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Nantes in December

avoid · not the best time to go · the wettest month of the year

The year in Nantes

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  1. Nantes in January: avoid
  2. Nantes in February: ok
  3. Nantes in March: ok, busy
  4. Nantes in April: good, busy
  5. Nantes in May: sweet spot
  6. Nantes in June: sweet spot
  7. Nantes in July: sweet spot, busy
  8. Nantes in August: sweet spot
  9. Nantes in September: good
  10. Nantes in October: good
  11. Nantes in November: ok
  12. Nantes in December: avoid
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
December at Nantes is 10°C by day and 5°C at night, with 12 rainy days and about 4 hours of sun a day. 10C max, 12 rainy days.

The numbers

Daily high10°C
Nightly low5°C
Feels like, afternoon7°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more12 · 108 mm
Humidity87%
Sunshine4.3 h/day
Daylight8.6 h/day
Crowds80 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at the centre, 8 km from the airport (NTE): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

December: about usual. Busiest in July; quietest in January, October and November.

Public holidays in December

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Nantes in pictures

What to pack

  • Warm layers for the evenings, which drop to about 5°C.
  • Rain gear you will actually use: about 12 rainy days and 108 mm.
  • Humidity averages 87%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type C and E plugs at 230 / 400 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Euro. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for France: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Nantes: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

December elsewhere

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