Saint-Valery-en-Caux climate — normals and trends
Saint-Valery-en-Caux (France) has a temperate oceanic climate (Cfb) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 10.7 °C and it receives 820 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 August (17.3 °C on average) and the coldest is January (4.4 °C). Rainfall peaks in November.
Saint-Valery-en-Caux averages 25 frost days, 1 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 148 rainy days per year.
Saint-Valery-en-Caux has warmed by +1.8 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.21 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.
The number of frost days there went from about 37 to 13 per year over the period.
The hottest day of the period reached 37.6 °C (on 25 July 2019) and the coldest -15.6 °C (on 8 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-Valery-en-CauxNormandy
- coords
- 49.87°, 0.73°
- period
- 1940–2025 · 86 yrs
Mean daily temperature
10.7°C
Average daily high
13.6°C
Average daily low
8.0°C
Annual rainfall
820mm
Sunshine / day
8.5h
Mean relative humidity
81%
Average peak wind
22.5km/h
Seasonal range
12.9°C
Frost days (< 0 °C)
25 d/yr
Hot days (≥ 30 °C)
1 d/yr
Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)
148 d/yr
Annual snowfall
11.3 cm
Average feels-like high
11.0 °C
Average feels-like low
4.9 °C
Average peak gust
39.9 km/h
Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)
0 d/yr
Solar radiation
12.0 MJ/m²
Has the climate changed?
One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025
+1.8 °C
since 1940
+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.46 · 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
37.6 °C
25 July 2019
Coldest day
-15.6 °C
8 January 1985
Wettest day
55 mm
4 July 1975
Windiest day
65.1 km/h
25 January 1990
Strongest gust
122.4 km/h
25 January 1990
Hottest feels-like
39.0 °C
25 July 2019
Coldest feels-like
-21.0 °C
8 January 1985
Snowiest day
14.8 cm
19 February 1978
Sunniest day
16.0 h
15 June 1940
Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.
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Across the whole year
Month by month
| High | vs. normal | Precipitation | vs. normal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 6.3 °C | -0.1 °C | 163 mm | +92 mm |
| Feb | 7.8 °C | +0.6 °C | 54 mm | -8 mm |
| Mar | 12.0 °C | +2.1 °C | 24 mm | -38 mm |
| Apr | 16.7 °C | +4.2 °C | 27 mm | -33 mm |
| May | 17.5 °C | +1.8 °C | 48 mm | -19 mm |
| Jun | 21.5 °C | +2.9 °C | 73 mm | +13 mm |
| Jul | 21.7 °C | +1.1 °C | 87 mm | +28 mm |
| Aug | 22.7 °C | +2.0 °C | 29 mm | -34 mm |
| Sep | 19.2 °C | +0.6 °C | 76 mm | +9 mm |
| Oct | 15.5 °C | +0.6 °C | 108 mm | +30 mm |
| Nov | 11.9 °C | +1.7 °C | 99 mm | +13 mm |
| Dec | 9.2 °C | +1.7 °C | 51 mm | -32 mm |
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Frequently asked questions
What is the climate of Saint-Valery-en-Caux?
Saint-Valery-en-Caux has a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 10.7 °C and it receives 820 mm of precipitation per year.
What is the hottest day ever recorded in Saint-Valery-en-Caux?
The hottest day measured in Saint-Valery-en-Caux between 1940 and 2025 was 25 July 2019, reaching 37.6 °C.
What is the coldest day in Saint-Valery-en-Caux?
The coldest day measured in Saint-Valery-en-Caux between 1940 and 2025 was 8 January 1985, at -15.6 °C.
Does it snow in Saint-Valery-en-Caux?
Yes. Saint-Valery-en-Caux gets on average 11.3 cm of snow per year and has around 25 frost days.
Has the climate of Saint-Valery-en-Caux warmed?
Yes: Saint-Valery-en-Caux warmed by +1.8 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.
What is the wettest day in Saint-Valery-en-Caux?
The wettest day measured in Saint-Valery-en-Caux between 1940 and 2025 was 4 July 1975, with 55 mm of rain in 24 hours.
What was the windiest day in Saint-Valery-en-Caux?
The windiest day measured in Saint-Valery-en-Caux between 1940 and 2025 was 25 January 1990, with winds reaching 65.1 km/h.
What is the warmest month in Saint-Valery-en-Caux?
The warmest month in Saint-Valery-en-Caux is August (17.3 °C on average); the coldest is January (4.4 °C).
How much does it rain in Saint-Valery-en-Caux?
Saint-Valery-en-Caux receives on average 820 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 148 rainy days.
Is it sunny in Saint-Valery-en-Caux?
Saint-Valery-en-Caux gets on average 8.5 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,103 hours per year over 1940-2025.
What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Saint-Valery-en-Caux?
The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Saint-Valery-en-Caux between 1940 and 2025 was 19 February 1978, with 14.8 cm.
Are there tropical nights in Saint-Valery-en-Caux?
Almost never: tropical nights (temperature staying above 20 °C) are virtually non-existent in Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Saint-Valery-en-Caux?
In Saint-Valery-en-Caux, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 39.0 °C on 25 July 2019, and the lowest was -21.0 °C on 8 January 1985.
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