Climate averages 1991–2020
Bradford weather
in April.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Bradford: daytime highs average 11.5°C and nights cool to about 3.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 65 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 59 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Halifax, United Kingdom (11 km away). In April its highs average 11.3°C, about as warm as Bradford, with 65 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Bradford ranks joint 111th of 143 for the warmest April highs and joint 117th of 143 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 143 cities is 12.2°C; Bradford is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.0°C to 14.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 65 mm to 64 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
Bradford climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.1°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 73 | 14.1 | 8.18 h |
| February | 6.7°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 66 | 12.8 | 9.710 h |
| March | 8.8°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 64 | 12.7 | 11.812 h |
| April, selected | 11.5°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 65 | 12.6 | 14.014 h |
| May | 14.4°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 64 | 12.5 | 15.916 h |
| June | 17.0°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 78 | 13.7 | 17.017 h |
| July | 19.0°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 77 | 14.0 | 16.517 h |
| August | 18.6°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 82 | 14.2 | 14.815 h |
| September | 16.2°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 69 | 11.4 | 12.813 h |
| October | 12.6°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 75 | 13.2 | 10.611 h |
| November | 8.8°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 74 | 13.6 | 8.69 h |
| December | 6.4°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 82 | 13.8 | 7.58 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
- Halifax, United Kingdom in AprilUnited Kingdom · 11 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 3.9°C · 65 mm rain
- Leeds in AprilUnited Kingdom · 13 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 4.1°C · 58 mm rain
- Huddersfield in AprilUnited Kingdom · 16 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 4.3°C · 65 mm rain
- Wakefield in AprilUnited Kingdom · 21 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 4.1°C · 58 mm rain
- Harrogate in AprilUnited Kingdom · 26 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 3.4°C · 57 mm rain
- Burnley in AprilUnited Kingdom · 32 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 3.7°C · 77 mm rain
- Barnsley in AprilUnited Kingdom · 32 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 3.9°C · 63 mm rain
- Rochdale in AprilUnited Kingdom · 33 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 3.8°C · 66 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 Bradford) is explained once on the Bradford year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Huddersfield and Halifax, United Kingdom lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.