France · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Montpellier.

May leads for comfortable weather in Montpellier: typically 22.6°C by day, 12.9°C at night, with 44 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high22.6°C

Typical low12.9°C

Rain in May44 mm

Comfort

May

May · June · September

88climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

94climate match

Outdoors

April

April · May · March

88climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 34 against May’s 88 — days reach only 12°C, 12° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

3412° / 3.3°

Feb

4213.1° / 3.5°

Mar

5716.4° / 6.4°

Apr

6718.7° / 9.2°

May

8822.6° / 12.9°

Jun

8726.9° / 16.7°

Jul

7429.5° / 19.3°

Aug

7529.3° / 19°

Sep

8725.2° / 15.2°

Oct

7320.7° / 12.2°

Nov

5015.8° / 7.3°

Dec

3712.6° / 4.1°

Monthly climate evidence for Montpellier — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 26 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	12°C	3.3°C	56 mm	5.8	12.4°C	9 h 16	34	Strong coverage
February	13.1°C	3.5°C	39 mm	4.1	11.8°C	10 h 25	42	Strong coverage
March	16.4°C	6.4°C	41 mm	4.6	12.3°C	11 h 47	57	Strong coverage
April	18.7°C	9.2°C	56 mm	5.8	13.8°C	13 h 21	67	Strong coverage
May	22.6°C	12.9°C	44 mm	5.2	16.2°C	14 h 41	88	Strong coverage
June	26.9°C	16.7°C	33 mm	3.6	19.4°C	15 h 25	87	Strong coverage
July	29.5°C	19.3°C	17 mm	2.5	21.2°C	15 h 08	74	Strong coverage
August	29.3°C	19°C	36 mm	3.4	22.0°C	13 h 59	75	Strong coverage
September	25.2°C	15.2°C	87 mm	4.5	20.1°C	12 h 27	87	Strong coverage
October	20.7°C	12.2°C	95 mm	6.2	18.4°C	10 h 56	73	Strong coverage
November	15.8°C	7.3°C	78 mm	6.7	16.1°C	9 h 36	50	Strong coverage
December	12.6°C	4.1°C	57 mm	5.5	13.9°C	8 h 57	37	Strong coverage

What has changed

Montpellier runs +1.8°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

+1.5

Feb

+1.5

Mar

+1.8

Apr

+1.7

May

+2.0

Jun

+2.3

Jul

+1.9

Aug

+2.2

Sep

+1.3

Oct

+1.6

Nov

+1.9

Dec

+2.0

May daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 23.9°C.

Records at MONTPELLIER-AEROPORT, 1946–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	22.1°C24 Jan 2024	-15.0°C28 Jan 1947	115 mm19 Jan 1979	327 mm1979 · driest 0 mm in 1957	81
February	23.6°C22 Feb 2019	-17.8°C5 Feb 1963	78 mm28 Feb 2018	205 mm1964 · driest 0 mm in 2012	81
March	27.4°C18 Mar 1997	-9.6°C7 Mar 1971	120 mm14 Mar 1971	215 mm1960 · driest 0 mm in 1961	81
April	30.4°C8 Apr 2011	-1.7°C6 Apr 1970	68 mm15 Apr 1980	164 mm2009 · driest 1 mm in 1947	81
May	35.1°C28 May 2026	0.6°C4 May 1967	120 mm20 May 1968	205 mm1968 · driest 2 mm in 2015	81
June	43.5°C28 Jun 2019	5.4°C10 Jun 1956	150 mm18 Jun 1968	173 mm1957 · driest 1 mm in 2006	81
July	37.6°C19 Jul 2023	8.4°C7 Jul 1962	57 mm30 Jul 1982	88 mm1982 · driest 0 mm in 1952	80
August	40.3°C16 Aug 2025	8.2°C9 Aug 1955	169 mm23 Aug 2015	234 mm2015 · driest 2 mm in 2001	80
September	36.3°C25 Sep 1983	3.8°C29 Sep 1972	300 mm29 Sep 2014	363 mm2014 · driest 1 mm in 1985	80
October	31.8°C2 Oct 1997	-0.7°C23 Oct 1974	148 mm26 Oct 1979	377 mm1979 · driest 2 mm in 2022	80
November	27.1°C3 Nov 1970	-5.0°C28 Nov 1985	144 mm16 Nov 2003	268 mm2011 · driest 0 mm in 1981	80
December	22.0°C12 Dec 1961	-12.4°C27 Dec 1962	112 mm3 Dec 2003	302 mm2025 · driest 1 mm in 1974	80

Typical days per month at MONTPELLIER-AEROPORT, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	7	2
February	0	0	6	1
March	<1	0	<1	1
April	1	0	0	2
May	7	<1	0	1
June	22	6	0	1
July	29	14	0	<1
August	30	12	0	<1
September	16	2	0	2
October	2	<1	0	3
November	0	0	1	2
December	0	0	6	2

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was June (scoring 95); on 2011–2025 it is May (93). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in MONTPELLIER-AEROPORT’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	<1%	19%	6%	20%	9.6–13.3°C
February	2%	16%	5%	15%	10.6–15.2°C
March	9%	18%	6%	18%	13.5–17.5°C
April	25%	19%	5%	18%	16.6–19.9°C
May	63%	17%	5%	15%	20.1–23.7°C
June	87%	12%	3%	7%	23.8–28.0°C
July	92%	8%	2%	3%	26.8–31.0°C
August	88%	12%	4%	6%	26.6–30.3°C
September	84%	14%	6%	11%	23.2–26.8°C
October	52%	21%	9%	22%	18.6–22.2°C
November	6%	19%	6%	19%	13.5–17.5°C
December	<1%	18%	6%	19%	9.8–13.9°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1946Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 80-year average. Warmest: 2022. Coolest: 1956.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2992166
NOAA station: FRE00106207 · MONTPELLIER-AEROPORT
Station distance: 8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 43.61°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 26 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from MONTPELLIER-AEROPORT is what differs

Nîmes→Alès→Lunel→Mauguio→Castelnau-le-Lez→Beaucaire→

Or put two places side by side: Montpellier vs Nîmes

Best time to visitMontpellier.

May

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April

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Montpellier runs +1.8°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Montpellier.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Montpellier runs +1.8°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.