Climate averages 1991–2020
KwaDukuza weather
in April.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 6th 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 KwaDukuza: daytime highs average 25.3°C and nights cool to about 18.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 69 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 24 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ntuzuma (56 km away). In April its highs average 25.0°C, about as warm as KwaDukuza, with 74 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, KwaDukuza ranks joint 6th of 95 for the warmest April highs and 87th of 95 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 95 cities is 23.1°C; KwaDukuza is 2.2°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 1.3°C to 24.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 69 mm to 44 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
KwaDukuza climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.6°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 103 | 13.4 | 13.814 h |
| February | 27.8°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 96 | 12.0 | 13.113 h |
| March | 27.1°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 91 | 12.0 | 12.312 h |
| April, selected | 25.3°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 69 | 8.5 | 11.411 h |
| May | 24.0°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 44 | 5.2 | 10.711 h |
| June | 22.4°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 26 | 4.0 | 10.310 h |
| July | 21.9°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 41 | 4.7 | 10.510 h |
| August | 23.0°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 31 | 5.8 | 11.111 h |
| September | 23.9°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 59 | 8.5 | 11.912 h |
| October | 24.2°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 87 | 12.7 | 12.813 h |
| November | 25.4°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 99 | 13.4 | 13.614 h |
| December | 26.7°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 99 | 14.0 | 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
- Ntuzuma in AprilSouth Africa · 56 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 16.9°C · 74 mm rain
- Durban in AprilSouth Africa · 64 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 19.1°C · 74 mm rain
- Pinetown in AprilSouth Africa · 67 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 16.3°C · 74 mm rain
- Mpumalanga in AprilSouth Africa · 83 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 13.5°C · 60 mm rain
- Pietermaritzburg in AprilSouth Africa · 93 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 13.6°C · 58 mm rain
- Richards Bay in AprilSouth Africa · 95 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 19.9°C · 79 mm rain
- Dundee, South Africa in AprilSouth Africa · 165 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 11.9°C · 52 mm rain
- Ladysmith in AprilSouth Africa · 170 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 11.8°C · 58 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 KwaDukuza) is explained once on the KwaDukuza year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.