Climate averages 1991–2020
Saint Petersburg weather
in April.
A cold, fairly dry month: the 7th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cold month in Saint Petersburg: daytime highs average 7.1°C and nights cool to about -0.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 39 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 31 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Peterhof (24 km away). In April its highs average 7.0°C, about as warm as Saint Petersburg, with 39 mm of rain.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Saint Petersburg ranks joint 191st of 236 for the warmest April highs and joint 125th of 236 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 236 cities is 9.5°C; Saint Petersburg is 2.4°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 6.9°C to 14.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 39 mm to 50 mm.
The annual picture
April in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Saint Petersburg climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -3.8°C-7.7°C | -7.7°C | 41 | 11.2 | 6.87 h |
| February | -4.0°C-8.4°C | -8.4°C | 32 | 9.2 | 9.19 h |
| March | 0.3°C-5.3°C | -5.3°C | 36 | 9.1 | 11.812 h |
| April, selected | 7.1°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 39 | 9.3 | 14.515 h |
| May | 14.0°C6.1°C | 6.1°C | 50 | 9.2 | 17.117 h |
| June | 18.5°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 64 | 11.4 | 18.719 h |
| July | 21.5°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 65 | 11.1 | 18.018 h |
| August | 19.7°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 70 | 11.2 | 15.616 h |
| September | 14.4°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 55 | 11.0 | 13.013 h |
| October | 7.3°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 62 | 12.3 | 10.210 h |
| November | 1.6°C-1.4°C | -1.4°C | 56 | 12.0 | 7.68 h |
| December | -1.6°C-5.0°C | -5.0°C | 49 | 12.2 | 6.16 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
- Peterhof in AprilRussia · 24 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low 0.6°C · 39 mm rain
- Pushkin in AprilRussia · 25 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low -0.2°C · 45 mm rain
- Kolpino in AprilRussia · 26 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low 0.2°C · 45 mm rain
- Gatchina in AprilRussia · 42 kmHigh 8.5°C · Low -0.3°C · 42 mm rain
- Vyborg in AprilRussia · 121 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low -0.4°C · 35 mm rain
- Velikiy Novgorod in AprilRussia · 167 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 1.3°C · 44 mm rain
- Lappeenranta in AprilFinland · 170 kmHigh 5.6°C · Low -1.2°C · 33 mm rain
- Kouvola in AprilFinland · 224 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low -0.9°C · 35 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 Saint Petersburg) is explained once on the Saint Petersburg year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.