Climate averages 1991–2020
Hartford weather
in April.
A cool, wet month: the 7th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Hartford: daytime highs average 14.7°C and nights cool to about 3.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 91 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes April a wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 19 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is New Britain (14 km away). In April its highs average 14.6°C, about as warm as Hartford, with 91 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Hartford ranks joint 368th of 498 for the warmest April highs and joint 282nd of 498 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 498 cities is 19.4°C; Hartford is 4.6°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 5.6°C to 20.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 91 mm to 84 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
Hartford climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.0°C-6.9°C | -6.9°C | 84 | 9.3 | 9.510 h |
| February | 3.6°C-6.1°C | -6.1°C | 76 | 8.7 | 10.611 h |
| March | 8.0°C-2.1°C | -2.1°C | 103 | 10.5 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 14.7°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 91 | 10.8 | 13.313 h |
| May | 20.4°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 84 | 10.9 | 14.515 h |
| June | 25.4°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 96 | 11.5 | 15.215 h |
| July | 28.6°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 89 | 10.6 | 14.915 h |
| August | 27.6°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 100 | 10.1 | 13.914 h |
| September | 23.4°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 97 | 8.5 | 12.513 h |
| October | 16.6°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 103 | 9.2 | 11.111 h |
| November | 10.3°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 84 | 8.5 | 9.910 h |
| December | 4.7°C-3.1°C | -3.1°C | 104 | 10.0 | 9.29 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
- New Britain in AprilUnited States · 14 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 4.0°C · 91 mm rain
- Waterbury in AprilUnited States · 38 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 4.4°C · 97 mm rain
- Springfield (Massachusetts), United States in AprilUnited States · 38 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 3.5°C · 90 mm rain
- New Haven in AprilUnited States · 55 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 5.2°C · 116 mm rain
- Danbury in AprilUnited States · 76 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 4.4°C · 97 mm rain
- Bridgeport in AprilUnited States · 77 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 5.3°C · 104 mm rain
- Worcester, United States in AprilUnited States · 92 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 3.2°C · 95 mm rain
- Norwalk in AprilUnited States · 94 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 5.5°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 Hartford) is explained once on the Hartford year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
New Britain lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.