Lens, France Climate
Temperature through the year
The normal daily high and low and the record for every date at Lille, since 1945. The line marks today.
- Normal low
- Normal high
- Record high
- Record low
Normals for Sep 27
- Normal high
- 19°C
- Record high
- 26°Cin 1992
- Record low
- 5°Cin 1984
- Chance of a wet day
- 41%
- Daylight
- 11 h 53 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.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Record high | Record low | Precipitation | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 20°C (1978) | -19°C (1985) | 55 mm | 12.4 | ||
| February | 8°C | 20°C (1978) | -11°C (1986) | 47 mm | 11.3 | |
| March | 11°C | 24°C (2021) | -10°C (2013) | 54 mm | 12.4 | |
| April | 15°C | 27°C (2018) | -6°C (1976) | 41 mm | 12.0 | |
| May | 19°C | 30°C (2017) | 0°C (1976) | 64 mm | 12.4 | |
| June | 22°C | 35°C (2011) | -1°C (1977) | 61 mm | 12.0 | |
| July | 24°C | 42°C (2019) | 4°C (1975) | 63 mm | 12.4 | |
| August | 24°C | 37°C (2020) | 5°C (1974) | 65 mm | 12.4 | |
| September | 20°C | 35°C (2020) | 3°C (2018) | 55 mm | 12.0 | |
| October | 15°C | 28°C (2011) | -9°C (2003) | 63 mm | 12.4 | |
| November | 20°C (2018) | -7°C (1998) | 71 mm | 15.0 | ||
| December | 20°C (1977) | -11°C (1996) | 71 mm | 15.5 | ||
| Year | 711 mm | 152 |
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.
711 mm in a normal year, most in December.
Chance of a wet day
- Chance of a wet day
Humidity and comfort
NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around Lens.
The muggiest month is August, when 3 percent of days are muggy or worse, with a mean dew point of 18°C or more.
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Dry | Comfortable | Humid | Muggy | Oppressive | Miserable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2°C | 92% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| February | 2°C | 89% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| March | 4°C | 84% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 6°C | 79% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| May | 9°C | 78% | 88% | 10% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| June | 12°C | 78% | 64% | 26% | 8% | 1% | 0% | 0% |
| July | 14°C | 78% | 36% | 42% | 20% | 2% | 0% | 0% |
| August | 14°C | 79% | 35% | 45% | 17% | 3% | 0% | 0% |
| September | 11°C | 81% | 71% | 24% | 5% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| October | 9°C | 86% | 90% | 10% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| November | 5°C | 92% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| December | 3°C | 94% | 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 66 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is December, 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 January, averaging 20.2 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Jun 19, with 16 h 27 min of daylight; the shortest is Dec 19, with 8 h 00 min.
- Day length
Solar energy
Average daily sunshine reaching the ground on a flat surface, in kilowatt-hours per square meter, clouds included.
Month pages
The weather in Lens 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.
A record is the highest or lowest value on the date in every year the station has reported, back to 1945. It rests on one station, so a neighbor a few miles away can hold different ones.
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
Records: NOAA GHCN-Daily, station FRM00007015, every year on file, quality-flagged values removed. Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine: 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 2026-09-24. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.