When to go Charente-Maritime ?
If the department sees thousands of tourists flocking to it every summer, it remains welcoming all year round. Benefiting from a generous amount of sunshine, Charente-Maritime is as pleasant in spring as in autumn! Take a walk, have a coffee on the port... you will enjoy wide open spaces and lower prices. In winter, if the days are shorter, the activities are numerous and will not fail to satisfy history lovers, sportsmen and gourmets.
The climate of the Charente-Maritime is a temperate oceanic climate with an average amount of sunshine. As far as the weather is concerned, there is a certain contrast between the coastline, which is quite dry, and the interior, which is a little rainier and colder. In winter, Cognac can count 40 days of frost while La Rochelle counts only 23 over the same period. On the islands and the coast the climate is almost Mediterranean. In Charente-Maritime, temperatures vary on average from + 5 °C in winter to + 20 °C in summer.
