Climate averages 1991–2020
Linköping 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 Linköping: daytime highs average 10.6°C and nights cool to about 1.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 37 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 22 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Norrköping (38 km away). In April its highs average 10.3°C, about as warm as Linköping, with 35 mm of rain.
Among the 21 cities listed in Sweden, Linköping ranks 7th of 21 for the warmest April highs and joint 12th of 21 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 21 cities is 9.5°C; Linköping is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 5.2°C to 15.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 37 mm to 52 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
Linköping climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0.4°C-3.6°C | -3.6°C | 38 | 8.7 | 7.27 h |
| February | 1.1°C-4.1°C | -4.1°C | 32 | 8.0 | 9.39 h |
| March | 4.7°C-2.1°C | -2.1°C | 30 | 7.8 | 11.812 h |
| April, selected | 10.6°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 37 | 8.1 | 14.414 h |
| May | 15.8°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 52 | 10.1 | 16.817 h |
| June | 19.4°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 71 | 11.7 | 18.218 h |
| July | 21.6°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 77 | 11.6 | 17.618 h |
| August | 20.5°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 69 | 12.4 | 15.415 h |
| September | 15.9°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 53 | 9.5 | 12.913 h |
| October | 9.8°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 53 | 10.3 | 10.310 h |
| November | 4.7°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 48 | 10.1 | 7.98 h |
| December | 1.7°C-2.0°C | -2.0°C | 45 | 10.3 | 6.57 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
- Norrköping in AprilSweden · 38 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 2.2°C · 35 mm rain
- Örebro in AprilSweden · 99 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 1.7°C · 39 mm rain
- Jönköping in AprilSweden · 111 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 2.4°C · 42 mm rain
- Västerås in AprilSweden · 144 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 1.4°C · 37 mm rain
- Södertälje in AprilSweden · 145 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low 1.6°C · 33 mm rain
- Huddinge in AprilSweden · 164 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 1.9°C · 33 mm rain
- Haninge in AprilSweden · 168 kmHigh 8.2°C · Low 1.8°C · 32 mm rain
- Stockholm in AprilSweden · 174 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low 1.9°C · 33 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 Linköping) is explained once on the Linköping year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.