Climate averages 1991–2020
Poltava weather
in April.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the joint 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Poltava: daytime highs average 13.9°C and nights cool to about 4.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 43 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the joint 7th 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 Kremenchuk (102 km away). In April its highs average 14.4°C, 0.5°C warmer than Poltava, with 41 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Ukraine, Poltava ranks 31st of 59 for the warmest April highs and joint 20th of 59 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 59 cities is 14.0°C; Poltava is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 6.5°C to 20.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 43 mm to 52 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
Poltava climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -2.0°C-6.7°C | -6.7°C | 39 | 8.6 | 8.79 h |
| February | -0.6°C-6.6°C | -6.6°C | 31 | 7.2 | 10.110 h |
| March | 5.3°C-2.6°C | -2.6°C | 43 | 9.7 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 13.9°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 43 | 9.0 | 13.714 h |
| May | 20.4°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 52 | 10.4 | 15.315 h |
| June | 24.3°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 60 | 10.1 | 16.216 h |
| July | 26.3°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 56 | 9.8 | 15.816 h |
| August | 25.9°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 42 | 6.6 | 14.414 h |
| September | 19.6°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 47 | 7.1 | 12.713 h |
| October | 12.2°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 42 | 7.2 | 10.811 h |
| November | 4.4°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 37 | 7.9 | 9.29 h |
| December | -0.4°C-4.7°C | -4.7°C | 40 | 7.9 | 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
- Kremenchuk in AprilUkraine · 102 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 5.2°C · 41 mm rain
- Samar in AprilUkraine · 118 kmHigh 14.9°C · Low 5.0°C · 45 mm rain
- Kamyanske in AprilUkraine · 119 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 5.1°C · 45 mm rain
- Kharkiv in AprilUkraine · 130 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 3.9°C · 42 mm rain
- Dnipro in AprilUkraine · 130 kmHigh 14.8°C · Low 5.1°C · 43 mm rain
- Oleksandriya in AprilUkraine · 146 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 4.7°C · 42 mm rain
- Sumy in AprilUkraine · 149 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 3.3°C · 43 mm rain
- Pavlohrad in AprilUkraine · 152 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 4.8°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 Poltava) is explained once on the Poltava year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.