Climate averages 1991–2020
Durban weather
in April.
A warm, 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 warm month in Durban: daytime highs average 24.7°C and nights cool to about 19.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 74 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 23 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Pinetown (14 km away). In April its highs average 23.9°C, 0.8°C cooler than Durban, with 74 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Durban ranks 17th of 95 for the warmest April highs and joint 89th of 95 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 95 cities is 23.1°C; Durban is 1.6°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 1.2°C to 23.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 74 mm to 43 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
Durban climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26.6°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 91 | 13.0 | 13.814 h |
| February | 27.0°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 84 | 11.4 | 13.213 h |
| March | 26.3°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 90 | 11.4 | 12.312 h |
| April, selected | 24.7°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 74 | 8.5 | 11.411 h |
| May | 23.5°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 43 | 5.4 | 10.611 h |
| June | 22.1°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 28 | 4.6 | 10.310 h |
| July | 21.4°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 42 | 4.7 | 10.410 h |
| August | 22.0°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 34 | 5.9 | 11.011 h |
| September | 22.5°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 60 | 8.6 | 11.912 h |
| October | 22.9°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 89 | 12.5 | 12.813 h |
| November | 24.1°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 96 | 13.4 | 13.614 h |
| December | 25.5°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 94 | 13.1 | 14.014 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
- Pinetown in AprilSouth Africa · 14 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 16.3°C · 74 mm rain
- Ntuzuma in AprilSouth Africa · 15 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 16.9°C · 74 mm rain
- Mpumalanga in AprilSouth Africa · 38 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 13.5°C · 60 mm rain
- KwaDukuza in AprilSouth Africa · 64 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 18.2°C · 69 mm rain
- Pietermaritzburg in AprilSouth Africa · 67 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 13.6°C · 58 mm rain
- Richards Bay in AprilSouth Africa · 154 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 19.9°C · 79 mm rain
- Ladysmith in AprilSouth Africa · 189 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 11.8°C · 58 mm rain
- Dundee, South Africa in AprilSouth Africa · 203 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 11.9°C · 52 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 Durban) is explained once on the Durban year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Pinetown and Ntuzuma lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.