Climate averages 1991–2020
Wellington weather
in April.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a mild month in Wellington: daytime highs average 15.4°C and nights cool to about 12.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 73 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 01 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lower Hutt (14 km away). In April its highs average 16.3°C, 0.9°C warmer than Wellington, with 69 mm of rain.
Among the 11 cities listed in New Zealand, Wellington ranks 10th of 11 for the warmest April highs and 5th of 11 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 11 cities is 17.1°C; Wellington is 1.7°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 1.6°C to 13.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 73 mm to 76 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
Wellington climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 17.8°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 55 | 7.6 | 14.815 h |
| February | 18.3°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 56 | 6.1 | 13.714 h |
| March | 17.2°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 59 | 7.6 | 12.412 h |
| April, selected | 15.4°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 73 | 9.1 | 11.011 h |
| May | 13.8°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 76 | 10.3 | 9.910 h |
| June | 12.0°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 95 | 12.1 | 9.29 h |
| July | 11.2°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 87 | 12.2 | 9.510 h |
| August | 11.3°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 82 | 12.7 | 10.510 h |
| September | 12.3°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 74 | 10.7 | 11.812 h |
| October | 13.5°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 83 | 11.4 | 13.213 h |
| November | 14.7°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 69 | 9.1 | 14.414 h |
| December | 16.5°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 65 | 9.7 | 15.115 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
- Lower Hutt in AprilNew Zealand · 14 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 11.9°C · 69 mm rain
- Palmerston North in AprilNew Zealand · 125 kmHigh 16.9°C · Low 9.7°C · 82 mm rain
- Hastings, New Zealand in AprilNew Zealand · 254 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 10.6°C · 69 mm rain
- New Plymouth in AprilNew Zealand · 254 kmHigh 16.9°C · Low 11.7°C · 154 mm rain
- Christchurch in AprilNew Zealand · 305 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 8.2°C · 52 mm rain
- Hamilton, New Zealand in AprilNew Zealand · 392 kmHigh 18.6°C · Low 10.3°C · 92 mm rain
- Tauranga in AprilNew Zealand · 418 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 12.6°C · 117 mm rain
- Manukau City in AprilNew Zealand · 478 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 13.4°C · 78 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 Wellington) is explained once on the Wellington year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.