Climate averages 1991–2020
Mulhouse weather
in April.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Mulhouse: daytime highs average 14.7°C and nights cool to about 5.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 68 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 36 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Basel (28 km away). In April its highs average 15.0°C, about as warm as Mulhouse, with 90 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Mulhouse ranks joint 39th of 57 for the warmest April highs and joint 44th of 57 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 57 cities is 15.4°C; Mulhouse is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.8°C to 18.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 68 mm to 93 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
Mulhouse climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.0°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 75 | 12.5 | 8.99 h |
| February | 6.5°C-1.0°C | -1.0°C | 66 | 10.7 | 10.210 h |
| March | 10.7°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 71 | 12.0 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 14.7°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 68 | 11.8 | 13.614 h |
| May | 18.4°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 93 | 14.0 | 15.115 h |
| June | 22.1°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 80 | 13.2 | 15.916 h |
| July | 24.2°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 81 | 12.9 | 15.616 h |
| August | 24.3°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 80 | 12.0 | 14.314 h |
| September | 19.7°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 74 | 10.9 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.9°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 83 | 12.1 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.0°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 81 | 11.8 | 9.39 h |
| December | 5.4°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 92 | 13.2 | 8.58 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
- Basel in AprilSwitzerland · 28 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 4.6°C · 90 mm rain
- Freiburg in AprilGermany · 48 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 5.6°C · 74 mm rain
- Bern in AprilSwitzerland · 90 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 2.7°C · 90 mm rain
- Villingen-Schwenningen in AprilGermany · 93 kmHigh 12.0°C · Low 2.8°C · 87 mm rain
- Strasbourg in AprilFrance · 98 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 5.3°C · 60 mm rain
- Zürich in AprilSwitzerland · 101 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 4.2°C · 106 mm rain
- Luzern in AprilSwitzerland · 107 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 3.9°C · 135 mm rain
- Winterthur in AprilSwitzerland · 108 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 4.0°C · 85 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 Mulhouse) is explained once on the Mulhouse year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.