Nice France Weather
What does Nice France Weather affect?
Nice France weather is indeed affected by the Mediterranean Sea. So it is often referred to Nice’s climate as Mediterranean. The summer season lasts for 6 months, which includes the months from May to October. That is considered to be the holiday season as well. Sometimes though in April and November there are temperatures above 20 °C. Apart from summer, winter is really mild, with average temperatures of 13.4 °C during the day and in the night the temperatures are approximately 5.8 °C. Those temperatures are valid in the period of time from December to February.
So usual for the Mediterranean climate are mild temperatures throughout mostly the whole year, rainfall is moderate and mainly during the winter period. For summers it is also normal to be dry and sunny. During summer it almost never rains and typically in July there are like one or two times with considerable rainfall. The temperatures, like mentioned, are usually above 20 °C but most of the times they reach 30°C as well. The average maximum temperatures reach in July and August and are about 27°C. So far the highest recorded temperature in Nice is 37.7°C on 1 August 2006.
Then in September, autumn begins usually sunny and then becomes more and more cloudy and rainy reaching October. During this period of time temperatures do not usually go bellow 20°C. That is usual for the time before November. Then days start to cool down and the temperatures get about 17°C. In winters, the days are with temperatures 11 to 17°C, the nights are cool with approximately 4 to 9°C but the weather changes really often. Days could be sunny and dry or they could be also damp and rainy. It is unusual to have frost or snowfalls. They are extremely rare and usually they are remembered by the people who live in Nice as special events. The average minimum temperature in January is around 5°C. Spring begins with mild temperatures and rainy in late March, and then warms up and becomes sunny as time passes until June.
Also the average temperatures in Nice are 15.1 °C as the range of average monthly temperature is 14°C. When considered the precipitation, Nice gets 862mm annually. The wettest weather is in November when the balance is 129mm including rain, hail or snow falls. The opposite, the month with the driest weather is July when the balance is 20mm of rain, sleet, hail or snow falls. So overall there are around 2775 sunshine hours annually, which makes it 7.6 sunlight hours per day.
Nice is one of the most populous cities in France, taking its fifth place after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse. The population of the city is around 348,700 people and it is situated on a land with 71.92 km2. However, the urban area of Nice includes areas beyond the city’s administrative limits and extends the population to over 955,000 on an area of 721 km2. The city is located on the south east coast of France on the Mediterranean Sea. Actually, Nice is well known to be the second biggest city situated in France on the Mediterranean coast.