Étampes is among the driest of mainland French towns: 595 mm of rain a year
About 595 mm of rain falls in a typical year; July afternoons reach 26.3°C and January nights drop to 1.4°C. Frost is common: about 57 nights a year drop below freezing, more than in 77% of mainland French towns. Rain is spread evenly through the year: the wettest month, May, gets little more than the driest, February. Figures from Météo-France’s Courdimanche station, 16 km east.
A year in Étampes at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low in °C, at the Courdimanche station.
What a year in Étampes feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Courdimanche.
About 595 mm of rain a year
May is the wettest month and February the driest. About 15 days a year bring 10 mm or more. 90th wettest of 96 towns of 2,500+ in Essonne.
Rain by month
Millimeters
Sunshine by month
Hours of sunshine at Orly
A frosty town: 57 frosts and 58 days of 25°C a year
On about 57 nights a year the air drops to 0°C or below, and on about 4 days it stays below freezing all day. About 58 days a year reach 25°C, and 15 reach 30°C.
Day counts are Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Courdimanche: a frost is a night of 0°C or below, a summer day (jour d’été) 25°C or more, a hot day (forte chaleur) 30°C or more.
The Météo-France station at Courdimanche
Courdimanche is 16 km east of Étampes. Every figure on this page is the station’s, not a measurement in Étampes itself.
| Station (Météo-France number) | Courdimanche (91184001) |
| Distance from the town | 16 km east |
| Station altitude | 71 m |
| Town altitude (its center) | 89 m |
| Period | 1991–2020 |
| Sunshine measured at | Orly, 36 km away |
TownRatings matches each commune to one station with at least 24 years of temperature and rain records: the nearest, counting every 100 m of height difference as 10 km, never across the sea.
How Étampes compares
Against the 4,385 towns of 2,500 or more in mainland France, each read from its own matched station. The dots are the other towns of 2,500+ in Essonne.
Nearby towns’ climate
The nearest towns of 2,500+ within 29 km. Where a neighbor uses the same station its figures are the same: the differences you’d feel over a few kilometers aren’t in the normals.
| Town | Station | July high | January low | Rain a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Étampes | Courdimanche | 26.3°C | 1.4°C | 595 mm |
| Morigny-Champigny 2.8 km | same station | 26.3°C about the same | 1.4°C about the same | 595 mm |
| Étréchy 6.7 km | Brétigny | 26.0°C about the same | 1.7°C about the same | 629 mm |
| Saint-Chéron 13 km | Fontenay-lès-B. | 26.1°C about the same | 1.5°C about the same | 696 mm |
| Lardy 13 km | Brétigny | 26.0°C about the same | 1.7°C about the same | 629 mm |
| Cerny 14 km | same station | 26.3°C about the same | 1.4°C about the same | 595 mm |
| Boissy-sous-Saint-Yon 14 km | Fontenay-lès-B. | 26.1°C about the same | 1.5°C about the same | 696 mm |
Étampes weather by month
Average daily high and low, mean temperature and rain, 1991–2020, at the Courdimanche station; sunshine at Orly.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain | Sun (hours) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.2°C | 1.4°C | 4.3°C | 45 mm | 53 |
| February | 8.5°C | 1.0°C | 4.8°C | 42 mm | 85 |
| March | 12.8°C | 2.8°C | 7.8°C | 44 mm | 153 |
| April | 16.2°C | 4.7°C | 10.5°C | 43 mm | 203 |
| May | 19.7°C | 8.4°C | 14.1°C | 62 mm | 217 |
| June | 23.4°C | 11.5°C | 17.5°C | 56 mm | 224 |
| July | 26.3°C | 13.4°C | 19.8°C | 47 mm | 247 |
| August | 26.0°C | 13.0°C | 19.5°C | 49 mm | 221 |
| September | 21.9°C | 9.8°C | 15.9°C | 46 mm | 186 |
| October | 16.7°C | 7.6°C | 12.1°C | 55 mm | 117 |
| November | 11.0°C | 4.1°C | 7.5°C | 51 mm | 62 |
| December | 7.7°C | 1.9°C | 4.8°C | 55 mm | 64 |
| Year | 16.4°C | 6.6°C | 11.6°C | 595 mm | 1,831 |
Where Étampes’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Temperature, rain and day counts: Météo-France’s fiche climatologique for Courdimanche, 16 km away: statistics for 1991–2020.
- Which station: among stations with at least 24 of the 30 years of temperature and rain, the nearest to the commune’s population-weighted center, counting each 100 m of height difference as 10 km; mainland towns use mainland stations and each overseas département its own.
- Altitudes: the town’s from IGN’s RGE ALTI® at its population-weighted center; the station’s from Météo-France.
- Sunshine: the nearest station with at least 10 years of sunshine records, Orly, 36 km away.
- Comparisons: every town of 2,500 or more in mainland France, read the same way; the dots are the towns of 2,500+ in Essonne.
Météo-France fiches climatologiques · IGN RGE ALTI®. Licence Ouverte 2.0.
Questions about Étampes’s climate
How warm does Étampes get in summer?
July is the warmest month, with average highs of 26.3°C. About 58 days a year reach 25°C, fewer than 56% of mainland French towns, and about 15 reach 30°C.
How cold does Étampes get in winter?
February nights average 1.0°C. The air drops to 0°C or below on about 57 nights a year, and about 4 days a year stay below freezing all day.
How much rain does Étampes get?
About 595 mm a year, less than 96% of mainland French towns. May is the wettest month (62 mm) and February the driest (42 mm).
How sunny is it?
The nearest Météo-France station that records sunshine, Orly (36 km away), averages 1,831 hours of sunshine a year.
Are these figures for Étampes itself?
No: they are the normals of the Météo-France station matched to Étampes, Courdimanche, 16 km away. France publishes its climate normals by station, not by commune; a valley, a hill or the sea can make a difference over a few kilometers.
Where do these figures come from?
Météo-France’s fiches climatologiques: 30-year averages (1991–2020) for each of its long-running stations, published as open data since 2024. They are normals, not a forecast.
Source: Météo-France, fiches climatologiques, 1991–2020 statistics (station COURDIMANCHE, edited 15/10/2026); altitude: IGN, RGE ALTI®. Licence Ouverte 2.0. Today’s forecast for Étampes →
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