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Oaxaca in April

sweet spot · the best month to go · the warmest month of the year, the sunniest month of the year

The year in Oaxaca

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  1. Oaxaca in January: good, busy
  2. Oaxaca in February: good, busy
  3. Oaxaca in March: sweet spot
  4. Oaxaca in April: sweet spot
  5. Oaxaca in May: sweet spot
  6. Oaxaca in June: good
  7. Oaxaca in July: good
  8. Oaxaca in August: ok
  9. Oaxaca in September: ok
  10. Oaxaca in October: ok, busy
  11. Oaxaca in November: good, busy
  12. Oaxaca in December: good, busy
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
April at Oaxaca is 31°C by day and 15°C at night, with 1 rainy day and about 12 hours of sun a day. 31C max, 1 rainy day.

The numbers

Daily high31°C
Nightly low15°C
Feels like, afternoon30°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more1 · 16 mm
Humidity50%
Sunshine12.0 h/day
Daylight12.5 h/day
Days over 35°C0
Crowds100 / 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 Zócalo, the historic centre, 7 km from the airport (OAX): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

April: quiet. Busiest in February, October, November and December; quietest in April, May, July, August and September.

Oaxaca in pictures

What to pack

  • Summer clothes by day, highs around 31°C.
  • A layer for the evening: 31°C by day, 15°C at night.
  • Sun protection: about 12 hours of sunshine a day.

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

Before you go

Type A and B plugs at 127 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Peso. UK Foreign Office: avoid all but essential travel to parts. Everything for Mexico: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

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

April elsewhere

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