Weather in Melbourne in April

Prime time. April is about as good as Melbourne gets. Highs average 20.5 °C, lows 12.1 °C, and rain falls on 8 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

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

Rain on 8 days, 2 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. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest April day reached 31.1 °C and the coldest night fell to 5.9 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 64 mm — roughly 105% of the month's rain in one day.

April is moderately variable: 13 mm in the driest year against 185 mm in the wettest, around an average of 61 mm. Roughly two Aprils in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 10.8 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 73%.

How April sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 3.5 °C cooler than March, with May dropping another 3.8 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in April

11.2 hours of daylight, losing 1.1 hours across the month. That is between Melbourne's extremes of 14.8 and 9.6 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 19.2 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead.

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

April in Melbourne versus nearby

If Melbourne is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Ballarat is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain. Bendigo is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 3 days less 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.

Every month in Melbourne

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