Climate averages 1991–2020

Lakewood weather
in April.

A cool, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 14.2°C Daytime mean, April
Average low -0.6°C Night-time mean, April
Rainfall 70 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Lakewood · average highYear overview

April is a cool month in Lakewood: daytime highs average 14.2°C and nights cool to about -0.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 70 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 13 min on an average April day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Denver (9 km away). In April its highs average 14.4°C, about as warm as Lakewood, with 70 mm of rain.

Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Lakewood ranks joint 396th of 498 for the warmest April highs and joint 202nd of 498 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 498 cities is 19.4°C; Lakewood is 5.2°C cooler than that mean.

From April to May, average highs rise by 5.4°C to 19.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 70 mm to 82 mm.

The annual picture

April in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -15-10-505101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Lakewood climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Lakewood, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 4.7°C-9.0°C-9.0°C225.29.710 h
February 5.9°C-8.5°C-8.5°C235.910.711 h
March 10.6°C-4.7°C-4.7°C477.611.912 h
April, selected 14.2°C-0.6°C-0.6°C709.913.213 h
May 19.6°C5.0°C5.0°C8211.014.314 h
June 26.0°C10.7°C10.7°C528.314.915 h
July 29.2°C14.4°C14.4°C417.214.715 h
August 28.1°C13.7°C13.7°C396.413.714 h
September 24.1°C9.4°C9.4°C365.812.512 h
October 16.9°C2.6°C2.6°C406.111.211 h
November 9.6°C-4.4°C-4.4°C305.910.010 h
December 4.4°C-9.1°C-9.1°C214.99.49 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

Distance from Lakewood

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Lakewood) is explained once on the Lakewood year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Denver, Thornton and Westminster (Colorado), United States lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.