Climate averages 1991–2020
Centurion weather
in April.
A warm, fairly dry month: the 8th warmest and the 6th 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 Centurion: daytime highs average 22.8°C and nights cool to about 11.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 37 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 30 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Pretoria (13 km away). In April its highs average 23.6°C, 0.8°C warmer than Centurion, with 37 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Centurion ranks joint 52nd of 95 for the warmest April highs and joint 15th of 95 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 95 cities is 23.1°C; Centurion is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 2.0°C to 20.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 37 mm to 15 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
Centurion climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26.7°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 103 | 14.7 | 13.614 h |
| February | 26.6°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 93 | 11.9 | 13.013 h |
| March | 25.3°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 83 | 10.4 | 12.312 h |
| April, selected | 22.8°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 37 | 6.2 | 11.511 h |
| May | 20.8°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 15 | 2.6 | 10.911 h |
| June | 18.4°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 7.2 | 1.1 | 10.511 h |
| July | 18.6°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 3.2 | 0.7 | 10.711 h |
| August | 21.7°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 7.0 | 1.4 | 11.211 h |
| September | 25.8°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 17 | 2.5 | 11.912 h |
| October | 26.7°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 63 | 8.4 | 12.713 h |
| November | 26.3°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 90 | 12.4 | 13.413 h |
| December | 26.5°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 113 | 15.2 | 13.714 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
- Pretoria in AprilSouth Africa · 13 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 12.4°C · 37 mm rain
- Midrand in AprilSouth Africa · 15 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 10.3°C · 37 mm rain
- Thembisa in AprilSouth Africa · 16 kmHigh 21.8°C · Low 10.8°C · 37 mm rain
- Randburg in AprilSouth Africa · 32 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 10.3°C · 37 mm rain
- Ga-Rankuwa in AprilSouth Africa · 33 kmHigh 24.1°C · Low 12.7°C · 35 mm rain
- Benoni in AprilSouth Africa · 39 kmHigh 21.4°C · Low 10.1°C · 42 mm rain
- Germiston in AprilSouth Africa · 40 kmHigh 21.4°C · Low 10.2°C · 42 mm rain
- Etwatwa in AprilSouth Africa · 40 kmHigh 21.7°C · Low 10.5°C · 41 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 Centurion) is explained once on the Centurion year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Pretoria lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.