Climate and average weather in Montauban

In Montauban, the summers are hot, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are cool and partly cloudy.

Best: early May to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Montauban typically varies from 3°C to 28°C, and is rarely below -4°C or above 34°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Montauban for warm-weather activities is from early May to late October.

Hottest
Aug
28°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
May
72 mm
Driest
Feb
47 mm
Rain / yr
707 mm
114 wet days
Daylight
8.7–15.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
112 m
44.0°N
Clearest
Aug
49% cloud

Montauban weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early May to late October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Montauban, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.5 months, from June 6 to September 19, with daily high temperatures above 24°C. The hottest month of the year in Montauban is August, with an average high of 28°C and low of 17°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 16 to March 5, with daily high temperatures below 14°C. The coldest month of the year in Montauban is January, with an average low of 3°C and high of 10°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in August.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan103
Feb113
Mar155
Apr188
May2212
Jun2515
Jul2817
Aug2817
Sep2514
Oct2011
Nov146
Dec104

How hot and cold Montauban really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -1°C (around February 5), with roughly 38 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in February.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan101003
Feb111103
Mar151535
Apr181868
May21221112
Jun25251515
Jul28281717
Aug28281717
Sep25251414
Oct20201011
Nov141446
Dec101014

Average hourly temperature in Montauban

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on August afternoons, near 28°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Montauban weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan10° / 6010.70.59.12.1
Feb11° / 478.80.510.22.8
Mar15° / 529.80.211.64.6
Apr18° / 7111.1013.25.5
May22° / 12°7211014.56.3
Jun25° / 15°618.8015.26.9
Jul28° / 17°487.10156.6
Aug28° / 17°597.6013.86.5
Sep25° / 14°537.8012.37.2
Oct20° / 11°5810.1010.86.2
Nov14° / 661109.43.8
Dec10° / 6110.30.38.82.4

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Montauban gets about 707 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 2.8 months, from around Mar 22 to Jun 13, peaking in April at about 39% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 20.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 72 mm over about 11 wet days; February is the driest, with 47 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 29 · 39%Jul 20 · 22%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3411
Feb329
Mar3110
Apr3711
May3611
Jun309
Jul237
Aug238
Sep278
Oct3310
Nov3611
Dec3310

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Montauban collects about 707 mm of rain across 114 wet days — roughly 59 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 72 mm, while February is the driest at just 47 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 30% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec604752717261485953586661
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan60111
Feb4791
Mar52100
Apr71110
May72110
Jun6190
Jul4870
Aug5980
Sep5380
Oct58100
Nov66110
Dec61100

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Montauban, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around June 9 and lasts for 4.5 months, ending around October 24. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 58% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 25 and lasts for 4.4 months, ending around March 8. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 69% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 24 · 60%Jan 8 · 29%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3169
Feb3664
Mar4357
Apr4060
May3961
Jun4852
Jul5743
Aug5842
Sep5347
Oct4357
Nov3367
Dec3466

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 14, brings about 15 h 18 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, only 8 h 42 min — a swing of roughly 6 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.18:325:35
Feb10.28:046:15
Mar11.67:166:53
Apr13.26:187:31
May14.55:348:07
Jun15.25:168:33
Jul15.05:308:30
Aug13.86:047:54
Sep12.36:406:58
Oct10.87:176:02
Nov9.47:585:22
Dec8.88:295:12

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Montauban averages about 9 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 5 and 13 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.0 months, from around Jun 10 to Oct 9. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 12 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is January, down near 6 sunny days — about 52% fewer than the July peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedJul 2313 daysJan 65 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan6Gloomy
Feb7Gloomy
Mar9Mixed
Apr7Gloomy
May7Gloomy
Jun9Mixed
Jul12Mixed
Aug13Mixed
Sep11Mixed
Oct9Mixed
Nov6Gloomy
Dec6Gloomy

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Montauban, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.0 months, from around June 1 to October 1. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 41% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 2 to May 31, and April is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 8 · 100%Jul 29 · 52%muggyhumiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr97200
May771940
Jun4334194
Jul2634338
Aug26313012
Sep5528152
Oct722160
Nov96400
Dec100000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Montauban is typically calm, near 11 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 7.4 months, from around Oct 8 to May 20. The windiest month is April, averaging about 12 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 21 to Oct 7, with August the calmest month at about 9 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeApr 3 · 12 km/hAug 15 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb12calm
Mar12calm
Apr12calm
May11calm
Jun10calm
Jul10calm
Aug9calm
Sep10calm
Oct11calm
Nov11calm
Dec11calm

Best time to visit Montauban

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Montauban throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around mid May, Montauban is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Montauban for general outdoor tourist activities is from early May to late October, with a peak score in the second week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 9 · 7.3

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan2.1poor
Feb2.8poor
Mar4.6fair
Apr5.5good
May6.3good
Jun6.9good
Jul6.6good
Aug6.5good
Sep7.1good
Oct6.2good
Nov3.9fair
Dec2.4poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Montauban for hot-weather activities is from mid June to late September, with a peak score in the last week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 24 · 7.6

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Montauban, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around August (highs near 28°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 10°C), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Montauban sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 17°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection. About 8 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Montauban by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Montauban peaks around July 15 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 22 at about 1 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 8 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 15UV 9Dec 22UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Moderate
Mar4Moderate
Apr6High
May7High
Jun8Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug7High
Sep5High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Montauban

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in July the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 5.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan00
Feb00
Mar40
Apr60
May72.5
Jun84
Jul8.55.5
Aug73.5
Sep5.50
Oct2.50
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

Montauban is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about March 12 to November 20 (254 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeMar 1290%Nov 2090%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan7531
Feb7528
Mar9212
Apr990
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct990
Nov9313
Dec7831

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Montauban banks about 1,826 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

05001,0001,5002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar15
Apr83
May201
Jun305
Jul386
Aug386
Sep274
Oct159
Nov18
Dec0

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Montauban receives about 3.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.3 and 6.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 18 to Sep 23. The brightest month is June, averaging about 6.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.3 kWh/m² — roughly 79% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 276.3 kWhDec 211.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.5Dim
Feb2.5Moderate
Mar3.8Moderate
Apr5.0Bright
May5.7Bright
Jun6.2Intense
Jul6.2Intense
Aug5.5Bright
Sep4.3Bright
Oct2.8Moderate
Nov1.7Dim
Dec1.3Dim

Where is Montauban?

Montauban sits at 44.0°N, 1.4°E, 112 m above sea level, in France. The nearest listed city is Blagnac, 42 km away.

Topography around Montauban

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Montauban.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Montauban has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 78 m around an average of 97 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 156 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 775 m.

The land around Montauban is covered by artificial surfaces (40%), trees (30%) and grassland (24%) within 3 km, trees (34%), grassland (30%) and cropland (30%) within 16 km, and cropland (42%), trees (32%) and grassland (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
78 m
16 km
156 m
80 km
775 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Blagnac 42 km · Colomiers 45 km · Toulouse 47 km · Balma 47 km · Tournefeuille 48 km · Cahors 48 km · Plaisance-du-Touch 50 km · Cugnaux 54 km

France travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / E
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 77% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$48,986
2025
Happiness
6.6 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
100%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
1.3
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
5.1
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 539
Religion
Roman Catholic 47%none 33%Muslim 4%Protestant 2%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Montauban (44.0176°, 1.3542°, elevation 112 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).