Climate averages 1991–2020
New York City weather
in April.
A mild, wet month: the 7th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a mild month in New York City: daytime highs average 15.0°C and nights cool to about 5.3°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 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 16 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Manhattan (8 km away). In April its highs average 15.1°C, about as warm as New York City, with 91 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, New York City ranks joint 361st 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; New York City is 4.4°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 5.4°C to 20.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 91 mm to 85 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
New York City climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.1°C-4.8°C | -4.8°C | 81 | 9.1 | 9.610 h |
| February | 4.4°C-4.5°C | -4.5°C | 77 | 8.4 | 10.611 h |
| March | 8.7°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 105 | 10.2 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 15.0°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 91 | 10.6 | 13.313 h |
| May | 20.4°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 85 | 10.9 | 14.414 h |
| June | 25.5°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 100 | 11.2 | 15.015 h |
| July | 28.5°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 103 | 11.1 | 14.815 h |
| August | 27.4°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 101 | 10.4 | 13.814 h |
| September | 23.6°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 94 | 9.4 | 12.513 h |
| October | 17.3°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 97 | 8.5 | 11.211 h |
| November | 11.2°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 77 | 8.0 | 10.010 h |
| December | 5.8°C-1.4°C | -1.4°C | 100 | 9.7 | 9.39 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
- Manhattan in AprilUnited States · 8 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 5.2°C · 91 mm rain
- Brooklyn in AprilUnited States · 9 kmHigh 14.9°C · Low 5.6°C · 91 mm rain
- Newark in AprilUnited States · 14 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 5.6°C · 94 mm rain
- Queens in AprilUnited States · 15 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 5.8°C · 92 mm rain
- Passaic in AprilUnited States · 19 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 5.2°C · 94 mm rain
- The Bronx in AprilUnited States · 19 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 5.2°C · 92 mm rain
- Staten Island in AprilUnited States · 20 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 6.0°C · 90 mm rain
- Yonkers in AprilUnited States · 26 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 5.3°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 New York City) is explained once on the New York City year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Brooklyn and Manhattan lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.