Rovaniemi is typically cool in April.

Maximum temperatures go up compared to the previous month from -2°C to +4°C. The minimum temperature also goes up from -10°C to -4°C.

Pack a sweater and a jacket as there will be cooler temperatures.

Take a look at how April is compared to other months in Rovaniemi:

April weather is still as ok as in March. It’s getting warmer as April arrives. The average maximum temperature goes up from -2°C to +4°C during the day. Prepare for more rain. Average rainfall goes from 1 mm to 9 mm. It feels drier, as humidity decreases from 80% to 72%. The average wind speed doesn’t change much during April, staying around 3 m/s. The amount of sunny days stay about the same, averaging 5 sunny days during the month.

But maybe it is worth considering traveling in May as the weather gets better.

Here’s how April is compared with other months in the amount of snow, total mm:

The climate in Rovaniemi in April has not changed much over the last 43 years.

The average temperature was the lowest in 1985 (+2°C) and the highest in 2020 (+7°C). The driest year was 1997 with only 206 mm of rainfall, and the wettest year was 2020 with 551 mm.

For this page, we’ve looked at the typical weather in Rovaniemi, based on historical hourly weather data from January 1, 1979, to December 31, 2023.

For past dates, we show actual recorded data at the location at that time. Forecasts are based on recorded weather during that day of the year, averaged over the total years for which we have records (unless stated otherwise). The daily temperature is the highest recorded temperature in the shadow during that day.