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Rennes weather by month

Rennes runs from about 5°C in January to 19°C in August, with October the wettest month at 129 mm.

warmest month

August

19°C

coolest month

January

5°C

wettest month

October

129 mm

worst air month

March

12 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Rennes
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January5°C91 mm170 h7
February9°C96 mm104 h6
March9°C91 mm218 h12
April11°C79 mm255 h8
May14°C98 mm306 h8
June16°C63 mm351 h7
July18°C53 mm298 h5
August19°C36 mm314 h7
September15°C100 mm232 h6
October13°C129 mm208 h8
November10°C55 mm103 h7
December7°C47 mm113 h11

About 2,672 hours of sun a year. Roughly 95 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.