Climate averages 1991–2020
Nancy weather
in April.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Nancy: daytime highs average 14.5°C and nights cool to about 5.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 59 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 39 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Metz (48 km away). In April its highs average 14.4°C, about as warm as Nancy, with 55 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Nancy ranks joint 42nd of 57 for the warmest April highs and joint 30th of 57 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 57 cities is 15.4°C; Nancy is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.8°C to 18.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 59 mm to 74 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
Nancy climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.3°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 71 | 12.8 | 8.89 h |
| February | 6.7°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 61 | 11.3 | 10.110 h |
| March | 10.6°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 66 | 11.9 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 14.5°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 59 | 11.1 | 13.714 h |
| May | 18.3°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 74 | 12.5 | 15.215 h |
| June | 21.8°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 67 | 11.2 | 16.116 h |
| July | 24.2°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 63 | 11.2 | 15.716 h |
| August | 24.2°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 68 | 11.5 | 14.414 h |
| September | 19.8°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 71 | 9.8 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.0°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 72 | 11.9 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.3°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 77 | 12.7 | 9.29 h |
| December | 5.9°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 87 | 14.2 | 8.48 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
- Metz in AprilFrance · 48 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 5.2°C · 55 mm rain
- Saarbrücken in AprilGermany · 86 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 5.4°C · 54 mm rain
- Luxembourg in AprilLuxembourg · 103 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 4.4°C · 52 mm rain
- Strasbourg in AprilFrance · 115 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 5.3°C · 60 mm rain
- Trier in AprilGermany · 124 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 4.8°C · 57 mm rain
- Mulhouse in AprilFrance · 134 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 5.0°C · 68 mm rain
- Kaiserslautern in AprilGermany · 143 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 5.7°C · 54 mm rain
- Freiburg in AprilGermany · 145 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 5.6°C · 74 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 Nancy) is explained once on the Nancy year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.