Climate averages 1991–2020

Nowy Sącz weather
in April.

A cool, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 13.6°C Daytime mean, April
Average low 3.7°C Night-time mean, April
Rainfall 69 mm 13 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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April is a cool month in Nowy Sącz: daytime highs average 13.6°C and nights cool to about 3.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 69 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 43 min on an average April day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Tarnów (48 km away). In April its highs average 14.0°C, about as warm as Nowy Sącz, with 60 mm of rain.

Among the 60 cities listed in Poland, Nowy Sącz ranks joint 25th of 60 for the warmest April highs and 59th of 60 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 60 cities is 13.4°C; Nowy Sącz is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.

From April to May, average highs rise by 4.5°C to 18.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 69 mm to 106 mm.

The annual picture

April in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -10-5051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm
Average monthly precipitation totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Nowy Sącz climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Nowy Sącz, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowPrecipitation mm/monthWet days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 1.2°C-5.5°C-5.5°C4410.48.79 h
February 3.0°C-4.6°C-4.6°C4711.110.110 h
March 7.4°C-1.1°C-1.1°C5212.211.912 h
April, selected 13.6°C3.7°C3.7°C6912.713.714 h
May 18.2°C8.5°C8.5°C10615.315.315 h
June 21.4°C12.4°C12.4°C10915.116.216 h
July 23.1°C14.2°C14.2°C12816.315.816 h
August 23.1°C14.0°C14.0°C8913.214.414 h
September 18.2°C9.8°C9.8°C7811.412.713 h
October 13.0°C5.2°C5.2°C6410.910.811 h
November 7.2°C1.1°C1.1°C4910.39.19 h
December 2.2°C-3.6°C-3.6°C4410.78.28 h

Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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

Distance from Nowy Sącz

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Nowy Sącz) is explained once on the Nowy Sącz year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.