Climate averages 1991–2020
Nîmes weather
in February.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 10th warmest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a cool month in Nîmes: daytime highs average 11.8°C and nights cool to about 3.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 38 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes February a fairly dry month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 27 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Avignon (38 km away). In February its highs average 11.6°C, about as warm as Nîmes, with 42 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Nîmes ranks joint 4th of 57 for the warmest February highs and 1st of 57 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 57 cities is 9.0°C; Nîmes is 2.8°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 3.8°C to 15.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 38 mm to 46 mm.
The annual picture
February 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, selected | 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 | 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
February in nearby cities
- Avignon in FebruaryFrance · 38 kmHigh 11.6°C · Low 2.6°C · 42 mm rain
- Montpellier in FebruaryFrance · 46 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 4.1°C · 42 mm rain
- Aix-en-Provence in FebruaryFrance · 94 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 1.5°C · 44 mm rain
- Marseille 15 in FebruaryFrance · 95 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 2.6°C · 41 mm rain
- Marseille in FebruaryFrance · 102 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 5.0°C · 48 mm rain
- Béziers in FebruaryFrance · 107 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 4.1°C · 51 mm rain
- Toulon in FebruaryFrance · 149 kmHigh 11.8°C · Low 5.8°C · 49 mm rain
- Perpignan in FebruaryFrance · 173 kmHigh 12.1°C · Low 3.9°C · 43 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.