Climate averages 1991–2020
Grand Rapids 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 Grand Rapids: daytime highs average 13.2°C and nights cool to about 3.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 101 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes April a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 22 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Wyoming (6 km away). In April its highs average 13.2°C, about as warm as Grand Rapids, with 101 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Grand Rapids ranks joint 441st of 498 for the warmest April highs and joint 369th of 498 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 498 cities is 19.4°C; Grand Rapids is 6.2°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 6.4°C to 19.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 101 mm to 108 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
Grand Rapids climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -1.2°C-8.2°C | -8.2°C | 62 | 10.5 | 9.49 h |
| February | 0.1°C-8.3°C | -8.3°C | 50 | 8.1 | 10.510 h |
| March | 6.1°C-3.3°C | -3.3°C | 63 | 9.3 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 13.2°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 101 | 12.1 | 13.413 h |
| May | 19.6°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 108 | 11.9 | 14.615 h |
| June | 24.8°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 95 | 11.3 | 15.315 h |
| July | 26.8°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 96 | 10.8 | 15.015 h |
| August | 25.9°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 92 | 10.5 | 13.914 h |
| September | 22.1°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 79 | 9.3 | 12.513 h |
| October | 15.0°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 86 | 11.4 | 11.111 h |
| November | 7.6°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 68 | 10.0 | 9.810 h |
| December | 1.7°C-3.8°C | -3.8°C | 60 | 10.8 | 9.19 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
- Wyoming in AprilUnited States · 6 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 3.0°C · 101 mm rain
- Kalamazoo in AprilUnited States · 75 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 3.5°C · 100 mm rain
- Lansing in AprilUnited States · 94 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 3.2°C · 95 mm rain
- South Bend in AprilUnited States · 150 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 4.1°C · 102 mm rain
- Flint in AprilUnited States · 161 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 2.8°C · 89 mm rain
- Racine in AprilUnited States · 174 kmHigh 7.4°C · Low 3.3°C · 111 mm rain
- Ann Arbor in AprilUnited States · 175 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 3.0°C · 92 mm rain
- Kenosha in AprilUnited States · 181 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low 3.4°C · 114 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 Grand Rapids) is explained once on the Grand Rapids year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Wyoming lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.