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Best time to visit
Arles.

May leads for comfortable weather in Arles: typically 23.5°C by day, 13.3°C at night, with 38 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high23.5°C

Typical low13.3°C

Rain in May38 mm

Comfort

May

May · September · June

94climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

91climate match

Outdoors

April

April · March · May

91climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 36 against May’s 94 — days reach only 11.8°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

3611.8° / 3.5°

Feb

4112.8° / 3.7°

Mar

5816.4° / 6.5°

Apr

6919.3° / 9.4°

May

9423.5° / 13.3°

Jun

8327.9° / 17.2°

Jul

6930.7° / 19.7°

Aug

7130.5° / 19.4°

Sep

8425.9° / 15.9°

Oct

7921.3° / 12.6°

Nov

5015.7° / 7.7°

Dec

4012.4° / 4.4°

Monthly climate evidence for Arles — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 34 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	11.8°C	3.5°C	47 mm	5.1	12.6°C	9 h 16	36	Strong coverage
February	12.8°C	3.7°C	30 mm	4.6	11.9°C	10 h 25	41	Strong coverage
March	16.4°C	6.5°C	29 mm	4.2	12.5°C	11 h 47	58	Strong coverage
April	19.3°C	9.4°C	52 mm	5.8	13.9°C	13 h 22	69	Strong coverage
May	23.5°C	13.3°C	38 mm	4.4	16.3°C	14 h 41	94	Strong coverage
June	27.9°C	17.2°C	28 mm	2.8	19.4°C	15 h 25	83	Strong coverage
July	30.7°C	19.7°C	11 mm	1.4	21.2°C	15 h 08	69	Strong coverage
August	30.5°C	19.4°C	26 mm	2.7	22.1°C	13 h 59	71	Strong coverage
September	25.9°C	15.9°C	82 mm	4.8	20.4°C	12 h 27	84	Strong coverage
October	21.3°C	12.6°C	73 mm	5.9	18.7°C	10 h 56	79	Strong coverage
November	15.7°C	7.7°C	76 mm	7	16.3°C	9 h 36	50	Strong coverage
December	12.4°C	4.4°C	41 mm	4.7	14.1°C	8 h 57	40	Strong coverage

What has changed

Arles runs +2.1°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

+1.4

Feb

+1.4

Mar

+2.0

Apr

+2.1

May

+1.9

Jun

+3.2

Jul

+2.6

Aug

+2.9

Sep

+1.6

Oct

+2.0

Nov

+1.9

Dec

+2.1

May daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 24.4°C.

Records at MARSEILLES-MARIGNANE, 1921–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	19.9°C28 Jan 2002	-12.4°C7 Jan 1985	67 mm26 Jan 2018	175 mm1941 · driest 0 mm in 1983	104
February	22.5°C17 Feb 2022	-16.8°C12 Feb 1956	81 mm11 Feb 1960	226 mm1972 · driest 0 mm in 1928	104
March	25.4°C28 Mar 1989	-10.0°C7 Mar 1949	80 mm30 Mar 1948	171 mm2025 · driest 0 mm in 1953	104
April	29.6°C24 Apr 1947	-2.4°C5 Apr 1935	66 mm27 Apr 1974	157 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 1955	104
May	34.9°C24 May 2009	0.0°C1 May 1960	63 mm20 May 2012	181 mm1938 · driest 0 mm in 1989	104
June	39.6°C28 Jun 2019	5.4°C9 Jun 1932	55 mm8 Jun 1953	97 mm2011 · driest 0 mm in 1925	104
July	39.7°C26 Jul 1983	7.8°C4 Jul 1948	52 mm15 Jul 1987	85 mm2011 · driest 0 mm in 1934	102
August	39.2°C13 Aug 1922	8.1°C29 Aug 1924	86 mm23 Aug 1984	132 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 2001	102
September	34.3°C5 Sep 1949	1.0°C25 Sep 1931	212 mm18 Sep 1932	319 mm1932 · driest 0 mm in 2018	103
October	30.4°C2 Oct 1997	-2.2°C31 Oct 1941	161 mm2 Oct 1973	307 mm1976 · driest 1 mm in 2017	103
November	25.2°C5 Nov 1924	-5.8°C11 Nov 1921	95 mm10 Nov 1923	241 mm1923 · driest 0 mm in 1981	103
December	20.7°C30 Dec 2021	-12.8°C26 Dec 1940	68 mm1 Dec 2003	185 mm1927 · driest 1 mm in 1991	103

Typical days per month at MARSEILLES-MARIGNANE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	7	1
February	0	0	5	<1
March	0	0	1	<1
April	1	0	0	2
May	10	<1	0	1
June	24	9	0	<1
July	30	20	0	<1
August	30	18	0	<1
September	19	3	0	2
October	4	<1	0	2
November	0	0	1	2
December	0	0	6	1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was September (scoring 94); on 2011–2025 it is May (96). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in MARSEILLES-MARIGNANE’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	0%	18%	4%	19%	8.4–13.2°C
February	<1%	17%	5%	17%	9.7–14.9°C
March	7%	16%	4%	15%	13.2–17.6°C
April	29%	18%	5%	16%	16.4–20.3°C
May	68%	16%	4%	13%	20.3–24.6°C
June	89%	10%	3%	5%	24.6–29.2°C
July	96%	5%	1%	<1%	27.4–32.1°C
August	91%	9%	3%	5%	26.9–31.6°C
September	82%	14%	6%	11%	23.3–27.4°C
October	54%	18%	7%	18%	19.0–23.0°C
November	6%	21%	7%	22%	13.7–17.2°C
December	<1%	19%	5%	21%	9.3–13.8°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.

1921Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 102-year average. Warmest: 2022. Coolest: 1956.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 3036938
NOAA station: FR000007650 · MARSEILLES-MARIGNANE
Station distance: 54.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 43.68°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 34 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 MARSEILLES-MARIGNANE is what differs

Aix-en-Provence→Avignon→Martigues→Istres→Salon-de-Provence→Vitrolles→

Or put two places side by side: Arles vs Aix-en-Provence

Best time to visitArles.

May

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April

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Arles runs +2.1°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Arles.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Arles runs +2.1°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.