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Realistically you are not going to get much better weather than the UK unless you head south in France.

Yes, you can have stunning weather further North, if you are lucky but you can't bank on it. If good weather is very important to you Normandy and Brittany are not guaranteed to give you what you need.

The weather does tend to get more reliably good in the Dordogne and parts south (but still not as hot as Turkey and Greece). Can the one member of the party not fly to the Dordogne and meet you there? I did this in the summer with my MIL and it worked well.

The very south of France is your best bet for very hot weather

I'm sure there must be super riverside campsites in Northern France - but like the others who've replied already, we always go further south for the weather.  The Ardeche, which acamper60 mentions is wonderful for 'messing around in the river', as are the Tarn, the Dourbie, the Jonte, the Dordogne, and the Lot - but all these are in the southern half of France.  We've camped alongside all of them - and loved them all, but I've yet to camp alongside a river in the northern part of France. 

Weather in Brittany is definately hit and miss, we spent 17 nights in August this year over 3 sites in Brittany.  1st site we had 3 red hot days there before moving onto next site where we had rain for virtually all of the 7 days we were there.  At our last site we had a glorious 8 days which made up for the weather at the last site.  This year I am considering going further south to try and get better weather. 

Quote: Originally posted by TonyS99 on 11/10/2010

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Here's a useful sunshine map of France.

As you can see, you have to go south to guarantee the sun.

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