Climate averages 1991–2020
Dorsten weather
in April.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Dorsten: daytime highs average 14.2°C and nights cool to about 5.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 50 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 50 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Marl (9 km away). In April its highs average 14.1°C, about as warm as Dorsten, with 50 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Dorsten ranks joint 46th of 120 for the warmest April highs and joint 57th of 120 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 120 cities is 14.0°C; Dorsten is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.8°C to 18.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 50 mm to 59 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
Dorsten climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.1°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 75 | 13.5 | 8.48 h |
| February | 6.3°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 61 | 11.5 | 9.910 h |
| March | 9.8°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 62 | 12.2 | 11.812 h |
| April, selected | 14.2°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 50 | 10.7 | 13.814 h |
| May | 18.0°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 59 | 11.5 | 15.616 h |
| June | 20.8°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 67 | 12.0 | 16.617 h |
| July | 22.9°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 78 | 13.1 | 16.216 h |
| August | 22.6°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 79 | 12.4 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.9°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 67 | 10.9 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.1°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 67 | 11.6 | 10.711 h |
| November | 9.1°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 67 | 12.6 | 8.99 h |
| December | 5.7°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 80 | 13.6 | 7.98 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
- Marl in AprilGermany · 9 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 5.2°C · 50 mm rain
- Gladbeck in AprilGermany · 10 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 5.1°C · 51 mm rain
- Recklinghausen in AprilGermany · 17 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 5.0°C · 55 mm rain
- Gelsenkirchen in AprilGermany · 20 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 5.3°C · 51 mm rain
- Oberhausen in AprilGermany · 22 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 5.3°C · 48 mm rain
- Essen in AprilGermany · 23 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 5.0°C · 51 mm rain
- Mülheim in AprilGermany · 26 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 5.7°C · 51 mm rain
- Bochum in AprilGermany · 27 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 5.0°C · 55 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 Dorsten) is explained once on the Dorsten year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Marl lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.