Climate averages 1991–2020
Gillingham weather
in April.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the joint 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Gillingham: daytime highs average 12.9°C and nights cool to about 5.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 45 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the joint 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 49 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Maidstone (14 km away). In April its highs average 13.3°C, about as warm as Gillingham, with 51 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Gillingham ranks joint 29th of 143 for the warmest April highs and joint 5th of 143 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 143 cities is 12.2°C; Gillingham is 0.8°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.1°C to 16.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 45 mm to 50 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
Gillingham climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.3°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 49 | 10.8 | 8.48 h |
| February | 7.7°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 42 | 9.4 | 9.910 h |
| March | 10.1°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 39 | 9.7 | 11.812 h |
| April, selected | 12.9°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 45 | 11.1 | 13.814 h |
| May | 16.0°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 50 | 9.7 | 15.616 h |
| June | 19.0°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 52 | 9.5 | 16.517 h |
| July | 21.3°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 52 | 10.3 | 16.116 h |
| August | 21.1°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 58 | 9.9 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.3°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 45 | 8.7 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.5°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 56 | 10.5 | 10.711 h |
| November | 10.4°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 57 | 10.6 | 8.99 h |
| December | 7.7°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 55 | 11.0 | 8.08 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
- Maidstone in AprilUnited Kingdom · 14 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 5.8°C · 51 mm rain
- Grays in AprilUnited Kingdom · 18 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 5.7°C · 46 mm rain
- Southend-on-Sea in AprilUnited Kingdom · 20 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 6.3°C · 47 mm rain
- Basildon in AprilUnited Kingdom · 21 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 5.9°C · 45 mm rain
- Bexley in AprilUnited Kingdom · 28 kmHigh 13.4°C · Low 5.5°C · 46 mm rain
- Dagenham in AprilUnited Kingdom · 32 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 5.6°C · 46 mm rain
- Barking in AprilUnited Kingdom · 36 kmHigh 13.4°C · Low 5.5°C · 49 mm rain
- Ilford in AprilUnited Kingdom · 38 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 5.5°C · 49 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 Gillingham) is explained once on the Gillingham year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Basildon lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.