Climate averages 1991–2020
Liège weather
in April.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Liège: daytime highs average 14.2°C and nights cool to about 5.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 52 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 46 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Maastricht (25 km away). In April its highs average 14.2°C, about as warm as Liège, with 54 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Belgium, Liège ranks joint 10th of 18 for the warmest April highs and 16th of 18 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 18 cities is 14.2°C; Liège is level with that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.6°C to 17.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 52 mm to 63 mm.
The annual picture
April in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Liège climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.6°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 70 | 13.0 | 8.59 h |
| February | 6.7°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 64 | 12.1 | 10.010 h |
| March | 10.3°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 64 | 13.2 | 11.812 h |
| April, selected | 14.2°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 52 | 11.2 | 13.814 h |
| May | 17.8°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 63 | 12.7 | 15.515 h |
| June | 20.7°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 74 | 12.7 | 16.416 h |
| July | 22.7°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 78 | 12.9 | 16.016 h |
| August | 22.6°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 79 | 12.3 | 14.515 h |
| September | 19.0°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 62 | 10.8 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.6°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 63 | 11.8 | 10.811 h |
| November | 9.6°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 67 | 12.6 | 9.09 h |
| December | 6.3°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 82 | 14.0 | 8.18 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
April in nearby cities
- Maastricht in AprilThe Netherlands · 25 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 5.3°C · 54 mm rain
- Hasselt in AprilBelgium · 37 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 5.4°C · 48 mm rain
- Aachen in AprilGermany · 40 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 4.9°C · 55 mm rain
- Heerlen in AprilThe Netherlands · 40 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 5.1°C · 44 mm rain
- Namur in AprilBelgium · 53 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 5.3°C · 53 mm rain
- Leuven in AprilBelgium · 67 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 5.3°C · 46 mm rain
- Düren in AprilGermany · 68 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 4.9°C · 50 mm rain
- Charleroi in AprilBelgium · 83 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 5.1°C · 53 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Liège) is explained once on the Liège year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.