Climate averages 1991–2020
Saarbrücken 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 Saarbrücken: daytime highs average 14.4°C and nights cool to about 5.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 54 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 41 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kaiserslautern (60 km away). In April its highs average 14.6°C, about as warm as Saarbrücken, with 54 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Saarbrücken ranks joint 29th of 120 for the warmest April highs and joint 85th of 120 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 120 cities is 14.0°C; Saarbrücken is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.8°C to 18.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 54 mm to 68 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
Saarbrücken climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.9°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 79 | 12.6 | 8.79 h |
| February | 6.3°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 68 | 10.6 | 10.110 h |
| March | 10.2°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 70 | 11.7 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 14.4°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 54 | 10.4 | 13.714 h |
| May | 18.2°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 68 | 12.0 | 15.315 h |
| June | 21.7°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 58 | 10.8 | 16.216 h |
| July | 23.9°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 61 | 10.8 | 15.816 h |
| August | 23.9°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 60 | 10.7 | 14.414 h |
| September | 19.5°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 64 | 9.5 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.5°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 71 | 11.5 | 10.811 h |
| November | 8.9°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 75 | 12.5 | 9.29 h |
| December | 5.5°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 99 | 14.4 | 8.38 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
- Kaiserslautern in AprilGermany · 60 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 5.7°C · 54 mm rain
- Metz in AprilFrance · 62 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 5.2°C · 55 mm rain
- Trier in AprilGermany · 64 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 4.8°C · 57 mm rain
- Luxembourg in AprilLuxembourg · 76 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 4.4°C · 52 mm rain
- Nancy in AprilFrance · 86 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 5.2°C · 59 mm rain
- Strasbourg in AprilFrance · 90 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 5.3°C · 60 mm rain
- Karlsruhe in AprilGermany · 104 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 5.7°C · 52 mm rain
- Worms in AprilGermany · 107 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 5.2°C · 41 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 Saarbrücken) is explained once on the Saarbrücken year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.