Climate averages 1991–2020
Nancy weather
in August.
A warm, moderately wet month: one of the warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Nancy: daytime highs average 24.2°C and nights cool to about 14.9°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 68 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 22 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Metz (48 km away). In August its highs average 24.0°C, about as warm as Nancy, with 64 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Nancy ranks joint 34th of 57 for the warmest August highs and 42nd of 57 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 57 cities is 25.0°C; Nancy is 0.8°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.4°C to 19.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 68 mm to 71 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
Nancy climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.3°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 71 | 12.8 | 8.89 h |
| February | 6.7°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 61 | 11.3 | 10.110 h |
| March | 10.6°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 66 | 11.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.5°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 59 | 11.1 | 13.714 h |
| May | 18.3°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 74 | 12.5 | 15.215 h |
| June | 21.8°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 67 | 11.2 | 16.116 h |
| July | 24.2°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 63 | 11.2 | 15.716 h |
| August, selected | 24.2°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 68 | 11.5 | 14.414 h |
| September | 19.8°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 71 | 9.8 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.0°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 72 | 11.9 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.3°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 77 | 12.7 | 9.29 h |
| December | 5.9°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 87 | 14.2 | 8.48 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
- Metz in AugustFrance · 48 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 14.8°C · 64 mm rain
- Saarbrücken in AugustGermany · 86 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 15.0°C · 60 mm rain
- Luxembourg in AugustLuxembourg · 103 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 13.7°C · 62 mm rain
- Strasbourg in AugustFrance · 115 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 15.3°C · 76 mm rain
- Trier in AugustGermany · 124 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 14.1°C · 70 mm rain
- Mulhouse in AugustFrance · 134 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 15.1°C · 80 mm rain
- Kaiserslautern in AugustGermany · 143 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 15.3°C · 65 mm rain
- Freiburg in AugustGermany · 145 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 15.6°C · 81 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 Nancy) is explained once on the Nancy year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.