Climate averages 1991–2020
Barcelona weather
in April.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a mild month in Barcelona: daytime highs average 17.3°C and nights cool to about 9.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 52 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 18 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Badalona (10 km away). In April its highs average 17.8°C, 0.5°C warmer than Barcelona, with 52 mm of rain.
Among the 93 cities listed in Spain, Barcelona ranks joint 61st of 93 for the warmest April highs and joint 55th of 93 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 93 cities is 18.3°C; Barcelona is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.3°C to 20.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 52 mm to 45 mm.
The annual picture
April in context
Monthly rainfall
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
Barcelona climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 12.4°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 40 | 6.1 | 9.610 h |
| February | 13.1°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 36 | 6.3 | 10.611 h |
| March | 15.3°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 40 | 6.7 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 17.3°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 52 | 8.2 | 13.313 h |
| May | 20.6°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 45 | 7.4 | 14.514 h |
| June | 24.5°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 34 | 5.6 | 15.115 h |
| July | 27.2°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 25 | 4.7 | 14.815 h |
| August | 27.4°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 40 | 6.6 | 13.814 h |
| September | 23.9°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 77 | 10.5 | 12.513 h |
| October | 20.3°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 90 | 9.9 | 11.111 h |
| November | 15.9°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 60 | 8.0 | 9.910 h |
| December | 13.0°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 41 | 5.7 | 9.29 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
- Badalona in AprilSpain · 10 kmHigh 17.8°C · Low 9.4°C · 52 mm rain
- Sant Boi de Llobregat in AprilSpain · 11 kmHigh 16.6°C · Low 10.3°C · 48 mm rain
- Rubí in AprilSpain · 16 kmHigh 17.7°C · Low 8.4°C · 61 mm rain
- Sabadell in AprilSpain · 18 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 8.2°C · 61 mm rain
- Terrassa in AprilSpain · 23 kmHigh 17.3°C · Low 7.5°C · 61 mm rain
- Mataró in AprilSpain · 29 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 10.2°C · 55 mm rain
- Manresa in AprilSpain · 47 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 7.2°C · 74 mm rain
- Tarragona in AprilSpain · 82 kmHigh 18.6°C · Low 9.5°C · 43 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 Barcelona) is explained once on the Barcelona year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Badalona lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.