Climate averages 1991–2020
Munich weather
in April.
A cool, moderately wet month: the joint 6th warmest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Munich: daytime highs average 13.8°C and nights cool to about 3.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 65 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 37 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Augsburg (56 km away). In April its highs average 14.1°C, about as warm as Munich, with 68 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Munich ranks joint 77th of 120 for the warmest April highs and joint 112th of 120 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 120 cities is 14.0°C; Munich is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.9°C to 17.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 65 mm to 106 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
Munich climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.4°C-3.5°C | -3.5°C | 62 | 11.4 | 8.89 h |
| February | 5.1°C-3.5°C | -3.5°C | 53 | 10.4 | 10.210 h |
| March | 9.3°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 70 | 12.7 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 13.8°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 65 | 11.9 | 13.614 h |
| May | 17.7°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 106 | 15.1 | 15.215 h |
| June | 20.9°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 106 | 14.3 | 16.016 h |
| July | 22.8°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 104 | 14.5 | 15.616 h |
| August | 22.8°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 99 | 13.2 | 14.314 h |
| September | 18.2°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 81 | 11.8 | 12.613 h |
| October | 13.8°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 68 | 11.3 | 10.911 h |
| November | 7.8°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 63 | 10.3 | 9.39 h |
| December | 3.8°C-2.4°C | -2.4°C | 67 | 12.9 | 8.48 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
- Augsburg in AprilGermany · 56 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 3.9°C · 68 mm rain
- Landshut in AprilGermany · 61 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 4.7°C · 63 mm rain
- Ingolstadt in AprilGermany · 71 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 4.6°C · 47 mm rain
- Innsbruck (approximate) in AprilAustria · 98 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 3.2°C · 115 mm rain
- Regensburg in AprilGermany · 105 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 4.3°C · 49 mm rain
- Salzburg in AprilAustria · 116 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 2.9°C · 121 mm rain
- Ulm in AprilGermany · 121 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 3.9°C · 62 mm rain
- Nuremberg in AprilGermany · 151 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 4.5°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 Munich) is explained once on the Munich year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.