Climate averages 1991–2020
Tours weather
in April.
A mild, 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 mild month in Tours: daytime highs average 15.5°C and nights cool to about 6.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 55 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 35 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Le Mans (77 km away). In April its highs average 15.0°C, 0.6°C cooler than Tours, with 54 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Tours ranks 18th of 57 for the warmest April highs and joint 21st of 57 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 57 cities is 15.4°C; Tours is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.6°C to 19.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 55 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
Tours climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.9°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 62 | 11.2 | 8.99 h |
| February | 9.1°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 52 | 9.8 | 10.210 h |
| March | 12.6°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 52 | 10.4 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 15.5°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 55 | 10.3 | 13.614 h |
| May | 19.1°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 66 | 11.2 | 15.115 h |
| June | 22.6°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 47 | 8.6 | 15.916 h |
| July | 24.9°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 44 | 7.6 | 15.516 h |
| August | 25.2°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 48 | 7.6 | 14.314 h |
| September | 21.6°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 49 | 7.5 | 12.613 h |
| October | 17.0°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 68 | 10.9 | 10.911 h |
| November | 11.6°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 65 | 11.6 | 9.49 h |
| December | 8.4°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 71 | 11.8 | 8.59 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 Mans in AprilFrance · 77 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 6.1°C · 54 mm rain
- Poitiers in AprilFrance · 94 kmHigh 15.3°C · Low 6.4°C · 62 mm rain
- Angers in AprilFrance · 95 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 6.6°C · 54 mm rain
- Orléans, France in AprilFrance · 106 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 6.1°C · 51 mm rain
- Nantes in AprilFrance · 171 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 7.1°C · 57 mm rain
- Limoges in AprilFrance · 178 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 6.0°C · 96 mm rain
- Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in AprilFrance · 182 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 5.2°C · 52 mm rain
- Versailles in AprilFrance · 189 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 5.6°C · 50 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 Tours) is explained once on the Tours year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.