April Weather at Canyonlands Field Utah, United StatesDaily high temperatures increase by 9°F, from 63°F to 72°F, rarely falling below 51°F or exceeding 83°F. Daily low temperatures increase by 8°F, from 38°F to 46°F, rarely falling below 29°F or exceeding 56°F. For reference, on July 13, the hottest day of the year, temperatures at Canyonlands Field typically range from 68°F to 95°F, while on January 4, the coldest day of the year, they range from 18°F to 37°F. Average High and Low Temperature in April at Canyonlands Field
The daily average high (red line) and low (blue line) temperature, with 25th to 75th and 10th to 90th percentile bands. The thin dotted lines are the corresponding average perceived temperatures.
The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average temperatures for the quarter of the year centered on April. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day. Average Hourly Temperature in April at Canyonlands Field
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The average hourly temperature, color coded into bands. The shaded overlays indicate night and civil twilight.
Hayanist, Armenia (6,754 miles away) is the far-away foreign place with temperatures most similar to Canyonlands Field (view comparison). CloudsThe month of April at Canyonlands Field experiences gradually decreasing cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy decreasing from 41% to 36%. The clearest day of the month is April 28, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 64% of the time. For reference, on March 3, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 46%, while on September 19, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 81%. Cloud Cover Categories in April at Canyonlands Field
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The percentage of time spent in each cloud cover band, categorized by the percentage of the sky covered by clouds.
Compare Canyonlands Field to:PrecipitationA wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. At Canyonlands Field, the chance of a wet day over the course of April is essentially constant, remaining around 11% throughout. For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 18% on July 31, and its lowest chance is 5% on June 12. Probability of Precipitation in April at Canyonlands Field
The percentage of days in which various types of precipitation are observed, excluding trace quantities: rain alone, snow alone, and mixed (both rain and snow fell in the same day).
RainfallTo show variation within the month and not just the monthly total, we show the rainfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day. The average sliding 31-day rainfall during April at Canyonlands Field is essentially constant, remaining about 0.5 inches throughout, and rarely exceeding 1.2 inches. Average Monthly Rainfall in April at Canyonlands Field
The average rainfall (solid line) accumulated over the course of a sliding 31-day period centered on the day in question, with 25th to 75th and 10th to 90th percentile bands. The thin dotted line is the corresponding average snowfall.
SunOver the course of April at Canyonlands Field, the length of the day is rapidly increasing. From the start to the end of the month, the length of the day increases by 1 hour, 9 minutes, implying an average daily increase of 2 minutes, 23 seconds, and weekly increase of 16 minutes, 38 seconds. The shortest day of the month is April 1, with 12 hours, 39 minutes of daylight and the longest day is April 30, with 13 hours, 48 minutes of daylight. Hours of Daylight and Twilight in April at Canyonlands Field
The number of hours during which the Sun is visible (black line). From bottom (most yellow) to top (most gray), the color bands indicate: full daylight, twilight (civil, nautical, and astronomical), and full night.
The latest sunrise of the month at Canyonlands Field is 7:03 AM on April 1 and the earliest sunrise is 41 minutes earlier at 6:22 AM on April 30. The earliest sunset is 7:42 PM on April 1 and the latest sunset is 28 minutes later at 8:10 PM on April 30. Daylight saving time is observed at Canyonlands Field during 2026, but it neither starts nor ends during April, so the entire month is in daylight saving time. For reference, on June 21, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 5:54 AM and sets 14 hours, 53 minutes later, at 8:47 PM, while on December 21, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 7:33 AM and sets 9 hours, 27 minutes later, at 5:00 PM. Sunrise & Sunset with Twilight and Daylight Saving Time in April at Canyonlands Field
The solar day over the course of April. From bottom to top, the black lines are the previous solar midnight, sunrise, solar noon, sunset, and the next solar midnight. The day, twilights (civil, nautical, and astronomical), and night are indicated by the color bands from yellow to gray.
The figure below presents a compact representation of the sun's elevation (the angle of the sun above the horizon) and azimuth (its compass bearing) for every hour of every day in the reporting period. The horizontal axis is the day of the year and the vertical axis is the hour of the day. For a given day and hour of that day, the background color indicates the azimuth of the sun at that moment. The black isolines are contours of constant solar elevation. Solar Elevation and Azimuth in April at Canyonlands Field
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Solar elevation and azimuth over the course of April 2026. The black lines are lines of constant solar elevation (the angle of the sun above the horizon, in degrees). The background color fills indicate the azimuth (the compass bearing) of the sun. The lightly tinted areas at the boundaries of the cardinal compass points indicate the implied intermediate directions (northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest).
MoonThe figure below presents a compact representation of key lunar data for April 2026. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the colored areas indicate when the moon is above the horizon. The vertical gray bars (new Moons) and blue bars (full Moons) indicate key Moon phases. The label associated with each bar indicates the date and time that the phase is obtained, and the companion time labels indicate the rise and set times of the Moon for the nearest time interval in which the moon is above the horizon. Moon Rise, Set & Phases in April at Canyonlands Field
The time in which the moon is above the horizon (light blue area), with new moons (dark gray lines) and full moons (blue lines) indicated. The shaded overlays indicate night and civil twilight.
HumidityWe base the humidity comfort level on the dew point, as it determines whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid. Unlike temperature, which typically varies significantly between night and day, dew point tends to change more slowly, so while the temperature may drop at night, a muggy day is typically followed by a muggy night. The chance that a given day will be muggy at Canyonlands Field is essentially constant during April, remaining around 0% throughout. For reference, on July 31, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 0% of the time, while on January 1, the least muggy day of the year, there are muggy conditions 0% of the time. WindThis section discusses the wide-area hourly average wind vector (speed and direction) at 10 meters above the ground. The wind experienced at any given location is highly dependent on local topography and other factors, and instantaneous wind speed and direction vary more widely than hourly averages. The average hourly wind speed at Canyonlands Field is essentially constant during April, remaining within 0.1 miles per hour of 8.6 miles per hour throughout. For reference, on April 11, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 8.7 miles per hour, while on January 10, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 5.9 miles per hour. The highest daily average wind speed during April is 8.7 miles per hour on April 11. The wind direction at Canyonlands Field during April is predominantly out of the south from April 1 to April 27 and the west from April 27 to April 30. Wind Direction in April at Canyonlands Field
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The percentage of hours in which the mean wind direction is from each of the four cardinal wind directions, excluding hours in which the mean wind speed is less than 1.0 mph. The lightly tinted areas at the boundaries are the percentage of hours spent in the implied intermediate directions (northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest).
Growing SeasonDefinitions of the growing season vary throughout the world, but for the purposes of this report, we define it as the longest continuous period of non-freezing temperatures (≥ 32°F) in the year (the calendar year in the Northern Hemisphere, or from July 1 until June 30 in the Southern Hemisphere). The growing season at Canyonlands Field typically lasts for 6.3 months (194 days), from around April 14 to around October 25, rarely starting before March 24 or after May 4, and rarely ending before October 7 or after November 11. During April at Canyonlands Field, the chance that a given day is within the growing season is very rapidly increasing rising from 21% to 84% over the course of the month. Time Spent in Various Temperature Bands and the Growing Season in April at Canyonlands Field
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The percentage of time spent in various temperature bands. The black line is the percentage chance that a given day is within the growing season.
Growing degree days are a measure of yearly heat accumulation used to predict plant and animal development, and defined as the integral of warmth above a base temperature, discarding any excess above a maximum temperature. In this report, we use a base of 50°F and a cap of 86°F. The average accumulated growing degree days at Canyonlands Field are increasing during April, increasing by 208°F, from 109°F to 316°F, over the course of the month. Solar EnergyThis section discusses the total daily incident shortwave solar energy reaching the surface of the ground over a wide area, taking full account of seasonal variations in the length of the day, the elevation of the Sun above the horizon, and absorption by clouds and other atmospheric constituents. Shortwave radiation includes visible light and ultraviolet radiation. The average daily incident shortwave solar energy at Canyonlands Field is increasing during April, rising by 1.1 kWh, from 6.0 kWh to 7.2 kWh, over the course of the month. TopographyFor the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Canyonlands Field are 38.759 deg latitude, -109.747 deg longitude, and 4,551 ft elevation. The topography within 2 miles of Canyonlands Field contains only modest variations in elevation, with a maximum elevation change of 351 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 4,592 feet. Within 10 miles contains only modest variations in elevation (1,729 feet). Within 50 miles contains very significant variations in elevation (8,944 feet). The area within 2 miles of Canyonlands Field is covered by shrubs (98%), within 10 miles by shrubs (94%), and within 50 miles by shrubs (82%). Data SourcesThis report illustrates the typical weather at Canyonlands Field, based on a statistical analysis of historical hourly weather reports and model reconstructions from January 1, 1980 to December 31, 2016. Temperature and Dew PointCanyonlands Field has a weather station that reported reliably enough during the analysis period that we have included it in our network. When available, historical temperature and dew point measurements are taken directly from this weather station. These records are obtained from NOAA's Integrated Surface Hourly data set, falling back on ICAO METAR records as required. In the case of missing or erroneous measurements from this station, we fall back on records from nearby stations, adjusted according to typical seasonal and diurnal intra-station differences. For a given day of the year and hour of the day, the fallback station is selected to minimize the prediction error over the years for which there are measurements for both stations. The stations on which we may fall back are Grand Junction Regional Airport, Carbon County Airport, Cortez-Montezuma County Airport, and Montrose Regional Airport. Other DataAll data relating to the Sun's position (e.g., sunrise and sunset) are computed using astronomical formulas from the book, Astronomical Algorithms 2nd Edition , by Jean Meeus. All other weather data, including cloud cover, precipitation, wind speed and direction, and solar flux, come from NASA's MERRA-2 Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis . This reanalysis combines a variety of wide-area measurements in a state-of-the-art global meteorological model to reconstruct the hourly history of weather throughout the world on a 50-kilometer grid. Land Use data comes from the Global Land Cover SHARE database , published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Elevation data comes from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) , published by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Names, locations, and time zones of places and some airports come from the GeoNames Geographical Database . Time zones for airports and weather stations are provided by AskGeo.com . 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