Coteaux du Lizon
Coteaux du Lizon is a commune in the department of Jura, eastern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2017 by merger of the former communes of Saint-Lupicin (the seat) and Cuttura.[2]
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.jpg.webp) The town hall in Saint-Lupicin | |
Location of Coteaux du Lizon 
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  Coteaux du Lizon  Coteaux du Lizon | |
| Coordinates: 46°24′00″N 5°47′35″E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté |
| Department | Jura |
| Arrondissement | Saint-Claude |
| Canton | Coteaux du Lizon |
| Intercommunality | Haut-Jura Saint-Claude |
| Area 1 | 15.49 km2 (5.98 sq mi) |
| Population (2017-01-01)[1] | 2,397 |
| • Density | 150/km2 (400/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 39491 /39170 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Geography
Coteaux du Lizon is a little town located in the Parc naturel régional du Haut-Jura in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Eastern France.
The city is cut in two parts by the narrow but deep valley of the Lizon, a small river about 7 km long that cuts a little canyon in the vicinity of Coteaux du Lizon. The commune also has two vast coombs, one of which is towards the hamlet of "Grande-Maison" on the heights of the commune at the foot of the Roche d'Antre, which has climatic characteristics close to those of the coombs of la Brévine or Mouthe. Coteaux du Lizon is surrounded by the Roche d'Antre massif to the west and by the little mountains on which Avignon-lès-Saint-Claude is situated to the east. Although it is in the Haut-Jura, none of the peaks in the territory of the municipality exceeds 1000 m, but nevertheless, at 5 km to the south, there is the Crêt de Surmontant, which peaks at 1065 m. Note that the maximum altitude of its canton is near Lamoura at the Crêt Pela, culminating at 1495m.
The Lizon is the main watercourse crossing the commune. There is also the Cuttura dam, a small water reserve located between Cuttura and Saint-Lupicin. There are many small mountain streams in the municipality.
Climate
Due to its altitude, Coteaux du Lizon features a humid continental climate (Köppen : Dfb), bordering on an oceanic climate (Köppen : Cfb). High precipitations are present all the year, which are a particularity of Coteaux du Lizon's climate. Only two seasons are long : winter and summer. Summers are very warm, with many thunderstorms, sometimes with hail and winters are moderately cold and very snowy from the altitude point of view. The rain, which is abundant and evenly distributed throughout the year, can be absent for a long time, the most recent example (which took place in 2020) is a rain-free period that lasted from March 11 to April 20 (so that's 41 days in a row without rain). This is certainly the longest period without rain ever seen in Coteaux-du-Lizon. Clairvaux-les-Lacs is the village which has the nearest climate with Coteaux du Lizon (except for the snowfall and the snow cover). The heat record is 40.1 °C, recorded on July 25, 2019. The cold record is estimated at -30.1 °C on February 10, 1956, so the difference between these two absolute records is 71 °C (a little reminder : the largest difference between two records in the world is in Verkhoyansk, Siberia and its 105 °C difference).
| Climate data for Coteaux du Lizon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (1991–2019) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 16.5 (61.7) |
20.2 (68.4) |
22.4 (72.3) |
28.7 (83.7) |
33.6 (92.5) |
39.1 (102.4) |
40.1 (104.2) |
38.9 (102.0) |
30.8 (87.4) |
26.1 (79.0) |
20.3 (68.5) |
16.1 (61.0) |
40.1 (104.2) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 4.3 (39.7) |
6.5 (43.7) |
10.6 (51.1) |
14.8 (58.6) |
18.9 (66.0) |
22.5 (72.5) |
25.1 (77.2) |
24.8 (76.6) |
20.4 (68.7) |
15.6 (60.1) |
8.9 (48.0) |
4.8 (40.6) |
14.8 (58.6) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 0.9 (33.6) |
2.1 (35.8) |
5.6 (42.1) |
9.3 (48.7) |
13.2 (55.8) |
16.4 (61.5) |
18.9 (66.0) |
18.5 (65.3) |
14.7 (58.5) |
10.8 (51.4) |
5.2 (41.4) |
1.7 (35.1) |
9.8 (49.6) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −2.5 (27.5) |
−2.4 (27.7) |
0.6 (33.1) |
3.7 (38.7) |
7.6 (45.7) |
10.4 (50.7) |
12.7 (54.9) |
12.1 (53.8) |
9.1 (48.4) |
6.0 (42.8) |
1.4 (34.5) |
−1.5 (29.3) |
4.8 (40.6) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −27.5 (−17.5) |
−30.1 (−22.2) |
−20.2 (−4.4) |
−8.4 (16.9) |
−6.1 (21.0) |
−0.6 (30.9) |
2.3 (36.1) |
−0.1 (31.8) |
−2.8 (27.0) |
−8.2 (17.2) |
−18.4 (−1.1) |
−24.7 (−12.5) |
−30.1 (−22.2) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 161.4 (6.35) |
136.7 (5.38) |
139.2 (5.48) |
148.9 (5.86) |
162.7 (6.41) |
142.8 (5.62) |
128.3 (5.05) |
133.4 (5.25) |
147.1 (5.79) |
161.7 (6.37) |
176.2 (6.94) |
182.5 (7.19) |
1,821.3 (71.70) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 94.8 (3.73) |
86.7 (3.41) |
111.8 (4.40) |
137.9 (5.43) |
160.6 (6.32) |
142.8 (5.62) |
128.3 (5.05) |
133.4 (5.25) |
147.1 (5.79) |
157.5 (6.20) |
137.3 (5.41) |
119.7 (4.71) |
1,557.9 (61.33) |
| Average snowfall cm (inches) | 47.2 (18.6) |
38.3 (15.1) |
19.1 (7.5) |
7.4 (2.9) |
1.6 (0.6) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
3.8 (1.5) |
21.5 (8.5) |
46.7 (18.4) |
185.6 (73.1) |
| Average snowy days | 9.2 | 7.8 | 4.7 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 5.7 | 8.9 | 38.4 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 68.7 | 96.4 | 129.3 | 163.9 | 196.2 | 225.3 | 259.8 | 234.5 | 181.5 | 118.9 | 76.5 | 59.1 | 1,810.1 |
See also
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Coteaux du Lizon. |
- "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- Arrêté préfectoral 4 July 2016 (in French)
