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Weather extremes

How extreme does Nice's weather get?

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Nice has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.

Based on 50+ years of daily weather observations (1973–present), from the Cote D Azur station 6 km away. Updated through August 2025 — an all-time extreme only changes when a more extreme day actually occurs, so some dates are old. That is normal, not stale data.

The four kinds of extreme

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Nice has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.

🔥 Hottest day
102°F Jul 17, 1988

That is about 20°F hotter than a normal July afternoon in Nice (typical high near 82°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 102°F Jul 17, 1988
2 99°F Jul 25, 2015
3 97°F Jul 22, 2007
❄️ Coldest night
19°F Jan 9, 1985

About 23°F colder than a normal January night in Nice (typical low near 42°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 19°F Jan 9, 1985
2 25°F Jan 10, 1985
3 27°F Jan 7, 1985
🌧️ Most rain in one day
10.12 in Aug 24, 1993

More rain in a single day than Nice usually gets in the whole month of August (typical August total about 0.9 in).

The three most extreme on record

1 10.12 in Aug 24, 1993
2 9.33 in Dec 18, 1983
3 6.29 in Nov 5, 2014

How hot and cold it gets, month by month

The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.

-10°10°30°50°70°90°110°130° all-time high 102°F JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
normal range of daily temperatureshottest ever recordedcoldest ever recorded

Nice's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — July's 102°F is about 20°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.

In plain terms

In a normal year, Nice's warmest days reach the low 80s°F and its coldest nights drop to the low 40s°F. But across the record it has gone as high as 102°F and as low as 19°F. A single day has delivered over 10 inches of rain. Those are the outer edges worth knowing if you are moving here, planning a trip, or thinking about a house.
Methodology & sources

Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 26 years of daily observations at Cote D Azur, a weather station, about 6 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →