Weather in Albany in April

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, April is the one. Highs average 20.9 °C, lows 15.8 °C, and rain falls on 11 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

April ranks 6 of 12 in Albany: past the worst of the year but short of January, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 11 days, 1 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average April reaches 30 °C; the day barely swings — 5.1 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest April day reached 30.9 °C and the coldest night fell to 11.4 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 78 mm — roughly 142% of the month's rain in one day.

April is moderately variable: 22 mm in the driest year against 126 mm in the wettest, around an average of 55 mm. Roughly two Aprils in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind sits around 16.8 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity runs at 75%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How April sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 22.2 °C in March, 20.9 here, 19.1 in May. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in April

11.2 hours of daylight, losing 1 hours across the month. That is between Albany's extremes of 14.5 and 9.8 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 19.5 °C in April — swimmable, but it takes a moment to commit. The sea peaks at 19.8 °C in February and bottoms out at 16.1 °C — water lags the air by a month or two, which is why the best swimming often comes after the best weather.

How busy it gets

Busy. Popular without being frantic; book the things you care about, improvise the rest.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

April in Albany versus nearby

If Albany is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Bunbury is close enough to be a coin toss — 3.6 °C warmer, 4 days less rain. Perth is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.3 °C warmer, 5 days less rain.

So: April works, with January the better month by 11 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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