Marseille or Paris: which climate?
Marseille (France) has a hot-summer mediterranean climate, whereas Paris (France) has a temperate oceanic climate, according to the Köppen-Geiger classification.
The values compared here are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme. The same method and the same period apply to Marseille and to Paris.
Marseille is warmer than Paris by 3.9 °C in annual average: 14.8 °C against 10.9 °C.
Marseille and Paris receive comparable annual rainfall, on the order of 657 mm.
Marseille gets 10.4 hours of sunshine per day on average, against 7.7 hours in Paris.
Marseille and Paris are warming at the same rate: about +1.8 °C between 1940 and 2025 on both sides.
Marseille averages 1 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 3 frost days per year; Paris averages 6 and 44.
Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.
| Indicator | Marseille | Paris | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mean daily temperature | 14.8 °C | 10.9 °C | -3.9 °C |
| Average daily high | 17.3 °C | 14.7 °C | -2.6 °C |
| Average daily low | 12.5 °C | 7.3 °C | -5.2 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 657 mm | 674 mm | negligible |
| Sunshine / day | 10.4 h | 7.7 h | -2.7 h |
| Hot days (≥ 30 °C) | 1 d/yr | 6 d/yr | +5 d/yr |
| Frost days (< 0 °C) | 3 d/yr | 44 d/yr | +41 d/yr |
| Rainy days (≥ 1 mm) | 78 d/yr | 129 d/yr | +51 d/yr |
| Mean relative humidity | 74 % | 78 % | +4 % |
| Average peak wind | 25.5 km/h | 18.1 km/h | -7.4 km/h |
A difference is only reported when it exceeds the resolution of the data. ERA5 is a reanalysis on a grid of about 31 km: two nearby cities often fall in the same cell, and below half a degree you are reading the grid, not the climate.