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The coolest places in Europe in April: ranked by average high temperature

Longyearbyen tops the list at -8.1 °C in April. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations in Europe.

Top three in April: Longyearbyen (-8.1 °C) , Surgut (0.7 °C) , Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (1.1 °C) . Between first and 50th place the avg high differs by 17 °C.

# Destination Country Avg high Avg high Avg low Rainfall Wet days Sunshine Sea temp
1 Longyearbyen Svalbard and Jan Mayen -8.1 °C -8.1 °C -12 °C 24 mm 7 349 h –
2 Surgut Russia 0.7 °C 0.7 °C -7.6 °C 35 mm 9 275 h –
3 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Russia 1.1 °C 1.1 °C -4.8 °C 95 mm 10 283 h 0.7 °C
4 Nizhnevartovsk Russia 1.4 °C 1.4 °C -6.9 °C 37 mm 9 283 h –
5 Yakutsk Russia 1.6 °C 1.6 °C -9.6 °C 10 mm 3 352 h –
6 Murmansk Russia 2.1 °C 2.1 °C -4.8 °C 35 mm 9 288 h –
7 Severodvinsk Russia 3.2 °C 3.2 °C -3.9 °C 32 mm 8 294 h -0.2 °C
8 Bratsk Russia 3.3 °C 3.3 °C -4.6 °C 19 mm 6 325 h –
9 Arkhangel’sk Russia 4.0 °C 4.0 °C -4.0 °C 33 mm 8 286 h –
10 Oulu Finland 4.2 °C 4.2 °C -2.9 °C 30 mm 7 302 h 0.3 °C
11 Syktyvkar Russia 4.9 °C 4.9 °C -4.1 °C 38 mm 9 262 h –
12 Berezniki Russia 5.2 °C 5.2 °C -3.4 °C 46 mm 10 273 h –
13 Petrozavodsk Russia 5.2 °C 5.2 °C -1.9 °C 38 mm 9 288 h –
14 Mariehamn Aland Islands 5.4 °C 5.4 °C 1.6 °C 30 mm 7 322 h 2.5 °C
15 Reykjavík Iceland 5.6 °C 5.6 °C 0.02 °C 104 mm 16 283 h 5.6 °C
16 Tomsk Russia 5.7 °C 5.7 °C -4.4 °C 34 mm 9 298 h –
17 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Russia 5.8 °C 5.8 °C -1.7 °C 70 mm 10 293 h –
18 Komsomolsk-on-Amur Russia 6.4 °C 6.4 °C -2.9 °C 40 mm 8 298 h –
19 Tampere Finland 6.5 °C 6.5 °C -0.9 °C 34 mm 8 282 h –
20 Cherepovets Russia 6.6 °C 6.6 °C -1.2 °C 35 mm 8 288 h –
21 Perm Russia 6.7 °C 6.7 °C -2.6 °C 39 mm 8 282 h –
22 Zlatoust Russia 6.9 °C 6.9 °C -2.8 °C 40 mm 9 295 h –
23 Kemerovo Russia 7.0 °C 7.0 °C -3.1 °C 38 mm 10 298 h –
24 Kirov Russia 7.0 °C 7.0 °C -2.0 °C 40 mm 9 279 h –
25 Helsinki Finland 7.0 °C 7.0 °C 0.1 °C 37 mm 8 302 h 2.2 °C
26 Tórshavn Faroe Islands 7.0 °C 7.0 °C 3.9 °C 71 mm 16 269 h 7.0 °C
27 Vladivostok Russia 7.0 °C 7.0 °C 2.0 °C 44 mm 7 300 h 3.1 °C
28 Nizhny Tagil Russia 7.2 °C 7.2 °C -2.7 °C 37 mm 8 280 h –
29 Saint Petersburg Russia 7.2 °C 7.2 °C -0.4 °C 40 mm 9 291 h –
30 Krasnoyarsk Russia 7.4 °C 7.4 °C -2.9 °C 31 mm 9 305 h –
31 Novosibirsk Russia 7.5 °C 7.5 °C -3.1 °C 31 mm 8 306 h –
32 Vologda Russia 7.6 °C 7.6 °C -1.5 °C 38 mm 8 280 h –
33 Tyumen Russia 7.7 °C 7.7 °C -2.4 °C 29 mm 6 303 h –
34 Yekaterinburg Russia 7.7 °C 7.7 °C -2.3 °C 35 mm 7 292 h –
35 Trondheim Norway 7.9 °C 7.9 °C -0.3 °C 67 mm 13 300 h –
36 Izhevsk Russia 7.9 °C 7.9 °C -1.5 °C 38 mm 8 294 h –
37 Vantaa Finland 8.0 °C 8.0 °C -0.3 °C 37 mm 9 301 h 2.2 °C
38 Prokop’yevsk Russia 8.1 °C 8.1 °C -2.6 °C 40 mm 10 302 h –
39 Kazan Russia 8.1 °C 8.1 °C -0.9 °C 36 mm 7 298 h –
40 Kostroma Russia 8.3 °C 8.3 °C -0.9 °C 40 mm 9 281 h –
41 Turku Finland 8.3 °C 8.3 °C -0.07 °C 33 mm 8 310 h –
42 Stavanger Norway 8.4 °C 8.4 °C 3.5 °C 84 mm 13 298 h 6.2 °C
43 Rybinsk Russia 8.5 °C 8.5 °C -0.4 °C 37 mm 8 291 h –
44 Miass Russia 8.5 °C 8.5 °C -2.1 °C 35 mm 7 302 h –
45 Chita Russia 8.6 °C 8.6 °C -3.1 °C 15 mm 4 335 h –
46 Naberezhnyye Chelny Russia 8.7 °C 8.7 °C -0.6 °C 34 mm 7 299 h –
47 Tallinn Estonia 8.7 °C 8.7 °C 0.7 °C 37 mm 9 303 h 2.4 °C
48 Bergen Norway 8.7 °C 8.7 °C 2.1 °C 133 mm 15 286 h 6.2 °C
49 Novokuznetsk Russia 8.7 °C 8.7 °C -2.3 °C 46 mm 11 297 h –
50 Yaroslavl Russia 8.8 °C 8.8 °C -0.7 °C 39 mm 9 282 h –

Monthly values for the month named in the ranking; only destinations with a published climate page are ranked. Download this ranking as CSV.

The same ranking one month earlier and later

March: top 5

  1. Sevilla 20 °C
  2. Murcia 20 °C
  3. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 20 °C
  4. Córdoba 19 °C
  5. Jerez de la Frontera 19 °C

Full ranking for March

May: top 5

  1. Longyearbyen -1.6 °C
  2. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 5.8 °C
  3. Murmansk 7.5 °C
  4. Tórshavn 8.6 °C
  5. Reykjavík 9.3 °C

Full ranking for May

How this ranking is built

What is ranked
The average daily high temperature, in °C, in April, lowest first.
Period
1991–2020 climate normals: the same 30 years for every destination, so the list compares like with like.
Who is included
50 destinations in Europe with a published climate page. Neighbouring places that share a climate series are shown once.
Ties
Equal values are ordered by population.
Sources
ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis via Open-Meteo; sea temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1. Measured values are reproduced unchanged; only the ordering is ours.

Data sources and method

Normal period
1991–2020
Dataset version
era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: ranking order, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.