Climate averages 1991–2020
Jyväskylä weather
in April.
A cold, fairly dry month: the joint 6th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cold month in Jyväskylä: daytime highs average 6.0°C and nights cool to about -1.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 35 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 46 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kuopio (124 km away). In April its highs average 4.1°C, 1.9°C cooler than Jyväskylä, with 35 mm of rain.
Among the 13 cities listed in Finland, Jyväskylä ranks 9th of 13 for the warmest April highs and joint 7th of 13 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 13 cities is 6.3°C; Jyväskylä is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 7.5°C to 13.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 35 mm to 48 mm.
The annual picture
April in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Jyväskylä climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -4.4°C-8.7°C | -8.7°C | 38 | 10.0 | 6.26 h |
| February | -4.6°C-9.2°C | -9.2°C | 30 | 7.7 | 8.89 h |
| March | -0.3°C-6.0°C | -6.0°C | 32 | 8.6 | 11.712 h |
| April, selected | 6.0°C-1.4°C | -1.4°C | 35 | 8.9 | 14.815 h |
| May | 13.5°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 48 | 10.2 | 17.718 h |
| June | 18.0°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 74 | 12.9 | 19.720 h |
| July | 20.6°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 87 | 13.0 | 18.819 h |
| August | 18.8°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 72 | 12.3 | 16.016 h |
| September | 13.2°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 54 | 10.5 | 13.013 h |
| October | 6.0°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 56 | 10.6 | 10.010 h |
| November | 0.9°C-2.0°C | -2.0°C | 49 | 10.9 | 7.17 h |
| December | -2.2°C-6.0°C | -6.0°C | 46 | 11.4 | 5.35 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
- Kuopio in AprilFinland · 124 kmHigh 4.1°C · Low -1.7°C · 35 mm rain
- Tampere in AprilFinland · 131 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low -0.7°C · 33 mm rain
- Lahti in AprilFinland · 140 kmHigh 7.4°C · Low -0.6°C · 35 mm rain
- Kouvola in AprilFinland · 161 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low -0.9°C · 35 mm rain
- Lappeenranta in AprilFinland · 185 kmHigh 5.6°C · Low -1.2°C · 33 mm rain
- Joensuu in AprilFinland · 212 kmHigh 3.9°C · Low -2.0°C · 32 mm rain
- Vantaa in AprilFinland · 220 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low 0.0°C · 37 mm rain
- Pori in AprilFinland · 223 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low 0.6°C · 33 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 Jyväskylä) is explained once on the Jyväskylä year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.