Climate averages 1991–2020
Vantaa weather
in April.
A cool, fairly dry month: the joint 6th warmest and one of the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Vantaa: daytime highs average 8.1°C and nights cool to about 0.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 37 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (one of the driest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 33 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Helsinki (15 km away). In April its highs average 6.9°C, 1.2°C cooler than Vantaa, with 37 mm of rain.
Among the 13 cities listed in Finland, Vantaa ranks 2nd of 13 for the warmest April highs and joint 11th of 13 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 13 cities is 6.3°C; Vantaa is 1.8°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 6.7°C to 14.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 37 mm to 44 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
Vantaa climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -2.3°C-6.7°C | -6.7°C | 48 | 10.9 | 6.77 h |
| February | -2.8°C-7.7°C | -7.7°C | 41 | 9.3 | 9.09 h |
| March | 1.2°C-5.1°C | -5.1°C | 37 | 8.5 | 11.712 h |
| April, selected | 8.1°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 37 | 8.7 | 14.615 h |
| May | 14.8°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 44 | 8.9 | 17.217 h |
| June | 19.0°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 72 | 11.7 | 18.819 h |
| July | 21.9°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 76 | 11.9 | 18.118 h |
| August | 20.3°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 76 | 12.3 | 15.716 h |
| September | 14.9°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 57 | 10.4 | 13.013 h |
| October | 8.1°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 59 | 11.1 | 10.210 h |
| November | 3.0°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 59 | 11.5 | 7.68 h |
| December | -0.2°C-4.1°C | -4.1°C | 55 | 12.2 | 6.06 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
- Helsinki in AprilFinland · 15 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low 0.3°C · 37 mm rain
- Espoo in AprilFinland · 24 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low 0.5°C · 37 mm rain
- Lahti in AprilFinland · 84 kmHigh 7.4°C · Low -0.6°C · 35 mm rain
- Tallinn in AprilEstonia · 97 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low 0.9°C · 36 mm rain
- Kouvola in AprilFinland · 111 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low -0.9°C · 35 mm rain
- Tampere in AprilFinland · 150 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low -0.7°C · 33 mm rain
- Turku in AprilFinland · 153 kmHigh 8.2°C · Low 0.1°C · 33 mm rain
- Lappeenranta in AprilFinland · 191 kmHigh 5.6°C · Low -1.2°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 Vantaa) is explained once on the Vantaa year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Helsinki lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.