Climate averages 1991–2020
Saint-Étienne weather
in April.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Saint-Étienne: daytime highs average 14.3°C and nights cool to about 4.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 86 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 29 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lyon (50 km away). In April its highs average 16.3°C, 2.1°C warmer than Saint-Étienne, with 81 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Saint-Étienne ranks joint 47th of 57 for the warmest April highs and 53rd of 57 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 57 cities is 15.4°C; Saint-Étienne is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.9°C to 18.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 86 mm to 98 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
Saint-Étienne climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.3°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 63 | 12.2 | 9.19 h |
| February | 7.4°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 49 | 10.0 | 10.410 h |
| March | 11.1°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 55 | 11.3 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 14.3°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 86 | 12.5 | 13.513 h |
| May | 18.1°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 98 | 13.5 | 14.915 h |
| June | 22.2°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 89 | 12.4 | 15.616 h |
| July | 24.6°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 83 | 10.4 | 15.315 h |
| August | 24.7°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 77 | 9.7 | 14.114 h |
| September | 20.2°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 90 | 9.5 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.8°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 95 | 11.5 | 11.011 h |
| November | 10.1°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 94 | 12.3 | 9.610 h |
| December | 7.0°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 64 | 11.4 | 8.89 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
- Lyon in AprilFrance · 50 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 6.3°C · 81 mm rain
- Villeurbanne in AprilFrance · 53 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 6.3°C · 81 mm rain
- Grenoble in AprilFrance · 107 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 6.2°C · 120 mm rain
- Clermont-Ferrand in AprilFrance · 108 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 4.7°C · 83 mm rain
- Geneva in AprilSwitzerland · 161 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 5.4°C · 109 mm rain
- Avignon in AprilFrance · 168 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 8.2°C · 66 mm rain
- Nîmes in AprilFrance · 178 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 8.4°C · 64 mm rain
- Montpellier in AprilFrance · 207 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 8.9°C · 60 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 Saint-Étienne) is explained once on the Saint-Étienne year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.