SeasonMapCarcassonne weather by month
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The best time to visit Carcassonne is May, June and September — 92/100 in September, 27°C and 9 rainy days. The best season is summer, June to August (84/100 on average).
The worst month is January at 62/100 — cold, rainy, clean air. See January →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
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Carcassonne, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Carcassonne is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.
| Month | Score | Tier | High | Rain | Sun | Crowds | On |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JanJanuary | 62 | C | 11°C | 12 d | 6 h | Peak | 1 |
| FebFebruary | 71 | B | 14°C | 10 d | 7 h | Busy | — |
| MarMarch | 75 | B | 16°C | 13 d | 9 h | Peak | 1 |
| AprApril | 84 | A | 19°C | 10 d | 10 h | Busy | 1 |
| MayMay | 89 | A | 23°C | 13 d | 11 h | Busy | 1 |
| JunJune | 88 | A | 28°C | 9 d | 12 h | Busy | 2 |
| JulJuly | 83 | A | 31°C | 6 d | 13 h | Peak | 4 |
| AugAugust | 82 | A | 31°C | 6 d | 12 h | Busy | 2 |
| SepSeptember | 92 | S | 27°C | 9 d | 10 h | Busy | 1 |
| OctOctober | 84 | A | 21°C | 9 d | 8 h | Busy | 1 |
| NovNovember | 70 | B | 15°C | 14 d | 7 h | Peak | 2 |
| DecDecember | 64 | C | 13°C | 12 d | 6 h | Peak | 1 |
What's on in Carcassonne through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
Crowds in Carcassonne in September
How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.
Busyschool holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it, one of its best months for weather(estimated)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Good to know before you go to Carcassonne
Real experiences from travellers' own write-ups, quoted with a link to the original.
Visas & entry
A slow-travel guide to Carcassonne's medieval citadel describes summer crowds pouring through the old walls with tour buses unloading in force, turning the narrow streets into more of a queue than a walk during peak hours. Their advice: visit between 7 and 8am before the buses arrive, or after sunset once the crowds thin, and for a genuinely different, quieter side of the city, cross the Aude River to La Bastide Saint-Louis, the lower town most day-trippers skip entirely.