Climate averages 1991–2020
Virginia weather
in April.
A warm, moderately wet 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 Virginia: daytime highs average 23.6°C and nights cool to about 11.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 46 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 26 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Welkom (19 km away). In April its highs average 23.2°C, about as warm as Virginia, with 46 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Virginia ranks joint 37th of 95 for the warmest April highs and joint 63rd of 95 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 95 cities is 23.1°C; Virginia is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 3.0°C to 20.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 46 mm to 19 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
Virginia climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.6°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 92 | 13.1 | 13.714 h |
| February | 28.6°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 75 | 11.5 | 13.113 h |
| March | 27.0°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 67 | 10.3 | 12.312 h |
| April, selected | 23.6°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 46 | 6.8 | 11.411 h |
| May | 20.6°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 19 | 3.2 | 10.711 h |
| June | 17.5°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 12 | 1.8 | 10.410 h |
| July | 17.7°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 6.3 | 1.0 | 10.511 h |
| August | 21.0°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 15 | 2.0 | 11.111 h |
| September | 25.7°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 14 | 2.6 | 11.912 h |
| October | 27.6°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 51 | 7.5 | 12.713 h |
| November | 28.4°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 67 | 8.9 | 13.513 h |
| December | 29.4°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 91 | 13.1 | 13.914 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
- Welkom in AprilSouth Africa · 19 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 10.8°C · 46 mm rain
- Odendaalsrus in AprilSouth Africa · 31 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 11.0°C · 46 mm rain
- Kutloanong in AprilSouth Africa · 32 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 11.0°C · 46 mm rain
- Kroonstad in AprilSouth Africa · 62 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 10.7°C · 44 mm rain
- Bothaville in AprilSouth Africa · 83 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 11.3°C · 44 mm rain
- Thaba Nchu in AprilSouth Africa · 123 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 9.2°C · 52 mm rain
- Orkney in AprilSouth Africa · 126 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 11.3°C · 40 mm rain
- Bloemfontein in AprilSouth Africa · 130 kmHigh 22.9°C · Low 10.0°C · 47 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 Virginia) is explained once on the Virginia year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Welkom lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.