Climate averages 1991–2020
Rize weather
in April.
A cool, wet month: the 7th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Rize: daytime highs average 14.5°C and nights cool to about 7.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 115 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes April a wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 17 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Batumi (115 km away). In April its highs average 17.0°C, 2.6°C warmer than Rize, with 98 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Rize ranks joint 118th of 138 for the warmest April highs and 133rd of 138 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 138 cities is 17.3°C; Rize is 2.9°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 4.0°C to 18.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 115 mm to 152 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
Rize climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.1°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 134 | 15.0 | 9.610 h |
| February | 8.2°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 108 | 13.5 | 10.611 h |
| March | 10.5°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 134 | 16.2 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 14.5°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 115 | 16.8 | 13.313 h |
| May | 18.4°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 152 | 19.3 | 14.514 h |
| June | 21.5°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 169 | 19.0 | 15.115 h |
| July | 23.5°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 169 | 20.1 | 14.815 h |
| August | 24.0°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 193 | 22.0 | 13.814 h |
| September | 21.8°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 236 | 18.1 | 12.513 h |
| October | 18.9°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 227 | 17.0 | 11.111 h |
| November | 14.4°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 157 | 12.6 | 9.910 h |
| December | 10.4°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 132 | 13.3 | 9.39 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
- Batumi in AprilGeorgia · 115 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 7.9°C · 98 mm rain
- Erzurum in AprilTurkey · 139 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low -0.9°C · 84 mm rain
- Erzincan in AprilTurkey · 167 kmHigh 12.1°C · Low 3.1°C · 88 mm rain
- Giresun in AprilTurkey · 180 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 8.0°C · 106 mm rain
- Kars in AprilTurkey · 221 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low -0.8°C · 99 mm rain
- Ordu in AprilTurkey · 221 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 7.5°C · 95 mm rain
- Kutaisi in AprilGeorgia · 228 kmHigh 17.7°C · Low 7.4°C · 121 mm rain
- Bingöl in AprilTurkey · 238 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 3.5°C · 149 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 Rize) is explained once on the Rize year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.