Climate averages 1991–2020
Budapest weather
in April.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a mild month in Budapest: daytime highs average 16.7°C and nights cool to about 6.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 45 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 35 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Székesfehérvár (59 km away). In April its highs average 16.5°C, about as warm as Budapest, with 44 mm of rain.
Among the 11 cities listed in Hungary, Budapest ranks joint 6th of 11 for the warmest April highs and 4th of 11 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 11 cities is 16.7°C; Budapest is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 4.6°C to 21.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 45 mm to 67 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
Budapest climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.2°C-2.8°C | -2.8°C | 36 | 8.0 | 8.99 h |
| February | 5.6°C-2.2°C | -2.2°C | 35 | 8.1 | 10.210 h |
| March | 10.7°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 40 | 8.0 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 16.7°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 45 | 8.9 | 13.614 h |
| May | 21.3°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 67 | 11.9 | 15.115 h |
| June | 24.9°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 71 | 10.9 | 15.916 h |
| July | 27.0°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 69 | 10.2 | 15.616 h |
| August | 27.0°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 58 | 8.7 | 14.314 h |
| September | 21.5°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 58 | 8.2 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.8°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 53 | 8.1 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.3°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 51 | 8.7 | 9.49 h |
| December | 3.7°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 43 | 8.3 | 8.59 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
- Székesfehérvár in AprilHungary · 59 kmHigh 16.5°C · Low 6.3°C · 44 mm rain
- Kecskemét in AprilHungary · 82 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 6.5°C · 46 mm rain
- Szolnok in AprilHungary · 94 kmHigh 17.3°C · Low 7.0°C · 46 mm rain
- Győr in AprilHungary · 107 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 6.4°C · 41 mm rain
- Nitra in AprilSlovakia · 115 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 5.5°C · 41 mm rain
- Banská Bystrica in AprilSlovakia · 138 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 3.9°C · 69 mm rain
- Miskolc in AprilHungary · 146 kmHigh 16.6°C · Low 5.6°C · 48 mm rain
- Bratislava in AprilSlovakia · 161 kmHigh 16.0°C · Low 5.6°C · 44 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 Budapest) is explained once on the Budapest year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.