France in February, away from Paris

Pleasant in February

Average high closest to 18–26 °C and fewest rain days (1991–2020 normals).

6h18 Coast · Occitanie Collioure A Catalan fishing port where the Pyrenees meet the Mediterranean, with a sea-washed church tower and the light that gave birth to Fauvism. High 13 °C · Low 4 °C · 4 rain days 6h39 Coast · Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Menton The last town on the Riviera before Italy: a Baroque old quarter in ochre and pink, lemon groves, subtropical gardens and Cocteau. High 14 °C · Low 6 °C · 5 rain days 3h36 Town · Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Arles A Roman city on the Rhône where Van Gogh painted his brightest year, with an arena still in use and the Camargue at its gates. High 12 °C · Low 3 °C · 4 rain days ✈ / ⛴ Mountains · Corsica Corte The mountain capital of Corsica’s short-lived independent republic: an eagle’s-nest citadel, a student town, and wild gorges at its door. High 13 °C · Low 0 °C · 7 rain days ✈ / ⛴ Coast · Corsica Bonifacio A Genoese citadel perched on white limestone cliffs at the southern tip of Corsica, staring across the strait at Sardinia. High 13 °C · Low 8 °C · 7 rain days 5h15 Mountains · Nouvelle-Aquitaine Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port A walled Basque town of red sandstone on the river Nive, where pilgrims to Santiago set off over the Pyrenees. High 13 °C · Low 2 °C · 11 rain days 5h24 Town · Occitanie Carcassonne A medieval fortress city with two rings of walls and dozens of towers on a hill above the Aude, rescued from demolition in the 1850s. High 11 °C · Low 4 °C · 8 rain days 6h02 City · Occitanie Albi A red-brick episcopal city on the Tarn: a fortress-cathedral painted inside from floor to vault, and the world’s largest Toulouse-Lautrec collection. High 11 °C · Low 2 °C · 9 rain days

Signature festivals

• Fête du Citron — Menton, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Menton’s carnival-time festival, held in February, builds giant sculptures and parade floats out of tonnes of lemons and oranges. It grew out of a citrus show for hotel guests in 1928 and took the name Fête du Citron in 1934.
• Carnaval de Granville — Granville, Normandy. Five days of floats, masks and satire around Mardi Gras in a Normandy fishing port, a tradition rooted in the send-off for cod fishermen leaving for Newfoundland. Its first organised edition was in 1875. As it follows Mardi Gras, it usually falls in February but some years in early March.

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All forty places in February

Wettest in February: Annecy (133 mm), Quimper (115 mm), Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port (113 mm), Arbois (85 mm).