Climate averages 1991–2020
Cape Town weather
in April.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the 7th 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 Cape Town: daytime highs average 22.0°C and nights cool to about 14.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 43 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 16 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Atlantis (40 km away). In April its highs average 22.6°C, 0.6°C warmer than Cape Town, with 31 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Cape Town ranks joint 66th of 95 for the warmest April highs and joint 49th of 95 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 95 cities is 23.1°C; Cape Town is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 2.7°C to 19.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 43 mm to 67 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
Cape Town climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.6°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 15 | 2.8 | 14.114 h |
| February | 25.9°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 14 | 3.0 | 13.313 h |
| March | 24.6°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 16 | 3.3 | 12.312 h |
| April, selected | 22.0°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 43 | 5.2 | 11.311 h |
| May | 19.3°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 67 | 8.4 | 10.410 h |
| June | 16.9°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 108 | 11.1 | 9.910 h |
| July | 16.4°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 98 | 9.9 | 10.110 h |
| August | 16.5°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 87 | 10.3 | 10.911 h |
| September | 17.9°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 51 | 8.2 | 11.912 h |
| October | 20.4°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 33 | 5.8 | 12.913 h |
| November | 22.1°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 30 | 5.1 | 13.914 h |
| December | 24.3°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 17 | 3.6 | 14.414 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
- Atlantis in AprilSouth Africa · 40 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 12.5°C · 31 mm rain
- Somerset West in AprilSouth Africa · 41 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 15.4°C · 56 mm rain
- Stellenbosch in AprilSouth Africa · 41 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 13.8°C · 56 mm rain
- Paarl in AprilSouth Africa · 55 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 13.7°C · 57 mm rain
- Worcester, South Africa in AprilSouth Africa · 100 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 14.3°C · 33 mm rain
- Mossel Bay in AprilSouth Africa · 344 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 14.8°C · 43 mm rain
- Oudtshoorn in AprilSouth Africa · 351 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 12.0°C · 34 mm rain
- George in AprilSouth Africa · 373 kmHigh 20.9°C · Low 13.6°C · 53 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 Cape Town) is explained once on the Cape Town year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.