Climate averages 1991–2020
Barnsley weather
in April.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the joint 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Barnsley: daytime highs average 11.7°C and nights cool to about 3.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 63 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the joint 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 58 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Wakefield (15 km away). In April its highs average 11.9°C, about as warm as Barnsley, with 58 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Barnsley ranks joint 107th of 143 for the warmest April highs and joint 108th of 143 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 143 cities is 12.2°C; Barnsley is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.0°C to 14.7°C, and monthly rainfall stays at 63 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
Barnsley climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.1°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 62 | 12.9 | 8.18 h |
| February | 6.8°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 56 | 11.7 | 9.810 h |
| March | 9.0°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 57 | 12.2 | 11.812 h |
| April, selected | 11.7°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 63 | 12.4 | 14.014 h |
| May | 14.7°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 63 | 12.2 | 15.916 h |
| June | 17.3°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 78 | 12.8 | 16.917 h |
| July | 19.4°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 75 | 13.3 | 16.516 h |
| August | 19.1°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 79 | 13.0 | 14.815 h |
| September | 16.5°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 63 | 10.4 | 12.813 h |
| October | 12.8°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 68 | 12.7 | 10.611 h |
| November | 8.9°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 68 | 12.9 | 8.79 h |
| December | 6.4°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 70 | 13.1 | 7.68 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
- Wakefield in AprilUnited Kingdom · 15 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 4.1°C · 58 mm rain
- Rotherham in AprilUnited Kingdom · 16 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 4.6°C · 58 mm rain
- Sheffield in AprilUnited Kingdom · 19 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 4.6°C · 63 mm rain
- Huddersfield in AprilUnited Kingdom · 23 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 4.3°C · 65 mm rain
- Doncaster in AprilUnited Kingdom · 23 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 4.3°C · 58 mm rain
- Leeds in AprilUnited Kingdom · 28 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 4.1°C · 58 mm rain
- Halifax, United Kingdom in AprilUnited Kingdom · 30 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 3.9°C · 65 mm rain
- High Peak in AprilUnited Kingdom · 31 kmHigh 10.5°C · Low 3.2°C · 73 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 Barnsley) is explained once on the Barnsley year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Sheffield lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.