Umea is typically cool in April.

Maximum temperatures go up compared to the previous month from 0°C to +5°C. The minimum temperature also goes up from -7°C to -2°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 Umea:

April often has better weather than March. It’s getting warmer as April arrives. The average maximum temperature goes up from 0°C to +5°C during the day. Prepare for more rain. Average rainfall goes from 3 mm to 13 mm. It feels drier, as humidity decreases from 79% to 74%. Winds are calmer in comparison to March, going down from 3 m/s to 2 m/s on average. The good news is there are likely to be more sunny days in April, from 6 to 8.

May brings much the same weather, it remains good.

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

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

The average temperature was the lowest in 1985 (+4°C) and the highest in 2020 (+9°C). The driest year was 2002 with only 256 mm of rainfall, and the wettest year was 2012 with 650 mm.

For this page, we’ve looked at the typical weather in Umea, 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.