Méribel, France

Set in mountain country, Méribel (France) is best understood through its weather data: our 2015–2024 climate record puts its peak at a 91/100 sun score in July, exactly the kind of reliability you want for an outdoors-led escape.

The year runs from average lows of -8°C in January to highs of 21°C in July. The wet–dry contrast is pronounced: 65% rain-day odds in May against 38% in October. No month averages 24°C highs, so this is a destination for light-jacket sunshine rather than beach heat.

Averaged by season, sun scores land at 54 for spring, 86 for summer, 54 for autumn and 46 for winter — with typical afternoons of 9°, 20°, 11° and 2°C respectively. In short: plan around summer if you can, keep spring as the fallback, and go into winter with managed expectations (its season score is 46).

Best months to visit Méribel

Ranked purely on sunshine odds, the podium is July at 91/100, then August at 88 and June at 80. Anything in June–August clears our 70-point reliability bar. Skip December if sunshine is the point — it bottoms out at 44/100.

Put against its 82 mountain peers in July, it lands in the sunnier half of the group, ahead of 51% of them.

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The live forecast backs this up: of the next 15 days, 6 look mostly clear and none carry meaningful rain risk, in a -1–14°C band. Today's cached sun score is 60/100.