Few mainland French towns get less rain than Saint-Floret: 607 mm a year
Nights in January average 0.2°C. By January nights alone, it runs colder than 82% of mainland French towns. May is the wettest month, February the driest. An umbrella earns its place on about 91 days a year with 1 mm of rain or more.
These are the figures of Météo-France’s Plauzat station, 8.2 km north.
A year in Saint-Floret at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low in °C, at the Plauzat station.
What a year in Saint-Floret feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Plauzat.
About 607 mm of rain a year
May is the wettest month and February the driest. About 17 days a year bring 10 mm or more. 17th wettest of 44 towns of 2,500+ in Puy-de-Dôme.
Rain by month
Millimeters
Sunshine by month
Hours of sunshine at Issoire
A frosty town: 59 frosts and 59 days of 25°C a year
On about 59 nights a year the air drops to 0°C or below, and on about 9 days it stays below freezing all day. About 59 days a year reach 25°C, and 17 reach 30°C.
Day counts are Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Plauzat: 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 Plauzat
Plauzat is 8.2 km north of Saint-Floret. Every figure on this page is the station’s, not a measurement in Saint-Floret itself.
| Station (Météo-France number) | Plauzat (63282001) |
| Distance from the town | 8.2 km north |
| Station altitude | 495 m |
| Town altitude (its center) | 541 m |
| Period | 1995–2020 (the station’s own record) |
| Sunshine measured at | Issoire, 13 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 Saint-Floret 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 Puy-de-Dôme.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Floret | Plauzat | 25.9°C | 0.2°C | 607 mm |
| Issoire 11 km | Issoire | 27.7°C 1.8°C warmer | −0.1°C about the same | 611 mm |
| Vic-le-Comte 15 km | same station | 25.9°C about the same | 0.2°C about the same | 607 mm |
| Veyre-Monton 15 km | same station | 25.9°C about the same | 0.2°C about the same | 607 mm |
| Aydat 15 km | Gelles | 23.6°C 2.3°C cooler | −1.2°C 1.4°C colder | 1,026 mm |
| Les Martres-de-Veyre 17 km | Clermont-Fd | 26.8°C 0.9°C warmer | 0.6°C about the same | 563 mm |
| La Roche-Blanche 18 km | same station | 25.9°C about the same | 0.2°C about the same | 607 mm |
Saint-Floret weather by month
Average daily high and low, mean temperature and rain, 1991–2020, at the Plauzat station; sunshine at Issoire.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain | Sun (hours) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.1°C | 0.2°C | 3.7°C | 29 mm | 83 |
| February | 8.3°C | 0.2°C | 4.2°C | 21 mm | 102 |
| March | 12.4°C | 2.4°C | 7.4°C | 28 mm | 153 |
| April | 15.6°C | 4.8°C | 10.2°C | 56 mm | 173 |
| May | 19.4°C | 8.2°C | 13.8°C | 76 mm | 201 |
| June | 23.4°C | 11.7°C | 17.6°C | 64 mm | 241 |
| July | 25.9°C | 13.5°C | 19.7°C | 73 mm | 255 |
| August | 25.7°C | 13.4°C | 19.5°C | 70 mm | 234 |
| September | 21.5°C | 10.1°C | 15.8°C | 53 mm | 173 |
| October | 17.2°C | 7.9°C | 12.5°C | 53 mm | 124 |
| November | 10.9°C | 3.5°C | 7.2°C | 53 mm | 83 |
| December | 7.6°C | 0.9°C | 4.3°C | 30 mm | 78 |
| Year | 16.3°C | 6.4°C | 11.3°C | 607 mm | 1,899 |
Where Saint-Floret’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Temperature, rain and day counts: Météo-France’s fiche climatologique for Plauzat, 8.2 km away: statistics for 1991–2020 (the station’s own years, 1995–2020, where its record is shorter).
- 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, Issoire, 13 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 Puy-de-Dôme.
Météo-France fiches climatologiques · IGN RGE ALTI®. Licence Ouverte 2.0.
Questions about Saint-Floret’s climate
How warm does Saint-Floret get in summer?
July is the warmest month, with average highs of 25.9°C. About 59 days a year reach 25°C, fewer than 54% of mainland French towns, and about 17 reach 30°C.
How cold does Saint-Floret get in winter?
January nights average 0.2°C. The air drops to 0°C or below on about 59 nights a year, and about 9 days a year stay below freezing all day.
How much rain does Saint-Floret get?
About 607 mm a year, less than 95% of mainland French towns. May is the wettest month (76 mm) and February the driest (21 mm).
How sunny is it?
The nearest Météo-France station that records sunshine, Issoire (13 km away), averages 1,899 hours of sunshine a year.
Are these figures for Saint-Floret itself?
No: they are the normals of the Météo-France station matched to Saint-Floret, Plauzat, 8.2 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 PLAUZAT_SAPC, edited 15/10/2026); altitude: IGN, RGE ALTI®. Licence Ouverte 2.0. Today’s forecast for Saint-Floret →
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