Hossegor weather by month
The best time to visit Hossegor is July to September — 92/100 in August, 26°C and 8 rainy days. The best season is summer, June to August (88/100 on average).
The worst month is December at 39/100 — cool, soaked, clean air. See December →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
Planning the wider trip? Best time to visit France →
Best season: June to August (88/100 on average) · worst December (39/100)
- Days
- 26°C
- Nights
- 18°C
- Wet days
- 8
- Sun
- 11.6 h
- Humidity
- 74%
- Daylight
- 14 h

Hossegor, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Hossegor 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.
What's on in Hossegor through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
- March
- Easter weekend4–6 AprHoliday
- May
- May holidays and ponts1–25 MayHoliday
- June
- Baines and shore break15 Jun – 15 Sep (usually)Hazard
- July
- French summer holidays1 Jul – 31 AugHoliday
- Bastille Day (14 juillet)13–14 JulHoliday
- September
- Quiksilver Festival21–27 SepFestival
- Autumn and winter swell15 Sep – 31 Mar (usually)Season
Crowds in Hossegor in August
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.
Peak crowdsFrench summer holidays, Summer holidays in France, school holidays in 6 of the markets that fill it(estimated)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Traveller notes on Hossegor
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
Hossegor-forum posts from regulars living in town describe September and October as arguably the best stretch of the year: the summer crowds and novice surf-camp swarms have thinned out, water is still warm enough for boardshorts most days, and swell size starts climbing from summer's smaller waves toward the bigger, more consistent conditions the Landes coast is known for. Mornings typically run glassy with light offshore wind, occasionally turning onshore by afternoon, though posters say it often holds offshore the whole day on a good stretch. The daytime temperature sits in a genuinely comfortable range for a full day at the beach, but regulars flag a sharp drop once the sun goes down - evenings call for a jacket even after a warm afternoon. The record: 24.6C days feeling like a mild-for-the-season temperature, 16C nights, 103mm across 12 days, a 23.3C sea, 72 percent humidity and 10.1 hours of sun - the evening chill the forum describes shows clearly in that day-to-night spread.
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