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Last year we stayed at a site in Sanary-sur-Mer, near Toulon, in mid-October.  The weather was mixed - some warm days, when people were still using the swimming pool, and some cool wet days.

As others have said there are few sites open past the end of September.  A few stay open until mid-November and there are a very small number that stay open all year, including one called Hotellerie de Plein Air at Six-Fours-les-Plages, also near Toulon.  We've also stayed (in winter) in all-year-round sites in Aix-en-Provence and Le Boulu, but neither were on a beach and had very limited facilities out of season.

It's a similar picture in the Vendee but according to the ACSI guide there are a couple on Ile d'Oleron that stay open to mid-November.

Further down the west coast, south of Biarritz, there's a nice site at Urrugne called Larrouleta, which is open all year.  It's not on a beach but not far away, and it has an indoor heated pool. I don't know what the weather would be like in October as we've only stayed in winter, on the way to/from Spain, when it was cold (but not uncomfortably cold.)  There are some good surfing beaches nearby.

Quote: Originally posted by TroutLake4 on 12/9/2013

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Thanks all, we're hoping to camp.

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I don't think I'd want to tent camp in October either.   You might be lucky with a week of 'Indian Summer' but you may also have cold weather.  I was down staying with friends on the Cote d'Azur in October one year, and there was snow in the countryside just inland from them.  For the price of fuel getting down there you might find a cheap apartment in Southern Spain and some bargain flights

You can, however, use this website - Meteociel - to look at historical weather records and check out the average daily temperatures over the period you want to go, for many years of back records.