Climate averages 1991–2020

Sha Tin weather
in April.

A warm, wet month: the 7th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.

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

Average high 25.1°C Daytime mean, April
Average low 20.5°C Night-time mean, April
Rainfall 122 mm 14 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Sha Tin · average highYear overview

April is a warm month in Sha Tin: daytime highs average 25.1°C and nights cool to about 20.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 122 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes April a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 39 min on an average April day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Kwai Chung (5 km away). In April its highs average 25.7°C, 0.7°C warmer than Sha Tin, with 116 mm of rain.

Among the 6 cities listed in Hong Kong, Sha Tin ranks joint 5th of 6 for the warmest April highs and joint 4th of 6 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 6 cities is 25.6°C; Sha Tin is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.

From April to May, average highs rise by 2.4°C to 27.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 122 mm to 229 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. 101520253035 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 3500

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

Every month, side by side

Sha Tin climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Sha Tin, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 18.3°C12.9°C12.9°C243.910.911 h
February 19.5°C14.4°C14.4°C346.411.411 h
March 22.1°C17.2°C17.2°C6810.112.012 h
April, selected 25.1°C20.5°C20.5°C12214.112.713 h
May 27.5°C23.5°C23.5°C22920.013.213 h
June 28.9°C25.4°C25.4°C31423.813.513 h
July 29.6°C25.9°C25.9°C24322.913.413 h
August 29.6°C25.7°C25.7°C30823.912.913 h
September 28.8°C24.7°C24.7°C20317.012.312 h
October 26.7°C22.2°C22.2°C646.911.612 h
November 23.6°C18.5°C18.5°C364.911.111 h
December 19.6°C14.1°C14.1°C293.910.811 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 Sha Tin

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 Sha Tin) is explained once on the Sha Tin year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Tai Po lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.