Climate averages 1991–2020
Gweru weather
in April.
A warm, fairly dry month: the 8th warmest and the 7th 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 Gweru: daytime highs average 23.4°C and nights cool to about 13.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 28 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 40 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kwekwe (58 km away). In April its highs average 26.6°C, 3.2°C warmer than Gweru, with 20 mm of rain.
Among the 11 cities listed in Zimbabwe, Gweru ranks 10th of 11 for the warmest April highs and joint 7th of 11 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 11 cities is 24.5°C; Gweru is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 1.5°C to 22.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 28 mm to 6.8 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
Gweru climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.3°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 161 | 15.7 | 13.213 h |
| February | 25.3°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 122 | 12.9 | 12.713 h |
| March | 24.8°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 82 | 10.5 | 12.212 h |
| April, selected | 23.4°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 28 | 4.0 | 11.712 h |
| May | 22.0°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 6.8 | 1.4 | 11.211 h |
| June | 19.9°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 3.7 | 0.7 | 11.011 h |
| July | 19.4°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 2.9 | 0.9 | 11.111 h |
| August | 23.2°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 0.6 | 0.1 | 11.511 h |
| September | 27.0°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 4.4 | 0.8 | 12.012 h |
| October | 28.4°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 25 | 4.8 | 12.513 h |
| November | 27.5°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 98 | 12.3 | 13.013 h |
| December | 25.9°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 184 | 17.6 | 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
- Kwekwe in AprilZimbabwe · 58 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 14.9°C · 20 mm rain
- Kadoma in AprilZimbabwe · 125 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 16.2°C · 23 mm rain
- Masvingo in AprilZimbabwe · 126 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 14.0°C · 27 mm rain
- Bulawayo in AprilZimbabwe · 151 kmHigh 24.6°C · Low 13.6°C · 23 mm rain
- Norton in AprilZimbabwe · 197 kmHigh 24.6°C · Low 14.6°C · 26 mm rain
- Chitungwiza in AprilZimbabwe · 208 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 13.1°C · 29 mm rain
- Harare in AprilZimbabwe · 223 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 13.1°C · 28 mm rain
- Ruwa in AprilZimbabwe · 230 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 12.4°C · 34 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 Gweru) is explained once on the Gweru year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.