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Best Time for The Rhône & the Ardèche
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Sweet spot: March, April, May. Computed from NASA POWER climate normals across the route's overnight towns, balancing temperature, rainfall and daylight.
💡 Good to know
- Harvest in Côte-Rôtie and Châteauneuf-du-Pape, chestnut season in the Ardèche across the river, and Lyon's bouchons back at full autumn form.
- The Roman theatres warm up for festival season — Orange's Chorégies stage opera under a 2,000-year-old wall from June.
| Month | Low | High | Rain | Daylight | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −1.1°C | 6.2°C | 57 mm | 8.9 h | ❄ |
| February | −1.2°C | 7.6°C | 46 mm | 10.1 h | ❄ |
| March | 1.7°C | 12.1°C | 54 mm | 11.6 h | ❄ |
| April | 5.2°C | 16.4°C | 64 mm | 13.2 h | |
| May | 9.1°C | 20.4°C | 75 mm | 14.6 h | |
| June | 13.6°C | 25.7°C | 57 mm | 15.4 h | |
| July | 15.8°C | 28.8°C | 51 mm | 15.1 h | |
| August | 15.2°C | 28.2°C | 54 mm | 13.9 h | |
| September | 11.2°C | 23.2°C | 65 mm | 12.3 h | |
| October | 7.6°C | 17.7°C | 91 mm | 10.7 h | |
| November | 3.0°C | 11.0°C | 96 mm | 9.3 h | |
| December | −0.3°C | 6.9°C | 64 mm | 8.6 h | ❄ |