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Contes climate by month
What the weather is like
Contes has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 29° and nights 19°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 12° and lows of 4°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 16°.
About 868 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. May is the wettest month (70 mm, 11 wet days) and July the driest (26 mm, 6 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 16% in July to 34% in April.
The sea reaches about 25° in August. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Paris, the capital, Contes is 3° warmer on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 29° · August
- Coldest nights
- 4° · January
- Wettest month
- May
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 16% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 25° · August
- Longest day
- 15 h 26 min
- Shortest day
- 8 h 56 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 12° | 13° | 16° | 18° | 22° | 26° | 29° | 29° | 25° | 20° | 16° | 12° |
| Average low | 4° | 4° | 6° | 8° | 12° | 16° | 18° | 19° | 15° | 12° | 7° | 4° |
| Precipitation | 70 mm | 49 mm | 49 mm | 83 mm | 70 mm | 48 mm | 26 mm | 34 mm | 84 mm | 125 mm | 122 mm | 108 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 7.5 | 7.2 | 7.8 | 9.9 | 11.1 | 7.8 | 6.2 | 6.5 | 8.2 | 9.3 | 10.8 | 8.2 |
| Cloud cover | 31% | 32% | 31% | 34% | 33% | 25% | 16% | 19% | 25% | 33% | 34% | 33% |
| Sea temperature | 14° | 13° | 14° | 15° | 18° | 21° | 24° | 25° | 22° | 20° | 17° | 15° |
| Daylight | 9h 16 | 10h 30 | 11h 52 | 13h 25 | 14h 43 | 15h 26 | 15h 09 | 14h 01 | 12h 33 | 11h 04 | 9h 41 | 8h 56 |
| Month score | 50 | 55 | 69 | 75 | 73 | 77 | 69 | 68 | 80 | 77 | 60 | 50 |