Weather in Split in April

A good month. April is a solid month to be in Split. Highs average 17.5 °C, lows 11.7 °C, and rain falls on 10 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

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

Rain on 10 days, 2 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Pack for 17.5 °C days and 11.7 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: the day barely swings — 5.9 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest April day reached 25.6 °C and the coldest night fell to 2.2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 25 mm — roughly 38% of the month's rain in one day.

April is moderately variable: 14 mm in the driest year against 122 mm in the wettest, around an average of 65 mm. Roughly two Aprils in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 10.9 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 74%.

How April sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 3.5 °C warmer than March, and May adds another 4.3 °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

13.4 hours of daylight, gaining 1.4 hours across the month. That is between Split's extremes of 15.4 and 9 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 23.8 °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 Split versus nearby

If Split is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Dubrovnik is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Slavonski Brod is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain.

So: April works, with June the better month by 11 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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