Looking to take a week, around the third/fourth week of April.
Considering London, Amsterdam, Prague, Copenhagen. Also possibly Rome/Amalfi as well.
Only been to London and Rome/Amalfi but mainly would go by which has the driest weather that time of the year.
Rome/Amalfi coast may be a bit busy to fit within a week but I've done it before, splitting a week between Rome, Sorrento and Capri, all within a week just before Easter.
Any experiences with these destinations around this time of the year?
Late April ideas?
Recent Activity
View all Europe activity »
- 1 private tour from cruise port in Naples
- 2 Help! Creating a Budget for my DS Graduation Trip to Europe
- 3 Spain and Portugal Itinerary 2 Week Vacation Help
- 4 Airport shuttle from CDG to Paris
- 5 10 days in Andalusia in Feb 2014 - best home base
- 6 Germany with 6 month old.
- 7 Venice - Verona - Padova - Vienna Trip Report
- 8 Which tour company would be best?
- 9 Must-do Day Trips from London
- 10
Just Returned from a Gate 1 Danube River Cruise
- 11 Help with Provence and French Riviera
- 12 Southeast England - more planning ?
- 13 Any experience with Chateau des Monthairons (Dieue-sur-Meuse near Verdun)?
- 14 The Adventure Begins.. Sarge56 in Italy
- 15 Apartment in Seville
- 16 Irish Pub Arrival Time ?
- 17
Venice - another trip report (deja vu all over again)
- 18 Germany and Italy
- 19 day trips from Stuttgart
- 20 Hotels in Sorrento
- 21
A bit of Scotland, wing mirror casualty, 7 days in London, and a Fodors GTG
- 22 Bathrooms Along This Itinerary (Day in Rome)
- 23 two weeks in Croatia Bosnia and Montenegro
- 24 Need a focus/theme for trip
- 25 EU Rule On Olive Oil Roils Europe!
Amsterdam may or may not be dry then, but it does have tulips, and if you are there on the 30th Queen's Day and the investiture of the new King.
However if you want to be sure of dry then go south. London/Copenhagen/Amsterdam are all subject to April showers and could have worse. There again they could have brilliant weather.
FOund a site, holiday-weather.com, which indicates April is one of the best months of the year, in terms of average rainfall, for those cities.
Certainly still more rain than Southern Europe but relatively dry at that time of the year.
I guess July and August would increase the odds of getting sun but well that may not be an option this year.
Tulips are in bloom?
Tulips are in bloom second half of April, beginning of May. Normally. If we have a ridiculously warm spring it may be a bit earlier, but that affects the May part of the season, not the April part. A cold spring may slow things down a bit but even then by mid April tulips are blooming.
The last couple of years April/May has had far better weather here, both for sun and lack of rain, than July/August, which have been disappointingly cold and extremely wet.
Amsterdam has been highlighted as a destination this year because of the reopening of 2 major museums after long renovations.
But dry weather is more important than museums to me.
Then as I said you need to go south.