Climate averages 1991–2020
Metz weather
in August.
A warm, moderately wet month: one of the warmest and the joint 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Metz: daytime highs average 24.0°C and nights cool to about 14.8°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 64 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the joint 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 24 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Nancy (48 km away). In August its highs average 24.2°C, about as warm as Metz, with 68 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Metz ranks joint 40th of 57 for the warmest August highs and joint 36th of 57 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 57 cities is 25.0°C; Metz is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.3°C to 19.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 64 mm to 68 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Metz climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.1°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 67 | 12.2 | 8.79 h |
| February | 6.6°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 58 | 10.8 | 10.110 h |
| March | 10.5°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 60 | 11.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.4°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 55 | 11.0 | 13.714 h |
| May | 18.2°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 70 | 12.2 | 15.315 h |
| June | 21.7°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 64 | 10.9 | 16.116 h |
| July | 24.0°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 60 | 10.9 | 15.816 h |
| August, selected | 24.0°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 64 | 11.0 | 14.414 h |
| September | 19.7°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 68 | 9.3 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.8°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 69 | 11.4 | 10.811 h |
| November | 9.2°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 72 | 12.7 | 9.29 h |
| December | 5.7°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 84 | 14.0 | 8.38 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
August in nearby cities
- Nancy in AugustFrance · 48 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 14.9°C · 68 mm rain
- Luxembourg in AugustLuxembourg · 55 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 13.7°C · 62 mm rain
- Saarbrücken in AugustGermany · 62 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 15.0°C · 60 mm rain
- Trier in AugustGermany · 78 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 14.1°C · 70 mm rain
- Kaiserslautern in AugustGermany · 121 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 15.3°C · 65 mm rain
- Strasbourg in AugustFrance · 130 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 15.3°C · 76 mm rain
- Reims in AugustFrance · 157 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 14.5°C · 64 mm rain
- Karlsruhe in AugustGermany · 163 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 15.8°C · 62 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Metz) is explained once on the Metz year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.