Climate averages 1991–2020
Saint-Étienne weather
in May.
A mild, wet month: the 5th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Saint-Étienne: daytime highs average 18.1°C and nights cool to about 8.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 98 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes May a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 52 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lyon (50 km away). In May its highs average 20.2°C, 2.1°C warmer than Saint-Étienne, with 90 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Saint-Étienne ranks joint 43rd of 57 for the warmest May highs and 53rd of 57 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 57 cities is 18.9°C; Saint-Étienne is 0.8°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.0°C to 22.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 98 mm to 89 mm.
The annual picture
May 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
Saint-Étienne climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.3°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 63 | 12.2 | 9.19 h |
| February | 7.4°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 49 | 10.0 | 10.410 h |
| March | 11.1°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 55 | 11.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.3°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 86 | 12.5 | 13.513 h |
| May, selected | 18.1°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 98 | 13.5 | 14.915 h |
| June | 22.2°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 89 | 12.4 | 15.616 h |
| July | 24.6°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 83 | 10.4 | 15.315 h |
| August | 24.7°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 77 | 9.7 | 14.114 h |
| September | 20.2°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 90 | 9.5 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.8°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 95 | 11.5 | 11.011 h |
| November | 10.1°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 94 | 12.3 | 9.610 h |
| December | 7.0°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 64 | 11.4 | 8.89 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
May in nearby cities
- Lyon in MayFrance · 50 kmHigh 20.2°C · Low 10.4°C · 90 mm rain
- Villeurbanne in MayFrance · 53 kmHigh 19.9°C · Low 10.4°C · 88 mm rain
- Grenoble in MayFrance · 107 kmHigh 20.0°C · Low 10.4°C · 147 mm rain
- Clermont-Ferrand in MayFrance · 108 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 8.5°C · 99 mm rain
- Geneva in MaySwitzerland · 161 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 9.5°C · 144 mm rain
- Avignon in MayFrance · 168 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 12.2°C · 62 mm rain
- Nîmes in MayFrance · 178 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 12.3°C · 52 mm rain
- Montpellier in MayFrance · 207 kmHigh 20.9°C · Low 12.4°C · 48 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 Saint-Étienne) is explained once on the Saint-Étienne year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.