Saint-Gaudens climate — normals and trends
Saint-Gaudens (France) has a temperate oceanic climate (Cfb) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 9.6 °C and it receives 1,279 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 (17.4 °C on average) and the coldest is January (2.1 °C). Rainfall peaks in May.
Saint-Gaudens averages 73 frost days, 2 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 184 rainy days per year.
Saint-Gaudens has warmed by +2.2 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.26 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.
The number of frost days there went from about 93 to 53 per year over the period.
The hottest day of the period reached 34.5 °C (on 11 August 2025) and the coldest -22.7 °C (on 16 January 1985).
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-GaudensOccitanie
- coords
- 43.11°, 0.72°
- period
- 1940–2025 · 86 yrs
Mean daily temperature
9.6°C
Average daily high
14.1°C
Average daily low
5.5°C
Annual rainfall
1,279mm
Sunshine / day
9.4h
Mean relative humidity
78%
Average peak wind
9.5km/h
Seasonal range
15.3°C
Frost days (< 0 °C)
73 d/yr
Hot days (≥ 30 °C)
2 d/yr
Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)
184 d/yr
Annual snowfall
130.2 cm
Average feels-like high
13.0 °C
Average feels-like low
3.4 °C
Average peak gust
32.0 km/h
Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)
0 d/yr
Solar radiation
13.9 MJ/m²
Has the climate changed?
One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025
+2.2 °C
since 1940
+0.3 °C per decade · r² = 0.57 · 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
34.5 °C
11 August 2025
Coldest day
-22.7 °C
16 January 1985
Wettest day
64 mm
6 November 2011
Windiest day
33.2 km/h
8 February 1996
Strongest gust
135.7 km/h
24 January 2009
Hottest feels-like
37.6 °C
16 August 1987
Coldest feels-like
-27.3 °C
16 January 1985
Snowiest day
23.5 cm
31 January 1986
Sunniest day
14.4 h
21 June 2025
Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.
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Month by month
| High | vs. normal | Precipitation | vs. normal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 8.8 °C | +2.4 °C | 87 mm | -6 mm |
| Feb | 11.1 °C | +3.5 °C | 37 mm | -45 mm |
| Mar | 10.8 °C | +0.4 °C | 131 mm | +40 mm |
| Apr | 15.4 °C | +2.9 °C | 110 mm | -12 mm |
| May | 17.3 °C | +1.3 °C | 114 mm | -32 mm |
| Jun | 24.6 °C | +5.1 °C | 109 mm | -23 mm |
| Jul | 22.5 °C | +0.6 °C | 110 mm | -4 mm |
| Aug | 25.5 °C | +3.4 °C | 107 mm | -10 mm |
| Sep | 19.6 °C | 0.0 °C | 100 mm | +2 mm |
| Oct | 17.3 °C | +1.5 °C | 37 mm | -53 mm |
| Nov | 11.3 °C | +1.0 °C | 127 mm | +28 mm |
| Dec | 9.4 °C | +2.2 °C | 49 mm | -46 mm |
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Frequently asked questions
What is the climate of Saint-Gaudens?
Saint-Gaudens has a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 9.6 °C and it receives 1,279 mm of precipitation per year.
What is the hottest day ever recorded in Saint-Gaudens?
The hottest day measured in Saint-Gaudens between 1940 and 2025 was 11 August 2025, reaching 34.5 °C.
What is the coldest day in Saint-Gaudens?
The coldest day measured in Saint-Gaudens between 1940 and 2025 was 16 January 1985, at -22.7 °C.
Does it snow in Saint-Gaudens?
Yes. Saint-Gaudens gets on average 130.2 cm of snow per year and has around 73 frost days.
Has the climate of Saint-Gaudens warmed?
Yes: Saint-Gaudens warmed by +2.2 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.
What is the wettest day in Saint-Gaudens?
The wettest day measured in Saint-Gaudens between 1940 and 2025 was 6 November 2011, with 64 mm of rain in 24 hours.
What was the windiest day in Saint-Gaudens?
The windiest day measured in Saint-Gaudens between 1940 and 2025 was 8 February 1996, with winds reaching 33.2 km/h.
What is the warmest month in Saint-Gaudens?
The warmest month in Saint-Gaudens is July (17.4 °C on average); the coldest is January (2.1 °C).
How much does it rain in Saint-Gaudens?
Saint-Gaudens receives on average 1,279 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 184 rainy days.
Is it sunny in Saint-Gaudens?
Saint-Gaudens gets on average 9.4 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,431 hours per year over 1940-2025.
What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Saint-Gaudens?
The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Saint-Gaudens between 1940 and 2025 was 31 January 1986, with 23.5 cm.
Are there tropical nights in Saint-Gaudens?
Almost never: tropical nights (temperature staying above 20 °C) are virtually non-existent in Saint-Gaudens.
What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Saint-Gaudens?
In Saint-Gaudens, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 37.6 °C on 16 August 1987, and the lowest was -27.3 °C on 16 January 1985.
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