Weather in Kingston upon Hull in April

Shoulder season. April is shoulder season in Kingston upon Hull — cheaper, quieter, and a genuine gamble. Highs sit at 13.1 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

April ranks 6 of 12 in Kingston upon Hull: past the worst of the year but short of September, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 10 days, 1 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 13.1 °C the difference between a good day and a miserable one is entirely down to what you are wearing.

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 24.2 °C and the coldest night fell to -3 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 31 mm — roughly 67% of the month's rain in one day.

April is moderately variable: 10 mm in the driest year against 143 mm in the wettest, around an average of 46 mm. Roughly two Aprils in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 11.6 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 83%, which at 13.1 °C means damp rather than muggy — the kind of cold that gets into a coat and stays there.

How April sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 3.2 °C warmer than March, and May adds another 3 °C. Late in the month feels noticeably different from the start of it, which is worth knowing if the trip is short.

Daylight in April

14 hours of daylight, gaining 2.1 hours across the month. That is between Kingston upon Hull's extremes of 17 and 7.5 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 7.3 °C in April — too cold to swim without a wetsuit. The sea peaks at 15.8 °C in August and bottoms out at 6.5 °C — water lags the air by a month or two, which is why the best swimming often comes after the best weather.

How busy it gets

Shoulder. The value months — prices ease off and you get the place closer to itself.

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

April in Kingston upon Hull versus nearby

If Kingston upon Hull is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Manchester is the weaker option in April — within a degree on temperature, 4 days more rain. Birmingham is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain.

So: April works, with September the better month by 17 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

Every month in Kingston upon Hull

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