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Rhône (69) · 519,127 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 17:58

Mainly clear
12°
Mainly clear
Feels like 12°C
Wind
6 km/h
Gusts
16 km/h
Humidity
67 %
Pressure
1026 hPa
Clouds
43 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:16 Set 17:32 Day 10 h 15 min UV 2 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Afternoon
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
12°
Feels like 12°
Wind ↑ N 9 km/h
Gusts 22 km/h
Humidity 67 %
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
9°8°
Feels like 8°
Wind ↑ NNW 5 km/h
Gusts 13 km/h
Humidity 84 %
19:00
Partly cloudy
9°
NNW 5
22:00
Partly cloudy
8°
W 3

Lyon forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▼ This week runs -2.6° cooler than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
-1°3°7°10°14°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed11°1°Thu 29 Oct: max 12° · min 6° · normal 10.4°Fri 30 Oct: max 11° · min 5° · normal 10.3°Sat 31 Oct: max 10° · min 4° · normal 10.1°Sun 1 Nov: max 12° · min 5° · normal 10.1°Mon 2 Nov: max 9° · min 4° · normal 9.9°Tue 3 Nov: max 10° · min 4° · normal 9.7°Wed 4 Nov: max 11° · min 1° · normal 9.5°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu-1°7°14°12°0°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Lyon climate: what a normal year looks like

From 15 h 43 min of daylight in late June to 8 h 40 min in late December.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 27 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 0 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 18 °C.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 63 mm and 107 mm on average.

Afternoons climb to 25 °C only in July and August, with a typical peak of 27 °C in August.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 11 °C, 6 °C cooler than a normal October (17 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan7 °C0 °C78 mm
Feb8 °C1 °C63 mm
Mar12 °C4 °C67 mm
Apr16 °C7 °C86 mm
May20 °C11 °C95 mm
Jun25 °C14 °C86 mm
Jul27 °C16 °C81 mm
Aug27 °C16 °C81 mm
Sep22 °C12 °C97 mm
Oct17 °C9 °C104 mm
Nov11 °C4 °C107 mm
Dec7 °C2 °C83 mm
Whole year17 °C8 °C1,030 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 45.76° N, 4.84° E, 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 Lyon: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.57µg/m³
PM1012µg/m³
O₃45µg/m³
NO₂10µg/m³
SO₂1µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Lyon

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Lyon, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over Lyon

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 05:18 Set 22:38
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Europe/Paris); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Lyon

Curious about the weather in Lyon on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Lyon weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Lyon, Rhône (69): conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 12 °C (feels like 12 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.

Expected range today: 6 °C to 12 °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.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations