Climate averages 1991–2020
Lowestoft weather
in April.
A cool, fairly dry month: the joint 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 Lowestoft: daytime highs average 10.3°C and nights cool to about 6.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 37 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 53 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Norwich (35 km away). In April its highs average 12.3°C, 2.0°C warmer than Lowestoft, with 43 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Lowestoft ranks 140th of 143 for the warmest April highs and 1st of 143 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 143 cities is 12.2°C; Lowestoft is 1.8°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 2.8°C to 13.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 37 mm to 48 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
Lowestoft climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.0°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 64 | 13.1 | 8.38 h |
| February | 6.8°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 53 | 10.8 | 9.910 h |
| March | 8.2°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 48 | 10.7 | 11.812 h |
| April, selected | 10.3°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 37 | 8.8 | 13.914 h |
| May | 13.2°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 48 | 8.7 | 15.716 h |
| June | 16.2°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 54 | 10.1 | 16.717 h |
| July | 18.7°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 59 | 11.2 | 16.316 h |
| August | 19.2°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 64 | 10.2 | 14.715 h |
| September | 17.2°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 66 | 11.0 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.0°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 81 | 12.9 | 10.711 h |
| November | 10.3°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 79 | 14.5 | 8.89 h |
| December | 7.7°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 72 | 13.6 | 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
- Norwich in AprilUnited Kingdom · 35 kmHigh 12.3°C · Low 5.2°C · 43 mm rain
- Ipswich in AprilUnited Kingdom · 62 kmHigh 12.3°C · Low 5.7°C · 41 mm rain
- Colchester in AprilUnited Kingdom · 87 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 5.9°C · 45 mm rain
- Cambridge, United Kingdom in AprilUnited Kingdom · 115 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 5.0°C · 48 mm rain
- Chelmsford in AprilUnited Kingdom · 120 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 5.6°C · 46 mm rain
- Saint Peters in AprilUnited Kingdom · 125 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 6.8°C · 42 mm rain
- Southend-on-Sea in AprilUnited Kingdom · 126 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 6.3°C · 47 mm rain
- Basildon in AprilUnited Kingdom · 134 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 5.9°C · 45 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 Lowestoft) is explained once on the Lowestoft year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.