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The driest places in Europe in April: ranked by rainfall

Yakutsk tops the list at 10 mm in April. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations in Europe.

Top three in April: Yakutsk (10 mm) , Valletta (15 mm) , Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (15 mm) . Between first and 50th place the rainfall differs by 25 mm.

# Destination Country Rainfall Avg high Avg low Rainfall Wet days Sunshine Sea temp
1 Yakutsk Russia 10 mm 1.6 °C -9.6 °C 10 mm 3 352 h –
2 Valletta Malta 15 mm 17 °C 14 °C 15 mm 3 343 h 16 °C
3 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain 15 mm 20 °C 16 °C 15 mm 4 356 h 19 °C
4 Ulan-Ude Russia 15 mm 9.4 °C -2.4 °C 15 mm 4 343 h –
5 Chita Russia 15 mm 8.6 °C -3.1 °C 15 mm 4 335 h –
6 Limassol Cyprus 16 mm 22 °C 13 °C 16 mm 4 354 h 18 °C
7 Almería Spain 19 mm 22 °C 13 °C 19 mm 4 358 h 16 °C
8 La Laguna Spain 19 mm 17 °C 14 °C 19 mm 4 355 h 19 °C
9 Bratsk Russia 19 mm 3.3 °C -4.6 °C 19 mm 6 325 h –
10 Angarsk Russia 20 mm 9.8 °C -2.4 °C 20 mm 5 335 h –
11 Irkutsk Russia 22 mm 9.4 °C -2.6 °C 22 mm 6 336 h –
12 Abakan Russia 24 mm 11 °C -1.3 °C 24 mm 7 318 h –
13 Longyearbyen Svalbard and Jan Mayen 24 mm -8.1 °C -12 °C 24 mm 7 349 h –
14 Cartagena Spain 26 mm 19 °C 13 °C 26 mm 4 348 h 16 °C
15 Astrakhan Russia 26 mm 16 °C 5.5 °C 26 mm 5 297 h –
16 Blagoveshchensk Russia 26 mm 10 °C -1.3 °C 26 mm 5 318 h –
17 Athens Greece 28 mm 20 °C 10 °C 28 mm 5 348 h 16 °C
18 Kurgan Russia 28 mm 9.5 °C -1.4 °C 28 mm 6 304 h –
19 Rubtsovsk Russia 29 mm 12 °C -0.9 °C 29 mm 7 312 h –
20 Omsk Russia 29 mm 9.1 °C -2.0 °C 29 mm 7 307 h –
21 Tyumen Russia 29 mm 7.7 °C -2.4 °C 29 mm 6 303 h –
22 Nicosia Cyprus 29 mm 23 °C 12 °C 29 mm 5 354 h 18 °C
23 Chelyabinsk Russia 30 mm 9.3 °C -1.1 °C 30 mm 7 305 h –
24 Mariehamn Aland Islands 30 mm 5.4 °C 1.6 °C 30 mm 7 322 h 2.5 °C
25 Oulu Finland 30 mm 4.2 °C -2.9 °C 30 mm 7 302 h 0.3 °C
26 Sevastopol Ukraine 30 mm 13 °C 6.9 °C 30 mm 7 319 h 10 °C
27 Makhachkala Russia 31 mm 14 °C 7.7 °C 31 mm 7 302 h 8.9 °C
28 Volgograd Russia 31 mm 15 °C 4.4 °C 31 mm 6 293 h –
29 Odesa Ukraine 31 mm 14 °C 6.4 °C 31 mm 7 311 h 8.8 °C
30 Novosibirsk Russia 31 mm 7.5 °C -3.1 °C 31 mm 8 306 h –
31 Krasnoyarsk Russia 31 mm 7.4 °C -2.9 °C 31 mm 9 305 h –
32 Severodvinsk Russia 32 mm 3.2 °C -3.9 °C 32 mm 8 294 h -0.2 °C
33 Elche Spain 32 mm 21 °C 11 °C 32 mm 5 344 h 16 °C
34 Poznań Poland 33 mm 14 °C 4.2 °C 33 mm 8 299 h –
35 Stockholm Sweden 33 mm 8.9 °C 1.6 °C 33 mm 8 314 h 3.3 °C
36 Kamensk-Ural’skiy Russia 33 mm 9.0 °C -1.3 °C 33 mm 7 296 h –
37 Murcia Spain 33 mm 23 °C 10 °C 33 mm 5 345 h –
38 Turku Finland 33 mm 8.3 °C -0.07 °C 33 mm 8 310 h –
39 Arkhangel’sk Russia 33 mm 4.0 °C -4.0 °C 33 mm 8 286 h –
40 Uppsala Sweden 33 mm 9.7 °C 0.8 °C 33 mm 8 300 h –
41 Tampere Finland 34 mm 6.5 °C -0.9 °C 34 mm 8 282 h –
42 Tomsk Russia 34 mm 5.7 °C -4.4 °C 34 mm 9 298 h –
43 Mykolayiv Ukraine 34 mm 15 °C 5.5 °C 34 mm 7 305 h –
44 Orenburg Russia 34 mm 12 °C 0.8 °C 34 mm 7 299 h –
45 Naberezhnyye Chelny Russia 34 mm 8.7 °C -0.6 °C 34 mm 7 299 h –
46 Volgodonsk Russia 34 mm 15 °C 5.4 °C 34 mm 7 290 h –
47 Yekaterinburg Russia 35 mm 7.7 °C -2.3 °C 35 mm 7 292 h –
48 Murmansk Russia 35 mm 2.1 °C -4.8 °C 35 mm 9 288 h –
49 Orsk Russia 35 mm 12 °C 0.1 °C 35 mm 7 307 h –
50 Miass Russia 35 mm 8.5 °C -2.1 °C 35 mm 7 302 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. Yakutsk 4.2 mm
  2. Chita 4.6 mm
  3. Ulan-Ude 5.4 mm
  4. Angarsk 9.2 mm
  5. Blagoveshchensk 10 mm

Full ranking for March

May: top 5

  1. Valletta 6.2 mm
  2. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 8.6 mm
  3. La Laguna 8.9 mm
  4. Almería 12 mm
  5. Limassol 13 mm

Full ranking for May

How this ranking is built

What is ranked
Total precipitation, in mm, 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 fewest wet days.
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.