Climate averages 1991–2020
Yaroslavl weather
in April.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 6th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Yaroslavl: daytime highs average 8.7°C and nights cool to about -0.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th 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 17 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kostroma (64 km away). In April its highs average 8.3°C, about as warm as Yaroslavl, with 40 mm of rain.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Yaroslavl ranks joint 156th 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; Yaroslavl is 0.8°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 7.7°C to 16.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 39 mm to 57 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
Yaroslavl climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -6.1°C-11.1°C | -11.1°C | 40 | 10.7 | 7.37 h |
| February | -5.6°C-11.2°C | -11.2°C | 32 | 8.5 | 9.49 h |
| March | 0.0°C-6.9°C | -6.9°C | 34 | 8.8 | 11.812 h |
| April, selected | 8.7°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 39 | 9.2 | 14.314 h |
| May | 16.4°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 57 | 11.2 | 16.617 h |
| June | 20.3°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 78 | 12.1 | 17.918 h |
| July | 22.7°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 81 | 13.1 | 17.417 h |
| August | 20.5°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 72 | 12.0 | 15.315 h |
| September | 14.6°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 60 | 10.6 | 12.913 h |
| October | 7.0°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 60 | 11.6 | 10.410 h |
| November | -0.3°C-3.9°C | -3.9°C | 48 | 10.5 | 8.18 h |
| December | -4.2°C-8.4°C | -8.4°C | 40 | 10.7 | 6.77 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
- Kostroma in AprilRussia · 64 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low -0.6°C · 40 mm rain
- Rybinsk in AprilRussia · 77 kmHigh 8.4°C · Low 0.0°C · 36 mm rain
- Ivanovo in AprilRussia · 96 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low -0.4°C · 43 mm rain
- Kineshma in AprilRussia · 136 kmHigh 8.5°C · Low -0.1°C · 41 mm rain
- Kovrov in AprilRussia · 166 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 0.4°C · 42 mm rain
- Vladimir in AprilRussia · 169 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 0.4°C · 42 mm rain
- Vologda in AprilRussia · 177 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low -1.2°C · 38 mm rain
- Sergiyev Posad in AprilRussia · 180 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 0.4°C · 40 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 Yaroslavl) is explained once on the Yaroslavl year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.