Plancherine is among the wettest of mainland French towns: 1,399 mm of rain a year
Midwinter brings lows of about −0.8°C. Its January nights bite harder than in 93% of mainland French towns. December is the wettest month, September the driest. Gritters and ice scrapers earn their keep on roughly 62 nights a year below 0°C.
Figures from Météo-France’s Ugine station, 13 km north-east.
A year in Plancherine at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low in °C, at the Ugine station.
What a year in Plancherine feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Ugine.
About 1,399 mm of rain a year
December is the wettest month and September the driest. About 52 days a year bring 10 mm or more. The wettest of 37 towns of 2,500+ in Savoie.
Rain by month
Millimeters
Sunshine by month
Hours of sunshine at Meythet
A frosty town: 62 frosts and 69 days of 25°C a year
On about 62 nights a year the air drops to 0°C or below, and on about 7 days it stays below freezing all day. About 69 days a year reach 25°C, and 19 reach 30°C.
Day counts are Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Ugine: 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 Ugine
Ugine is 13 km north-east of Plancherine. Every figure on this page is the station’s, not a measurement in Plancherine itself.
| Station (Météo-France number) | Ugine (73303005) |
| Distance from the town | 13 km north-east |
| Station altitude | 539 m |
| Town altitude (its center) | 561 m |
| Period | 1997–2020 (the station’s own record) |
| Nearest station of any kind | 2.3 km |
| Sunshine measured at | Meythet, 34 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 Plancherine 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 Savoie.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plancherine | Ugine | 26.4°C | −0.8°C | 1,399 mm |
| Mercury 2.4 km | Gilly-sur-Isère | 27.5°C 1.1°C warmer | −2.8°C 2°C colder | 1,354 mm |
| Gilly-sur-Isère 2.7 km | Gilly-sur-Isère | 27.5°C 1.1°C warmer | −2.8°C 2°C colder | 1,354 mm |
| Albertville 5 km | Gilly-sur-Isère | 27.5°C 1.1°C warmer | −2.8°C 2°C colder | 1,354 mm |
| Faverges-Seythenex 9.3 km | same station | 26.4°C about the same | −0.8°C about the same | 1,399 mm |
| Ugine 13 km | same station | 26.4°C about the same | −0.8°C about the same | 1,399 mm |
| Doussard 15 km | Meythet | 26.5°C about the same | −1.4°C 0.6°C colder | 1,211 mm |
Plancherine weather by month
Average daily high and low, mean temperature and rain, 1991–2020, at the Ugine station; sunshine at Meythet.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain | Sun (hours) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.6°C | −0.8°C | 2.4°C | 143 mm | 88 |
| February | 7.7°C | −0.3°C | 3.7°C | 109 mm | 113 |
| March | 12.6°C | 2.9°C | 7.7°C | 122 mm | 174 |
| April | 16.7°C | 6.0°C | 11.3°C | 102 mm | 191 |
| May | 20.3°C | 9.6°C | 15.0°C | 116 mm | 220 |
| June | 24.5°C | 13.3°C | 18.9°C | 109 mm | 256 |
| July | 26.4°C | 14.9°C | 20.7°C | 111 mm | 274 |
| August | 26.0°C | 14.8°C | 20.4°C | 115 mm | 249 |
| September | 21.8°C | 11.5°C | 16.7°C | 93 mm | 195 |
| October | 16.8°C | 8.0°C | 12.4°C | 106 mm | 141 |
| November | 10.2°C | 3.1°C | 6.6°C | 119 mm | 91 |
| December | 6.1°C | −0.1°C | 3.0°C | 154 mm | 78 |
| Year | 16.2°C | 6.9°C | 11.6°C | 1,399 mm | 2,069 |
Where Plancherine’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Temperature, rain and day counts: Météo-France’s fiche climatologique for Ugine, 13 km away: statistics for 1991–2020 (the station’s own years, 1997–2020, 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, Meythet, 34 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 Savoie.
Météo-France fiches climatologiques · IGN RGE ALTI®. Licence Ouverte 2.0.
Questions about Plancherine’s climate
How warm does Plancherine get in summer?
July is the warmest month, with average highs of 26.4°C. About 69 days a year reach 25°C, more than 62% of mainland French towns, and about 19 reach 30°C.
How cold does Plancherine get in winter?
January nights average −0.8°C. The air drops to 0°C or below on about 62 nights a year, and about 7 days a year stay below freezing all day.
How much rain does Plancherine get?
About 1,399 mm a year, more than 98% of mainland French towns. December is the wettest month (154 mm) and September the driest (93 mm).
How sunny is it?
The nearest Météo-France station that records sunshine, Meythet (34 km away), averages 2,069 hours of sunshine a year.
Are these figures for Plancherine itself?
No: they are the normals of the Météo-France station matched to Plancherine, Ugine, 13 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 UGINE, edited 15/10/2026); altitude: IGN, RGE ALTI®. Licence Ouverte 2.0. Today’s forecast for Plancherine →
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