Climate averages 1991–2020
Lviv weather
in April.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Lviv: daytime highs average 13.5°C and nights cool to about 4.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 55 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 43 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Drohobych (65 km away). In April its highs average 13.3°C, about as warm as Lviv, with 70 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Ukraine, Lviv ranks joint 41st of 59 for the warmest April highs and joint 56th of 59 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 59 cities is 14.0°C; Lviv is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 4.9°C to 18.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 55 mm to 93 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
Lviv climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -0.1°C-5.1°C | -5.1°C | 39 | 9.9 | 8.69 h |
| February | 1.5°C-4.4°C | -4.4°C | 43 | 10.8 | 10.110 h |
| March | 6.6°C-1.1°C | -1.1°C | 49 | 11.2 | 11.812 h |
| April, selected | 13.5°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 55 | 11.9 | 13.714 h |
| May | 18.4°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 93 | 14.9 | 15.415 h |
| June | 21.7°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 94 | 14.7 | 16.316 h |
| July | 23.4°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 112 | 15.2 | 15.916 h |
| August | 23.2°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 81 | 11.8 | 14.514 h |
| September | 18.1°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 72 | 10.4 | 12.713 h |
| October | 12.5°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 56 | 9.6 | 10.811 h |
| November | 6.5°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 47 | 10.2 | 9.19 h |
| December | 1.3°C-3.2°C | -3.2°C | 46 | 10.9 | 8.28 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
- Drohobych in AprilUkraine · 65 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 3.4°C · 70 mm rain
- Ivano-Frankivsk in AprilUkraine · 113 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 3.7°C · 53 mm rain
- Ternopil in AprilUkraine · 117 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 3.7°C · 52 mm rain
- Lutsk in AprilUkraine · 139 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 4.1°C · 46 mm rain
- Rzeszów in AprilPoland · 147 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 4.4°C · 59 mm rain
- Rivne in AprilUkraine · 180 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 3.9°C · 48 mm rain
- Mukachevo in AprilUkraine · 182 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 4.5°C · 66 mm rain
- Uzhhorod in AprilUkraine · 184 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 4.6°C · 49 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 Lviv) is explained once on the Lviv year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.