Best time to visit Tours

France · Europe

All twelve months scored on daily temperature, rainfall, humidity and holiday crowding.

The year in Tours

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Go in Apr–Aug — these months score within a whisker of each other; 20C max, 9 rainy days. Sep is the next best.

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Things to do in Tours

Tours Cathedral Cathedral located in Indre-et-Loire, in France
Roman amphitheatre of Tours Roman amphitheatre in Tours, France
Château de Tours Architecturally unimpressive by anybody's standards…
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours Museum in Tours, France
Grottes Pétrifiantes de Savonnières Cave
Jardin botanique de Tours Garden in France
Aqueduct of Luynes Roman aqueduct / Hydraulic engineering in Indre-et-Loire, France

Tours and tickets in Tours

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Sights and their lines from Wikivoyage (Tours), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata; in order of how often each one's Wikipedia article was read on phones in the last 12 months.

Month by month

No fare history for this route yet, so this ranking is climate and crowds only — the price column will fill in as the scanner collects.

Month	Max °C	Rain days	Humidity	Sun h/day	Verdict	Why
Jan	8°	9d	86%	4.0h	avoid	8C max, 9 rainy days
Feb	11°	10d	82%	5.5h	ok	11C max, 10 rainy days
Mar	13°	9d	77%	7.6h	ok	13C max, 9 rainy days
Apr	17°	6d	70%	10.0h	sweet spot	17C max, 6 rainy days
May	20°	9d	70%	11.1h	sweet spot	20C max, 9 rainy days
Jun	25°	6d	66%	12.2h	sweet spot busy	busier than usual
Jul	27°	4d	61%	12.4h	sweet spot busy	busier than usual
Aug	26°	4d	64%	11.2h	sweet spot busy	busier than usual
Sep	23°	6d	71%	9.6h	good	23C max, 6 rainy days
Oct	18°	10d	81%	6.8h	ok	18C max, 10 rainy days
Nov	12°	10d	86%	5.3h	ok	12C max, 10 rainy days
Dec	9°	11d	88%	3.9h	avoid	9C max, 11 rainy days

Rain days are the days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them.

Weather read at the centre, 5 km from the airport (TUF): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. It is flagged rather than scored down, and crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.

How busy it gets

Busiest from June to August; quietest from December to March.

Then and now

Tours's June days now average 25.0°C, 3.8°C warmer than in 1981–1990. 8 of 12 months are clearly warmer.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1981–90	7.2°	8.2°	11.6°	14.2°	18.1°	21.2°	24.2°	23.5°	21.3°	17.0°	11.1°	8.2°
2017–26	8.1°	10.6°	13.3°	16.9°	20.1°	25.0°	26.6°	26.3°	22.7°	18.0°	12.0°	9.2°
Change	+0.8°	+2.4°	+1.8°	+2.7°	+2.0°	+3.8°	+2.4°	+2.8°	+1.4°	+1.0°	+0.9°	+1.0°

The average daily high, month by month, for the nearest ERA5 grid cell. Bold is a clear change; grey is within the ordinary spread between years. Every destination, ranked.

Getting there

Fly into PAR, then drive. The flights under Where to book are to PAR.

PAR	the drive is not measured yet
Tours, Indre-et-Loire (TUF)	the drive is not measured yet

The drive from each airport is the road's, from openrouteservice.org by HeiGIT: typical, not a schedule.

How far Tours is, and what it costs, depends on where you set off from — the months above do not.

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.

Being there

On arrival

Paying — Visa, Mastercard and French CB cards work in almost all shops, restaurants and hotels, and contactless is widespread. Some places post a minimum spend for cards.
UPI, for visitors from India — Only at a few places, through Lyra: Eiffel Tower tickets bought online and the Galeries Lafayette store on boulevard Haussmann in Paris. Bring a card for everything else.
Tipping — Not expected, as service is included by law; locals leave small change or a few euros for good service. Taxi tips are optional.

Getting around Tours

Apps — Rides: Bolt, FreeNow, G7, Uber. Maps: Google Maps, Apple Maps. Messages: WhatsApp.

Fil Bleu is the authority responsible for all public transport in Tours and the agglomeration. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Tours, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Help

Emergency — 112 (any emergency) · police 17 · ambulance 15 · fire 18.
TravelCharika is not an emergency service: we cannot call for help or send anyone. Numbers can change; if one fails, ask someone local or your hotel.

Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 7 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.

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Tours in pictures

Tours Hôtel de Ville 09 — i

Benjamin Smith, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Tours Quais de Loire 1 — i

Benjamin Smith, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What Tours is like

Tours (with a silent s) is an important city in the Loire Valley of west-central France. More on Wikivoyage

Worth seeing: Museum buffs will want to invest in a Carte Multi-visites, which for €10 allows you access to the Fine Arts, Natural History and Compagnonnage Museums, as well as… More on Wikivoyage
Worth doing: Cycle, walk or jog along the Loire: Starting at Pont Wilson, on either bank of the river, you can walk or cycle for many miles up- or down-stream. More on Wikivoyage
Getting in: Tours Val de Loire Airport (TUF IATA). The local international airport is small, though it receives regular year-round flights from London Stansted, Porto and Marrakech… More on Wikivoyage
Staying safe: Tours is a very safe city in comparison to other French cities. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Tours, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the full article has far more. The numbers above are measured; this is experience.

Around Tours

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Kind of place

Tours is in France, Europe. Distances are great-circle, so a short one can still be a long way round.

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