Climate averages 1991–2020
Varna weather
in April.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 7th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Varna: daytime highs average 14.6°C and nights cool to about 7.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 39 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 23 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Shumen (80 km away). In April its highs average 15.9°C, 1.3°C warmer than Varna, with 52 mm of rain.
Among the 10 cities listed in Bulgaria, Varna ranks 9th of 10 for the warmest April highs and 1st of 10 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 10 cities is 16.2°C; Varna is 1.6°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 5.4°C to 19.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 39 mm to 44 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
Varna climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.5°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 46 | 7.0 | 9.49 h |
| February | 7.0°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 38 | 6.3 | 10.510 h |
| March | 10.2°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 47 | 8.4 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 14.6°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 39 | 8.3 | 13.413 h |
| May | 19.9°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 44 | 9.3 | 14.615 h |
| June | 24.5°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 49 | 8.9 | 15.315 h |
| July | 27.1°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 40 | 7.0 | 15.015 h |
| August | 27.3°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 33 | 5.8 | 14.014 h |
| September | 22.6°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 48 | 5.9 | 12.513 h |
| October | 17.2°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 56 | 7.5 | 11.111 h |
| November | 11.9°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 49 | 7.0 | 9.810 h |
| December | 7.0°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 50 | 8.1 | 9.19 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
- Shumen in AprilBulgaria · 80 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 5.3°C · 52 mm rain
- Burgas in AprilBulgaria · 87 kmHigh 16.0°C · Low 7.0°C · 45 mm rain
- Constanţa in AprilRomania · 122 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 6.9°C · 33 mm rain
- Sliven in AprilBulgaria · 142 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 6.6°C · 75 mm rain
- Ruse in AprilBulgaria · 173 kmHigh 17.6°C · Low 7.4°C · 55 mm rain
- Bucharest in AprilRomania · 198 kmHigh 17.3°C · Low 6.3°C · 57 mm rain
- Edirne in AprilTurkey · 204 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 6.7°C · 42 mm rain
- Stara Zagora in AprilBulgaria · 205 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 6.3°C · 60 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 Varna) is explained once on the Varna year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.