Climate averages 1991–2020

Red Deer weather
in April.

A cool, fairly dry month: the 6th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 9.4°C Daytime mean, April
Average low -2.0°C Night-time mean, April
Rainfall 33 mm 7 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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April is a cool month in Red Deer: daytime highs average 9.4°C and nights cool to about -2.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 33 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 53 min on an average April day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Airdrie (109 km away). In April its highs average 9.5°C, about as warm as Red Deer, with 39 mm of rain.

Among the 86 cities listed in Canada, Red Deer ranks joint 69th of 86 for the warmest April highs and 5th of 86 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 86 cities is 10.3°C; Red Deer is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.

From April to May, average highs rise by 6.1°C to 15.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 33 mm to 63 mm.

The annual picture

April in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -20-15-10-50510152025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm
Average monthly precipitation totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Red Deer climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Red Deer, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowPrecipitation mm/monthWet days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January -5.6°C-15.3°C-15.3°C174.98.38 h
February -2.6°C-13.5°C-13.5°C113.39.910 h
March 2.3°C-8.6°C-8.6°C205.811.812 h
April, selected 9.4°C-2.0°C-2.0°C337.213.914 h
May 15.5°C4.1°C4.1°C6310.315.716 h
June 19.1°C9.1°C9.1°C9114.116.717 h
July 22.0°C11.9°C11.9°C8312.916.316 h
August 21.4°C11.2°C11.2°C679.914.715 h
September 16.6°C6.3°C6.3°C418.012.713 h
October 9.1°C-0.5°C-0.5°C245.810.711 h
November 0.4°C-8.2°C-8.2°C215.38.89 h
December -5.1°C-14.2°C-14.2°C154.67.88 h

Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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

Distance from Red Deer

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Red Deer) is explained once on the Red Deer year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.