Saint-Chef has a semi-continental climate[5] characterized by generally higher rainfall in spring and summer than in winter.

Between 1790 and 1794, Saint-Chef absorbed the communes of Arcisses, Chamont, Crucilleux, Laval-de-Saint-Chef, Montcarra, Trieux and Vercin.

The 12th and 13th century Saint-Theudère church, with its flamboyant Gothic portal and its organ,[6] was listed as a historic monument in 1840 by Prosper Mérimée.

[7] The main building houses one of the most important sets of Romanesque frescoes in France dating from the twelfth century, on the theme of the Apocalypse, also classified as a historic monument.

[8] The historical and artistic interest of its frescoes has earned them reproductions in the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine of Paris.