Climate averages 1991–2020
Dublin 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 Dublin: daytime highs average 11.9°C and nights cool to about 5.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 66 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 57 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tallaght (10 km away). In April its highs average 11.6°C, about as warm as Dublin, with 66 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in Ireland, Dublin ranks 4th of 5 for the warmest April highs and joint 1st of 5 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 5 cities is 12.1°C; Dublin is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 2.8°C to 14.7°C, and monthly rainfall stays at 66 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
Dublin climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.8°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 69 | 13.1 | 8.18 h |
| February | 8.2°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 57 | 12.0 | 9.810 h |
| March | 9.8°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 59 | 12.2 | 11.812 h |
| April, selected | 11.9°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 66 | 13.8 | 13.914 h |
| May | 14.7°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 66 | 13.6 | 15.816 h |
| June | 17.3°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 73 | 13.2 | 16.917 h |
| July | 18.9°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 76 | 14.8 | 16.416 h |
| August | 18.6°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 78 | 13.6 | 14.815 h |
| September | 16.5°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 70 | 12.2 | 12.813 h |
| October | 13.3°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 78 | 12.4 | 10.611 h |
| November | 10.0°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 85 | 13.2 | 8.79 h |
| December | 8.1°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 76 | 12.8 | 7.68 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
- Tallaght in AprilIreland · 10 kmHigh 11.6°C · Low 5.2°C · 66 mm rain
- Lisburn in AprilUnited Kingdom · 133 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 5.3°C · 65 mm rain
- Belfast in AprilUnited Kingdom · 142 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 5.9°C · 65 mm rain
- Douglas in AprilIsle of Man · 147 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 7.1°C · 59 mm rain
- Limerick in AprilIreland · 175 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 5.6°C · 76 mm rain
- Galway in AprilIreland · 186 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 5.5°C · 76 mm rain
- Derry in AprilUnited Kingdom · 198 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 5.1°C · 74 mm rain
- Southport in AprilUnited Kingdom · 217 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 5.8°C · 70 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 Dublin) is explained once on the Dublin year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Tallaght lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.