Ideal weather days in Nantes
The best time to visit Nantes for warm, dry weather is May to August, with 21 to 24 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Nantes's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in May to August.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Nantes, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold186
- Too wet106
- Too windy30
- Too hot6
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), Nantes averaged 134 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 (up to 4 a month, 8 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in April to September (up to 11 a month, 76 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 186 a year, mostly in November to April. Another 106 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in March to April and September to January. A day can fail more than one test.
Nantes weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10 °C 50 °F | 15 | 7 | 2 | 0 of 31 |
| February | 12 °C 54 °F | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 of 28 |
| March | 15 °C 58 °F | 11 | 5 | 1 | 4 of 31 |
| April | 17 °C 62 °F | 9 | 3 | 2 | 9 of 30 |
| May | 20 °C 68 °F | 9 | 0 | 1 | 21 of 31 |
| June | 26 °C 79 °F | 4 | 0 | 1 | 24 of 30 |
| July | 25 °C 76 °F | 7 | 1 | 0 | 24 of 31 |
| August | 25 °C 77 °F | 7 | 0 | 2 | 23 of 31 |
| September | 23 °C 73 °F | 12 | 2 | 0 | 17 of 30 |
| October | 19 °C 65 °F | 14 | 2 | 1 | 13 of 31 |
| November | 14 °C 57 °F | 13 | 6 | 0 | 1 of 30 |
| December | 12 °C 54 °F | 12 | 5 | 0 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 119 | 32 | 9 | 134 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 132 warm, dry days
- 2024 113 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Nantes for good weather?
The best time to visit Nantes for warm, dry weather is May to August, with 21 to 24 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in (up to 4 a month, 8 a year). Counted from measured days at Nantes Atlantique station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Nantes?
On average 119 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was January (15 rain days), the driest June (4).
How many sunny days does Nantes get a year?
About 9 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 January (2).
How warm does Nantes get?
The median daily high ranged from 10 °C (50 °F) in January to 26 °C (79 °F) in June.
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Source: Nantes Atlantique weather station (07222099999), 9 km from the centre of Nantes, 27 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 81% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.