Weather in Los Angeles in April

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, April is the one. Highs average 23.4 °C, lows 11.9 °C, and rain falls on 3 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

April ranks 2 of 12 in Los Angeles. Only May scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

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

The averages here are honest — no hidden extremes worth planning around. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest April day reached 36.6 °C and the coldest night fell to 4.4 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 29 mm — roughly 153% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. April rainfall has ranged from 1 mm to 90 mm across the twenty years measured — a 89 mm spread around an average of 19 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 is light at 7.9 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 63%.

How April sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 21.9 °C in March, 23.4 here, 25.9 in May. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in April

13 hours of daylight, gaining 1 hours across the month. That is between Los Angeles's extremes of 14.4 and 9.9 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 23 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights.

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 Los Angeles versus nearby

If Los Angeles is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Irvine is close enough to be a coin toss — 5.6 °C cooler, the same number of rain days. Riverside is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.2 °C warmer, the same number of rain days.

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

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