Climate averages 1991–2020
Cherkasy weather
in April.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 6th warmest and the joint 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Cherkasy: daytime highs average 13.4°C and nights cool to about 5.3°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 joint 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 42 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kropyvnytskyi (105 km away). In April its highs average 14.7°C, 1.3°C warmer than Cherkasy, with 39 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Ukraine, Cherkasy ranks 46th of 59 for the warmest April highs and 8th of 59 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 59 cities is 14.0°C; Cherkasy is 0.6°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 6.8°C to 20.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 37 mm to 55 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
Cherkasy climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -1.2°C-5.2°C | -5.2°C | 34 | 8.1 | 8.79 h |
| February | 0.2°C-4.9°C | -4.9°C | 31 | 6.8 | 10.110 h |
| March | 5.3°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 39 | 8.6 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 13.4°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 37 | 8.1 | 13.714 h |
| May | 20.2°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 55 | 9.9 | 15.315 h |
| June | 24.0°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 64 | 10.7 | 16.216 h |
| July | 25.9°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 60 | 9.5 | 15.816 h |
| August | 25.3°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 40 | 6.6 | 14.414 h |
| September | 19.2°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 53 | 8.0 | 12.713 h |
| October | 12.2°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 41 | 7.4 | 10.811 h |
| November | 5.1°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 38 | 7.3 | 9.29 h |
| December | 0.4°C-3.2°C | -3.2°C | 37 | 8.1 | 8.38 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
- Kropyvnytskyi in AprilUkraine · 105 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 4.7°C · 39 mm rain
- Kremenchuk in AprilUkraine · 107 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 5.2°C · 41 mm rain
- Oleksandriya in AprilUkraine · 115 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 4.7°C · 42 mm rain
- Bila Tserkva in AprilUkraine · 145 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 4.3°C · 46 mm rain
- Brovary in AprilUkraine · 149 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 4.4°C · 42 mm rain
- Uman in AprilUkraine · 154 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 4.8°C · 46 mm rain
- Kyiv in AprilUkraine · 157 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 4.1°C · 44 mm rain
- Poltava in AprilUkraine · 181 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 4.0°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 Cherkasy) is explained once on the Cherkasy year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.