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Vallouise-Pelvoux - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 44°51′54″N 6°29′20″E / 44.865°N 6.489°E

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Vallouise-Pelvoux
Commune
A view of Vallouise in winter
Location of Vallouise-Pelvoux
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Coordinates: 44°51′54″N 6°29′20″E / 44.865°N 6.489°E / 44.865; 6.489
Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Hautes-Alpes
Arrondissement	Briançon
Canton	L'Argentière-la-Bessée
Intercommunality	Pays des Écrins
Government
• Mayor (2022–2026)	Gaelle Moreau^[1]
Area ¹	144.81 km² (55.91 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	1,132
• Density	7.8/km² (20/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	05101 /05290, 05340
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Vallouise-Pelvoux (French pronunciation: [valwiz pɛlvu]) is a commune in the department of Hautes-Alpes, southeastern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2017 by merger of the former communes of Pelvoux (the seat) and Vallouise.^[3]

The commune is located in the Alps and contains part of the Écrins National Park.

It is a popular destination for mountaineering and mountain sports in all seasons.

Geography

Climate

Vallouise-Pelvoux has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dfb). The average annual temperature in Vallouise-Pelvoux is 7.8 °C (46.0 °F). The average annual rainfall is 970.5 mm (38.21 in) with October as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around 17.1 °C (62.8 °F), and lowest in January, at around −1.1 °C (30.0 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Vallouise-Pelvoux was 35.7 °C (96.3 °F) on 27 June 2019; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −21.8 °C (−7.2 °F) on 7 March 1971.

Climate data for Pelvoux, Vallouise-Pelvoux (1981–2010 averages, extremes 1961−present)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Record high °C (°F)	18.1 (64.6)	21.2 (70.2)	23.3 (73.9)	26.4 (79.5)	29.2 (84.6)	35.7 (96.3)	34.0 (93.2)	34.1 (93.4)	32.9 (91.2)	27.7 (81.9)	21.6 (70.9)	17.1 (62.8)	35.7 (96.3)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	3.8 (38.8)	6.2 (43.2)	10.0 (50.0)	12.6 (54.7)	18.0 (64.4)	22.6 (72.7)	25.7 (78.3)	25.3 (77.5)	20.4 (68.7)	14.7 (58.5)	7.9 (46.2)	3.7 (38.7)	14.3 (57.7)
Daily mean °C (°F)	−1.1 (30.0)	0.2 (32.4)	3.5 (38.3)	6.4 (43.5)	11.3 (52.3)	14.9 (58.8)	17.1 (62.8)	16.9 (62.4)	13.0 (55.4)	8.6 (47.5)	2.8 (37.0)	−0.7 (30.7)	7.8 (46.0)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	−6.1 (21.0)	−5.7 (21.7)	−3.1 (26.4)	0.1 (32.2)	4.6 (40.3)	7.1 (44.8)	8.6 (47.5)	8.5 (47.3)	5.5 (41.9)	2.5 (36.5)	−2.2 (28.0)	−5.2 (22.6)	1.3 (34.3)
Record low °C (°F)	−19.0 (−2.2)	−18.0 (−0.4)	−21.8 (−7.2)	−10.2 (13.6)	−4.5 (23.9)	−1.6 (29.1)	0.0 (32.0)	0.0 (32.0)	−3.0 (26.6)	−9.0 (15.8)	−15.0 (5.0)	−18.0 (−0.4)	−21.8 (−7.2)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	82.7 (3.26)	63.0 (2.48)	70.1 (2.76)	91.5 (3.60)	81.0 (3.19)	71.9 (2.83)	48.9 (1.93)	54.8 (2.16)	86.9 (3.42)	115.4 (4.54)	100.2 (3.94)	104.1 (4.10)	970.5 (38.21)
Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm)	7.5	6.3	7.5	8.7	10.2	9.0	7.0	7.2	7.2	9.4	7.7	8.3	96.1
Source: Meteociel^[4]

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vallouise-Pelvoux.

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 16 December 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Arrêté préfectoral 5 September 2016 (in French)
^ "Normales et records pour Pelvoux (05)". Meteociel. Retrieved 6 June 2022.

v t e Communes nouvelles of the Hautes-Alpes department
Arrondissement of Briançon	Abriès-Ristolas Vallouise-Pelvoux
Arrondissement of Gap	Aubessagne Dévoluy Garde-Colombe Saint-Bonnet-en-Champsaur Val Buëch-Méouge Valdoule
Communes of the Hautes-Alpes department List of former communes of the Hautes-Alpes department

Communes of the Hautes-Alpes department

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