Saint-Malo
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About
Saint-Malo is a historic French port commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Saint-Malo, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
Why visit
Visit Saint-Malo for markets, streets, food, and public squares. Use Saint-Malo to connect cultural institutions with streets, food, public space, and nearby landscape rather than treating each stop separately. A good itinerary should stay selective. Let one institution, district, or landscape edge organize the day in Saint-Malo, then keep the supporting stops close. That keeps the visit to Saint-Malo legible and leaves time for ordinary streets to do their work. Use the surroundings of Saint-Malo deliberately: they should clarify the place, not simply add movement.
When to avoid
Do not visit Saint-Malo expecting every useful stop to be close together or easy to improvise. The map of Saint-Malo is only half the problem; hours, heat, rain, crowds, and transport decide what is realistic. A safer and clearer day in Saint-Malo usually comes from grouping nearby sites and avoiding unnecessary late or awkward transfers. If the main interest is one nearby site, it may be better to treat Saint-Malo as a base rather than the whole destination.
Summer (June-August)
The warmer period in Saint-Malo generally falls in June through August. For Saint-Malo, the warm season often means humid afternoons and a need for shaded or indoor pauses. In Saint-Malo, use the longer light carefully rather than filling every hour. Use cooler hours in Saint-Malo for outdoor places, then rely on interiors to keep the day humane.
Winter Season (Dec-Feb)
December through February are the cooler or wetter period in Saint-Malo. Use the cooler months in Saint-Malo for performances, museums, and neighborhood walking rather than heat-managed sightseeing. Think of this period in Saint-Malo as a planning question: what can still be walked, entered, and reached comfortably? Use this period in Saint-Malo for close looking indoors, then add outdoor sections when weather and daylight cooperate. Use taxis or rideshares in Saint-Malo when the practical gain is clear, especially after dark or in weather that makes waiting for transit unpleasant.
The next week in Saint-Malo
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Rain
13° / 9°
2.7 mm
UV High
Sat
Drizzle
14° / 10°
2.7 mm
UV Moderate
Sun
Drizzle
13° / 10°
1.2 mm
UV Moderate
Mon
Drizzle
14° / 9°
3.3 mm
UV Moderate
Tue
Drizzle
19° / 11°
3.9 mm
UV Moderate
Wed
Drizzle
16°
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
27° / 3°
Typical high / low
2 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
15.2h
06:28 – 21:40local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Saint-Malo
4 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Dinard Pleurtuit Saint-Malo airport (DNR) at 8 km.
Getting around Saint-Malo
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
VectareLEXFlixBus-euBreizhGo en Ille-et-VilaineMAT (St Malo Agglomération)TER BreizhGoBreizhGo en Côtes d'ArmorBlaBlaCar BusB MetroSNCF VoyageursMATBrittany Ferries
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
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Sources
This page blends public reference data, climate/elevation services, and personal notes. Travel requirements can change, so visa and entry details should be checked again before booking.
- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
CC BY 3.0, Ec.Domnowall.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.