Climate averages 1991–2020
Zaporizhzhya weather
in April.
A cool, fairly dry 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 Zaporizhzhya: daytime highs average 14.8°C and nights cool to about 5.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 39 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the joint 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 37 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Nikopol (63 km away). In April its highs average 14.0°C, 0.8°C cooler than Zaporizhzhya, with 39 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Ukraine, Zaporizhzhya ranks joint 9th of 59 for the warmest April highs and joint 10th of 59 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 59 cities is 14.0°C; Zaporizhzhya is 0.8°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 6.5°C to 21.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 39 mm to 44 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
Zaporizhzhya 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-4.9°C | -4.9°C | 37 | 8.4 | 8.99 h |
| February | 1.3°C-4.8°C | -4.8°C | 31 | 6.5 | 10.210 h |
| March | 7.1°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 40 | 8.3 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 14.8°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 39 | 6.9 | 13.614 h |
| May | 21.3°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 44 | 8.6 | 15.115 h |
| June | 25.4°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 47 | 8.5 | 15.916 h |
| July | 28.0°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 35 | 6.4 | 15.616 h |
| August | 27.8°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 30 | 4.8 | 14.314 h |
| September | 21.5°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 42 | 6.6 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.1°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 34 | 6.0 | 10.911 h |
| November | 6.4°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 38 | 6.6 | 9.39 h |
| December | 1.5°C-2.8°C | -2.8°C | 39 | 7.6 | 8.58 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
- Nikopol in AprilUkraine · 63 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 6.0°C · 39 mm rain
- Dnipro in AprilUkraine · 69 kmHigh 14.8°C · Low 5.1°C · 43 mm rain
- Kamyanske in AprilUkraine · 83 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 5.1°C · 45 mm rain
- Samar in AprilUkraine · 87 kmHigh 14.9°C · Low 5.0°C · 45 mm rain
- Pavlohrad in AprilUkraine · 94 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 4.8°C · 43 mm rain
- Melitopol in AprilUkraine · 113 kmHigh 15.3°C · Low 5.8°C · 39 mm rain
- Kryvyy Rih in AprilUkraine · 129 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 4.9°C · 40 mm rain
- Oleksandriya in AprilUkraine · 174 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 4.7°C · 42 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 Zaporizhzhya) is explained once on the Zaporizhzhya year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.