Pelvoux | |
Arrondissement: | Briançon |
Canton: | L'Argentière-la-Bessée |
Insee: | 05101 |
Postal Code: | 05340 |
Commune: | Vallouise-Pelvoux |
Coordinates: | 44.8655°N 6.4895°W |
Elevation Min M: | 1179 |
Elevation Max M: | 4101 |
Area Km2: | 76.23 |
Population: | 430 |
Population Date: | 2018 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Pelvoux (pronounced as /fr/; Vivaro-Alpine: Pelvós) is a former commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Vallouise-Pelvoux.[2]
Pelvoux bid to be the French candidate city for the 2018 Winter Olympics, but the French National Olympic and Sports Committee chose to submit Annecy's bid instead.[3]
Pelvoux has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dfb). The average annual temperature in Pelvoux is . The average annual rainfall is with October as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around, and lowest in January, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Pelvoux was on 27 June 2019; the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 7 March 1971.