Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume | |
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 The cave of Sainte-Baume | |
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 Location of Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume | |
  Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume  Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume | |
| Coordinates:43°19′46″N5°43′01″E / 43.3295°N 5.717°E /43.3295; 5.717 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
| Department | Var |
| Arrondissement | Brignoles |
| Canton | Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer |
| Intercommunality | CA Provence Verte |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2020–2026) | Carine Paillard[1] |
Area 1 | 24.91 km2 (9.62 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[2] | 2,527 |
| • Density | 101.4/km2 (262.7/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 83093 /83640 |
| Elevation | 510–1,148 m (1,673–3,766 ft) (avg. 700 m or 2,300 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume (French pronunciation:[plɑ̃dopssɛ̃tbom];Provençal:Lo Plan d’Aups de la Santa Bauma, before 1993:Plan-d'Aups)[3] is acommune in theVardepartment in theProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azurregion in southeasternFrance. It lies to the north of theSainte-Baume mountain range.
In June 1944, at the aftermath ofD-Day when the French Resistance went on an offensive against the German occupiers, the hills near Plan-d'Aups were the site of a bloody battle. Some 200Maquis had set up a camp there, commanded bySOE agent Robert Burdett. They were attacked by large German forces. Though taken by surprise due to a faulty placing of guards, the Maquis did inflict considerable casualties on the Germans and many of them managed to escape into the surrounding mountains.[4]
Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume has ahot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classificationCsa). The average annual temperature in Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume is 14.0 °C (57.2 °F). The average annual rainfall is 1,001.8 mm (39.44 in) with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 23.5 °C (74.3 °F), and lowest in January, at around 6.0 °C (42.8 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume was 41.6 °C (106.9 °F) on 28 June 2019; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −8.9 °C (16.0 °F) on 4 February 2012.
| Climate data for Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume (1991−2020 normals, extremes 2007−present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 20.7 (69.3) | 21.1 (70.0) | 23.4 (74.1) | 27.2 (81.0) | 31.5 (88.7) | 41.6 (106.9) | 38.1 (100.6) | 39.0 (102.2) | 33.0 (91.4) | 29.0 (84.2) | 20.7 (69.3) | 18.6 (65.5) | 41.6 (106.9) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 9.1 (48.4) | 10.3 (50.5) | 13.6 (56.5) | 17.1 (62.8) | 20.9 (69.6) | 25.9 (78.6) | 29.1 (84.4) | 29.3 (84.7) | 24.3 (75.7) | 19.0 (66.2) | 13.2 (55.8) | 9.7 (49.5) | 18.5 (65.3) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 6.0 (42.8) | 6.5 (43.7) | 9.3 (48.7) | 12.5 (54.5) | 15.9 (60.6) | 20.4 (68.7) | 23.3 (73.9) | 23.5 (74.3) | 19.2 (66.6) | 14.8 (58.6) | 10.0 (50.0) | 6.8 (44.2) | 14.0 (57.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 2.9 (37.2) | 2.7 (36.9) | 5.0 (41.0) | 7.9 (46.2) | 10.8 (51.4) | 14.9 (58.8) | 17.5 (63.5) | 17.8 (64.0) | 14.1 (57.4) | 10.6 (51.1) | 6.7 (44.1) | 3.8 (38.8) | 9.6 (49.3) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −6.8 (19.8) | −8.9 (16.0) | −4.4 (24.1) | −3.0 (26.6) | 1.7 (35.1) | 6.5 (43.7) | 10.2 (50.4) | 10.1 (50.2) | 2.9 (37.2) | −2.2 (28.0) | −5.0 (23.0) | −8.2 (17.2) | −8.9 (16.0) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 93.3 (3.67) | 82.3 (3.24) | 82.7 (3.26) | 93.2 (3.67) | 79.4 (3.13) | 52.0 (2.05) | 21.7 (0.85) | 28.4 (1.12) | 56.0 (2.20) | 122.2 (4.81) | 168.0 (6.61) | 122.6 (4.83) | 1,001.8 (39.44) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 1.0 mm) | 7.2 | 6.8 | 6.3 | 7.0 | 6.8 | 3.7 | 1.9 | 2.1 | 4.4 | 6.5 | 8.9 | 7.1 | 68.6 |
| Source:Météo-France[5] | |||||||||||||
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 1968 | 185 | — |
| 1975 | 207 | +1.62% |
| 1982 | 249 | +2.67% |
| 1990 | 361 | +4.75% |
| 1999 | 764 | +8.69% |
| 2007 | 1,176 | +5.54% |
| 2012 | 1,859 | +9.59% |
| 2017 | 2,158 | +3.03% |
| Source: INSEE[6] | ||
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