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Where to go in April
24 vetted destinations are at their best in April, across 19 countries. Each one is rated from ten years of daily temperature and rainfall recorded at that city's own coordinates — so this is a weather answer, not a popularity ranking, and the figure beside every place is the actual average it earns that rating on.
A rating of “ideal” means the month lands in that destination's comfortable band for both heat and rain. It says nothing about crowds or prices, which move on school holidays rather than on the weather — a city can be at its climatic best and still be at its busiest, and several here are both.
- Rome · ItalyComfortable days around 19°C, and little rain (70mm rain).
- Paris · FranceComfortable days around 16°C, and little rain (42mm rain).
- Istanbul · TürkiyeComfortable days around 16°C, and little rain (68mm rain).
- London · United KingdomComfortable days around 14°C, and little rain (35mm rain).
- New York · United StatesComfortable days around 16°C, and little rain (129mm rain).
- Vienna · AustriaComfortable days around 15°C, and little rain (53mm rain).
- Santorini · GreeceComfortable days around 19°C, and little rain (17mm rain).
- Barcelona · SpainComfortable days around 18°C, and little rain (70mm rain).
- Lisbon · PortugalComfortable days around 19°C, and little rain (74mm rain).
- Lucerne · SwitzerlandComfortable days around 14°C, and little rain (122mm rain).
- Prague · CzechiaComfortable days around 14°C, and little rain (41mm rain).
- Berlin · GermanyComfortable days around 14°C, and little rain (33mm rain).
- Kraków · PolandComfortable days around 13°C, and little rain (61mm rain).
- Ha Long Bay · VietnamComfortable days around 26°C, and little rain (93mm rain).
- Split · CroatiaComfortable days around 17°C, and little rain (113mm rain).
- Tulum · MexicoBeach weather at 30°C, and dry (38mm rain).
- Goa · IndiaBeach weather at 37°C, and dry (19mm rain).
- Rotterdam · NetherlandsComfortable days around 14°C, and little rain (49mm rain).
- Fukuoka · JapanComfortable days around 18°C, and little rain (144mm rain).
- Florence · ItalyComfortable days around 18°C, and little rain (85mm rain).
- Provence · FranceComfortable days around 16°C, and little rain (76mm rain).
- Cappadocia · TürkiyeComfortable days around 17°C, and little rain (38mm rain).
- Oxford · United KingdomComfortable days around 14°C, and little rain (40mm rain).
- Grand Canyon · United StatesComfortable days around 24°C, and little rain (9mm rain).
Where to skip in April
These are worth going to — just not now. The same ten-year record puts each of them outside its comfortable band this month, and every one has a better window on its own guide.
- Bangkok · ThailandPunishing heat, around 34°C (84mm rain).
- Delhi · IndiaPunishing heat, around 36°C (3mm rain).
- Ho Chi Minh City · VietnamPunishing heat, around 34°C (129mm rain).
- Chichén Itzá · MexicoPunishing heat, around 35°C (29mm rain).
- Jungfraujoch · SwitzerlandCold, around -7°C (115mm rain).
- Yellowstone · United StatesCold, around 2°C (63mm rain).
- Yakushima · JapanVery wet — 432mm rain across the month (14°C).
- Chiang Mai · ThailandPunishing heat, around 35°C (75mm rain).