Average Rainfall for France in August

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall during August 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 August
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
1 Ajaccio, Corsica 0.6 16
2 Bastia, Corsica 0.8 21
9 Bourg-Saint-Maurice 3.1 78
3 Cannes 0.9 24
5 Carcassonne 1.6 40
11 Chastreix 4.7 120
7 Grenoble 2.6 66
7 Lyon 2.8 71
7 Mont Aigoual 2.4 60
5 Montelimar 2.2 56
3 Montpellier 1.4 36
2 Nice 0.7 17
3 Perpignan 0.9 23
2 Toulon 0.5 13

Southwestern France

August averages for total rainfall
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
9 Biarritz 3.4 88
57 Bordeaux 2.2 57
8 Pau 2.5 65
8 Tarbes 2.7 67
6 Toulouse  1.7 43

Central France

Average amount of rain in August
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
8 Clermont-Ferrand 2.4 62
8 Dijon 2.4 62
7 La Rochelle 1.8 46
8 Limoges 2.8 72
7 Orléans2.0 51
8 Paris 2.3 58
6 Poitiers 1.7 43
7 Tours 1.7 44

Northeastern France

Precipitation totals for August
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
10 Besançon 3.8 96
9 Calais 2.6 67
9 Colmar 2.2 57
10 Lille 2.8 71
9 Metz 2.3 59
9 Nancy 2.6 67
10 Strasbourg 2.4 61
8 Troyes 2.1 54
7 Angers 2.1 52

Northwestern France

Total precipitation during August
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
10 Brest 3.0 75
8 Caen 2.3 60
7 Le Mans 1.9 49
8 Lorient 2.1 53
7 Nantes 2.0 50
7 Rennes 1.7 44
10 Rouen 2.7 70
8 Saint-Brieuc 1.8 45
Reference

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

France Precipitation
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