The sun-drenched Cape Verde islands have a subtropical dry climate. April is similar to the month of March. There is a pleasant average daytime maximum of 25.5 degrees Celsius and the chance of rain is minimal. April is also the sunniest month of the year; the average number of sunshine hours per day is listed month by month in the climate table. This means that you can enjoy good weather in April on the Cape Verde islands. The Cape Verde islands consist of nine inhabited islands, namely Sal, Boa Vista, São Nicolau, São Vicente, Santo Antão, Santiago, Maio, Fogo and Brava.

What kind of weather can you expect in Cape Verde in April? Below you will find the averages of the most important meteorological variables. These are the average daytime maximum, the sea temperature and the days of rain, as the climate table gives them. The weather data for the month of April is based on historical weather data and does not provide an actual weather forecast for Cape Verde.

In short

  • Temperatures 25.5°C
  • Calmer winds
  • Dry and sunny weather
  • Sea temperature 22.5°C
  • Great month for swimming and beach days

Temperature in April

At 25.5 degrees Celsius by day, April is a comfortable month. Temperatures edge up towards summer without ever becoming oppressive.

Maximum temperature in April - Cape Verde

Maximum temperature — day by day within the month

Rain in April

April stands at 0 days of rain in the climate table. Rain in this month is an exception, not an expectation.

Rain in April - Cape Verde

Rainfall — day by day within the month

Wind in April

The trade wind is still noticeable in April, but clearly calmer than in the winter months. The hot, dry harmattan from the Sahara also blows at times. The climate table carries no wind values.

The weather in Cape Verde in other months

Data accounting

Every figure on this page comes from the climate table on Cape Verde climate and weather: measuring station Sal, Amílcar Cabral airport (Espargos), reference period the 1991–2020 climate normal. A day of rain is a day with at least 1 millimetre of rainfall. Those values hold for Sal and for the flat eastern islands. The other islands have no measuring series of their own, so we give no figures island by island. On the mountainous islands such as Santo Antão and Fogo it is cooler and wetter at altitude.

The graph above shows something different from the table: how the month runs day by day, taken from the historical daily reports of weather station 85940 over 2012 to 2018. That series is not a climate normal and is not the source of any figure in the text; it is there to show whether a month runs flat or erratic.