Climate averages 1991–2020
La Serena weather
in April.
A warm, very dry month: the 6th warmest and the 5th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a warm month in La Serena: daytime highs average 22.7°C and nights cool to about 16.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 3.0 mm of rain on fewer than one day, which makes April a very dry month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 23 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Coquimbo (10 km away). In April its highs average 21.4°C, 1.3°C cooler than La Serena, with 3.0 mm of rain.
Among the 40 cities listed in Chile, La Serena ranks 12th of 40 for the warmest April highs and joint 5th of 40 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 40 cities is 20.5°C; La Serena is 2.2°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 1.9°C to 20.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 3.0 mm to 20 mm.
The annual picture
April in context
Monthly rainfall
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
La Serena climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.8°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 0.2 | 0.1 | 13.814 h |
| February | 25.7°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 0.5 | 0.0 | 13.213 h |
| March | 24.8°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 4.5 | 0.5 | 12.312 h |
| April, selected | 22.7°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 3.0 | 0.7 | 11.411 h |
| May | 20.8°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 20 | 2.1 | 10.611 h |
| June | 19.2°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 30 | 2.3 | 10.310 h |
| July | 18.7°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 15 | 1.9 | 10.410 h |
| August | 19.4°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 15 | 1.9 | 11.011 h |
| September | 20.5°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 5.4 | 0.9 | 11.912 h |
| October | 22.1°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 4.7 | 0.6 | 12.813 h |
| November | 23.6°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 0.6 | 0.1 | 13.614 h |
| December | 24.6°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 0.5 | 0.1 | 14.014 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
- Coquimbo in AprilChile · 10 kmHigh 21.4°C · Low 15.3°C · 3.0 mm rain
- Ovalle in AprilChile · 77 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 14.2°C · 5.1 mm rain
- Copiapó in AprilChile · 296 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 16.5°C · 2.1 mm rain
- San Juan, Argentina in AprilArgentina · 317 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 11.6°C · 18 mm rain
- Rawson in AprilArgentina · 319 kmHigh 22.9°C · Low 11.1°C · 18 mm rain
- Viña del Mar in AprilChile · 348 kmHigh 20.4°C · Low 12.1°C · 14 mm rain
- Quilpué in AprilChile · 350 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 11.2°C · 14 mm rain
- Valparaíso in AprilChile · 350 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 13.5°C · 16 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 La Serena) is explained once on the La Serena year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Coquimbo lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.