Ile de France Weather and Climate

• Paris and its region, Ile de France, are located in the centre north of France and renowned for their mild and temperate weather all year long and especially during the autumn and spring months.
• If Paris and its suburbs are inland, it does not mean that this region of France only soaks in a continental climate but quite the contrary, in an oceanic one as well.
  
  Indeed the Atlantic Ocean is not that far away from this French region. It explains the specificity of the Ile de France and Paris climate. The combination of the continental and oceanic weather gives to the Paris region cool summers and sweet winters.
• Contrarily to what the public believes, telling that this region is really rainy, Ile de France benefits from 1,798 sunshine hours a year at least and some of the departments are really dry. Indeed some places in Ile de France get a micro climate due to the alternation of flatlands and hills through this region and a game of temperatures inversion.
• This region of France is known for its numerous forests and verdure which thanks to an appropriate average of rainfall and sweet temperatures is really verdant.
• As you notice in the average temperatures table below, Paris Ile de France temperature is mild during winter months. Also there are cooler spring and autumn months whilst the summer is really pleasant.

Month	Average Temperature	Precipitation (mm)
January	4.1°	55.0
February	5.2°	45.4
March	7.8°	52.2
April	10.6°	49.5
May	18.4°	62
June	17.4°	53.2
July	23.9°	58.3
August	19.2°	46.0
September	16.7°	52.9
October	12.7°	54.9
November	7.7°	57.0
December	5.0°	55.1