Climate averages 1991–2020

Weather in France.

ClimaNote covers 57 cities in France, starting with Paris, Marseille and Lyon. Open a city for charts and a table of all 12 months, or open a month for a side-by-side comparison of cities in the atlas.

Across these cities the yearly average high ranges from 13.7°C in Calais to 20.0°C in Avignon, and yearly rainfall from 576 mm in Marseille 15 to 1,447 mm in Grenoble. The hottest city-month is July in Avignon, with an average high of 31.2°C, and the coolest is January in Mulhouse, at 5.0°C. By single month, the most rain falls in May in Pau, with 159 mm, and the least in July in Toulon, with 8.3 mm.

August is the warmest month in 40 cities and July in 9 (in 8 other cities two or more months tie); January is the coolest in 56 cities and February in 1. December is the wettest month in 28 cities, November in 15, May in 6, October in 4 and August in 1 (in 3 other cities two or more months tie); July is the driest in 23 cities, September in 14, February in 9 and April in 6 (in 5 other cities two or more months tie). None of these cities has a month with an average high below 2.0°C, a month with under 1 mm of rain or a month with more than 300 mm of rain.