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Ostend in April

good · a good time to go · the driest month of the year

The year in Ostend

Tap a month for its page

  1. Ostend in January: avoid
  2. Ostend in February: ok
  3. Ostend in March: ok
  4. Ostend in April: good
  5. Ostend in May: sweet spot
  6. Ostend in June: sweet spot, busy
  7. Ostend in July: sweet spot, busy
  8. Ostend in August: sweet spot, busy
  9. Ostend in September: sweet spot
  10. Ostend in October: ok
  11. Ostend in November: avoid
  12. Ostend in December: avoid
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
April at Ostend is 13°C by day and 6°C at night, with 6 rainy days and about 11 hours of sun a day. 13C max, 6 rainy days.

The numbers

Daily high13°C
Nightly low6°C
Feels like, afternoon11°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more6 · 47 mm
Humidity74%
Sunshine10.5 h/day
Daylight13.9 h/day
Crowds80 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at the centre, by the beach: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

April: about usual. Busiest from June to August; quietest from December to March.

Public holidays in April

Holidays crowd a place out; they count toward the crowd score above.

Ostend in pictures

What to pack

  • Warm layers for the evenings, which drop to about 6°C.
  • A packable rain jacket for the 6 or so rainy days.
  • Sun protection: about 11 hours of sunshine a day.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type C and E plugs at 230 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Euro. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for Belgium: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Ostend: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

April elsewhere

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