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Sète climate by month
What the weather is like
Sète has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 28° and nights 19°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 12° and lows of 6°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 15°.
About 642 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. October is the wettest month (98 mm, 10 wet days) and July the driest (14 mm, 4 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 15% in July to 35% in October.
The sea reaches about 22° 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, Sète is 1.9° warmer on a July afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 28° · July
- Coldest nights
- 6° · January
- Wettest month
- October
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 15% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 22° · August
- Longest day
- 15 h 23 min
- Shortest day
- 8 h 59 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° | 21° | 25° | 28° | 28° | 24° | 20° | 16° | 13° |
| Average low | 6° | 6° | 8° | 10° | 14° | 17° | 19° | 19° | 16° | 14° | 9° | 6° |
| Precipitation | 55 mm | 61 mm | 42 mm | 55 mm | 48 mm | 31 mm | 14 mm | 30 mm | 68 mm | 98 mm | 75 mm | 65 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 8.2 | 6.7 | 7.2 | 8.4 | 7.9 | 5.9 | 3.8 | 5 | 6.5 | 9.8 | 9.6 | 7.5 |
| Cloud cover | 33% | 31% | 29% | 32% | 31% | 23% | 15% | 20% | 25% | 35% | 34% | 34% |
| Sea temperature | 12° | 12° | 12° | 14° | 16° | 19° | 21° | 22° | 20° | 18° | 16° | 14° |
| Daylight | 9h 19 | 10h 31 | 11h 53 | 13h 24 | 14h 41 | 15h 23 | 15h 06 | 14h 00 | 12h 33 | 11h 05 | 9h 43 | 8h 59 |
| Month score | 49 | 56 | 70 | 77 | 81 | 85 | 79 | 77 | 85 | 75 | 64 | 53 |