Climate averages 1991–2020
Bulawayo weather
in April.
A warm, fairly dry month: the 8th warmest and the joint 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 Bulawayo: daytime highs average 24.6°C and nights cool to about 13.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 23 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the joint 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 39 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Gweru (151 km away). In April its highs average 23.4°C, 1.2°C cooler than Bulawayo, with 28 mm of rain.
Among the 11 cities listed in Zimbabwe, Bulawayo ranks joint 4th of 11 for the warmest April highs and joint 2nd of 11 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 11 cities is 24.5°C; Bulawayo is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 1.6°C to 23.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 23 mm to 6.3 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
Bulawayo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26.6°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 134 | 14.9 | 13.213 h |
| February | 26.3°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 111 | 11.9 | 12.813 h |
| March | 25.9°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 65 | 9.4 | 12.212 h |
| April, selected | 24.6°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 23 | 4.0 | 11.612 h |
| May | 23.1°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 6.3 | 1.3 | 11.211 h |
| June | 20.8°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 4.0 | 0.8 | 10.911 h |
| July | 20.3°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 2.6 | 0.7 | 11.011 h |
| August | 24.2°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 0.9 | 0.2 | 11.411 h |
| September | 28.1°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 5.3 | 1.4 | 12.012 h |
| October | 29.6°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 23 | 5.5 | 12.513 h |
| November | 28.6°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 87 | 12.6 | 13.113 h |
| December | 26.9°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 148 | 17.0 | 13.313 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
- Gweru in AprilZimbabwe · 151 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 13.1°C · 28 mm rain
- Francistown in AprilBotswana · 159 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 15.8°C · 11 mm rain
- Kwekwe in AprilZimbabwe · 187 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 14.9°C · 20 mm rain
- Masvingo in AprilZimbabwe · 235 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 14.0°C · 27 mm rain
- Kadoma in AprilZimbabwe · 246 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 16.2°C · 23 mm rain
- Norton in AprilZimbabwe · 336 kmHigh 24.6°C · Low 14.6°C · 26 mm rain
- Louis Trichardt in AprilSouth Africa · 350 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 15.4°C · 21 mm rain
- Chinhoyi in AprilZimbabwe · 353 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 15.7°C · 24 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 Bulawayo) is explained once on the Bulawayo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.