Climate averages 1991–2020
Villingen-Schwenningen weather
in April.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the joint 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Villingen-Schwenningen: daytime highs average 12.0°C and nights cool to about 2.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 87 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the joint 3rd 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 Freiburg (48 km away). In April its highs average 15.1°C, 3.1°C warmer than Villingen-Schwenningen, with 74 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Villingen-Schwenningen ranks joint 118th of 120 for the warmest April highs and 120th of 120 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 120 cities is 14.0°C; Villingen-Schwenningen is 2.0°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.9°C to 15.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 87 mm to 133 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
Villingen-Schwenningen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.3°C-4.1°C | -4.1°C | 87 | 12.9 | 8.99 h |
| February | 3.4°C-4.1°C | -4.1°C | 75 | 11.1 | 10.210 h |
| March | 7.5°C-0.8°C | -0.8°C | 87 | 13.7 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 12.0°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 87 | 14.2 | 13.614 h |
| May | 15.9°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 133 | 17.5 | 15.215 h |
| June | 19.3°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 126 | 16.7 | 16.016 h |
| July | 21.2°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 138 | 16.7 | 15.616 h |
| August | 21.2°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 124 | 15.4 | 14.314 h |
| September | 16.9°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 93 | 12.5 | 12.613 h |
| October | 12.5°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 91 | 12.7 | 10.911 h |
| November | 6.7°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 83 | 12.3 | 9.39 h |
| December | 3.0°C-2.7°C | -2.7°C | 100 | 13.7 | 8.58 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
- Freiburg in AprilGermany · 48 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 5.6°C · 74 mm rain
- Winterthur in AprilSwitzerland · 64 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 4.0°C · 85 mm rain
- Tübingen in AprilGermany · 66 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 4.3°C · 61 mm rain
- Konstanz in AprilGermany · 68 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 6.3°C · 80 mm rain
- Reutlingen in AprilGermany · 71 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 4.2°C · 61 mm rain
- Zürich in AprilSwitzerland · 77 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 4.2°C · 106 mm rain
- Strasbourg in AprilFrance · 80 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 5.3°C · 60 mm rain
- Basel in AprilSwitzerland · 89 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 4.6°C · 90 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 Villingen-Schwenningen) is explained once on the Villingen-Schwenningen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.