Climate averages 1991–2020
Nîmes weather
in October.
A mild, wet month: the 6th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a mild month in Nîmes: daytime highs average 19.8°C and nights cool to about 11.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 106 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes October a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 03 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Avignon (38 km away). In October its highs average 20.0°C, about as warm as Nîmes, with 97 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Nîmes ranks 3rd of 57 for the warmest October highs and 50th of 57 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 57 cities is 16.8°C; Nîmes is 3.0°C warmer than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 5.6°C to 14.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 106 mm to 99 mm.
The annual picture
October 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 | 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, selected | 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
October in nearby cities
- Avignon in OctoberFrance · 38 kmHigh 20.0°C · Low 11.5°C · 97 mm rain
- Montpellier in OctoberFrance · 46 kmHigh 19.0°C · Low 12.5°C · 114 mm rain
- Aix-en-Provence in OctoberFrance · 94 kmHigh 19.5°C · Low 11.0°C · 88 mm rain
- Marseille 15 in OctoberFrance · 95 kmHigh 19.5°C · Low 11.9°C · 82 mm rain
- Marseille in OctoberFrance · 102 kmHigh 19.6°C · Low 13.8°C · 88 mm rain
- Béziers in OctoberFrance · 107 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 12.3°C · 119 mm rain
- Toulon in OctoberFrance · 149 kmHigh 19.6°C · Low 14.3°C · 91 mm rain
- Perpignan in OctoberFrance · 173 kmHigh 20.1°C · Low 12.7°C · 87 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.