Climate averages 1991–2020
Sarajevo weather
in April.
A cool, wet month: the 7th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Sarajevo: daytime highs average 14.9°C and nights cool to about 5.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 109 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes April a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 24 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ilidža (4 km away). In April its highs average 14.7°C, about as warm as Sarajevo, with 109 mm of rain.
Among the 7 cities listed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo ranks 6th of 7 for the warmest April highs and joint 4th of 7 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 7 cities is 16.2°C; Sarajevo is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 4.6°C to 19.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 109 mm to 110 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
Sarajevo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.5°C-3.3°C | -3.3°C | 83 | 11.9 | 9.39 h |
| February | 5.7°C-2.8°C | -2.8°C | 92 | 11.8 | 10.410 h |
| March | 9.8°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 93 | 12.9 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 14.9°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 109 | 15.3 | 13.413 h |
| May | 19.5°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 110 | 16.0 | 14.715 h |
| June | 23.2°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 94 | 13.7 | 15.415 h |
| July | 25.5°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 84 | 12.5 | 15.115 h |
| August | 26.1°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 69 | 11.2 | 14.014 h |
| September | 21.1°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 91 | 11.5 | 12.613 h |
| October | 16.5°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 95 | 10.3 | 11.111 h |
| November | 10.9°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 104 | 11.8 | 9.710 h |
| December | 5.5°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 110 | 12.6 | 9.09 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
- Ilidža in AprilBosnia and Herzegovina · 4 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 5.3°C · 109 mm rain
- Zenica in AprilBosnia and Herzegovina · 53 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 5.9°C · 106 mm rain
- Mostar in AprilBosnia and Herzegovina · 71 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 6.7°C · 147 mm rain
- Tuzla in AprilBosnia and Herzegovina · 81 kmHigh 16.8°C · Low 5.6°C · 96 mm rain
- Banja Luka in AprilBosnia and Herzegovina · 138 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 5.5°C · 92 mm rain
- Split in AprilCroatia · 159 kmHigh 17.2°C · Low 9.5°C · 99 mm rain
- Čačak in AprilSerbia · 160 kmHigh 16.9°C · Low 5.5°C · 70 mm rain
- Podgorica in AprilMontenegro · 173 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 8.8°C · 158 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 Sarajevo) is explained once on the Sarajevo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Ilidža lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.