Bourgogne-Franche-Comte

Lons-le-Saunier, France Climate

NASA POWER reanalysis for the half-degree grid cell around Lons-le-Saunier, 1991-2020; a grid cell is an area average and can differ from a thermometer in town by several degrees

The warmest month is August, with an average high of 24°C; the coldest is January, with an average low of -3°C. A normal year brings 1193 mm of precipitation.

Temperature through the year

The normal daily high and low. The line marks today.

Normal daily high and low temperature at Lons-le-Saunier through the year, in °C, with the record for each date.-2002040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
  • Normal low
  • Normal high
  • Reanalysis extreme high
  • Reanalysis extreme low

Normals for Sep 26

Normal high
18°C
Normal low
8°C
Reanalysis high
24°Cin 2011
Reanalysis low
3°Cin 2020
Chance of a wet day
42%
Daylight
11 h 58 min

Month by month

Averages for 1991-2020. Wet days have at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis. Each month links to its own page.

MonthAvg highAvg lowWarmestColdestPrecipitationWet days
January3°C-3°C12°C (1991)-17°C (1995)99 mm13.3
February5°C-3°C16°C (1991)-18°C (2012)83 mm11.5
March9°C0°C19°C (1997)-17°C (2005)86 mm12.5
April13°C3°C24°C (2018)-6°C (2003)89 mm12.6
May17°C8°C27°C (2009)-2°C (1995)110 mm15.2
June21°C11°C37°C (2019)3°C (2001)98 mm14.2
July24°C13°C36°C (2019)5°C (2000)90 mm13.2
August24°C13°C38°C (2003)4°C (1995)89 mm12.3
September20°C10°C31°C (2020)1°C (1995)98 mm12.0
October15°C6°C25°C (2009)-6°C (2012)114 mm13.4
November8°C1°C18°C (2018)-14°C (1999)117 mm14.0
December4°C-1°C14°C (2006)-15°C (2014)120 mm14.4
Year14°C5°C1193 mm159

Precipitation

Rain and melted snow together. The chance of a wet day is the share of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.

1193 mm in a normal year, most in December.

Chance of a wet day

The chance of at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis on each date at Lons-le-Saunier, in percent.0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
  • Chance of a wet day

Humidity and comfort

NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around Lons-le-Saunier.

The muggiest month is June, when 1 percent of days are muggy or worse, with a mean dew point of 18°C or more.

MonthDew pointHumidityDryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable
January-1°C92%100%0%0%0%0%0%
February-1°C90%100%0%0%0%0%0%
March2°C85%100%0%0%0%0%0%
April5°C81%100%0%0%0%0%0%
May9°C80%91%9%1%0%0%0%
June12°C77%59%29%12%1%0%0%
July13°C72%47%35%16%1%0%0%
August12°C70%57%33%10%0%0%0%
September10°C77%84%15%2%0%0%0%
October7°C84%97%3%0%0%0%0%
November3°C90%100%0%0%0%0%0%
December0°C92%100%0%0%0%0%0%

Comfort is judged by the day's mean dew point: dry below 13°C, comfortable to 16°C, humid to 18°C, muggy to 21°C, oppressive to 24°C, miserable above.

Clouds

Average share of the sky covered, from satellite (CERES and GEWEX SRB) by way of NASA POWER, 1991-2020.

The clearest month is July, with the sky 56 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is November, at 74 percent.

Wind

The mean wind speed over the whole day, from the MERRA-2 reanalysis by way of NASA POWER. Gusts run well above it.

The windiest month is February, averaging 13.7 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.

Daylight and sunshine

The longest day is Jun 19, with 15 h 51 min of daylight; the shortest is Dec 18, with 8 h 33 min.

Hours of daylight at Lons-le-Saunier through the year.0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
  • Day length

Solar energy

Average daily sunshine reaching the ground on a flat surface, in kilowatt-hours per square meter, clouds included.

Sunrise and sunset calendar

Month pages

The weather in Lons-le-Saunier in each month, day by day.

What this means

A normal is the average of the thirty years 1991 to 2020, the period the World Meteorological Organization and NOAA use for comparison. It is an average, not a forecast: most days depart from it, and some by a long way.

Where no station record is within reach, the extremes shown are the highest and lowest the reanalysis produced for the date in 1991-2020, not measured records.

Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine come from a reanalysis: a weather model run over the past with every observation fed in, averaged over a grid cell about 50 km across. It is consistent everywhere on Earth; it smooths local detail such as a lake shore or a valley.

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Sources

Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-26. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.