Climate averages 1991–2020
Cambridge, United Kingdom 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 Cambridge, United Kingdom: daytime highs average 13.1°C and nights cool to about 5.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 48 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 52 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Stevenage (40 km away). In April its highs average 12.8°C, about as warm as Cambridge, United Kingdom, with 50 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Cambridge, United Kingdom ranks joint 14th of 143 for the warmest April highs and joint 15th of 143 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 143 cities is 12.2°C; Cambridge, United Kingdom is 0.9°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.1°C to 16.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 48 mm to 54 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
Cambridge, United Kingdom climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.2°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 50 | 10.8 | 8.38 h |
| February | 7.9°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 40 | 9.8 | 9.910 h |
| March | 10.3°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 43 | 10.1 | 11.812 h |
| April, selected | 13.1°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 48 | 10.7 | 13.914 h |
| May | 16.2°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 54 | 10.5 | 15.716 h |
| June | 19.0°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 59 | 10.3 | 16.717 h |
| July | 21.5°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 60 | 11.4 | 16.216 h |
| August | 21.4°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 61 | 10.5 | 14.715 h |
| September | 18.6°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 50 | 9.0 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.5°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 57 | 10.3 | 10.711 h |
| November | 10.2°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 55 | 10.8 | 8.89 h |
| December | 7.4°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 52 | 11.2 | 7.88 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
- Stevenage in AprilUnited Kingdom · 40 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 4.7°C · 50 mm rain
- Bedford in AprilUnited Kingdom · 40 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 4.9°C · 49 mm rain
- Harlow in AprilUnited Kingdom · 47 kmHigh 13.0°C · Low 4.8°C · 50 mm rain
- Peterborough, United Kingdom in AprilUnited Kingdom · 48 kmHigh 13.0°C · Low 4.9°C · 48 mm rain
- Luton in AprilUnited Kingdom · 51 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 4.5°C · 50 mm rain
- Chelmsford in AprilUnited Kingdom · 57 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 5.6°C · 46 mm rain
- St Albans in AprilUnited Kingdom · 59 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 4.9°C · 50 mm rain
- Milton Keynes in AprilUnited Kingdom · 62 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 4.5°C · 51 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 Cambridge) is explained once on the Cambridge, United Kingdom year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.