It's winter, it's cold even if the thermometer remains far from record low temperatures, and, above all, the sun is absent. Since last week, the sky has remained gray all day over the capital. Rare blue gaps, very localized between two clouds, could have occurred for a few moments like Monday afternoon, but without the sun really shining on the ground.
Paris is thus six days in a row without sunshine. The official Météo France station, located in Montsouris park, in the south of the capital, has not recorded a single minute of sunshine since Tuesday January 14 when it shone for 7 hours 45 minutes. Since Wednesday January 15, the days without sun and without blue skies have been accumulating.
François Jobard, meteorologist with Météo France, notes, on the Bluesky social network, that this is “the third series of this type since the end of October”. He adds a rather remarkable statistic: it is “as much in one autumn/winter season as in the previous 25 (1999/2000 – 2023/2024)”. If the period is conducive to gray days, the current sequence is therefore particularly remarkable.
From October 29 to November 3, 2024, the sun did not shine through Paris for a single minute. The situation recurred from December 28 to January 2, 2025. In December, another series of five days without sun also took place between Sunday 8 and Thursday 12.
-A short change will take place this Tuesday afternoon. Météo France expects sunshine in the capital. The morning fog and clouds had already dispersed well at the end of the morning and the sun was about to come out. This will then end the current series.
But it will probably only be a brief respite. For at least a week, Météo France foresees only grayness and rain in the Paris region, all with a rise in temperatures. A brief clearing cannot be ruled out. But the clear trend is towards particularly overcast skies.
