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Rennes weather

Ille-et-Vilaine (35) · 230,890 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 17:57

Partly cloudy
13°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 13°C
Wind
12 km/h
Gusts
28 km/h
Humidity
69 %
Pressure
1027 hPa
Clouds
61 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:47 Set 17:53 Day 10 h 6 min UV 1 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
14°13°
Feels like 14°
Wind ↑ E 12 km/h
Gusts 28 km/h
Humidity 66 %
Evening
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
11°8°
Feels like 11°
Wind ↑ ENE 7 km/h
Gusts 14 km/h
Humidity 82 %
19:00
Mainly clear
11°
ENE 7
22:00
Mainly clear
8°
ENE 6

Rennes forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▼ This week runs -2.1° cooler than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
2°6°9°13°16°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed12°4°Thu 29 Oct: max 14° · min 7° · normal 11.3°Fri 30 Oct: max 13° · min 5° · normal 11.2°Sat 31 Oct: max 13° · min 4° · normal 11.0°Sun 1 Nov: max 13° · min 4° · normal 11.0°Mon 2 Nov: max 14° · min 4° · normal 10.9°Tue 3 Nov: max 12° · min 7° · normal 10.7°Wed 4 Nov: max 12° · min 4° · normal 10.6°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu1°9°16°15°3°03
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Rennes climate: what a normal year looks like

From 16 h 04 min of daylight in late June to 8 h 21 min in late December.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 53 mm and 78 mm on average.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 24 °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, 3 °C cooler than a normal October (16 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan8 °C3 °C71 mm
Feb10 °C3 °C59 mm
Mar12 °C4 °C59 mm
Apr14 °C6 °C65 mm
May18 °C10 °C70 mm
Jun21 °C12 °C60 mm
Jul23 °C14 °C53 mm
Aug24 °C14 °C54 mm
Sep20 °C11 °C55 mm
Oct16 °C9 °C74 mm
Nov12 °C6 °C72 mm
Dec9 °C3 °C78 mm
Whole year16 °C8 °C770 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 48.12° N, 1.69° 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 Rennes: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.514µg/m³
PM1024µg/m³
O₃30µg/m³
NO₂14µg/m³
SO₂1µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Rennes

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Rennes, 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 Rennes

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 05:31 Set 23:18
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 Rennes

Tide station used: Rennes · 1 km away

TodayThu 29/10
High range92
Low tide 03:27 1.8 m
High tide 08:52 12.4 m
Low tide 15:48 1.8 m
High tide 21:12 12.1 m
TomorrowFri 30/10
High range82
Low tide 04:10 2.4 m
High tide 09:32 11.9 m
Low tide 16:32 2.4 m
High tide 21:55 11.4 m
SatSat 31/10
High range70
Low tide 04:53 3.1 m
High tide 10:16 11.2 m
Low tide 17:19 3.1 m
High tide 22:44 10.5 m
SunSun 01/11
Mean tide58
Low tide 05:43 3.9 m
High tide 11:08 10.3 m
Low tide 18:18 3.8 m
High tide 23:45 9.7 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 Rennes

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

Rennes weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine (35): 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 13 °C (feels like 13 °C) and the wind blows at 12 km/h.

Expected range today: 7 °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 Rennes.

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