Climate averages 1991–2020
Yoshkar-Ola weather
in April.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Yoshkar-Ola: daytime highs average 8.9°C and nights cool to about -0.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 40 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 12 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Novocheboksarsk (64 km away). In April its highs average 8.9°C, about as warm as Yoshkar-Ola, with 38 mm of rain.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Yoshkar-Ola ranks joint 149th of 236 for the warmest April highs and joint 142nd of 236 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 236 cities is 9.5°C; Yoshkar-Ola is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 8.4°C to 17.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 40 mm to 49 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
Yoshkar-Ola climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -7.6°C-12.8°C | -12.8°C | 39 | 10.6 | 7.58 h |
| February | -6.8°C-12.7°C | -12.7°C | 33 | 8.6 | 9.59 h |
| March | -0.5°C-7.1°C | -7.1°C | 37 | 8.8 | 11.812 h |
| April, selected | 8.9°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 40 | 9.0 | 14.214 h |
| May | 17.2°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 49 | 9.9 | 16.416 h |
| June | 21.5°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 66 | 11.7 | 17.718 h |
| July | 23.8°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 73 | 11.2 | 17.117 h |
| August | 21.3°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 62 | 10.3 | 15.215 h |
| September | 15.3°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 58 | 10.8 | 12.813 h |
| October | 7.3°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 61 | 11.5 | 10.410 h |
| November | -0.9°C-5.0°C | -5.0°C | 45 | 10.3 | 8.28 h |
| December | -5.6°C-10.6°C | -10.6°C | 43 | 10.8 | 6.97 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
- Novocheboksarsk in AprilRussia · 64 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low -0.4°C · 38 mm rain
- Cheboksary in AprilRussia · 69 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low -0.2°C · 38 mm rain
- Zelenodolsk in AprilRussia · 97 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low -0.2°C · 37 mm rain
- Kazan in AprilRussia · 121 kmHigh 8.2°C · Low -0.5°C · 36 mm rain
- Nizhniy Novgorod in AprilRussia · 241 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low -0.4°C · 38 mm rain
- Kirov in AprilRussia · 242 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low -1.7°C · 40 mm rain
- Kirovo-Chepetsk in AprilRussia · 248 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low -1.5°C · 40 mm rain
- Ulyanovsk in AprilRussia · 259 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low 0.3°C · 38 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 Yoshkar-Ola) is explained once on the Yoshkar-Ola year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.