Saint-Flour climate — normals and trends
Saint-Flour (France) has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Dfb) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 7.5 °C and it receives 1,057 mm of precipitation per year.
These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.
The warmest month is July (15.9 °C on average) and the coldest is January (-0.3 °C). Rainfall peaks in May.
Saint-Flour averages 103 frost days, 1 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 150 rainy days per year.
Saint-Flour has warmed by +2.2 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.25 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.
The number of frost days there went from about 120 to 86 per year over the period.
The hottest day of the period reached 34.1 °C (on 27 June 2019) and the coldest -24.7 °C (on 20 January 1940).
Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.
Climate normals · ERA5
Saint-FlourRhône-Alpes
- coords
- 45.03°, 3.09°
- period
- 1940–2025 · 86 yrs
Mean daily temperature
7.5°C
Average daily high
11.6°C
Average daily low
3.7°C
Annual rainfall
1,057mm
Sunshine / day
8.7h
Mean relative humidity
80%
Average peak wind
16.3km/h
Seasonal range
16.2°C
Frost days (< 0 °C)
103 d/yr
Hot days (≥ 30 °C)
1 d/yr
Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)
150 d/yr
Annual snowfall
130.2 cm
Average feels-like high
9.1 °C
Average feels-like low
0.8 °C
Average peak gust
38.1 km/h
Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)
0 d/yr
Solar radiation
13.6 MJ/m²
Has the climate changed?
One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025
+2.2 °C
since 1940
+0.3 °C per decade · r² = 0.53 · p = < 0.001
Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).
A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.
Records for the period
Hottest day
34.1 °C
27 June 2019
Coldest day
-24.7 °C
20 January 1940
Wettest day
91 mm
12 June 2020
Windiest day
57.7 km/h
27 December 1999
Strongest gust
149.8 km/h
28 December 1999
Hottest feels-like
35.7 °C
23 August 2023
Coldest feels-like
-30.3 °C
12 January 1987
Snowiest day
45.6 cm
31 January 1971
Sunniest day
15.0 h
28 June 2019
Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.
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Month by month
| High | vs. normal | Precipitation | vs. normal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 5.2 °C | +2.4 °C | 100 mm | +20 mm |
| Feb | 7.9 °C | +3.7 °C | 55 mm | -21 mm |
| Mar | 7.8 °C | +0.2 °C | 76 mm | -2 mm |
| Apr | 13.3 °C | +2.9 °C | 98 mm | +4 mm |
| May | 15.9 °C | +1.6 °C | 88 mm | -22 mm |
| Jun | 24.3 °C | +6.1 °C | 69 mm | -23 mm |
| Jul | 22.1 °C | +1.2 °C | 50 mm | -26 mm |
| Aug | 24.9 °C | +4.3 °C | 97 mm | +2 mm |
| Sep | 16.7 °C | -0.5 °C | 115 mm | +22 mm |
| Oct | 13.9 °C | +1.3 °C | 108 mm | +19 mm |
| Nov | 7.9 °C | +1.1 °C | 83 mm | -2 mm |
| Dec | 6.7 °C | +3.0 °C | 103 mm | +15 mm |
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Frequently asked questions
What is the climate of Saint-Flour?
Saint-Flour has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 7.5 °C and it receives 1,057 mm of precipitation per year.
What is the hottest day ever recorded in Saint-Flour?
The hottest day measured in Saint-Flour between 1940 and 2025 was 27 June 2019, reaching 34.1 °C.
What is the coldest day in Saint-Flour?
The coldest day measured in Saint-Flour between 1940 and 2025 was 20 January 1940, at -24.7 °C.
Does it snow in Saint-Flour?
Yes. Saint-Flour gets on average 130.2 cm of snow per year and has around 103 frost days.
Has the climate of Saint-Flour warmed?
Yes: Saint-Flour warmed by +2.2 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.
What is the wettest day in Saint-Flour?
The wettest day measured in Saint-Flour between 1940 and 2025 was 12 June 2020, with 91 mm of rain in 24 hours.
What was the windiest day in Saint-Flour?
The windiest day measured in Saint-Flour between 1940 and 2025 was 27 December 1999, with winds reaching 57.7 km/h.
What is the warmest month in Saint-Flour?
The warmest month in Saint-Flour is July (15.9 °C on average); the coldest is January (-0.3 °C).
How much does it rain in Saint-Flour?
Saint-Flour receives on average 1,057 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 150 rainy days.
Is it sunny in Saint-Flour?
Saint-Flour gets on average 8.7 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,175 hours per year over 1940-2025.
What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Saint-Flour?
The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Saint-Flour between 1940 and 2025 was 31 January 1971, with 45.6 cm.
Are there tropical nights in Saint-Flour?
Almost never: tropical nights (temperature staying above 20 °C) are virtually non-existent in Saint-Flour.
What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Saint-Flour?
In Saint-Flour, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 35.7 °C on 23 August 2023, and the lowest was -30.3 °C on 12 January 1987.
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