Climate averages 1991–2020
Cleveland weather
in April.
A cool, wet month: the 7th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Cleveland: daytime highs average 13.3°C and nights cool to about 4.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 104 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes April a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 18 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Parma, United States (11 km away). In April its highs average 14.1°C, 0.8°C warmer than Cleveland, with 104 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Cleveland ranks joint 437th of 498 for the warmest April highs and joint 385th of 498 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 498 cities is 19.4°C; Cleveland is 6.0°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 6.4°C to 19.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 104 mm to 97 mm.
The annual picture
April in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Cleveland climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0.7°C-5.7°C | -5.7°C | 81 | 12.9 | 9.510 h |
| February | 1.7°C-5.4°C | -5.4°C | 66 | 10.4 | 10.611 h |
| March | 6.1°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 84 | 11.7 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 13.3°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 104 | 13.7 | 13.313 h |
| May | 19.7°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 97 | 13.6 | 14.514 h |
| June | 24.6°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 112 | 13.2 | 15.115 h |
| July | 26.7°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 99 | 12.1 | 14.915 h |
| August | 25.8°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 88 | 11.6 | 13.814 h |
| September | 22.4°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 85 | 10.5 | 12.513 h |
| October | 16.0°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 87 | 11.7 | 11.111 h |
| November | 9.2°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 87 | 12.4 | 9.910 h |
| December | 3.5°C-1.8°C | -1.8°C | 81 | 12.6 | 9.29 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Parma, United States in AprilUnited States · 11 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 4.6°C · 104 mm rain
- Akron in AprilUnited States · 49 kmHigh 15.3°C · Low 4.4°C · 109 mm rain
- Canton (Ohio), United States in AprilUnited States · 82 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 4.7°C · 108 mm rain
- Detroit in AprilUnited States · 145 kmHigh 13.0°C · Low 4.1°C · 91 mm rain
- Erie in AprilUnited States · 151 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 4.2°C · 109 mm rain
- Dearborn in AprilUnited States · 153 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 3.8°C · 91 mm rain
- Warren in AprilUnited States · 155 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 3.4°C · 87 mm rain
- Toledo, United States in AprilUnited States · 156 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 4.4°C · 93 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 Cleveland) is explained once on the Cleveland year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Parma, United States lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.