France
Nice in April
🌷 SpringCool and some showers.
🎒 Pack: light layers
Why April scores 9.1What goes into the score
How it works- Weather comfort9.0
- ✓Cool (17°C highs / 11°C lows)
- ✓Comfortable humidity (dew point 9.9°C)
- ✓Mostly dry (~69 mm rain)
- Air quality9.1
- ✓Good (within WHO guideline) (PM2.5 ~11 µg/m³)
- Seasonal hazards10.0
- ·No notable seasonal hazards
- Safety baseline7.5
- ·Increased caution
| Apr | May | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 9.1 Excellent | 9.6 Excellent |
| Season | 🌷 Spring | 🌷 Spring |
| High / low | 17° / 11° | 21° / 15° |
| Rain | 69 mm | 40 mm |
| Humidity | dew pt 10° | dew pt 14° |
| PM2.5 | 11 µg/m³ | 8 µg/m³ |
Typical-month data: NASA POWER (MERRA-2 reanalysis) 2015–2024 (modelled, not a forecast). Temperatures: Nice weather-station normals. Rainfall: Nice weather-station normals (national met service).
Holidays & crowdsApril 2027
No long holidaysNo long public-holiday weekends this month. School holidays aren't counted, so check those if you want to avoid family crowds.
No national public holidays in France this month.
National holidays only; regional holidays and school breaks aren't included. Source: holidays (open-source public-holiday calendar).
Explore NiceEvents, sights, food & souvenirs
Check event dates locallyThe main city of the French Riviera, with a seafront promenade, a pastel old town, art museums and easy access to Monaco and hilltop villages.
No major events on our calendar for April.
Coming up later
Monaco Grand PrixDate variesUsually late May or early June
The Formula 1 street race in Monte Carlo.
Why go: Hotels in Nice fill up with race visitors.
Where: Monaco, a short train ride away
Bastille DayEvery year14 July every year
France's national day, usually with fireworks over the bay.
Why go: Public holiday; the seafront is very crowded.
Where: Seafront
Nice Jazz FestivalDate variesUsually July
A long-running jazz and contemporary music festival.
Why go: Evening concerts; tickets sell out for headline nights.
Where: Place Masséna and Théâtre de Verdure
Promenade des Anglais
The long seafront walkway along the Baie des Anges.
💡 The beaches are pebbly; water shoes help.
Vieux Nice and Cours Saleya
The old town's narrow lanes and the Cours Saleya flower and food market.
Colline du Château
A hilltop park on the site of the old castle with views over the bay and port.
Musée Matisse
A museum of Matisse's work in a villa in the Cimiez district.
Musée Marc Chagall
A museum built to house Chagall's biblical paintings.
Èze and Villefranche-sur-Mer
A clifftop medieval village and a harbour town nearby along the coast.
Socca
A thin, crisp chickpea-flour pancake cooked in a wood-fired oven.
💡 Stalls in Vieux Nice and the Cours Saleya
Salade niçoise
A salad of tomatoes, eggs, olives, anchovies or tuna and raw vegetables.
Pissaladière
An onion tart topped with anchovies and black olives.
Pan bagnat
A round sandwich filled with the ingredients of a salade niçoise.
Petits farcis
Vegetables stuffed with meat and herbs, then baked.
Olive oil
Oil from local Cailletier olives.
💡 Olive oil shops in Vieux Nice
Candied fruit
Whole candied fruit and flowers, a traditional Riviera confection.
Provençal fabrics
Brightly printed cotton tablecloths and textiles.
💡 Shops and market stalls in the old town
Perfume
Fragrances from nearby Grasse, France's perfume capital.