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Typical April weather

Philadelphia

Pennsylvania · April

Bright, breezy, and colder in the shade than expected.

65° days
44° nights

about 6 rainy days · 13½ hours of daylight

What to pack

What April feels like

April here cannot be trusted — a warm Saturday brings everyone out onto the Art Museum steps, and the next weekend it is back to raincoats. The cherry trees along Kelly Drive in Fairmount Park bloom mid-month, the local version of the Washington spectacle without the crowd.

Expect about 6 days with real rain — enough to notice, not enough to plan around. The air runs dry — whatever the thermometer says, it wears easy.

The numbers

Typical high65°
Typical low44°
Days with real rain6
Total rain3.5 in
Humiditydry air
Sunrise / sunset (mid-month)6:22 am / 7:38 pm

How April compares

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