Climate averages 1991–2020
Orihuela weather
in April.
A warm, fairly dry month: the 7th warmest and the joint 8th 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 Orihuela: daytime highs average 22.8°C and nights cool to about 10.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 30 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the joint 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 10 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Murcia (20 km away). In April its highs average 22.6°C, about as warm as Orihuela, with 32 mm of rain.
Among the 93 cities listed in Spain, Orihuela ranks 1st of 93 for the warmest April highs and 12th of 93 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 93 cities is 18.3°C; Orihuela is 4.5°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.4°C to 26.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 30 mm to 23 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
Orihuela climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16.2°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 24 | 4.3 | 9.810 h |
| February | 17.6°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 20 | 4.0 | 10.811 h |
| March | 20.3°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 30 | 4.7 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 22.8°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 30 | 4.8 | 13.213 h |
| May | 26.3°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 23 | 3.6 | 14.214 h |
| June | 30.6°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 9.8 | 1.7 | 14.815 h |
| July | 33.1°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 2.5 | 0.5 | 14.515 h |
| August | 33.2°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 7.4 | 1.9 | 13.614 h |
| September | 29.3°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 37 | 4.4 | 12.512 h |
| October | 25.0°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 32 | 5.0 | 11.211 h |
| November | 19.6°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 31 | 5.0 | 10.210 h |
| December | 16.5°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 23 | 4.0 | 9.610 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
- Murcia in AprilSpain · 20 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 10.1°C · 32 mm rain
- Torrevieja in AprilSpain · 26 kmHigh 21.1°C · Low 11.8°C · 28 mm rain
- Elche in AprilSpain · 29 kmHigh 21.1°C · Low 11.0°C · 32 mm rain
- Alicante in AprilSpain · 50 kmHigh 19.9°C · Low 12.1°C · 26 mm rain
- Cartagena, Spain in AprilSpain · 54 kmHigh 19.0°C · Low 13.4°C · 22 mm rain
- Lorca in AprilSpain · 81 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 9.4°C · 37 mm rain
- Benidorm in AprilSpain · 87 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 11.7°C · 44 mm rain
- Gandia in AprilSpain · 118 kmHigh 19.6°C · Low 11.3°C · 53 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 Orihuela) is explained once on the Orihuela year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.