Weather in Paris in July

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, July is the one. Highs average 25 °C, lows 13.8 °C, and rain falls on 11 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

July ranks 2 of 12 in Paris. Only September scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain on 11 days, 1 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

The averages here are honest — no hidden extremes worth planning around. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest July day reached 39.9 °C and the coldest night fell to 8.1 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 27 mm — roughly 49% of the month's rain in one day.

July is moderately variable: 13 mm in the driest year against 112 mm in the wettest, around an average of 55 mm. Roughly two Julys in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 9.1 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 72%.

How July sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 22.8 °C in June, 25 here, 24.9 in August. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in July

July is at or near the longest days of Paris's year: 15.8 hours of daylight, losing 0.9 hours across the month. Evenings are the real gain — dinner outdoors still happens in full light.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 24.4 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

July in Paris versus nearby

If Paris is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Le Havre is close enough to be a coin toss — 4.7 °C cooler, the same number of rain days. Lille is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain.

So: July is effectively as good as it gets here — 3 points behind September, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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