Ideal weather days in Marseille
The best time to visit Marseille for warm, dry weather is May to June and September to October, with 20 to 22 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Marseille's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in May to June and September to October.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Marseille, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold125
- Too windy95
- Too wet32
- Too hot27
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Marseille averaged 147 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in France, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in June, July and August (up to 11 a month, 40 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in April, October and November (up to 11 a month, 64 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 125 a year, mostly in December, January and February. Another 95 are windy (mean wind over 20 km/h), mostly in March to May and October to January. A day can fail more than one test.
Marseille weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14 °C 56 °F | 3 | 8 | 7 | 2 of 31 |
| February | 15 °C 58 °F | 3 | 5 | 7 | 3 of 28 |
| March | 17 °C 63 °F | 4 | 9 | 6 | 12 of 31 |
| April | 20 °C 68 °F | 2 | 10 | 11 | 17 of 30 |
| May | 24 °C 75 °F | 4 | 9 | 6 | 20 of 31 |
| June | 29 °C 84 °F | 3 | 5 | 5 | 20 of 30 |
| July | 32 °C 90 °F | 1 | 11 | 20 | 10 of 31 |
| August | 33 °C 91 °F | 1 | 8 | 14 | 12 of 31 |
| September | 28 °C 82 °F | 3 | 7 | 6 | 22 of 30 |
| October | 24 °C 74 °F | 4 | 9 | 3 | 21 of 31 |
| November | 17 °C 63 °F | 6 | 7 | 8 | 10 of 30 |
| December | 13 °C 55 °F | 4 | 9 | 11 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 37 | 97 | 103 | 147 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 151 warm, dry days
- 2024 142 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Marseille for good weather?
The best time to visit Marseille for warm, dry weather is May to June and September to October, with 20 to 22 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in June, July and August (up to 11 a month, 40 a year). Counted from measured days at Marseille Provence station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Marseille?
On average 37 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was November (6 rain days), the driest July (1).
How many sunny days does Marseille get a year?
About 103 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in July (20).
How warm does Marseille get?
The median daily high ranged from 13 °C (55 °F) in December to 33 °C (91 °F) in August.
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Source: Marseille Provence weather station (07650099999), 20 km from the centre of Marseille, 23 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 83% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.