Climate averages 1991–2020
Burnley weather
in April.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Burnley: daytime highs average 11.3°C and nights cool to about 3.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 77 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 59 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Blackburn (17 km away). In April its highs average 11.2°C, about as warm as Burnley, with 75 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Burnley ranks joint 116th of 143 for the warmest April highs and joint 142nd of 143 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 143 cities is 12.2°C; Burnley is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.0°C to 14.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 77 mm to 82 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
Burnley climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.9°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 106 | 15.9 | 8.08 h |
| February | 6.5°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 95 | 14.1 | 9.710 h |
| March | 8.6°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 88 | 13.9 | 11.812 h |
| April, selected | 11.3°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 77 | 13.6 | 14.014 h |
| May | 14.3°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 82 | 13.6 | 15.916 h |
| June | 16.8°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 95 | 14.6 | 17.017 h |
| July | 18.5°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 101 | 16.1 | 16.517 h |
| August | 18.1°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 106 | 16.0 | 14.815 h |
| September | 15.9°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 89 | 13.1 | 12.813 h |
| October | 12.4°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 104 | 15.1 | 10.611 h |
| November | 8.6°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 103 | 15.9 | 8.69 h |
| December | 6.2°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 118 | 15.6 | 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
- Blackburn in AprilUnited Kingdom · 17 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 3.8°C · 75 mm rain
- Rochdale in AprilUnited Kingdom · 21 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 3.8°C · 66 mm rain
- Halifax, United Kingdom in AprilUnited Kingdom · 27 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 3.9°C · 65 mm rain
- Bolton in AprilUnited Kingdom · 27 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 4.0°C · 65 mm rain
- Oldham in AprilUnited Kingdom · 30 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 3.6°C · 67 mm rain
- Preston in AprilUnited Kingdom · 31 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 4.7°C · 72 mm rain
- Bradford in AprilUnited Kingdom · 32 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 3.9°C · 65 mm rain
- Huddersfield in AprilUnited Kingdom · 34 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 4.3°C · 65 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 Burnley) is explained once on the Burnley year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.