Climate averages 1991–2020
Dresden weather
in April.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and one of the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Dresden: daytime highs average 14.0°C and nights cool to about 4.4°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 (one of the driest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 48 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ústí nad Labem (48 km away). In April its highs average 14.4°C, about as warm as Dresden, with 46 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Dresden ranks joint 65th 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; Dresden is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 4.3°C to 18.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 50 mm to 75 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
Dresden climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.1°C-2.0°C | -2.0°C | 62 | 13.7 | 8.58 h |
| February | 4.7°C-1.8°C | -1.8°C | 50 | 11.3 | 10.010 h |
| March | 8.6°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 63 | 12.9 | 11.812 h |
| April, selected | 14.0°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 50 | 11.1 | 13.814 h |
| May | 18.4°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 75 | 12.8 | 15.516 h |
| June | 21.5°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 86 | 13.1 | 16.516 h |
| July | 23.6°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 95 | 13.1 | 16.116 h |
| August | 23.6°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 90 | 11.9 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.9°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 69 | 11.3 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.6°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 58 | 11.5 | 10.811 h |
| November | 7.8°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 59 | 11.3 | 9.09 h |
| December | 4.0°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 62 | 12.8 | 8.08 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
- Ústí nad Labem in AprilCzechia · 48 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 4.6°C · 46 mm rain
- Chemnitz in AprilGermany · 62 kmHigh 13.0°C · Low 4.0°C · 57 mm rain
- Cottbus in AprilGermany · 89 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 5.0°C · 37 mm rain
- Zwickau in AprilGermany · 95 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 4.4°C · 51 mm rain
- Liberec in AprilCzechia · 98 kmHigh 12.9°C · Low 3.7°C · 53 mm rain
- Leipzig in AprilGermany · 101 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 4.5°C · 38 mm rain
- Prague in AprilCzechia · 117 kmHigh 14.8°C · Low 4.4°C · 38 mm rain
- Gera in AprilGermany · 118 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 4.7°C · 42 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 Dresden) is explained once on the Dresden year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.