Weather in Annecy in April

A good month. April works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs average 15.5 °C, lows 6.3 °C, and rain falls on 11 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

April ranks 7 of 12 in Annecy: past the worst of the year but short of September, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 11 days, 3 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Pack for 15.5 °C days and 6.3 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

The averages here are honest — no hidden extremes worth planning around. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest April day reached 25.5 °C and the coldest night fell to -3.1 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 28 mm — roughly 37% of the month's rain in one day.

April is moderately variable: 20 mm in the driest year against 144 mm in the wettest, around an average of 75 mm. Roughly two Aprils in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 5.8 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 76%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How April sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 4.5 °C warmer than March, and May adds another 3.6 °C. Late in the month feels noticeably different from the start of it, which is worth knowing if the trip is short. Rain is the thing that moves: May brings 5 days more of it, so the earlier half of a flexible trip is the safer half.

Daylight in April

13.5 hours of daylight, gaining 1.5 hours across the month. That is between Annecy's extremes of 15.7 and 8.7 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 27.3 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

How busy it gets

Busy. Popular without being frantic; book the things you care about, improvise the rest.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

April in Annecy versus nearby

If Annecy is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Chamonix-Mont-Blanc is the weaker option in April — 4 °C cooler, 2 days more rain. Lyon is a better bet in April — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain.

So: April works, with September the better month by 16 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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