Weather & wind
Essaouira in April: weather, wind and sea
In April, Essaouira averages 20 °C in the afternoon and 14 °C at night. Wind exceeds 15 knots on about 15 days, mostly from the north.
Climate normals · 1991–2020
- Temperature
- 14–20 °C
- Mean wind (daily max)
- 15 kn · N
- Days of wind > 15 kn
- 15
- Sunshine
- 8.8 h/day (1961–1990)
- Rainy days
- 3 · 17.3 mm
Source: WMO/OMM 1991–2020 (DMN, station 60220) · DWD 1961–1990 · Open-Meteo ERA5/IFS (CC BY 4.0)
Temperatures in April
In April, the mean high is 19.5 °C and the mean low 14.1 °C, a gap of 5.4 °C between afternoon and night. That is 1.1 °C below the year’s average high (20.6 °C). Nights run 1 °C cooler than the year’s average low (15.1 °C). The afternoons are warming: 19.4 °C in March, 20.6 °C in May. A light jumper is enough in the evening, more so near the water.
Wind in April
The wind passes 15 knots on about 15 days out of 30, against 12 days in an average month. March has 12 days, May 15. It blows mostly from the north, and its daily peak averages 15 knots. These figures are our own count over thirty years of modelled weather data (the ERA5 reanalysis, then the ECMWF’s IFS model from 2017), 1991 to 2020. We count April in the kitesurf and windsurf season.
Rain and sunshine in April
Expect about 3 days with 1 mm of rain or more, 17.3 mm in all. That is 6% of the year’s 299.7 mm. March gets 38.1 mm, May 9.4 mm.
The sun shines for 8.8 hours a day on average, from the station’s 1961–1990 records. That is 68% of the 13 hours or so the sun is up. The year averages 8.2 hours a day.