Weekly note

Digha in April

ok · worth considering · the warmest month of the year, the sunniest month of the year

The year in Digha

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  1. Digha in January: sweet spot
  2. Digha in February: sweet spot
  3. Digha in March: good, busy
  4. Digha in April: ok
  5. Digha in May: ok, busy
  6. Digha in June: ok, busy
  7. Digha in July: avoid
  8. Digha in August: avoid
  9. Digha in September: avoid
  10. Digha in October: good
  11. Digha in November: sweet spot
  12. Digha in December: good, busy
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  • Busy
April at Digha is 33°C by day and 26°C at night, with 2 rainy days and about 11 hours of sun a day. 33C max, 2 rainy days.

The numbers

Daily high33°C
Nightly low26°C
Feels like, afternoon38°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more2 · 38 mm
Humidity78%
Sunshine11.2 h/day
Daylight12.7 h/day
Days over 35°C5
Beach and sea23 of 30 days dry and 23–35 °C; sea 29 °C, warm good
Crowds80 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at the beach (New Digha): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

April: quieter than usual. Busiest in May, June, July and December; quietest in February, September, October and November.

Public holidays in April

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Digha in pictures

What to pack

  • Light, loose clothes: daily highs average 33°C.
  • Sun protection: about 11 hours of sunshine a day.
  • Humidity averages 78%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type C and D plugs at 230 V. Drives on the left. The currency is the Indian rupee. UK Foreign Office: avoid all travel to parts. Everything for India: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Digha: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

April elsewhere

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