Climate averages 1991–2020
Hamburg 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 Hamburg: daytime highs average 13.3°C and nights cool to about 4.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 47 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 58 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Norderstedt (17 km away). In April its highs average 12.9°C, about as warm as Hamburg, with 45 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Hamburg ranks 103rd of 120 for the warmest April highs and joint 31st of 120 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 120 cities is 14.0°C; Hamburg is 0.6°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 4.1°C to 17.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 47 mm to 64 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
Hamburg climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.8°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 61 | 12.4 | 8.18 h |
| February | 4.8°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 49 | 10.5 | 9.810 h |
| March | 8.3°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 53 | 10.8 | 11.812 h |
| April, selected | 13.3°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 47 | 10.5 | 14.014 h |
| May | 17.4°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 64 | 11.2 | 15.916 h |
| June | 20.2°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 71 | 12.2 | 16.917 h |
| July | 22.4°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 85 | 13.3 | 16.516 h |
| August | 22.2°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 76 | 13.1 | 14.815 h |
| September | 18.3°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 56 | 10.3 | 12.813 h |
| October | 13.1°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 56 | 11.2 | 10.611 h |
| November | 7.7°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 52 | 11.3 | 8.79 h |
| December | 4.5°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 62 | 12.3 | 7.68 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
- Norderstedt in AprilGermany · 17 kmHigh 12.9°C · Low 4.4°C · 45 mm rain
- Lüneburg in AprilGermany · 44 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 4.5°C · 45 mm rain
- Lübeck in AprilGermany · 58 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 4.4°C · 44 mm rain
- Neumünster in AprilGermany · 58 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 4.2°C · 45 mm rain
- Kiel in AprilGermany · 86 kmHigh 12.1°C · Low 4.4°C · 43 mm rain
- Bremerhaven in AprilGermany · 94 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 5.6°C · 52 mm rain
- Schwerin in AprilGermany · 94 kmHigh 12.9°C · Low 4.3°C · 43 mm rain
- Bremen in AprilGermany · 95 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 4.8°C · 48 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 Hamburg) is explained once on the Hamburg year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.