Climate averages 1991–2020
Mpumalanga 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 Mpumalanga: daytime highs average 23.4°C and nights cool to about 13.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 60 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 (24 km away). In April its highs average 23.9°C, about as warm as Mpumalanga, with 74 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Mpumalanga ranks joint 43rd of 95 for the warmest April highs and 85th of 95 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 95 cities is 23.1°C; Mpumalanga is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 1.0°C to 22.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 60 mm to 33 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
Mpumalanga climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.5°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 101 | 15.5 | 13.814 h |
| February | 25.9°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 88 | 13.2 | 13.113 h |
| March | 25.3°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 87 | 12.7 | 12.312 h |
| April, selected | 23.4°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 60 | 9.1 | 11.411 h |
| May | 22.4°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 33 | 5.0 | 10.611 h |
| June | 20.7°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 22 | 3.9 | 10.310 h |
| July | 20.4°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 33 | 3.9 | 10.410 h |
| August | 21.8°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 30 | 5.6 | 11.011 h |
| September | 22.8°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 58 | 9.0 | 11.912 h |
| October | 22.6°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 88 | 13.8 | 12.813 h |
| November | 23.5°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 101 | 14.8 | 13.614 h |
| December | 24.7°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 102 | 15.5 | 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 · 24 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 16.3°C · 74 mm rain
- Ntuzuma in AprilSouth Africa · 31 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 16.9°C · 74 mm rain
- Pietermaritzburg in AprilSouth Africa · 32 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 13.6°C · 58 mm rain
- Durban in AprilSouth Africa · 38 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 19.1°C · 74 mm rain
- KwaDukuza in AprilSouth Africa · 83 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 18.2°C · 69 mm rain
- Ladysmith in AprilSouth Africa · 162 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 11.8°C · 58 mm rain
- Richards Bay in AprilSouth Africa · 178 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 19.9°C · 79 mm rain
- Dundee, South Africa in AprilSouth Africa · 187 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 Mpumalanga) is explained once on the Mpumalanga year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.