Climate averages 1991–2020
Zürich weather
in April.
A cool, wet month: the 7th warmest and the joint 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Zürich: daytime highs average 14.1°C and nights cool to about 4.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 106 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes April a wet month (the joint 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 35 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Winterthur (20 km away). In April its highs average 13.8°C, about as warm as Zürich, with 85 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Switzerland, Zürich ranks 3rd of 8 for the warmest April highs and 6th of 8 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 8 cities is 13.6°C; Zürich is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.8°C to 17.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 106 mm to 144 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
Zürich climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.8°C-1.4°C | -1.4°C | 92 | 12.9 | 8.99 h |
| February | 6.1°C-1.5°C | -1.5°C | 85 | 11.9 | 10.210 h |
| March | 10.3°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 98 | 14.2 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 14.1°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 106 | 13.9 | 13.614 h |
| May | 17.9°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 144 | 16.0 | 15.115 h |
| June | 21.4°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 143 | 15.5 | 15.916 h |
| July | 23.3°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 146 | 15.4 | 15.516 h |
| August | 23.2°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 147 | 14.4 | 14.314 h |
| September | 18.9°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 123 | 12.4 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.6°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 103 | 12.7 | 10.911 h |
| November | 8.8°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 106 | 13.0 | 9.49 h |
| December | 5.2°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 106 | 14.0 | 8.59 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
- Winterthur in AprilSwitzerland · 20 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 4.0°C · 85 mm rain
- Luzern in AprilSwitzerland · 40 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 3.9°C · 135 mm rain
- Konstanz in AprilGermany · 57 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 6.3°C · 80 mm rain
- Sankt Gallen in AprilSwitzerland · 62 kmHigh 12.0°C · Low 2.1°C · 102 mm rain
- Basel in AprilSwitzerland · 76 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 4.6°C · 90 mm rain
- Villingen-Schwenningen in AprilGermany · 77 kmHigh 12.0°C · Low 2.8°C · 87 mm rain
- Vaduz in AprilLiechtenstein · 77 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 3.4°C · 126 mm rain
- Freiburg in AprilGermany · 87 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 5.6°C · 74 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 Zürich) is explained once on the Zürich year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.