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The coolest places in the world 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 the world.

Top three in April: Longyearbyen (-8.1 °C) , Nuuk (-2.4 °C) , Surgut (0.7 °C) . Between first and 50th place the avg high differs by 16 °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 Nuuk Greenland -2.4 °C -2.4 °C -7.8 °C 56 mm 8 282 h 0.2 °C
3 Surgut Russia 0.7 °C 0.7 °C -7.6 °C 35 mm 9 275 h –
4 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Russia 1.1 °C 1.1 °C -4.8 °C 95 mm 10 283 h 0.7 °C
5 Nizhnevartovsk Russia 1.4 °C 1.4 °C -6.9 °C 37 mm 9 283 h –
6 Yakutsk Russia 1.6 °C 1.6 °C -9.6 °C 10 mm 3 352 h –
7 Murmansk Russia 2.1 °C 2.1 °C -4.8 °C 35 mm 9 288 h –
8 Saint-Pierre Saint Pierre and Miquelon 2.4 °C 2.4 °C 0.4 °C 110 mm 13 246 h 1.5 °C
9 Grytviken South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 2.8 °C 2.8 °C -0.5 °C 147 mm 20 173 h 3.0 °C
10 Severodvinsk Russia 3.2 °C 3.2 °C -3.9 °C 32 mm 8 294 h -0.2 °C
11 Bratsk Russia 3.3 °C 3.3 °C -4.6 °C 19 mm 6 325 h –
12 Arkhangel’sk Russia 4.0 °C 4.0 °C -4.0 °C 33 mm 8 286 h –
13 Oulu Finland 4.2 °C 4.2 °C -2.9 °C 30 mm 7 302 h 0.3 °C
14 Skardu Pakistan 4.9 °C 4.9 °C -4.5 °C 103 mm 14 313 h –
15 Syktyvkar Russia 4.9 °C 4.9 °C -4.1 °C 38 mm 9 262 h –
16 Anchorage United States 5.1 °C 5.1 °C -1.9 °C 40 mm 9 313 h 0.2 °C
17 Berezniki Russia 5.2 °C 5.2 °C -3.4 °C 46 mm 10 273 h –
18 Petrozavodsk Russia 5.2 °C 5.2 °C -1.9 °C 38 mm 9 288 h –
19 Mariehamn Aland Islands 5.4 °C 5.4 °C 1.6 °C 30 mm 7 322 h 2.5 °C
20 Reykjavík Iceland 5.6 °C 5.6 °C 0.02 °C 104 mm 16 283 h 5.6 °C
21 Tomsk Russia 5.7 °C 5.7 °C -4.4 °C 34 mm 9 298 h –
22 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Russia 5.8 °C 5.8 °C -1.7 °C 70 mm 10 293 h –
23 Komsomolsk-on-Amur Russia 6.4 °C 6.4 °C -2.9 °C 40 mm 8 298 h –
24 Tampere Finland 6.5 °C 6.5 °C -0.9 °C 34 mm 8 282 h –
25 Cherepovets Russia 6.6 °C 6.6 °C -1.2 °C 35 mm 8 288 h –
26 Perm Russia 6.7 °C 6.7 °C -2.6 °C 39 mm 8 282 h –
27 Kushiro Japan 6.8 °C 6.8 °C 0.9 °C 86 mm 9 289 h 2.5 °C
28 Zlatoust Russia 6.9 °C 6.9 °C -2.8 °C 40 mm 9 295 h –
29 Kemerovo Russia 7.0 °C 7.0 °C -3.1 °C 38 mm 10 298 h –
30 Kirov Russia 7.0 °C 7.0 °C -2.0 °C 40 mm 9 279 h –
31 Helsinki Finland 7.0 °C 7.0 °C 0.1 °C 37 mm 8 302 h 2.2 °C
32 Tórshavn Faroe Islands 7.0 °C 7.0 °C 3.9 °C 71 mm 16 269 h 7.0 °C
33 Vladivostok Russia 7.0 °C 7.0 °C 2.0 °C 44 mm 7 300 h 3.1 °C
34 Nizhny Tagil Russia 7.2 °C 7.2 °C -2.7 °C 37 mm 8 280 h –
35 Saint Petersburg Russia 7.2 °C 7.2 °C -0.4 °C 40 mm 9 291 h –
36 Krasnoyarsk Russia 7.4 °C 7.4 °C -2.9 °C 31 mm 9 305 h –
37 Halifax Canada 7.4 °C 7.4 °C 1.4 °C 97 mm 12 247 h 2.0 °C
38 Novosibirsk Russia 7.5 °C 7.5 °C -3.1 °C 31 mm 8 306 h –
39 Vologda Russia 7.6 °C 7.6 °C -1.5 °C 38 mm 8 280 h –
40 Daxing’anling China 7.7 °C 7.7 °C -4.2 °C 26 mm 6 319 h –
41 Tyumen Russia 7.7 °C 7.7 °C -2.4 °C 29 mm 6 303 h –
42 Yekaterinburg Russia 7.7 °C 7.7 °C -2.3 °C 35 mm 7 292 h –
43 Tomakomai Japan 7.8 °C 7.8 °C 1.5 °C 78 mm 10 301 h 4.9 °C
44 Trondheim Norway 7.9 °C 7.9 °C -0.3 °C 67 mm 13 300 h –
45 Izhevsk Russia 7.9 °C 7.9 °C -1.5 °C 38 mm 8 294 h –
46 Asahikawa Japan 8.0 °C 8.0 °C -0.4 °C 77 mm 13 278 h –
47 Port-aux-Français French Southern Territories 8.0 °C 8.0 °C 2.6 °C 79 mm 14 187 h 6.1 °C
48 Vantaa Finland 8.0 °C 8.0 °C -0.3 °C 37 mm 9 301 h 2.2 °C
49 Prokop’yevsk Russia 8.1 °C 8.1 °C -2.6 °C 40 mm 10 302 h –
50 Kazan Russia 8.1 °C 8.1 °C -0.9 °C 36 mm 7 298 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. Yola 40 °C
  2. Kayes 39 °C
  3. Malakal 39 °C
  4. N'Djamena 39 °C
  5. Winejok 39 °C

Full ranking for March

May: top 5

  1. Longyearbyen -1.6 °C
  2. Grytviken 0.7 °C
  3. Nuuk 2.6 °C
  4. Saint-Pierre 5.1 °C
  5. Port-aux-Français 5.7 °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 the world 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.