Macau in April

Warm and humid; Easter and Ching Ming long weekends fill up.

April is rated good. These months rate higher:

• NovemberGreatDry and clear, 18–25 °C: the best month, except Grand Prix week when rates rise and roads close.
• DecemberGreatCool, clear and sunny; Christmas lights; weekends busy with Hong Kong visitors.

• Macau (Peninsula, Taipa, Cotai, Coloane) · The whole SARfine

  Subtropical monsoon. Oct–Dec is dry, clear and 18–26 °C (64–79 °F); Jan–Feb cool and grey (can drop to 8–10 °C (46–50 °F) with no indoor heating in older buildings). Mar–Apr brings fog and drizzle that can delay ferries. May–Sep is 28–33 °C (82–91 °F) with 80%+ humidity, heavy showers and the typhoon peak Jul–Sep.Subtropical monsoon. Oct–Dec is dry, clear and 64–79 °F (18–26 °C); Jan–Feb cool and grey (can drop to 46–50 °F (8–10 °C) with no indoor heating in older buildings). Mar–Apr brings fog and drizzle that can delay ferries. May–Sep is 82–91 °F (28–33 °C) with 80%+ humidity, heavy showers and the typhoon peak Jul–Sep.

• Pearl River Delta neighbours · Hong Kong, Zhuhai, Hengqin, Shenzhenfine

  Same weather system: a typhoon that stops Macau ferries also stops the bridge buses and Hong Kong's harbour. Winter haze from the mainland is possible Dec–Feb.

• Macau Peninsula25 °C (77 °F) / 21 °C (70 °F), 11 rain days77 °F (25 °C) / 70 °F (21 °C), 11 rain days

Dates as our data lists them. Moving holidays (lunar and Islamic calendars, Easter) shift every year: check the date for your year before you build a trip on it.

• Ching Ming

  5 Apr 2027 (check)

  Grave-sweeping; cemeteries busy, border traffic heavy.

• A-Ma Festival

  Apr–May (23rd day of the 3rd lunar month — check)

  Crowds and Chinese opera at A-Ma Temple.

• Procession of the Passion of Our Lord check

  Lent (check) · Macau Peninsula

  A religious procession with street closures.

Crowds · Macau

Medium

Prices · Macau

Medium

Weather, crowds and prices for any two months in Macau, side by side.

Nothing unusual for the weather this month.

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Rated best or good this month

• Macau Peninsula

  Warm and humid; good month.