Climate averages 1991–2020
Freiburg weather
in April.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a mild month in Freiburg: daytime highs average 15.1°C and nights cool to about 5.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 74 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 37 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Mulhouse (48 km away). In April its highs average 14.7°C, about as warm as Freiburg, with 68 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Freiburg ranks 7th of 120 for the warmest April highs and 118th of 120 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 120 cities is 14.0°C; Freiburg is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.8°C to 18.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 74 mm to 105 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
Freiburg climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.3°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 91 | 13.3 | 8.99 h |
| February | 6.5°C-1.1°C | -1.1°C | 77 | 11.5 | 10.210 h |
| March | 10.7°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 83 | 13.3 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 15.1°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 74 | 13.1 | 13.614 h |
| May | 18.9°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 105 | 15.4 | 15.115 h |
| June | 22.4°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 89 | 14.2 | 16.016 h |
| July | 24.4°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 89 | 13.5 | 15.616 h |
| August | 24.4°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 81 | 12.3 | 14.314 h |
| September | 20.0°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 77 | 11.3 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.4°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 85 | 12.2 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.5°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 89 | 12.4 | 9.39 h |
| December | 5.8°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 108 | 14.4 | 8.58 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
- Mulhouse in AprilFrance · 48 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 5.0°C · 68 mm rain
- Villingen-Schwenningen in AprilGermany · 48 kmHigh 12.0°C · Low 2.8°C · 87 mm rain
- Basel in AprilSwitzerland · 53 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 4.6°C · 90 mm rain
- Strasbourg in AprilFrance · 66 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 5.3°C · 60 mm rain
- Winterthur in AprilSwitzerland · 85 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 4.0°C · 85 mm rain
- Zürich in AprilSwitzerland · 87 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 4.2°C · 106 mm rain
- Konstanz in AprilGermany · 106 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 6.3°C · 80 mm rain
- Tübingen in AprilGermany · 106 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 4.3°C · 61 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 Freiburg) is explained once on the Freiburg year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.