Collobrières Colobrieras (Occitan) | |
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 The Place de la Libération in Collobrières | |
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 Location of Collobrières | |
  Collobrières  Collobrières | |
| Coordinates:43°14′17″N6°18′35″E / 43.2381°N 6.3097°E /43.2381; 6.3097 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
| Department | Var |
| Arrondissement | Toulon |
| Canton | Le Luc |
| Intercommunality | Communauté de communes Méditerranée Porte des Maures |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2020–2026) | Christine Amrane[1] (UDI) |
Area 1 | 112.68 km2 (43.51 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[2] | 1,870 |
| • Density | 16.6/km2 (43.0/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 83043 /83610 |
| Elevation | 58–776 m (190–2,546 ft) (avg. 131 m or 430 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Collobrières (French pronunciation:[kɔlɔbʁijɛʁ];Occitan:Colobrieras) is acommune in theVardepartment in theProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azurregion in SoutheasternFrance. As of 2023, the population of the commune was 1,870.[3]
Collobrières has ahot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classificationCsa). The average annual temperature in Collobrières is 14.6 °C (58.3 °F). The average annual rainfall is 822.8 mm (32.39 in) with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around 23.2 °C (73.8 °F), and lowest in January, at around 7.3 °C (45.1 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Collobrières was 39.9 °C (103.8 °F) on 5 August 2017; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −9.6 °C (14.7 °F) on 13 February 1999.
| Climate data for Collobrières (1991−2020 normals, extremes 1991−present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 23.1 (73.6) | 24.9 (76.8) | 26.6 (79.9) | 28.4 (83.1) | 35.0 (95.0) | 38.4 (101.1) | 39.7 (103.5) | 39.9 (103.8) | 36.1 (97.0) | 30.3 (86.5) | 24.7 (76.5) | 21.6 (70.9) | 39.9 (103.8) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 12.9 (55.2) | 13.8 (56.8) | 16.5 (61.7) | 19.2 (66.6) | 23.5 (74.3) | 27.7 (81.9) | 31.1 (88.0) | 31.2 (88.2) | 26.4 (79.5) | 21.5 (70.7) | 16.4 (61.5) | 13.4 (56.1) | 21.1 (70.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 7.3 (45.1) | 7.6 (45.7) | 10.1 (50.2) | 12.7 (54.9) | 16.7 (62.1) | 20.3 (68.5) | 23.2 (73.8) | 23.2 (73.8) | 19.3 (66.7) | 15.5 (59.9) | 10.9 (51.6) | 8.1 (46.6) | 14.6 (58.3) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 1.8 (35.2) | 1.5 (34.7) | 3.6 (38.5) | 6.3 (43.3) | 9.8 (49.6) | 13.0 (55.4) | 15.3 (59.5) | 15.2 (59.4) | 12.2 (54.0) | 9.6 (49.3) | 5.4 (41.7) | 2.7 (36.9) | 8.0 (46.4) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −9.6 (14.7) | −9.6 (14.7) | −9.3 (15.3) | −3.7 (25.3) | 0.8 (33.4) | 3.7 (38.7) | 7.3 (45.1) | 6.5 (43.7) | 2.0 (35.6) | −3.4 (25.9) | −9.1 (15.6) | −9.3 (15.3) | −9.6 (14.7) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 97.9 (3.85) | 60.6 (2.39) | 59.8 (2.35) | 66.7 (2.63) | 47.1 (1.85) | 40.1 (1.58) | 12.2 (0.48) | 17.8 (0.70) | 78.4 (3.09) | 107.8 (4.24) | 143.1 (5.63) | 91.3 (3.59) | 822.8 (32.39) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 1.0 mm) | 6.2 | 5.2 | 5.4 | 6.3 | 4.8 | 3.6 | 1.4 | 2.4 | 4.9 | 7.2 | 8.3 | 6.5 | 62.1 |
| Source:Météo-France[4] | |||||||||||||
Collobrières main exports are edible chestnuts which are made into things likemarron glacé and ice cream. They also grow trees for cork production.
Collobrières uses the Euro, since it's part of France. But since 2008, thefrench franc was introduced back as a side currency, to let people see how much the prices changed, and to cultivate tourism.
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