Climate averages 1991–2020
Lüdenscheid weather
in April.
A cool, 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 cool month in Lüdenscheid: daytime highs average 12.0°C and nights cool to about 3.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 68 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 48 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Iserlohn (18 km away). In April its highs average 12.8°C, 0.7°C warmer than Lüdenscheid, with 55 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Lüdenscheid ranks joint 118th of 120 for the warmest April highs and joint 115th of 120 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 120 cities is 14.0°C; Lüdenscheid is 1.9°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.8°C to 15.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 68 mm to 82 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
Lüdenscheid climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.0°C-1.5°C | -1.5°C | 103 | 15.5 | 8.48 h |
| February | 4.0°C-1.6°C | -1.6°C | 85 | 13.2 | 10.010 h |
| March | 7.7°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 88 | 14.7 | 11.812 h |
| April, selected | 12.0°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 68 | 12.5 | 13.814 h |
| May | 15.8°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 82 | 13.7 | 15.516 h |
| June | 18.6°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 88 | 14.4 | 16.516 h |
| July | 20.6°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 105 | 15.7 | 16.116 h |
| August | 20.4°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 99 | 14.8 | 14.615 h |
| September | 16.7°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 87 | 13.3 | 12.713 h |
| October | 12.1°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 87 | 13.4 | 10.711 h |
| November | 7.1°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 89 | 14.8 | 9.09 h |
| December | 3.8°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 106 | 16.3 | 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
- Iserlohn in AprilGermany · 18 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 4.4°C · 55 mm rain
- Hagen in AprilGermany · 19 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 5.4°C · 70 mm rain
- Remscheid in AprilGermany · 31 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 4.0°C · 65 mm rain
- Witten in AprilGermany · 31 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 5.3°C · 55 mm rain
- Wuppertal in AprilGermany · 34 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 5.1°C · 65 mm rain
- Dortmund in AprilGermany · 35 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 5.1°C · 57 mm rain
- Arnsberg in AprilGermany · 37 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 4.0°C · 56 mm rain
- Solingen in AprilGermany · 38 kmHigh 13.4°C · Low 4.8°C · 60 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 Lüdenscheid) is explained once on the Lüdenscheid year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.