Average Rainfall for France in October

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall during October at cities in France. Each place has a total for how many days of wet weather it usually gets this month and for the normal amount of precipitation.

There's a separate table for each corner of the country: Southeast, Southwest, Northeast and Northwest, plus Central France.

The calculation of days only includes the days when precipitation totalled at least one millimetre (0.04 inches). The month's total rainfall is an average of weather data collected during 1991 to 2020.

Southeastern France

Average monthly precipitation in October
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
7 Ajaccio, Corsica 3.4 86
7 Bastia, Corsica 5.0 127
9 Bourg-Saint-Maurice 3.1 78
8 Cannes 5.3 134
7 Carcassonne 2.5 63
13 Chastreix 5.6 142
10 Grenoble 4.2 107
10 Lyon 4.0 101
14 Mont Aigoual 12.2 310
8 Montelimar 5.2 133
6 Montpellier 3.7 95
8 Nice 5.0 128
5 Perpignan 3.2 82
7 Toulon 4.2 106

Southwestern France

October averages for total rainfall
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
12 Biarritz 5.8 147
83 Bordeaux 3.3 83
11 Pau 3.6 92
10 Tarbes 3.2 83
8 Toulouse  2.1 52

Central France

Average amount of rain in October
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
8 Clermont-Ferrand 1.9 49
10 Dijon 2.9 74
11 La Rochelle 3.3 84
12 Limoges 3.7 94
10 Orléans2.3 59
10 Paris 2.2 55
11 Poitiers 2.9 72
10 Tours 2.6 66

Northeastern France

Precipitation totals for October
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
12 Besançon 4.4 112
13 Calais 3.6 91
9 Colmar 2.2 55
11 Lille 2.5 64
10 Metz 2.6 65
11 Nancy 2.6 67
10 Strasbourg 2.3 60
10 Troyes 2.5 64
11 Angers 2.8 71

Northwestern France

Total precipitation during October
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
15 Brest 5.1 129
12 Caen 3.1 79
11 Le Mans 2.6 66
13 Lorient 4.1 104
12 Nantes 3.5 89
11 Rennes 2.9 73
13 Rouen 3.1 79
13 Saint-Brieuc 3.2 82
Reference

Météo France. Climatologie. Normales et records. Données publiques. Fiche climatologique.

France Precipitation
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