Climate averages 1991–2020
Nîmes weather
in August.
A hot, fairly dry month: the 2nd warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Nîmes: daytime highs average 30.4°C and nights cool to about 19.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 34 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes August a fairly dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 00 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Avignon (38 km away). In August its highs average 30.7°C, about as warm as Nîmes, with 42 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Nîmes ranks 2nd of 57 for the warmest August highs and 11th of 57 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 57 cities is 25.0°C; Nîmes is 5.4°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 5.3°C to 25.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 34 mm to 99 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
Nîmes climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10.4°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 63 | 7.6 | 9.39 h |
| February | 11.8°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 38 | 5.4 | 10.410 h |
| March | 15.6°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 46 | 6.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 18.5°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 64 | 8.4 | 13.413 h |
| May | 22.7°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 52 | 7.3 | 14.715 h |
| June | 27.6°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 33 | 5.0 | 15.415 h |
| July | 30.8°C19.3°C | 19.3°C | 21 | 3.2 | 15.115 h |
| August, selected | 30.4°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 34 | 4.3 | 14.014 h |
| September | 25.1°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 99 | 6.6 | 12.613 h |
| October | 19.8°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 106 | 9.4 | 11.111 h |
| November | 14.2°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 99 | 10.0 | 9.710 h |
| December | 10.9°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 56 | 8.1 | 9.09 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
- Avignon in AugustFrance · 38 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 19.0°C · 42 mm rain
- Montpellier in AugustFrance · 46 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 19.0°C · 26 mm rain
- Aix-en-Provence in AugustFrance · 94 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 18.1°C · 23 mm rain
- Marseille 15 in AugustFrance · 95 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 18.8°C · 14 mm rain
- Marseille in AugustFrance · 102 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 20.1°C · 14 mm rain
- Béziers in AugustFrance · 107 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 18.6°C · 28 mm rain
- Toulon in AugustFrance · 149 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 20.6°C · 11 mm rain
- Perpignan in AugustFrance · 173 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 19.5°C · 30 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 Nîmes) is explained once on the Nîmes year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.