Big cities where April is comfortable for a day on foot between sights. Of 100 places with a guide of their own in Europe, 25 rate Good or better in April. These ten are the best of them, spread across the region.
The list
- 183 · IdealPaphosCyprus
A typical midday in April feels like 19°C, and the Easy outdoors rating averages 83 over the stretch. The good spell lasts about two and a half months, from late March to early June. Rain is rare at this time of year. Open it on the map at mid April.
- 278 · GoodAronaSpain
Arona is in the Canary Islands, not on the mainland. Midday in April feels like 18°C under partly cloudy skies, which rates 78, Good, for easy outdoors. This is not a short window: it rates Good or better all year. Rain is rare at this time of year. See mid April on the map.
- 375 · GoodCamasSpain
Midday in April feels like 19°C under partly cloudy skies, which rates 75, Good, for easy outdoors. The good spell lasts about three months, from mid March to early June. Open it on the map at mid April.
- 472 · GoodRéthymnoGreece
Rated 72 (Good) for easy outdoors in April: midday feels like 17°C, with partly cloudy skies. Good weather here runs from April to mid June, so there is room either side. Rain is rare at this time of year. See mid April on the map.
- 570 · GoodValenciaSpain
Midday in April feels like 16°C under partly cloudy skies, which rates 70, Good, for easy outdoors. The good spell lasts about two and a half months, from April to mid June. Open it on the map at mid April.
- 666 · GoodAthensGreece
Rated 66 (Good) for easy outdoors in April: midday feels like 16°C, with partly cloudy skies. Good weather here runs from mid April to mid June, so there is room either side. Rain is rare at this time of year. See mid April on the map.
- 765 · GoodCataniaItaly
Rated 65 (Good) for easy outdoors in April: midday feels like 16°C, with partly cloudy skies. The good spell lasts about two and a half months, from mid April to mid June. Rain is rare at this time of year. Open it on the map at mid April.
- 864 · GoodAlbufeiraPortugal
A typical midday in April feels like 16°C, and the Easy outdoors rating averages 64 over the stretch. Good weather here runs from mid April to mid November, so there is room either side. See mid April on the map.
- 963 · GoodNaplesItaly
Midday in April feels like 16°C under partly cloudy skies, which rates 63, Good, for easy outdoors. The good spell lasts about two months, from mid April to early June. Open it on the map at mid April.
- 1062 · GoodRomeItaly
Rated 62 (Good) for easy outdoors in April: midday feels like 16°C, with partly cloudy skies. Good weather here runs from mid April to early June, so there is room either side. Rain is rare at this time of year. See mid April on the map.
How this list is worked out
The data
Every figure comes from a decade of weather-station observations, blended into one typical year and read at midday, local solar time. Scores here are averaged in April; a city missing a reading for any part of that stretch is left out rather than scored on part of it.
The rating
Easy outdoors: A comfortable feels-like gates the score — best 16–26 °C for an easy day out (strolling, sitting out, sightseeing). Dryness matters most; strong wind knocks it back. Sun is a bonus, not required. A place is also left out when its typical readings contradict its own rating, for example a high score alongside frequent rain.
The spread
To keep one warm corner from filling the list, entries are at least 150 km apart, no more than three sit within 1,000 km of each other, and no more than three come from one country unless the list would otherwise run short.
Only places that draw visitors
Towns and cities with plenty of hotels, guest houses and holiday lets nearby for their size, or a great many of them in all, counted from Overture Maps Places, an open dataset. That keeps out places the weather favours but nobody travels to. Where two places share one resort or city, the one a visitor would name is kept.
The dotted links open the map at that place and time of year, on the same layer. The map remembers the time of day you last chose there; set it to midday to see these exact numbers.