Climate averages 1991–2020
Stavanger weather
in April.
A cool, 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 Stavanger: daytime highs average 8.2°C and nights cool to about 3.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 94 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes April a wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 25 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bergen (160 km away). In April its highs average 8.6°C, about as warm as Stavanger, with 133 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Norway, Stavanger ranks 7th of 8 for the warmest April highs and 7th of 8 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 8 cities is 9.1°C; Stavanger is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.2°C to 11.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 94 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
Stavanger climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.8°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 195 | 18.6 | 7.07 h |
| February | 3.4°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 157 | 16.3 | 9.29 h |
| March | 4.8°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 133 | 16.3 | 11.812 h |
| April, selected | 8.2°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 94 | 14.2 | 14.414 h |
| May | 11.5°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 93 | 13.4 | 16.917 h |
| June | 14.2°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 102 | 14.3 | 18.318 h |
| July | 16.5°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 122 | 15.2 | 17.718 h |
| August | 16.9°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 169 | 16.9 | 15.515 h |
| September | 14.4°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 201 | 17.1 | 12.913 h |
| October | 10.4°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 221 | 18.5 | 10.310 h |
| November | 6.9°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 210 | 18.5 | 7.88 h |
| December | 4.7°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 209 | 19.1 | 6.36 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
- Bergen in AprilNorway · 160 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low 2.2°C · 133 mm rain
- Kristiansand in AprilNorway · 160 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 3.4°C · 69 mm rain
- Drammen in AprilNorway · 268 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 0.9°C · 56 mm rain
- Fredrikstad in AprilNorway · 298 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 2.9°C · 47 mm rain
- Oslo in AprilNorway · 302 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 1.1°C · 55 mm rain
- Lillestrøm in AprilNorway · 320 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 0.7°C · 53 mm rain
- Aalborg in AprilDenmark · 326 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 3.8°C · 46 mm rain
- Gothenburg in AprilSweden · 390 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 2.9°C · 53 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 Stavanger) is explained once on the Stavanger year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.