Climate averages 1991–2020
Tübingen weather
in April.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Tübingen: daytime highs average 14.4°C and nights cool to about 4.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 61 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 39 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Reutlingen (12 km away). In April its highs average 14.3°C, about as warm as Tübingen, with 61 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Tübingen ranks joint 29th of 120 for the warmest April highs and joint 107th of 120 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 120 cities is 14.0°C; Tübingen is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.8°C to 18.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 61 mm to 93 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
Tübingen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.5°C-2.0°C | -2.0°C | 70 | 12.3 | 8.89 h |
| February | 5.8°C-2.2°C | -2.2°C | 60 | 10.7 | 10.210 h |
| March | 9.9°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 70 | 12.5 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 14.4°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 61 | 11.7 | 13.614 h |
| May | 18.1°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 93 | 14.5 | 15.215 h |
| June | 21.4°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 80 | 13.3 | 16.016 h |
| July | 23.5°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 84 | 13.1 | 15.716 h |
| August | 23.6°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 73 | 12.2 | 14.314 h |
| September | 19.2°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 63 | 10.8 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.6°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 69 | 11.5 | 10.911 h |
| November | 8.7°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 68 | 11.6 | 9.39 h |
| December | 5.0°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 78 | 13.5 | 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
- Reutlingen in AprilGermany · 12 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 4.2°C · 61 mm rain
- Stuttgart in AprilGermany · 30 kmHigh 14.9°C · Low 4.6°C · 54 mm rain
- Esslingen in AprilGermany · 30 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 4.6°C · 54 mm rain
- Ludwigsburg in AprilGermany · 43 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 4.5°C · 52 mm rain
- Pforzheim in AprilGermany · 48 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 5.2°C · 54 mm rain
- Villingen-Schwenningen in AprilGermany · 66 kmHigh 12.0°C · Low 2.8°C · 87 mm rain
- Heilbronn in AprilGermany · 70 kmHigh 15.3°C · Low 5.5°C · 52 mm rain
- Ulm in AprilGermany · 71 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 3.9°C · 62 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 Tübingen) is explained once on the Tübingen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.