Weather in Geraldton in April

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, April is the one. Highs average 23.9 °C, lows 20.7 °C, and rain falls on 3 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

April ranks 7 of 12 in Geraldton: past the worst of the year but short of January, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain falls on only 3 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. 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 — 3.2 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest April day reached 30.1 °C and the coldest night fell to 17.1 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 30 mm — roughly 167% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. April rainfall has ranged from 1 mm to 60 mm across the twenty years measured — a 59 mm spread around an average of 18 mm. The average is real but almost no individual April looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind sits around 19.5 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity is unremarkable at 71%.

How April sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 25.7 °C in March, 23.9 here, 22.4 in May. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in April

11.4 hours of daylight, losing 0.8 hours across the month. That is between Geraldton's extremes of 14 and 10.3 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 23.4 °C in April — comfortable for a proper swim. This is the warmest the water gets all year.

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 Geraldton versus nearby

If Geraldton is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Perth is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 3 days more rain. Bunbury is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 4 days more rain.

So: April is effectively as good as it gets here — 3 points behind January, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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