Weather in Dallas in April

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, April is the one. Highs average 24.9 °C, lows 12.5 °C, and rain falls on 9 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

April ranks 4 of 12 in Dallas: past the worst of the year but short of November, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 9 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

The averages here are honest — no hidden extremes worth planning around. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest April day reached 37.8 °C and the coldest night fell to -0.4 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 47 mm — roughly 57% of the month's rain in one day.

April is moderately variable: 20 mm in the driest year against 178 mm in the wettest, around an average of 83 mm. Roughly two Aprils in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 12.9 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 72%.

How April sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 4.5 °C warmer than March, and May adds another 4.1 °C. Late in the month feels noticeably different from the start of it, which is worth knowing if the trip is short.

Daylight in April

13 hours of daylight, gaining 1 hours across the month. That is between Dallas's extremes of 14.3 and 10 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 35.1 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

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 Dallas versus nearby

If Dallas is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Shreveport is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Oklahoma City is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.2 °C cooler, 1 day less rain.

So: April is effectively as good as it gets here — 6 points behind November, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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