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Lille weather by month

Lille runs from about 4°C in January to 20°C in August, with September the wettest month at 115 mm.

warmest month

August

20°C

coolest month

January

4°C

wettest month

September

115 mm

worst air month

March

17 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Lille
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January4°C58 mm122 h12
February8°C111 mm79 h9
March9°C90 mm187 h17
April11°C90 mm253 h12
May14°C110 mm300 h11
June15°C64 mm332 h8
July18°C78 mm323 h7
August20°C78 mm311 h8
September16°C115 mm248 h7
October13°C75 mm184 h10
November8°C64 mm100 h9
December6°C52 mm65 h13

About 2,504 hours of sun a year. Roughly 99 rainy days a year.

These are long-run climate normals, not a forecast. A given year can sit well outside them. PM2.5 is a global model: near the coast it counts sea salt as fine particulate and reads high against ground stations, sometimes by a factor of two. Use the shape of the year, not the absolute number.

where these numbers come from

  • · Temperature, rainfall and sunshine: ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis climate normals via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), fetched once and stored.
  • · PM2.5: Copernicus CAMS reanalysis, monthly means. Modelled, not station readings; near coasts CAMS counts sea salt as PM2.5 and reads high.

Last reviewed 2026-05-24. Full method, licences and the list of sources we rejected are on the methodology page.