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Nantes weather

Loire-Atlantique (44) · 327,734 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:04

Mainly clear
12°
Mainly clear
Feels like 12°C
Wind
8 km/h
Gusts
19 km/h
Humidity
72 %
Pressure
1025 hPa
Clouds
44 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:45 Set 17:54 Day 10 h 9 min UV 1 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
12°9°
Feels like 12°
Wind ↑ ENE 8 km/h
Gusts 19 km/h
Humidity 72 %
19:00
Mainly clear
12°
ENE 8
22:00
Clear sky
9°
ENE 7

Nantes forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▼ This week runs -2.2° cooler than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
2°6°10°13°17°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed12°4°Thu 29 Oct: max 15° · min 7° · normal 11.8°Fri 30 Oct: max 13° · min 7° · normal 11.6°Sat 31 Oct: max 12° · min 6° · normal 11.5°Sun 1 Nov: max 12° · min 6° · normal 11.5°Mon 2 Nov: max 14° · min 6° · normal 11.3°Tue 3 Nov: max 12° · min 5° · normal 11.2°Wed 4 Nov: max 12° · min 4° · normal 11.0°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu3°11°18°16°4°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Nantes climate: what a normal year looks like

From 15 h 56 min of daylight in late June to 8 h 28 min in late December.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 45 mm and 84 mm on average.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 25 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 3 °C.

Even the coldest month, January, keeps nights above freezing on average (3 °C).

Forecast highs for the coming week average 13 °C, 4 °C cooler than a normal October (17 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan9 °C3 °C77 mm
Feb10 °C4 °C60 mm
Mar13 °C5 °C58 mm
Apr15 °C7 °C62 mm
May19 °C10 °C66 mm
Jun22 °C13 °C50 mm
Jul24 °C15 °C45 mm
Aug25 °C15 °C51 mm
Sep21 °C12 °C53 mm
Oct17 °C10 °C78 mm
Nov12 °C6 °C76 mm
Dec9 °C4 °C84 mm
Whole year16 °C9 °C760 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 47.24° N, 1.56° 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 Nantes: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.511µg/m³
PM1020µg/m³
O₃42µg/m³
NO₂10µg/m³
SO₂1µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Nantes

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

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over Nantes

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 05:36 Set 23:12
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.

Sea and tides near Nantes

Tide station used: Nantes Salorges · 4 km away

TodayThu 29/10
High range92
Low tide 02:44 0.9 m
High tide 06:57 5.8 m
Low tide 15:05 0.8 m
High tide 19:14 5.6 m
TomorrowFri 30/10
High range82
Low tide 03:26 1.0 m
High tide 07:33 5.6 m
Low tide 15:50 0.9 m
High tide 19:54 5.2 m
SatSat 31/10
High range70
Low tide 04:11 1.1 m
High tide 08:15 5.3 m
Low tide 16:36 1.0 m
High tide 20:40 4.8 m
SunSun 01/11
Mean tide58
Low tide 04:58 1.3 m
High tide 09:09 4.9 m
Low tide 17:27 1.2 m
High tide 21:48 4.4 m

Indicative heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest. · more tide detail on TidesAtlas

Look up a past day in Nantes

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

Nantes weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique (44): 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 8 km/h.

Expected range today: 7 °C to 15 °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 Nantes Salorges.

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