Climate averages 1991–2020
Trier 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 Trier: daytime highs average 14.3°C and nights cool to about 4.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 57 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 43 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Luxembourg (40 km away). In April its highs average 13.7°C, 0.6°C cooler than Trier, with 52 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Trier ranks joint 35th of 120 for the warmest April highs and joint 100th of 120 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 120 cities is 14.0°C; Trier is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.7°C to 18.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 57 mm to 73 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
Trier climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.8°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 82 | 13.1 | 8.69 h |
| February | 6.2°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 68 | 11.3 | 10.110 h |
| March | 10.1°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 70 | 12.7 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 14.3°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 57 | 11.6 | 13.714 h |
| May | 18.0°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 73 | 12.9 | 15.415 h |
| June | 21.2°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 72 | 11.9 | 16.216 h |
| July | 23.4°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 71 | 12.3 | 15.916 h |
| August | 23.3°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 70 | 11.2 | 14.514 h |
| September | 19.1°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 67 | 10.4 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.2°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 73 | 11.8 | 10.811 h |
| November | 8.8°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 77 | 13.0 | 9.19 h |
| December | 5.4°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 99 | 14.4 | 8.28 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
- Luxembourg in AprilLuxembourg · 40 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 4.4°C · 52 mm rain
- Saarbrücken in AprilGermany · 64 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 5.4°C · 54 mm rain
- Metz in AprilFrance · 78 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 5.2°C · 55 mm rain
- Kaiserslautern in AprilGermany · 89 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 5.7°C · 54 mm rain
- Koblenz in AprilGermany · 94 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 5.2°C · 46 mm rain
- Bonn in AprilGermany · 114 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 5.3°C · 48 mm rain
- Düren in AprilGermany · 117 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 4.9°C · 50 mm rain
- Aachen in AprilGermany · 120 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 4.9°C · 55 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 Trier) is explained once on the Trier year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.