The climate of Marseille
Csa Hot-summer Mediterranean. Dry, hot summers and mild, wetter winters. The classic Mediterranean pattern: summers are dry and hot, and the rain arrives in the milder months. Olives, vines and citrus do well.
Marseille is north of the equator, so summer falls in June to August and winter in December to February. The 1901 to 1930 map puts Marseille in the same zone, Csa.
Marseille: then, now and by 2100
| Map | Climate zone | Compared with now |
|---|---|---|
| 1901 to 1930 | Csa Hot-summer Mediterranean | Same as now |
| 1991 to 2020 (now) | Csa Hot-summer Mediterranean | - |
| 2071 to 2099, SSP1-2.6 (low emissions) | Csa Hot-summer Mediterranean | Same as now |
| 2071 to 2099, SSP2-4.5 (middle of the road) | Csa Hot-summer Mediterranean | Same as now |
| 2071 to 2099, SSP5-8.5 (high emissions) | BSh Hot semi-arid (steppe) | Different from now |
The 2071 to 2099 rows are model projections under three emissions scenarios, not forecasts. The 1901 to 1930 row is a reconstruction. All come from Beck et al. (2023).
Under the middle-of-the-road scenario (SSP2-4.5), the model keeps Marseille in Csa in 2071 to 2099. Under the high-emissions scenario (SSP5-8.5) it is BSh (hot semi-arid (steppe)).
Cities with the same climate as Marseille
Other big cities that are Csa (hot-summer mediterranean) in 1991 to 2020, at most two per country:
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Los Angeles, United States
- Casablanca, Morocco
- Ankara, Turkey
- Perth, Australia
- Algiers, Algeria
- Rome, Italy
- Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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Population of Marseille from GeoNames: 877,215 (rank 660 in our list of 1,000). Climate data: Beck et al. (2023), CC BY 4.0. Data sources and licences.