Climate averages 1991–2020
Nîmes weather
in April.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a mild month in Nîmes: daytime highs average 18.5°C and nights cool to about 8.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 64 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 24 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Avignon (38 km away). In April its highs average 18.8°C, about as warm as Nîmes, with 66 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Nîmes ranks 2nd of 57 for the warmest April highs and 38th of 57 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 57 cities is 15.4°C; Nîmes is 3.2°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 4.2°C to 22.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 64 mm to 52 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
Nîmes climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10.4°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 63 | 7.6 | 9.39 h |
| February | 11.8°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 38 | 5.4 | 10.410 h |
| March | 15.6°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 46 | 6.0 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 18.5°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 64 | 8.4 | 13.413 h |
| May | 22.7°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 52 | 7.3 | 14.715 h |
| June | 27.6°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 33 | 5.0 | 15.415 h |
| July | 30.8°C19.3°C | 19.3°C | 21 | 3.2 | 15.115 h |
| August | 30.4°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 34 | 4.3 | 14.014 h |
| September | 25.1°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 99 | 6.6 | 12.613 h |
| October | 19.8°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 106 | 9.4 | 11.111 h |
| November | 14.2°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 99 | 10.0 | 9.710 h |
| December | 10.9°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 56 | 8.1 | 9.09 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
- Avignon in AprilFrance · 38 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 8.2°C · 66 mm rain
- Montpellier in AprilFrance · 46 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 8.9°C · 60 mm rain
- Aix-en-Provence in AprilFrance · 94 kmHigh 17.7°C · Low 7.5°C · 68 mm rain
- Marseille 15 in AprilFrance · 95 kmHigh 17.6°C · Low 8.3°C · 58 mm rain
- Marseille in AprilFrance · 102 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 10.0°C · 61 mm rain
- Béziers in AprilFrance · 107 kmHigh 16.5°C · Low 8.6°C · 65 mm rain
- Toulon in AprilFrance · 149 kmHigh 16.9°C · Low 10.1°C · 58 mm rain
- Perpignan in AprilFrance · 173 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 8.9°C · 62 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 Nîmes) is explained once on the Nîmes year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.