Climate averages 1991–2020
Nîmes weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Nîmes: daytime highs average 10.4°C and nights cool to about 3.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 63 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 19 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Avignon (38 km away). In January its highs average 10.3°C, about as warm as Nîmes, with 59 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Nîmes ranks joint 8th of 57 for the warmest January highs and joint 27th of 57 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 57 cities is 8.0°C; Nîmes is 2.4°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.4°C to 11.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 63 mm to 38 mm.
The annual picture
January 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, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Avignon in JanuaryFrance · 38 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 2.5°C · 59 mm rain
- Montpellier in JanuaryFrance · 46 kmHigh 10.5°C · Low 4.3°C · 71 mm rain
- Aix-en-Provence in JanuaryFrance · 94 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 1.7°C · 54 mm rain
- Marseille 15 in JanuaryFrance · 95 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 2.8°C · 59 mm rain
- Marseille in JanuaryFrance · 102 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 5.4°C · 63 mm rain
- Béziers in JanuaryFrance · 107 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 4.3°C · 73 mm rain
- Toulon in JanuaryFrance · 149 kmHigh 11.4°C · Low 6.2°C · 62 mm rain
- Perpignan in JanuaryFrance · 173 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 3.7°C · 58 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.