Climate averages 1991–2020
Port-au-Prince weather
in April.
A hot, wet month: the 6th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a hot month in Port-au-Prince: daytime highs average 31.1°C and nights cool to about 22.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 169 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes April a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 33 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Cité Soleil (4 km away). In April its highs average 31.2°C, about as warm as Port-au-Prince, with 169 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Haiti, Port-au-Prince ranks joint 3rd of 18 for the warmest April highs and joint 15th of 18 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 18 cities is 29.9°C; Port-au-Prince is 1.3°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs stay level at 31.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 169 mm to 240 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
Port-au-Prince climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30.1°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 25 | 6.5 | 11.111 h |
| February | 30.7°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 42 | 8.3 | 11.512 h |
| March | 30.9°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 103 | 15.3 | 12.012 h |
| April, selected | 31.1°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 169 | 20.3 | 12.613 h |
| May | 31.2°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 240 | 24.0 | 13.013 h |
| June | 32.5°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 142 | 20.1 | 13.213 h |
| July | 33.5°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 130 | 20.3 | 13.113 h |
| August | 33.4°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 193 | 23.4 | 12.813 h |
| September | 32.1°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 223 | 25.4 | 12.312 h |
| October | 31.0°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 208 | 24.2 | 11.712 h |
| November | 30.2°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 101 | 15.8 | 11.311 h |
| December | 30.1°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 36 | 7.2 | 11.011 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
- Cité Soleil in AprilHaiti · 4 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 23.3°C · 169 mm rain
- Carrefour in AprilHaiti · 7 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 23.1°C · 125 mm rain
- Pétionville in AprilHaiti · 7 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 21.1°C · 169 mm rain
- Croix-des-Bouquets in AprilHaiti · 12 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 23.3°C · 169 mm rain
- Arcahaie in AprilHaiti · 31 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 23.1°C · 27 mm rain
- Léogâne in AprilHaiti · 31 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 23.3°C · 80 mm rain
- Jacmel in AprilHaiti · 40 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 23.3°C · 95 mm rain
- Tigwav in AprilHaiti · 57 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 24.6°C · 80 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 Port-au-Prince) is explained once on the Port-au-Prince year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Pétionville, Cité Soleil and Croix-des-Bouquets lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.