What are the 10 French cities ranked by rainy days?

In order: Morlaix, Brest, Landerneau, Guipavas, Le Relecq-Kerhuon, Gérardmer, Saint-Lô, Quimper, Douarnenez and Pontarlier.

What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by rainy days?

Morlaix (161.3 days), Brest (159.5 days), Landerneau (159.5 days), Guipavas (159.5 days) and Le Relecq-Kerhuon (159.5 days).

Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by rainy days?

Brest, at 159.5 days, just behind Morlaix (161.3 days).

Is Morlaix really the French city ranked first on rainy days?

Yes, at 161.3 days, ahead of Brest (159.5 days) and Landerneau (159.5 days).

In which département is Morlaix?

Morlaix is in département 29, in the Bretagne region.

What is the difference between Morlaix and Brest?

Morlaix is at 161.3 days, Brest at 159.5 days. The table gives the same figure for all 50 places, so any two of them can be compared the same way.

How many French cities does this ranking compare?

1,040, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.

What are the French cities ranked by rainy days in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Morlaix leads with 161.3 days.

Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by rainy days?

Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,040, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.

In order: Morlaix (161.3 days), Brest (159.5 days), Landerneau (159.5 days), Guipavas (159.5 days), Le Relecq-Kerhuon (159.5 days), Gérardmer (152.2 days), Saint-Lô (151.8 days), Quimper (149.8 days), Douarnenez (149.8 days), Pontarlier (149.7 days).

Where does this figure come from?

Straight from Météo-France, fiches climatologiques, joined to each commune by its INSEE code and never retyped by hand. A commune the source does not cover is left out of the table rather than shown as a zero: an absence and a measured zero are different facts, and only one of them is safe to rank.

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The rainiest city in France is Morlaix, at 161.3 days (rainy days), ahead of Brest (159.5 days) and Landerneau (159.5 days).

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Rainy days, 1040 cities shown. The coloured surface estimates the local tendency from nearby ranked cities. Exact city values remain in the table. Projection: longitude compressed by cos(46.3°N), so east-west and north-south distances stay comparable. Source: Météo-France, fiches climatologiques.

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Top 50 of 1,040 cities
Rank	City	Rainy days	Population	Region
1	29 Morlaix	161.3	15,194	Bretagne
2	29 Brest	159.5	142,346	Bretagne
3	29 Landerneau	159.5	16,363	Bretagne
4	29 Guipavas	159.5	15,538	Bretagne
5	29 Le Relecq-Kerhuon	159.5	11,897	Bretagne
6	88 Gérardmer	152.2	7,581	Grand Est
7	50 Saint-Lô	151.8	19,471	Normandie
8	29 Quimper	149.8	64,385	Bretagne
9	29 Douarnenez	149.8	14,068	Bretagne
10	25 Pontarlier	149.7	18,067	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
11	01 Gex	149.5	13,627	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
12	22 Lannion	149.1	20,315	Bretagne
13	29 Plouzané	148.9	13,567	Bretagne
14	29 Plougastel-Daoulas	148.9	13,434	Bretagne
15	64 Oloron-Sainte-Marie	147.2	10,684	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
16	39 Lons-le-Saunier	143.6	16,618	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
17	62 Longuenesse	143.2	10,548	Hauts-de-France
18	35 Fougères	143.0	20,307	Bretagne
19	14 Honfleur	141.4	6,640	Normandie
20	14 Trouville-sur-Mer	141.4	4,619	Normandie
21	14 Cabourg	141.4	3,725	Normandie
22	14 Deauville	141.4	3,539	Normandie
23	64 Bayonne	141.1	54,306	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
24	64 Anglet	141.1	43,271	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
25	64 Biarritz	141.1	26,206	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
26	40 Tarnos	141.1	12,957	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
27	88 Saint-Dié-des-Vosges	140.8	19,251	Grand Est
28	40 Soorts-Hossegor	140.8	3,817	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
29	64 Hendaye	140.6	18,102	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
30	64 Saint-Jean-de-Luz	140.6	14,857	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
31	64 Urrugne	140.6	10,661	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
32	64 Guéthary	140.6	1,306	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
33	50 Cherbourg-en-Cotentin	140.2	78,258	Normandie
34	50 La Hague	140.2	11,484	Normandie
35	50 Carentan-les-Marais	140.0	10,218	Normandie
36	14 Vire Normandie	138.9	17,457	Normandie
37	61 Flers	138.9	14,432	Normandie
38	01 Oyonnax	138.3	22,480	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
39	76 Bolbec	138.0	11,590	Normandie
40	76 Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine	138.0	10,617	Normandie
41	27 Pont-Audemer	138.0	10,023	Normandie
42	76 Fécamp	137.6	17,313	Normandie
43	76 Barentin	137.6	12,022	Normandie
44	76 Yvetot	137.6	11,438	Normandie
45	64 Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port	136.9	1,479	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
46	54 Longwy	136.5	15,679	Grand Est
47	54 Villerupt	136.5	10,102	Grand Est
48	25 Besançon	136.2	118,489	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
49	01 Bourg-en-Bresse	135.3	42,372	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
50	55 Verdun	135.2	16,890	Grand Est

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Scope, method and sources

Scope: France, metropolitan and overseas, Corsica and the DROM included. This dataset holds every commune of 10,000 inhabitants or more, plus smaller communes famous enough to be household names, 1,131 in all. It is not the full list of 35,000 French communes, so a village can sit outside a ranking whose extreme it would otherwise hold. This particular ranking is metropolitan only: the distance to the coast is measured against the coastlines of the Hexagon and Corsica, which would put an overseas port thousands of kilometres from a sea it sits on, so no value is published for overseas France rather than a wrong one.

Method and sources: populations are the INSEE legal populations, boundaries and coordinates come from the IGN commune registry, both served by geo.api.gouv.fr. Density is the population divided by the commune's area; distances are measured as the crow flies from the commune's centre. Data read on August 28, 2026.

12 questions about this ranking

What are the 10 French cities ranked by rainy days?: In order: Morlaix, Brest, Landerneau, Guipavas, Le Relecq-Kerhuon, Gérardmer, Saint-Lô, Quimper, Douarnenez and Pontarlier.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by rainy days?: Morlaix (161.3 days), Brest (159.5 days), Landerneau (159.5 days), Guipavas (159.5 days) and Le Relecq-Kerhuon (159.5 days).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by rainy days?: Brest, at 159.5 days, just behind Morlaix (161.3 days).
Is Morlaix really the French city ranked first on rainy days?: Yes, at 161.3 days, ahead of Brest (159.5 days) and Landerneau (159.5 days).
In which département is Morlaix?: Morlaix is in département 29, in the Bretagne region.
What is the difference between Morlaix and Brest?: Morlaix is at 161.3 days, Brest at 159.5 days. The table gives the same figure for all 50 places, so any two of them can be compared the same way.
Which city is 10th in the ranking of French cities ranked by rainy days?: Pontarlier, at 149.7 days.
How many French cities does this ranking compare?: 1,040, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.
What are the French cities ranked by rainy days in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Morlaix leads with 161.3 days.
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by rainy days?: Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,040, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.
What are the top 10?: In order: Morlaix (161.3 days), Brest (159.5 days), Landerneau (159.5 days), Guipavas (159.5 days), Le Relecq-Kerhuon (159.5 days), Gérardmer (152.2 days), Saint-Lô (151.8 days), Quimper (149.8 days), Douarnenez (149.8 days), Pontarlier (149.7 days).
Where does this figure come from?: Straight from Météo-France, fiches climatologiques, joined to each commune by its INSEE code and never retyped by hand. A commune the source does not cover is left out of the table rather than shown as a zero: an absence and a measured zero are different facts, and only one of them is safe to rank.

The table below ranks the top 50 of the 1,040 cities in the dataset, each with its département, its region and the figure it is ranked on (rainy days), so you can see not just the order but how far apart the places are. The numbers are official public data: INSEE legal populations and the IGN commune registry, with the exact method and the exact scope stated under the table rather than left to be guessed at.

The same data answers neighbouring questions too: see The driest cities in France and The hottest cities in France, or all rankings for the full list. All of it comes from Le Bon Rang, a free daily game that gives you five French cities and one of these statistics and asks you for the order.