Climate averages 1991–2020
Lee's Summit weather
in April.
A mild, wet month: the 7th warmest and the joint 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a mild month in Lee's Summit: daytime highs average 17.8°C and nights cool to about 7.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 124 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes April a wet month (the joint 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 12 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Independence (20 km away). In April its highs average 17.5°C, about as warm as Lee's Summit, with 124 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Lee's Summit ranks 298th of 498 for the warmest April highs and joint 473rd of 498 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 498 cities is 19.4°C; Lee's Summit is 1.6°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 5.3°C to 23.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 124 mm to 143 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
Lee's Summit climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.4°C-5.3°C | -5.3°C | 37 | 5.9 | 9.810 h |
| February | 6.2°C-3.2°C | -3.2°C | 50 | 6.1 | 10.711 h |
| March | 12.2°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 78 | 9.3 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 17.8°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 124 | 11.2 | 13.213 h |
| May | 23.1°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 143 | 12.9 | 14.314 h |
| June | 28.2°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 124 | 11.7 | 14.815 h |
| July | 30.6°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 94 | 9.3 | 14.615 h |
| August | 29.8°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 94 | 9.0 | 13.714 h |
| September | 25.3°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 93 | 8.1 | 12.512 h |
| October | 18.6°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 85 | 8.1 | 11.211 h |
| November | 11.3°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 61 | 6.7 | 10.110 h |
| December | 5.4°C-2.7°C | -2.7°C | 46 | 5.8 | 9.59 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
- Independence in AprilUnited States · 20 kmHigh 17.5°C · Low 7.5°C · 124 mm rain
- Overland Park in AprilUnited States · 26 kmHigh 17.7°C · Low 7.8°C · 120 mm rain
- Kansas City in AprilUnited States · 27 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 7.6°C · 124 mm rain
- Olathe in AprilUnited States · 38 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 7.8°C · 120 mm rain
- Lawrence (Kansas), United States in AprilUnited States · 74 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 8.0°C · 117 mm rain
- Saint Joseph in AprilUnited States · 103 kmHigh 17.3°C · Low 7.0°C · 115 mm rain
- Topeka in AprilUnited States · 113 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 7.7°C · 108 mm rain
- Columbia (Missouri), United States in AprilUnited States · 177 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 8.1°C · 129 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 Lee's Summit) is explained once on the Lee's Summit year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Kansas City and Independence lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.