11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Overcast
10°
Feels like 10°
Wind↑ ENE 35 km/h
Humidity 59 %
Afternoon
Drizzle
10°
Feels like 10°
Wind↑ E 30 km/h
Gusts37 km/h
Humidity 64 %
💧 0.3 mm
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
8°
Feels like 4°
Wind↑ ESE 30 km/h
Gusts38 km/h
Humidity 68 %
Afternoon
Overcast
8°
Feels like 4°
Wind↑ E 40 km/h
Gusts47 km/h
Humidity 70 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Light rain
9°
Feels like 6°
Wind↑ ESE 26 km/h
Gusts32 km/h
Humidity 95 %
💧 2.7 mm
Afternoon
Light rain
13°
Feels like 13°
Wind↑ SSE 23 km/h
Gusts39 km/h
Humidity 91 %
💧 1.6 mm
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Drizzle
11°
Feels like 11°
Wind↑ WSW 38 km/h
Humidity 58 %
💧 0.4 mm
Afternoon
Drizzle
11°
Feels like 11°
Wind↑ SW 36 km/h
Gusts44 km/h
Humidity 64 %
💧 0.8 mm
Cherbourg-en-Cotentin forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Cherbourg-en-Cotentin climate: what a normal year looks like
From 16 h 18 min of daylight in late June to 8 h 08 min in late December.
Swimmers find the warmest sea in September (17 °C) and the coolest in March (9 °C).
The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 20 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 5 °C.
There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 51 mm and 104 mm on average.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 13 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (15 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Sea
Jan
9 °C
5 °C
87 mm
10 °C
Feb
9 °C
5 °C
69 mm
9 °C
Mar
10 °C
6 °C
62 mm
9 °C
Apr
12 °C
8 °C
59 mm
10 °C
May
15 °C
10 °C
56 mm
11 °C
Jun
18 °C
13 °C
55 mm
13 °C
Jul
20 °C
15 °C
51 mm
15 °C
Aug
20 °C
15 °C
66 mm
17 °C
Sep
18 °C
14 °C
63 mm
17 °C
Oct
15 °C
11 °C
94 mm
16 °C
Nov
12 °C
8 °C
95 mm
14 °C
Dec
9 °C
6 °C
104 mm
12 °C
Whole year
14 °C
10 °C
860 mm
13 °C
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 49.63° N, 1.64° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.
Air you breathe in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin: pollution and pollen
2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.56µg/m³
PM1013µg/m³
O₃52µg/m³
NO₂6µg/m³
SO₂0µg/m³
Pollen
AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
Moon over Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 05:20 Set 23:28
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Europe/Paris); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Sea and tides near Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
Tide station used: Cherbourg · 3 km away
🌊 Sea surface
16.0 °C
satellite, 29/10
Sea state
Smooth
waves 0.5 m
Period
11 s
Swell
0.4 m
TodayThu 29/10
High range92
Low tide05:001.3 m
High tide10:226.6 m
Low tide17:231.3 m
High tide22:466.3 m
TomorrowFri 30/10
High range82
Low tide05:461.6 m
High tide11:046.3 m
Low tide18:111.5 m
High tide23:336.0 m
SatSat 31/10
High range70
Low tide06:362.0 m
High tide11:525.9 m
Low tide19:061.9 m
SunSun 01/11
Mean tide58
High tide00:295.6 m
Low tide07:352.4 m
High tide12:525.5 m
Low tide20:122.2 m
Indicative heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest.
Look up a past day in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
Curious about the weather in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Cherbourg-en-Cotentin weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, Manche (50): conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “partly cloudy”, it is 12 °C (feels like 12 °C) and the wind blows at 8 km/h.
Expected range today: 11 °C to 14 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms, plus the tide times for Cherbourg.
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