The Weather in France is temperate, an agreeable climate with generally mild to cool winters and mild to hot summers.

Western France, along the Atlantic coast offers an oceanic, humid climate with cooler summers.

In the north and central regions including Paris you will find cooler winters and warmer summers.

The east, along the Rhone corridor and in the mountainous regions is semi-continental with harsh winters and hot summers.

The Mediterranean regions and south of France offer mild winters and hot summers.

Occasional a strong, cold, dry, north-to-northwesterly wind blows known as mistral.