Climate averages 1991–2020

Venlo weather
in April.

A cool, moderately wet month: the joint 6th warmest and the driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 14.5°C Daytime mean, April
Average low 5.4°C Night-time mean, April
Rainfall 48 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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April is a cool month in Venlo: daytime highs average 14.5°C and nights cool to about 5.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 48 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 49 min on an average April day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Viersen (20 km away). In April its highs average 14.3°C, about as warm as Venlo, with 49 mm of rain.

Among the 44 cities listed in the Netherlands, Venlo ranks 1st of 44 for the warmest April highs and joint 20th of 44 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 44 cities is 13.4°C; Venlo is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.

From April to May, average highs rise by 3.7°C to 18.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 48 mm to 61 mm.

The annual picture

April in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -5051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Venlo climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Venlo, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 5.5°C0.9°C0.9°C6612.58.48 h
February 6.7°C1.0°C1.0°C5911.59.910 h
March 10.3°C2.8°C2.8°C5812.111.812 h
April, selected 14.5°C5.4°C5.4°C4810.713.814 h
May 18.2°C9.4°C9.4°C6111.515.616 h
June 21.0°C12.5°C12.5°C7012.016.517 h
July 23.1°C14.8°C14.8°C7812.616.116 h
August 22.8°C14.5°C14.5°C7711.914.615 h
September 19.2°C11.7°C11.7°C6410.712.713 h
October 14.5°C8.5°C8.5°C6511.410.711 h
November 9.5°C4.7°C4.7°C6412.48.99 h
December 6.1°C1.9°C1.9°C7413.58.08 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

Distance from Venlo

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Venlo) is explained once on the Venlo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.