Where to go in France in June?
The 15 best destinations for a trip to France in June, ranked on the weather actually recorded.
For a trip to France in June, we kept regions and cities in metropolitan France during their best season. Temperatures and rainfall are real records, averaged from 2015 to 2024 at each destination's reference point, and the sea is measured at the nearest coastal point. 15 destinations pass this filter. Top of the ranking: The Alpilles and Les Baux-de-Provence (29 °C in the afternoon, 4 days of rain).
The ranking at a glance
| # | Destination | Afternoon | Rainy days | Sea (°C) | Budget |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇫🇷 The Alpilles and Les Baux-de-Provence | 29 °C | 4 | - | €100-180 a day |
| 2 | 🇫🇷 Fréjus, Saint-Raphaël and the Esterel | 28 °C | 4 | - | €80-150 a day |
| 3 | 🇫🇷 Corsica | 26 °C | 4 | 22 °C | €100-170 a day |
| 4 | 🇫🇷 Uzès and the Pont du Gard | 30 °C | 5 | - | €80-140 a day |
| 5 | 🇫🇷 Marseille | 25 °C | 5 | 21 °C | €80-160 a day |
| 6 | 🇫🇷 The French Riviera | 28 °C | 6 | 21 °C | €110-200 a day |
| 7 | 🇫🇷 The Côte Vermeille and Collioure | 27 °C | 6 | 21 °C | €80-140 a day |
| 8 | 🇫🇷 The Luberon | 27 °C | 6 | - | €90-150 a day |
| 9 | 🇫🇷 The Camargue | 26 °C | 6 | 21 °C | €80-130 a day |
| 10 | 🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence | 28 °C | 7 | - | €90-160 a day |
| 11 | 🇫🇷 Avignon | 28 °C | 7 | - | €80-150 a day, bien plus en juillet |
| 12 | 🇫🇷 Montpellier | 28 °C | 8 | 23 °C | €70-140 a day |
| 13 | 🇫🇷 Carcassonne | 27 °C | 8 | - | €60-120 a day |
| 14 | 🇫🇷 Drôme Provençale | 27 °C | 8 | - | €80-130 a day |
| 15 | 🇫🇷 The Gers and Armagnac | 27 °C | 8 | - | €65-110 a day |
The 15 destinations in detail
Region1 🇫🇷 The Alpilles and Les Baux-de-Provence
🌡️ 29 °C in the afternoon, 4 days of rain · 💶 €100-180 a day
The Alpilles are a range of white limestone as long as a day's bike ride, between Arles and Avignon. On its slopes stand a citadel dismantled by Richelieu at Les Baux, a quarry where Picasso is projected onto the rock, the ancient city of Glanum, the cloister where Van Gogh painted his irises, and mills that press the olives.
City2 🇫🇷 Fréjus, Saint-Raphaël and the Esterel
🌡️ 28 °C in the afternoon, 4 days of rain · 💶 €80-150 a day
Fréjus was Forum Julii, founded by Caesar and later Augustus's naval base, and it keeps an amphitheatre, a 5th-century baptistery and a cloister whose ceiling is painted with fantastical creatures. To the east, Saint-Raphaël opens onto the Estérel: red volcanic rock, a corniche road laid out in 1903, clear-water calanques and trails up to the Pic de l'Ours.
Region3 🇫🇷 Corsica
🌡️ 26 °C in the afternoon, 4 days of rain, sea at 22 °C · 💶 €100-170 a day
The Isle of Beauty lives up to its name: from the white cliffs of Bonifacio to the red calanques of Piana, Corsica packs in landscapes the mainland can only envy. You swim in the translucent water of Palombaggia in the morning, hike beneath the Aiguilles de Bavella in the afternoon and dine on charcuterie and brocciu in a mountain village in the evening. A mountain in the sea, quite literally.
City4 🇫🇷 Uzès and the Pont du Gard
🌡️ 30 °C in the afternoon, 5 days of rain · 💶 €80-140 a day
Uzès fits into a pocket handkerchief of honey-coloured stone: a ducal castle still lived in by the same family, a round tower pierced with windows, an arcaded square where the Saturday market overflows with truffles, olives and goat's cheeses. At the foot of the town rises the spring that supplied Nîmes via the Pont du Gard, twenty minutes away by road.
City5 🇫🇷 Marseille
🌡️ 25 °C in the afternoon, 5 days of rain, sea at 21 °C · 💶 €80-160 a day
France's second city, Marseille sits in an amphitheatre of limestone hills open to the Mediterranean, between a Vieux-Port that is still a working harbour and twenty kilometres of calanques reachable by city bus. It is a city that makes no effort to please, with its tired façades, its noisy markets and a light that redeems everything around 6pm.
Region6 🇫🇷 The French Riviera
🌡️ 28 °C in the afternoon, 6 days of rain, sea at 21 °C · 💶 €110-200 a day
From Cassis to Menton, the Côte d'Azur strings together 200 kilometres of turquoise coves, hilltop villages and legendary towns. You dive into the En-Vau calanque in the morning, stroll through Old Nice in the afternoon and dine facing the sunset in Èze in the evening. Between beaches, Porquerolles and its crystal-clear waters play at being the Caribbean, just 15 minutes by boat from the mainland.
Region7 🇫🇷 The Côte Vermeille and Collioure
🌡️ 27 °C in the afternoon, 6 days of rain, sea at 21 °C · 💶 €80-140 a day
Where the Pyrenees drop into the Mediterranean, between Argelès and the Spanish border, the coast folds into schist coves, headlands and colourful harbours: this is the Côte Vermeille, 30 km of corniche road and four villages, Collioure, Port-Vendres, Banyuls and Cerbère.
Region8 🇫🇷 The Luberon
🌡️ 27 °C in the afternoon, 6 days of rain · 💶 €90-150 a day
The Luberon is a long mountain stretching between Cavaillon and Manosque, and above all the string of hilltop villages that gaze at it from the hills opposite: Gordes and its honey-coloured stone houses, Roussillon in red and orange on its ochre cliffs, Bonnieux, Ménerbes, Lacoste.
Region9 🇫🇷 The Camargue
🌡️ 26 °C in the afternoon, 6 days of rain, sea at 21 °C · 💶 €80-130 a day
Between the two arms of the Rhône, the Camargue is a flat land where the sky takes up all the space. You drive between rice fields and sansouïres, a flight of pink flamingos lands in front of you, a gardian rides past with his trident and black bulls graze in the marsh.
Region10 🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence
🌡️ 28 °C in the afternoon, 7 days of rain · 💶 €90-160 a day
Aix has lived on a reservoir of hot water ever since the Romans founded Aquae Sextiae here in 122 BC, and today it has around a hundred fountains, some of which still flow at 34°C. It is also Cézanne's city, where his studio, the Bibémus quarries and his family home can all be visited within a few kilometres of each other.
City11 🇫🇷 Avignon
🌡️ 28 °C in the afternoon, 7 days of rain · 💶 €80-150 a day, bien plus en juillet
Seven popes ruled from Avignon between 1309 and 1377, leaving behind the largest Gothic palace in the world and more than four kilometres of ramparts still intact around the centre. Since 1947, the city has led a double life for three weeks every July, when the Festival and its Off turn every courtyard, chapel and garage into a theatre.
City12 🇫🇷 Montpellier
🌡️ 28 °C in the afternoon, 8 days of rain, sea at 23 °C · 💶 €70-140 a day
Montpellier has neither a Roman past nor a port: founded in the 10th century around a spice-trading post, it built its reputation on its faculty of medicine, the oldest still operating in the Western world. Today it is a young city, entirely pedestrianised in its medieval heart, with the sea about fifteen kilometres away and five tram lines to get you closer.
City13 🇫🇷 Carcassonne
🌡️ 27 °C in the afternoon, 8 days of rain · 💶 €60-120 a day
Carcassonne plays out as two towns separated by the Aude: a fortress of 52 towers rebuilt by Viollet-le-Duc on its hill, and a 13th-century grid-plan bastide that almost nobody crosses. The first receives nearly two million visitors a year; the second has the covered market, shady terraces and normal prices.
Region14 🇫🇷 Drôme Provençale
🌡️ 27 °C in the afternoon, 8 days of rain · 💶 €80-130 a day
Provence begins here, in this southern corner of the Drôme where the olive trees of Nyons replace the walnuts, where the curved roof tiles bake in the sun and where the mistral stops at the hills of the Baronnies. You climb up to the Château de Grignan, where Madame de Sévigné ended her days, and see fields of lavender at your feet stretching all the way to the Ventoux.
Region15 🇫🇷 The Gers and Armagnac
🌡️ 27 °C in the afternoon, 8 days of rain · 💶 €65-110 a day
The Gers unfolds from hill to hill, among vines, sunflowers and bastides: Larressingle and its walls, Fourcès and its round square, Marciac and its jazz, Lectoure on its spur. In Auch, the cathedral's choir stalls feature more than 1,500 figures; in the Armagnac country, you taste the brandy with the people who distil it.
Frequently asked questions
Where to go in France in June?
The Alpilles and Les Baux-de-Provence, Fréjus, Saint-Raphaël and the Esterel, Corsica, Uzès and the Pont du Gard and Marseille top our ranking for a trip to France in June. In first place, The Alpilles and Les Baux-de-Provence: 29 °C in the afternoon, 4 days of rain on average over 2015-2024.
Which is the closest destination in France in June?
Corsica, about 1h40 by air from Paris, with 26 °C in the afternoon, 4 days of rain, sea at 22 °C in June.
Where does it rain least in June among these destinations?
The Alpilles and Les Baux-de-Provence: 4 days of rain on average in June, with 29 °C in the afternoon.
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