Weather in Coffs Harbour in April

A good month. April is a solid month to be in Coffs Harbour. Highs average 23.4 °C, lows 19.5 °C, and rain falls on 14 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

April ranks 8 of 12 in Coffs Harbour: past the worst of the year but short of August, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 14 days, 3 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 — 3.9 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest April day reached 29.6 °C and the coldest night fell to 11.7 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 40 mm — roughly 39% of the month's rain in one day.

April is moderately variable: 29 mm in the driest year against 226 mm in the wettest, around an average of 103 mm. Roughly two Aprils in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 10.9 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 76%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How April sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 1.8 °C cooler than March, with May dropping another 2.3 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip. Rain has already shifted: 5 days fewer than March had.

Daylight in April

11.4 hours of daylight, losing 0.9 hours across the month. That is between Coffs Harbour's extremes of 14.1 and 10.2 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 24.6 °C in April — warm enough to stay in as long as you like. The sea peaks at 25.8 °C in February and bottoms out at 20.5 °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

Quiet. Few other visitors, cheaper rooms, and a real chance some seasonal operators are shut.

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

April in Coffs Harbour versus nearby

If Coffs Harbour is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Armidale is a better bet in April — 3.6 °C cooler, 5 days less rain. Byron Bay is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days.

So: April works, with August the better month by 14 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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