La Bridoire

Commune in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Coat of arms

Location of La Bridoire

(2020–2026) Yves Berthier^[1]Area

6.18 km² (2.39 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

1,228 • Density200/km² (510/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

73058 /73520

Elevation250–527 m (820–1,729 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

La Bridoire (French pronunciation: [la bʁidwaʁ]; Arpitan: La Barduire) is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.

Geography

Climate

According to a 2010 study by the French National Centre for Scientific Research, the commune is situated in a "mountain margins climate".^[3] In 2020, Météo-France published its own typology of French climates in which it categorized the commune's climate as a mountain climate or mountain margins climate within the Northern Alps climate region.^[4]

From 1971 to 2000, the average annual temperature was 10.9 °C (51.6 °F), with an annual range of 19.2 °C (66.6 °F). The average annual rainfall was 1,263 millimetres (49.7 in), with 9.9 days of rainfall in January and 7.8 days of rainfall in July.^[3]

Map of the commune's infrastructure and land use in 2018
Satellite image of the commune

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 9 August 2021.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b Daniel Joly, Thierry Brossard, Hervé Cardot, Jean Cavailhes, Mohamed Hilal et Pierre Wavresky (18 June 2010), "Les types de climats en France, une construction spatiale", Cybergéo, revue européenne de géographie - European Journal of Geography (in French), no. 501, doi:10.4000/cybergeo.23155, retrieved 29 July 2024{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ "Zonages climatiques en France métropolitaine". pluiesextremes.meteo.fr (in French). Retrieved 29 July 2024.