Climate averages 1991–2020
Rouen weather
in April.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Rouen: daytime highs average 14.4°C and nights cool to about 6.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 62 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 42 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Le Havre (72 km away). In April its highs average 13.3°C, 1.1°C cooler than Rouen, with 59 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Rouen ranks joint 44th of 57 for the warmest April highs and joint 35th of 57 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 57 cities is 15.4°C; Rouen is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.2°C to 17.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 62 mm to 66 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
Rouen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.3°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 63 | 11.8 | 8.79 h |
| February | 8.3°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 56 | 11.1 | 10.110 h |
| March | 11.3°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 60 | 11.5 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 14.4°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 62 | 11.3 | 13.714 h |
| May | 17.6°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 66 | 12.0 | 15.315 h |
| June | 20.6°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 65 | 11.0 | 16.216 h |
| July | 22.7°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 59 | 10.9 | 15.816 h |
| August | 22.7°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 65 | 10.6 | 14.414 h |
| September | 19.7°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 52 | 9.4 | 12.713 h |
| October | 15.6°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 72 | 12.3 | 10.811 h |
| November | 10.7°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 69 | 12.7 | 9.29 h |
| December | 7.7°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 81 | 13.3 | 8.38 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
- Le Havre in AprilFrance · 72 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 7.0°C · 59 mm rain
- Cergy-Pontoise in AprilFrance · 84 kmHigh 14.8°C · Low 5.9°C · 51 mm rain
- Argenteuil in AprilFrance · 100 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 6.0°C · 51 mm rain
- Amiens in AprilFrance · 100 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 5.5°C · 55 mm rain
- Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in AprilFrance · 100 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 5.2°C · 52 mm rain
- Versailles in AprilFrance · 104 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 5.6°C · 50 mm rain
- Boulogne-Billancourt in AprilFrance · 107 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 6.3°C · 50 mm rain
- Caen in AprilFrance · 110 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 6.2°C · 56 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 Rouen) is explained once on the Rouen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.