When is the best time to visit Côte d’Azur?

The best time to visit Côte d’Azur is October (Wk 40–42): in this window the crowd level is low at around 19 out of 100 and weather comfort is good at about 67 out of 100.

When is Côte d’Azur quietest?

January (Wk 2–4) is the quietest time in Côte d’Azur. Crowd levels there sit at 0 out of 100, the lowest across the year.

When is Côte d’Azur busiest?

Côte d’Azur is busiest in August (Wk 32) with around 2,596,363 overnight stays in the peak week.

What is the weather like in Côte d’Azur and when is it warmest?

It is warmest in Côte d’Azur in July with an average of 27 °C and around 15 mm of rain in the month.

How do you get to Côte d’Azur?

Côte d’Azur is reachable via 3 destination airports with direct flights, including Cote D'Azur Airport (NCE), Marseille Provence Airport (MRS) and Hyeres Airport (TLN).

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Best time to visit Côte d’Azur

When is it busiest here, and when is it quietest? The answer runs week by week through the region's own year, from official EU overnight-stay statistics.

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Busiest week

AugustCrowd level 100

Wk 32 · 2,596,363 overnight stays

Quietest weeks

JanuaryCrowd level 0

Wk 2–4 · measured against the region's own year, not against other regions

Sweet spot

OctoberCrowd level 18–21

Wk 40–42 · a good balance of weather comfort and crowd level

Warmest month

27 °CComfort 78

July · around 15 mm of rain in the month

Crowding Index 1.1 · As of 06/08/2026 · Crowding score 0–100, season-relative

Côte d’Azur (France) is quietest in January: across Wk 2–4 the crowd level runs from 0 out of 100. The busiest single week falls in August (Wk 32), at 100 out of 100 with roughly 2,596,363 overnight stays. Calculated from open official data; the values are modelled, not counted.

How we calculate

When is Côte d’Azur busy, when is it quiet?

Click a week. The panel on the right explains why it is busy or quiet.

Weather profile

Weather comfort is an absolute scale (0 = poor, 100 = ideal) and a second axis next to the season-relative crowd level.

JanuaryØ 1

FebruaryØ 7

MarchØ 9

AprilØ 26

MayØ 34

JuneØ 48

JulyØ 82

AugustØ 95

SeptemberØ 43

OctoberØ 20

NovemberØ 2

DecemberØ 2

Colour = season-relative crowd levelBar = weather comfort (Sun & warmth), absolute 0–100

Why this week?

October · Wk 40

Crowd level21/100 · fairly quiet

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Weather comfort40/100 · Sun & warmth

-19 % versus the region's annual average.

Contributing months: September (14 %) · October (86 %)
Overnight stays/week: 862,210
School-holiday pressure (source markets): 1 % of source markets on school holidays · -3 % crowding from holidays
Main source markets: France (76 %) · Germany (5 %) · Netherlands (5 %) · 94% of guests modelled
Region range: 396,963–2,596,363 (avg 1,065,907)
Base years: 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 (excluding 2020, 2021)

v1: Crowd-Score aus der Eurostat-Basisschicht (Übernachtungen), moduliert vom Schulferien-Druck der Quellmärkte, region-spezifisch gewichtet mit dem Quellland-Mix. Season-relativ zur Region. Event-Schichten folgen.

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The travel year in Côte d’Azur, month by month

The year as a table to read and to cite: crowd level for every month, plus weather comfort and temperature from the climate normals.

Crowd level, weather comfort and temperature in Côte d’Azur by month – crowd score 0–100, season-relative to the region's own annual peak
Month	Crowd level0–100, season-relative	Weather comfort0–100, profile “mild”	Avg temperature
January	1	25	5 °C
February	7	31	7 °C
March	9	40	10 °C
April	26	60	14 °C
May	34	73	18 °C
June	48	78	24 °C
July	82	78	27 °C
August	95	80	26 °C
September	43	80	21 °C
October	20	65	16 °C
November	2	42	9 °C
December	2	27	6 °C

The crowd level is season-relative: 100 is the annual peak of Côte d’Azur itself, not the busiest destination in Europe. The figures say when it is quiet here — not where it is quieter than elsewhere.

Weather comfort 0–100 from the climate normals, profile “mild” – the same profile as the recommendation above, not the selection in the calendar. A “–” means the data for that month is missing.

Index 1.1 · As of 06/08/2026

The windows worth catching

Three windows from the model, weighing crowd level against weather comfort.

Recommended

October

Wk 40–42

Best balance of weather comfort and space: crowd level around 19 out of 100, weather comfort near 67.

Crowd level: 18–21
Comfort: 63–72

Plan this period

Good alternative

May

Wk 20–22

A quieter choice in the other half of the year: crowd level around 35, weather comfort near 76.

Crowd level: 33–39
Comfort: 73–78

Plan this period

Avoid

August

Wk 32–34

The region's peak: crowd level around 99 out of 100. Only if the dates are fixed.

Crowd level: 98–100
Comfort: 79–81

Côte d’Azur compared with Europe

How dense it gets here measured against Europe — on the one figure that lets two destinations be compared.

Crowd density in Côte d’Azur: 33.47
European median: 11.80

Furthest from the median: August, at 3.6× the value. Closest to the median: November, at 1.9× the value.

Mean across 12 months, weighted by their weeks. This density compares destinations with each other. The crowd level in the table above compares Côte d’Azur with itself. The two figures are never combined.

Index 1.1 · As of 06/08/2026

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Climate through the year

Average temperature with day/night range and precipitation across the twelve months.

Avg temperature
Day/night range
Precipitation

Monthly climate values
Month	Avg temperature (°C)	Day avg (°C)	Night avg (°C)	Precipitation (mm)
Jan	4	5	2	50
Feb	5	7	3	54
Mar	8	10	5	119
Apr	11	14	9	62
May	15	18	13	85
Jun	21	24	18	71
Jul	24	27	21	15
Aug	24	26	21	24
Sep	19	21	17	61
Oct	14	16	12	113
Nov	8	9	6	60
Dec	4	6	3	58

The band shows mean daytime to nighttime temperature. Precipitation shown as monthly total (mm). Typical monthly value (climate normal), not a forecast. Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2025.

How sunny?

Average daily solar energy across the twelve months. The higher the value, the sunnier.

4.4 kWh/m²/Tag

Annual average

Jul

Sunniest month

Monthly solar irradiance
Month	Solar irradiance (kWh/m²/day)
Jan	1.9
Feb	2.8
Mar	4.2
Apr	5.5
May	6.1
Jun	6.8
Jul	7.3
Aug	6.3
Sep	4.7
Oct	3.2
Nov	2.0
Dec	1.6

Mean daily solar irradiance in kWh/m²/day (≈ peak-sun-hours equivalent). Typical monthly value (climate normal), not a forecast. Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2025.

Directly reachable from

Destination airports of Côte d’Azur and every European departure airport with a direct connection to them.

Destination airports

“Directly reachable” means a direct connection exists according to our sources. We do not show a live timetable. Availability and flight days can vary by season and airline.

Data sources: direct connections from Wikipedia (“Airlines and destinations”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, aggregated and modified by us), cross-checked with Eurostat, Destatis and the UK Civil Aviation Authority; airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain). The derived connection data is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Data as of: August 2026

Ski areas in Côte d’Azur

Mapped ski areas in this region with slope kilometres, lifts and elevation, plus the long-term snow average from our climate data.

Ski areas: 59
Slopes in total: 1,555 km
Lifts: 567
Highest point: 3,543 m

Ski areas in Côte d’Azur with slopes, lifts and elevation
Ski area	Slopes	Lifts	Elevation
Espace Lumière	185.1 km	39	1,495–2,592 m1,097 m vertical drop
Serre-Chevalier	157.41 km	70	1,219–2,765 m1,546 m vertical drop
Forêt Blanche : Vars/Risoul	131.1 km	38	1,632–2,722 m1,090 m vertical drop
Val d'Allos - La Foux	96.1 km	18	1,702–2,592 m890 m vertical drop
Pra-Loup 1600	89.32 km	21	1,495–2,497 m1,001 m vertical drop
Dévoluy	69.11 km9.92 km cross-country	23	1,458–2,495 m1,037 m vertical drop
Montgenèvre	61.96 km4.84 km cross-country	25	1,795–2,581 m786 m vertical drop
Auron	61.56 km	20	1,597–2,445 m848 m vertical drop
Isola 2000	54.92 km	20	1,828–2,601 m773 m vertical drop
Domaine skiable Valberg	54.1 km15.11 km cross-country	25	1,414–2,012 m598 m vertical drop
Les Orres	53.64 km	21	1,554–2,700 m1,146 m vertical drop
Le Sauze 1400 / Le Super-Sauze 1700	53.35 km	21	1,374–2,388 m1,014 m vertical drop
Orcières Merlette	49.46 km	26	1,826–2,731 m905 m vertical drop
Puy-Saint-Vincent	41.77 km	12	1,411–2,664 m1,253 m vertical drop
Queyras - Molines/Saint-Véran	29.74 km	12	1,739–2,805 m1,066 m vertical drop
Chabanon	26.23 km0.83 km cross-country	12	1,534–2,028 m494 m vertical drop
Queyras - Haut-Guil (Abriès)	25.97 km22.24 km cross-country	8	1,549–2,400 m850 m vertical drop
Val d'Allos - Le Seignus	25.94 km	6	1,514–2,415 m901 m vertical drop
Montclar	23.83 km	8	1,334–2,465 m1,131 m vertical drop
Gréolières-Les-Neiges	23.01 km13.46 km cross-country	9	1,399–1,765 m367 m vertical drop
Ancelle	22.87 km13.2 km cross-country	14	1,323–1,798 m475 m vertical drop
Crévoux	20.14 km22.29 km cross-country	5	1,615–2,537 m922 m vertical drop
Queyras - Ceillac	17.87 km38.73 km cross-country	5	1,688–2,449 m761 m vertical drop
L'Audibergue	17.3 km	7	1,277–1,633 m356 m vertical drop
Sainte-Anne la Condamine	16.75 km	5	1,835–2,409 m574 m vertical drop

and 34 more areas in this region

Slope, lift and elevation figures come from open mapping and are complete to varying degrees. “Not available” means not mapped, not “does not exist”. Opening hours and season are not included. Snow figures are long-term averages for the whole region, not snow depth on the mountain and not a forecast.

Data sources: ski areas from OpenSkiMap, based on OpenStreetMap, licensed under ODbL 1.0; snow depths from ERA5-Land (Copernicus Climate Change Service).

Frequently asked questions about the best time to visit Côte d’Azur

Short answers on timing, weather and getting there, all from the data on this page.

When is the best time to visit Côte d’Azur?: The best time to visit Côte d’Azur is October (Wk 40–42): in this window the crowd level is low at around 19 out of 100 and weather comfort is good at about 67 out of 100.
When is Côte d’Azur quietest?: January (Wk 2–4) is the quietest time in Côte d’Azur. Crowd levels there sit at 0 out of 100, the lowest across the year.
When is Côte d’Azur busiest?: Côte d’Azur is busiest in August (Wk 32) with around 2,596,363 overnight stays in the peak week.
What is the weather like in Côte d’Azur and when is it warmest?: It is warmest in Côte d’Azur in July with an average of 27 °C and around 15 mm of rain in the month.
How do you get to Côte d’Azur?: Côte d’Azur is reachable via 3 destination airports with direct flights, including Cote D'Azur Airport (NCE), Marseille Provence Airport (MRS) and Hyeres Airport (TLN).

All figures are approximations derived from open data (crowd level from Eurostat overnight stays, climate from Copernicus/ERA5-Land), not measurements.

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v1 approximation, calculated from Eurostat overnight stays. Day tourism and cruises (Venice, Dubrovnik …) are still missing, so we show these destinations as quieter than they are. The crowd score is a model-based forecast, not a measurement.