Climate averages 1991–2020
Nashua weather
in April.
A cool, wet month: the 7th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Nashua: daytime highs average 13.3°C and nights cool to about 3.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 94 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes April a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 21 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lowell (19 km away). In April its highs average 13.5°C, about as warm as Nashua, with 95 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Nashua ranks joint 437th of 498 for the warmest April highs and joint 320th of 498 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 498 cities is 19.4°C; Nashua is 6.0°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 6.0°C to 19.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 94 mm to 81 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
Nashua climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0.4°C-8.4°C | -8.4°C | 80 | 9.6 | 9.49 h |
| February | 2.0°C-7.5°C | -7.5°C | 76 | 8.5 | 10.511 h |
| March | 6.4°C-3.2°C | -3.2°C | 103 | 10.9 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 13.3°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 94 | 10.5 | 13.413 h |
| May | 19.3°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 81 | 10.8 | 14.615 h |
| June | 24.6°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 90 | 10.8 | 15.315 h |
| July | 27.9°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 86 | 10.3 | 15.015 h |
| August | 26.9°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 85 | 9.6 | 13.914 h |
| September | 22.5°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 86 | 8.0 | 12.513 h |
| October | 15.5°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 97 | 9.3 | 11.111 h |
| November | 9.0°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 86 | 9.4 | 9.810 h |
| December | 3.3°C-4.2°C | -4.2°C | 105 | 10.3 | 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
- Lowell in AprilUnited States · 19 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 3.4°C · 95 mm rain
- Manchester, United States in AprilUnited States · 26 kmHigh 13.0°C · Low 2.5°C · 95 mm rain
- Lawrence (Massachusetts), United States in AprilUnited States · 26 kmHigh 13.4°C · Low 3.5°C · 95 mm rain
- Newton in AprilUnited States · 52 kmHigh 13.4°C · Low 3.9°C · 93 mm rain
- Lynn in AprilUnited States · 54 kmHigh 11.4°C · Low 4.2°C · 103 mm rain
- Boston in AprilUnited States · 56 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 3.5°C · 100 mm rain
- Dorchester in AprilUnited States · 61 kmHigh 13.0°C · Low 3.8°C · 100 mm rain
- Worcester, United States in AprilUnited States · 62 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 3.2°C · 95 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 Nashua) is explained once on the Nashua year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.