Climate averages 1991–2020
Essen 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 Essen: daytime highs average 14.1°C and nights cool to about 5.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 51 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 49 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Gelsenkirchen (8 km away). In April its highs average 14.3°C, about as warm as Essen, with 51 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Essen ranks joint 54th of 120 for the warmest April highs and joint 63rd of 120 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 120 cities is 14.0°C; Essen is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.7°C to 17.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 51 mm to 62 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
Essen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.9°C0.3°C | 0.3°C | 78 | 13.9 | 8.48 h |
| February | 6.2°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 64 | 12.0 | 9.910 h |
| March | 9.7°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 65 | 12.8 | 11.812 h |
| April, selected | 14.1°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 51 | 10.8 | 13.814 h |
| May | 17.8°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 62 | 11.5 | 15.616 h |
| June | 20.7°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 70 | 12.0 | 16.517 h |
| July | 22.8°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 82 | 13.6 | 16.116 h |
| August | 22.5°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 81 | 12.5 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.8°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 69 | 11.0 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.0°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 71 | 12.0 | 10.711 h |
| November | 8.9°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 71 | 13.1 | 8.99 h |
| December | 5.5°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 84 | 14.1 | 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
- Gelsenkirchen in AprilGermany · 8 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 5.3°C · 51 mm rain
- Mülheim in AprilGermany · 10 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 5.7°C · 51 mm rain
- Oberhausen in AprilGermany · 11 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 5.3°C · 48 mm rain
- Gladbeck in AprilGermany · 13 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 5.1°C · 51 mm rain
- Velbert in AprilGermany · 14 kmHigh 13.0°C · Low 4.5°C · 60 mm rain
- Bochum in AprilGermany · 14 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 5.0°C · 55 mm rain
- Duisburg in AprilGermany · 17 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 5.6°C · 48 mm rain
- Ratingen in AprilGermany · 21 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 5.5°C · 52 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 Essen) is explained once on the Essen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Gelsenkirchen, Mülheim and Gladbeck lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.