Ideal weather days in Paris
The best time to visit Paris for warm, dry weather is June, July and August, with 22 to 24 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Paris's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in June, July and August.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Paris, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold188
- Too wet99
- Too windy40
- 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), Paris averaged 127 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 and August (up to 10 a month, 38 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in April and October (up to 10 a month, 56 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 188 a year, mostly in November to March. Another 99 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in March to May and September to January. A day can fail more than one test.
Paris weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8 °C 46 °F | 10 | 8 | 3 | 0 of 31 |
| February | 10 °C 50 °F | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 of 28 |
| March | 14 °C 57 °F | 10 | 5 | 5 | 5 of 31 |
| April | 17 °C 62 °F | 9 | 3 | 4 | 11 of 30 |
| May | 20 °C 68 °F | 10 | 3 | 6 | 16 of 31 |
| June | 26 °C 79 °F | 7 | 0 | 6 | 22 of 30 |
| July | 26 °C 79 °F | 7 | 1 | 3 | 22 of 31 |
| August | 27 °C 80 °F | 7 | 1 | 6 | 24 of 31 |
| September | 24 °C 74 °F | 11 | 3 | 7 | 14 of 30 |
| October | 18 °C 64 °F | 13 | 1 | 6 | 12 of 31 |
| November | 12 °C 54 °F | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 of 30 |
| December | 10 °C 50 °F | 13 | 8 | 3 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 112 | 38 | 54 | 127 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 117 warm, dry days
- 2024 111 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Paris for good weather?
The best time to visit Paris for warm, dry weather is June, July and August, with 22 to 24 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in June and August (up to 10 a month, 38 a year). Counted from measured days at Orly station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Paris?
On average 112 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was November (13 rain days), the driest February (5).
How many sunny days does Paris get a year?
About 54 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 September (7).
How warm does Paris get?
The median daily high ranged from 8 °C (46 °F) in January to 27 °C (80 °F) in August.
Nearby
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- Zürich490 km, Switzerland112 days
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Source: Orly weather station (07149099999), 15 km from the centre of Paris, 89 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 80% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.