Climate averages 1991–2020
Pietermaritzburg weather
in April.
A warm, moderately wet month: the joint 7th 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 Pietermaritzburg: daytime highs average 23.9°C and nights cool to about 13.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 58 mm of rain on roughly 10 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 Mpumalanga (32 km away). In April its highs average 23.4°C, about as warm as Pietermaritzburg, with 60 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Pietermaritzburg ranks joint 29th of 95 for the warmest April highs and joint 83rd of 95 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 95 cities is 23.1°C; Pietermaritzburg is 0.8°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 1.3°C to 22.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 58 mm to 29 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
Pietermaritzburg climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26.4°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 134 | 18.0 | 13.814 h |
| February | 26.6°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 113 | 15.0 | 13.113 h |
| March | 25.9°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 96 | 14.3 | 12.312 h |
| April, selected | 23.9°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 58 | 9.7 | 11.411 h |
| May | 22.6°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 29 | 5.1 | 10.711 h |
| June | 20.7°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 20 | 3.4 | 10.310 h |
| July | 20.7°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 28 | 3.8 | 10.410 h |
| August | 22.5°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 32 | 5.9 | 11.111 h |
| September | 24.0°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 56 | 9.5 | 11.912 h |
| October | 23.9°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 92 | 15.4 | 12.813 h |
| November | 24.7°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 116 | 17.2 | 13.614 h |
| December | 25.8°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 129 | 19.2 | 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
- Mpumalanga in AprilSouth Africa · 32 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 13.5°C · 60 mm rain
- Pinetown in AprilSouth Africa · 53 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 16.3°C · 74 mm rain
- Ntuzuma in AprilSouth Africa · 55 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 16.9°C · 74 mm rain
- Durban in AprilSouth Africa · 67 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 19.1°C · 74 mm rain
- KwaDukuza in AprilSouth Africa · 93 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 18.2°C · 69 mm rain
- Ladysmith in AprilSouth Africa · 132 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 11.8°C · 58 mm rain
- Dundee, South Africa in AprilSouth Africa · 162 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 11.9°C · 52 mm rain
- Richards Bay in AprilSouth Africa · 185 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 19.9°C · 79 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 Pietermaritzburg) is explained once on the Pietermaritzburg year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.