Climate averages 1991–2020

Cottbus weather
in April.

A cool, fairly dry month: the 6th warmest and the driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 14.3°C Daytime mean, April
Average low 5.0°C Night-time mean, April
Rainfall 37 mm 9 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Cottbus · average highYear overview

April is a cool month in Cottbus: daytime highs average 14.3°C and nights cool to about 5.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 37 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 51 min on an average April day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Zielona Góra (83 km away). In April its highs average 13.8°C, about as warm as Cottbus, with 35 mm of rain.

Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Cottbus ranks joint 35th of 120 for the warmest April highs and joint 3rd of 120 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 120 cities is 14.0°C; Cottbus is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.

From April to May, average highs rise by 4.6°C to 18.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 37 mm to 53 mm.

The annual picture

April in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -5051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Cottbus climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Cottbus, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 2.9°C-1.6°C-1.6°C5011.78.48 h
February 4.6°C-1.2°C-1.2°C389.49.910 h
March 8.5°C1.2°C1.2°C4811.311.812 h
April, selected 14.3°C5.0°C5.0°C378.813.814 h
May 18.9°C9.8°C9.8°C5310.715.616 h
June 22.1°C13.4°C13.4°C5910.716.617 h
July 24.0°C15.5°C15.5°C8111.716.216 h
August 23.9°C15.5°C15.5°C6210.414.615 h
September 19.1°C11.7°C11.7°C529.712.713 h
October 13.5°C7.5°C7.5°C459.510.711 h
November 7.6°C3.1°C3.1°C469.78.99 h
December 3.9°C-0.1°C-0.1°C4811.37.98 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

Distance from Cottbus

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Cottbus) is explained once on the Cottbus year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.