Temperatures are set to sit in the mid 20s and days will be party cloudy.

Night time temperatures will continue to dip into the teens - overnight Sunday the mercury will drop to 11 degrees.

Daylight Saving is behind us, our days have become shorter and the chill of the night air has settled.

Summer has well and truly gone and over the next few nights most of us can expect to reach for the blankets as temperatures dip to as low as 11 degrees.

The Bureau of Meteorology has forecast cooler nights, showers and mild days for the rest of the week and into the Easter long weekend.

While temperatures last week sat in the high 20s, day time temperatures this week have dropped to the mid and low 20s - Saturday tipped as the warmest day with 27 degrees forecast.

Maitland has received a total of 25.2mm of rain so far this month with 15.6mm falling on Saturday April 4.

The wettest April on record was during the April Superstorm of 2015 when a whopping 528.2 mm of rain was dumped on the city.