Climate averages 1991–2020
York weather
in April.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the joint 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in York: daytime highs average 12.0°C and nights cool to about 4.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 58 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the joint 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 00 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Harrogate (30 km away). In April its highs average 11.1°C, 0.8°C cooler than York, with 57 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, York ranks joint 87th of 143 for the warmest April highs and joint 95th of 143 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 143 cities is 12.2°C; York is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 2.9°C to 14.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 58 mm to 55 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
York climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.5°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 54 | 11.8 | 8.08 h |
| February | 7.3°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 46 | 10.1 | 9.710 h |
| March | 9.4°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 46 | 10.7 | 11.812 h |
| April, selected | 12.0°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 58 | 11.5 | 14.014 h |
| May | 14.8°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 55 | 11.5 | 15.916 h |
| June | 17.6°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 71 | 12.2 | 17.017 h |
| July | 19.9°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 66 | 11.9 | 16.617 h |
| August | 19.6°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 72 | 11.5 | 14.915 h |
| September | 17.0°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 57 | 10.0 | 12.813 h |
| October | 13.3°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 61 | 11.5 | 10.611 h |
| November | 9.3°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 59 | 11.2 | 8.69 h |
| December | 6.6°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 58 | 11.1 | 7.57 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
- Harrogate in AprilUnited Kingdom · 30 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 3.4°C · 57 mm rain
- Leeds in AprilUnited Kingdom · 35 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 4.1°C · 58 mm rain
- Wakefield in AprilUnited Kingdom · 41 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 4.1°C · 58 mm rain
- Bradford in AprilUnited Kingdom · 48 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 3.9°C · 65 mm rain
- Doncaster in AprilUnited Kingdom · 48 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 4.3°C · 58 mm rain
- Scunthorpe in AprilUnited Kingdom · 51 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 4.3°C · 52 mm rain
- Barnsley in AprilUnited Kingdom · 52 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 3.9°C · 63 mm rain
- Kingston upon Hull in AprilUnited Kingdom · 54 kmHigh 11.6°C · Low 5.0°C · 50 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 York) is explained once on the York year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.