Climate averages 1991–2020

Arad weather
in April.

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

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

Average high 17.2°C Daytime mean, April
Average low 6.7°C Night-time mean, April
Rainfall 58 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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April is a mild month in Arad: daytime highs average 17.2°C and nights cool to about 6.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 58 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the joint 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 31 min on an average April day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Timişoara (48 km away). In April its highs average 17.5°C, about as warm as Arad, with 61 mm of rain.

Among the 27 cities listed in Romania, Arad ranks 4th of 27 for the warmest April highs and 12th of 27 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 27 cities is 15.8°C; Arad is 1.5°C warmer than that mean.

From April to May, average highs rise by 4.8°C to 22.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 58 mm to 69 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. -5051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

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

Every month, side by side

Arad climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Arad, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 3.8°C-2.5°C-2.5°C398.39.19 h
February 6.3°C-1.8°C-1.8°C418.710.310 h
March 11.3°C1.7°C1.7°C479.211.912 h
April, selected 17.2°C6.7°C6.7°C5810.213.514 h
May 22.0°C11.7°C11.7°C6911.714.915 h
June 25.5°C15.5°C15.5°C7811.415.716 h
July 27.5°C17.5°C17.5°C659.515.415 h
August 27.8°C17.6°C17.6°C587.614.214 h
September 22.5°C13.0°C13.0°C588.212.613 h
October 16.9°C8.1°C8.1°C508.011.011 h
November 10.6°C3.4°C3.4°C518.59.59 h
December 4.6°C-1.1°C-1.1°C509.38.79 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

Distance from Arad

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 Arad) is explained once on the Arad year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.