Weather in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in April

Prime time. April is about as good as Las Palmas de Gran Canaria gets. Highs average 19.9 °C, lows 17.3 °C, and rain falls on 2 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria barely has seasons. April scores 96 out of 100 against a best of 100 in June — a gap small enough that the month you choose matters far less here than the week you choose.

Rain falls on only 2 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 — 2.6 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest April day reached 28.6 °C and the coldest night fell to 15.2 °C.

April is moderately variable: 2 mm in the driest year against 32 mm in the wettest, around an average of 10 mm. Roughly two Aprils in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind sits around 19.5 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity runs at 76%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How April sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 19.2 °C in March, 19.9 here, 20.9 in May. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in April

12.8 hours of daylight, gaining 0.8 hours across the month. That is between Las Palmas de Gran Canaria's extremes of 13.9 and 10.4 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 19.3 °C in April — swimmable, but it takes a moment to commit. The sea peaks at 23.9 °C in September and bottoms out at 18.8 °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 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria versus nearby

If Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Funchal is the weaker option in April — 2.8 °C cooler, 5 days more rain. Agadir is close enough to be a coin toss — 8.1 °C warmer, 1 day more rain.

So: April is effectively as good as it gets here — 4 points behind June, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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