106 mm to 86 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
Sydney, Canada climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -0.7°C-6.9°C | -6.9°C | 118 | 12.9 | 9.19 h |
| February | -1.2°C-7.9°C | -7.9°C | 111 | 11.3 | 10.310 h |
| March | 1.3°C-5.0°C | -5.0°C | 108 | 12.4 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 5.9°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 106 | 12.3 | 13.514 h |
| May | 11.5°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 86 | 11.7 | 14.915 h |
| June | 16.8°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 89 | 11.0 | 15.716 h |
| July | 21.5°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 85 | 10.5 | 15.415 h |
| August | 22.0°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 89 | 10.9 | 14.214 h |
| September | 18.5°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 104 | 10.5 | 12.613 h |
| October | 12.6°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 131 | 12.3 | 11.011 h |
| November | 7.4°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 124 | 12.7 | 9.510 h |
| December | 2.6°C-2.1°C | -2.1°C | 139 | 14.2 | 8.79 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
- Dartmouth in AprilCanada · 311 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low 1.1°C · 92 mm rain
- Halifax in AprilCanada · 313 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low 1.1°C · 92 mm rain
- Moncton in AprilCanada · 356 kmHigh 8.2°C · Low -0.5°C · 85 mm rain
- Saint John in AprilCanada · 466 kmHigh 7.4°C · Low 0.7°C · 105 mm rain
- St. John's in AprilCanada · 590 kmHigh 4.7°C · Low -0.6°C · 87 mm rain
- Québec in AprilCanada · 847 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low -1.6°C · 104 mm rain
- Montréal in AprilCanada · 1040 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low -0.4°C · 103 mm rain
- Ottawa in AprilCanada · 1204 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 0.6°C · 90 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 Sydney) is explained once on the Sydney, Canada year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.