Climate averages 1991–2020
Nîmes weather
in July.
A hot, fairly dry month: the warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
July is a hot month in Nîmes: daytime highs average 30.8°C and nights cool to about 19.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 21 mm of rain on roughly 3 days, which makes July a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 06 min on an average July day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Avignon (38 km away). In July its highs average 31.2°C, about as warm as Nîmes, with 26 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Nîmes ranks 2nd of 57 for the warmest July highs and 10th of 57 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 57 cities is 24.9°C; Nîmes is 5.9°C warmer than that mean.
From July to August, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 30.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 21 mm to 34 mm.
The annual picture
July 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, selected | 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
July in nearby cities
- Avignon in JulyFrance · 38 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 19.3°C · 26 mm rain
- Montpellier in JulyFrance · 46 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 18.9°C · 14 mm rain
- Aix-en-Provence in JulyFrance · 94 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 18.2°C · 19 mm rain
- Marseille 15 in JulyFrance · 95 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 18.8°C · 9.8 mm rain
- Marseille in JulyFrance · 102 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 19.9°C · 10 mm rain
- Béziers in JulyFrance · 107 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 18.4°C · 16 mm rain
- Toulon in JulyFrance · 149 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 20.2°C · 8.3 mm rain
- Perpignan in JulyFrance · 173 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 19.3°C · 19 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.