Climate averages 1991–2020
Sunderland weather
in April.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Sunderland: daytime highs average 11.1°C and nights cool to about 4.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 51 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 04 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is South Shields (11 km away). In April its highs average 11.0°C, about as warm as Sunderland, with 51 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Sunderland ranks joint 123rd of 143 for the warmest April highs and joint 42nd of 143 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 143 cities is 12.2°C; Sunderland is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 2.8°C to 13.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 51 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
Sunderland climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.5°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 53 | 12.2 | 7.98 h |
| February | 7.1°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 46 | 11.0 | 9.610 h |
| March | 8.9°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 43 | 10.6 | 11.812 h |
| April, selected | 11.1°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 51 | 11.0 | 14.114 h |
| May | 13.9°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 48 | 11.3 | 16.116 h |
| June | 16.6°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 60 | 11.5 | 17.217 h |
| July | 19.0°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 61 | 12.0 | 16.717 h |
| August | 18.7°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 68 | 12.3 | 15.015 h |
| September | 16.4°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 52 | 9.7 | 12.813 h |
| October | 12.9°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 58 | 11.8 | 10.511 h |
| November | 9.2°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 62 | 12.5 | 8.58 h |
| December | 6.7°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 59 | 12.4 | 7.37 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
- South Shields in AprilUnited Kingdom · 11 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 4.9°C · 51 mm rain
- Newcastle upon Tyne in AprilUnited Kingdom · 17 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 4.3°C · 51 mm rain
- Hartlepool in AprilUnited Kingdom · 27 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 4.9°C · 51 mm rain
- Stockton-on-Tees in AprilUnited Kingdom · 38 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 4.7°C · 53 mm rain
- Middlesbrough in AprilUnited Kingdom · 38 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 4.9°C · 53 mm rain
- Darlington in AprilUnited Kingdom · 44 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 3.8°C · 55 mm rain
- Carlisle in AprilUnited Kingdom · 99 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 3.7°C · 66 mm rain
- Harrogate in AprilUnited Kingdom · 102 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 3.4°C · 57 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 Sunderland) is explained once on the Sunderland year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Newcastle upon Tyne and South Shields lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.