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Rozenn can surely answer you better than I can regarding continental climates, but I can already tell you that there' s nothing too exciting in our country for 4 season climate fans.
I would say that highlands in southern France are your best bet for both cold, snowy winters and relatively sunny, albeit stormy summers.
Peira Cava, 1 hour away from Nice by car, seems to be reliably snow-covered in winter and routinely experiences subfreezing afternoon temperatures. Last time I was there in January it was -5°C by sunset. From my experience winter sunshine is pretty abundant there (there is no available data) and so is snow. There's even a ski resort nearby.
Summer tends to be a little cloudy and foggy up there though, I've experienced a completely overcast and foggy 10°C June afternoon there once.
I typed the climatic averages on Wiki for that place. I know sunshine and precip seem weird but that's what was written on the book (about climates in southern France) and sunshine data comes from only a handful of years so that might be an explanation.
Hope that helps, Rozenn will most likely give you a more exhaustive answer but I thought I'd add my two cents for high altitude climates in southern France
Care to help, as there's a few French posters here?
I don't know about the snow potential....but I always thought that other than right on the French Riveria - there were no warm climates in France? Outside of places like Nice, I thought nowhere in France has a month where the mean (monthly) temp is 70 F /21 C or higher? Could be wrong though.
Thanks for your input, dhdh. The problem with ski resorts is that they are quite unreliable in summer. A 10C day in July is a big no-no.
Hmm, despite being such a large country, all your winters really suck. By which I mean cold winters.
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I don't know about the snow potential....but I always thought that other than right on the French Riveria - there were no warm climates in France? Outside of places like Nice, I thought nowhere in France has a month where the mean (monthly) temp is 70 F /21 C or higher? Could be wrong though.
Cities like Lyon average 28C/82F - 17C/62F in July. Even warm oceanic Bordeaux averages 26.5C/80F - 15C/59F in August. A 80F/60F summer is IMO a warm summer.
In fact I could move to Lyon. I've heard the people are 'cold' on French standards and the city is rich and not too big. A good place for me!
Thanks for your input, dhdh. The problem with ski resorts is that they are quite unreliable in summer. A 10C day in July is a big no-no.
Hmm, despite being such a large country, all your winters really suck. By which I mean cold winters.
Cities like Lyon average 28C/82F - 17C/62F in July. Even warm oceanic Bordeaux averages 26.5C/80F - 15C/59F in August. A 80F/60F summer is IMO a warm summer.
In fact I could move to Lyon. I've heard the people are 'cold' on French standards and the city is rich and not too big. A good place for me!
Not really, it was meant tounge in cheek. But I hate cheek-kissing.
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