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Where to go in April

What is actually pleasant in April — by average temperature and rainy days, not by feel. The numbers are climate normals, the same for every place.

Cities

Windhoek

Namibia

20°C1 rainy day

Marrakech

Morocco

20°C3 rainy days

Cairo

Egypt

23°C0 rainy days

Seville

Spain

18°C4 rainy days

Kairouan

Tunisia

18°C6 rainy days

Santiago

Chile

17°C2 rainy days

El Jem

Tunisia

17°C4 rainy days

Buenos Aires

Argentina

18°C8 rainy days

Coast

Dahab

Egypt

28°C0 rainy days

Sharm el-Sheikh

Egypt

28°C0 rainy days

Hurghada

Egypt

25°C0 rainy days

Pleasant, and off season

The weather holds but the crowds and prices have dropped — the month where the same destination costs less than at peak.

Swakopmund

Namibia

19°C0 rainy days

Dahab

Egypt

28°C0 rainy days

Skeleton Coast

Namibia

18°C0 rainy days

Sharm el-Sheikh

Egypt

28°C0 rainy days

Windhoek

Namibia

20°C1 rainy day

Cairo

Egypt

23°C0 rainy days

Temperatures and rainy days are climate normals from `content_geo.py`, the same for all 214 places. “Pleasant” means: a city at 12–26°C with at most 10 rainy days, coast above 24°C with at most 6, mountains 8–24°C with at most 10.

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Windhuk Independence Avenue 1 — Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0
Maroc Marrakech Jemaa-el-Fna Luc Viatour — No machine-readable author provided. Lviatour assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
Flickr - Gaspa - Cairo, Bazar el-Khalili — Francesco Gasparetti from Senigallia, Italy, CC BY 2.0
Plaza de Espana, Seville — Dokkolo, CC BY-SA 4.0
Medina of Kairouan 17042022 004 — Yamen, CC BY-SA 4.0
Plaza de Armas de Santiago 2017 b — WeHaKa, CC BY-SA 4.0
Amfiteatre d'El Djem - interior — Josep Renalias Lohen11, CC BY 4.0
Buenos Aires - La Boca - Caminito - 200807i — Luis Argerich from Buenos Aires, Argentina, CC BY 2.0
Bastion near the South Gate — No machine-readable author provided. Mr. Tickle assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
Bardo Museum(102) — Sinda BF, CC BY-SA 4.0
Chouara Tannery - 154 - Marokko Handybilder 2018 - Fes (27347707917) — Uwe Brodrecht, CC BY-SA 2.0
Beijing China Summer-Palace-02 — CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0
Catania-etna — Dror Feitelson, CC BY-SA 4.0
2014-11-20 15h50 Orlando Power Station Soweto anagoria — Anagoria, CC BY 3.0
Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe, Valencia, August 2026 — Esniom, CC BY-SA 4.0
The library of Celsus, Ephesus — Slyronit, CC BY-SA 4.0
Acropolis Parthenon Athens Greece — Jebulon, CC0
Capela dos Ossos - Apr 2011 — Ken & Nyetta, CC BY 2.0
Via Vittorio Emanuele Mittags — Clemensfranz, CC BY-SA 3.0
Miradouro das Portas do Sol Lisbon Alfama overview pano — Dicklyon, CC BY-SA 4.0
Plaza Mayor, Madrid — No machine-readable author provided. Gryffindor assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain
The White Tower of Thessaloniki - 2 — Annatsach, CC BY-SA 4.0
Gaia Douro Porto pano from Ponte de Dom Luís I — Dicklyon, CC BY-SA 4.0
Piazza Sant'Oronzo (Lecce) — Bernard Gagnon, CC0
La Sagrada Familia Barcelona — Peter_Glyn, CC0
Alhambra - Granada 1 — Jim Gordon, CC BY 2.0
Colosseum in rome — Silviomerci1971, CC BY-SA 4.0
Vicolo di pulcinella — Gigi sorrentino, CC BY-SA 3.0
The glass dome - Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II - Milan — Terragio67, CC BY-SA 4.0
Piazza Popolo Ravenna — Incola, CC BY-SA 3.0
Ponte Pietra AB — This Photo was taken by Andrea Bertozzi. Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as the author and send, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Kalemegdan, Belgrade Fortress — BrankaVV, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical arcades in Bologna, Italy (51190327522) — Ralf Steinberger from Milan, Berlin + Munich, Italy + Germany, CC BY 2.0
Parma, Piazza Garibaldi, Palazzo del Governatore — Palickap, CC BY-SA 4.0
Torino- Piazza Vittorio Veneto - 52751304568 — Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0
Blue Mosque, Istanbul Turkey — Joshua Doubek, CC BY-SA 3.0
Piazza Unità d'Italia (Trieste) 04 — SIG SG 510, CC0
Dahab - The blue hole - panoramio — Francesco Lo Bello, CC BY 3.0
Arrecife de coral, parque nacional Ras Muhammad, Egipto, 2022-03-26, DD 170 — Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
Rafa koralowa Hurgada(23) — Inetta, CC BY-SA 3.0
Swakopmund Woermannhaus 1 — Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0
Cape Cross Seal Colony, RTW 2012 (8395938208) — Ana Raquel S. Hernandes from Sao Paulo, Brazil, CC BY-SA 2.0
Aït Benhaddou view from above — Elena Tatiana Chis, CC BY-SA 4.0
Aconcagua (Mendoza) 2022-11 (4) — Mauricio V. Genta, CC BY-SA 4.0
Tunisia-3901 - Chott el Jerid (8032314619) — Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0
Géiseres del Tatio, Atacama, Chile, 2016-02-01, DD 51-53 HDR — Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
Hiking in the Fish River Canyon - panoramio — Roelf, CC BY-SA 3.0
Pamukkale Hierapolis Travertine pools — Pvasiliadis, CC BY-SA 3.0
Above Moroccan Dunes — Patricia Ilizaliturri, CC BY-SA 4.0
Roussanou Monastery, Meteora — Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0
Madeira-Levada do Risco (path PR6.1)-Casa do Rabacal-hiking trail-02ASD — Asurnipal, CC BY-SA 4.0
Kruger National Park (ZA), Elefant -- 2024 -- 0649 — Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0
Iguazu Falls - Devil's Throat — P. Hughes, CC BY 4.0
Chefchaouen, Morocco (Unsplash) — Azer Koçulu azer, CC0
Palacio Nacional da Pena, Sintra, Portugal, 2019-05-25, DD 84 — Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
Village of Gordes — Einaz80, CC BY-SA 4.0
Hot air balloon over Cappadocia, Turkey — MusikAnimal, CC BY-SA 4.0
Panoramic view of Como Lake (Lago di Como) and Bellagio town, seen from the mountain Monte Grona - Plesio (Como) 2015-10-25 — Mænsard vokser, CC BY-SA 4.0
Soko Banja Vodopad Ripaljka III СП310 — Ivana OK, CC BY-SA 4.0
Stonehenge at winter solstice sunrise, December 2018 — Moonraker, CC BY-SA 3.0

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