Where Is It Warm in April?

What is left is the belt that does not care about seasons. Southeast Asia stays in the mid-eighties, the equatorial Indian Ocean is at its warmest for swimming, and the Caribbean and Mexico hold through to the start of their wet season. Marrakech crosses into the range in April and is one of the few short-haul options from Europe that genuinely qualifies.

Egypt and Jordan are the standouts for dry heat. Hurghada, Marsa Alam and Wadi Rum record essentially no rain in April while sitting comfortably inside the range — a combination almost nowhere else offers this month.

April is the month the Mediterranean's numbers become properly misleading. Santorini reaches 63 °F in the air and 63 °F in the water: pleasant to walk, cold to swim. Cancún at the same time is 83 °F air and 81 °F sea on 34 mm of rain.

It is also when Southeast Asia's rain starts arriving ahead of its reputation. Phuket is still 86 °F with an 86 °F sea, the warmest water on this page, but rainfall has climbed to 161 mm — a fivefold jump from March.

April moves with Easter, which is the complication. The week either side of it behaves like peak season wherever Europeans travel, and the rest of the month is quiet. If you are tied to the school break, book early rather than hoping — April is the year's narrowest month for warm options, so the competition for the good ones is unusually concentrated.

Three things move a fare more than the destination does. Book six to eight weeks ahead for short-haul and two to three months for long-haul or peak season — later than that and you are usually paying for someone else's cancellation. Fly midweek: leisure demand clusters on Friday evenings and Sunday returns, and a Tuesday departure is routinely cheaper for the same trip. And shift your dates before you shop for airlines — a day or two either side of a holiday weekend saves more than any loyalty programme. The low fare calendar shows which days are actually cheapest on our busiest routes.

Every temperature on this page is the average daily high for that destination in that month, measured rather than estimated. The sea and rainfall filters come from the same source. Drag either end of the range to change what counts as warm — the list re-sorts instantly, warmest first.