Montdardier

Commune in Occitania, France

Coat of arms

Location of Montdardier

(2023–2026) Philippe Virely^[1]Area

35.25 km² (13.61 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

188 • Density5.3/km² (14/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

30176 /30120

Elevation259–889 m (850–2,917 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Montdardier (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃daʁdje]; Occitan: Montdardièr) is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.

Geography

Climate

Montdardier has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csb) closely bordering on a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa). The average annual temperature in Montdardier is 12.9 °C (55.2 °F). The average annual rainfall is 1,487.0 mm (58.54 in) with October as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around 21.9 °C (71.4 °F), and lowest in January, at around 5.3 °C (41.5 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Montdardier was 40.3 °C (104.5 °F) on 28 June 2019; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −13.0 °C (8.6 °F) on 27 February 2018.

Climate data for Montdardier (1991−2020 normals, extremes 2010−present)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Record high °C (°F)	20.7 (69.3)	22.2 (72.0)	25.2 (77.4)	28.8 (83.8)	30.1 (86.2)	40.3 (104.5)	35.9 (96.6)	38.0 (100.4)	32.9 (91.2)	29.3 (84.7)	22.8 (73.0)	19.1 (66.4)	40.3 (104.5)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	8.9 (48.0)	9.8 (49.6)	13.2 (55.8)	16.2 (61.2)	19.7 (67.5)	24.7 (76.5)	27.9 (82.2)	27.8 (82.0)	23.2 (73.8)	17.6 (63.7)	12.2 (54.0)	9.8 (49.6)	17.6 (63.7)
Daily mean °C (°F)	5.3 (41.5)	5.5 (41.9)	8.6 (47.5)	11.5 (52.7)	14.6 (58.3)	19.1 (66.4)	21.9 (71.4)	21.7 (71.1)	17.9 (64.2)	13.5 (56.3)	8.9 (48.0)	6.4 (43.5)	12.9 (55.2)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	1.6 (34.9)	1.2 (34.2)	4.0 (39.2)	6.8 (44.2)	9.4 (48.9)	13.5 (56.3)	15.9 (60.6)	15.6 (60.1)	12.6 (54.7)	9.3 (48.7)	5.6 (42.1)	3.0 (37.4)	8.2 (46.8)
Record low °C (°F)	−9.5 (14.9)	−13.0 (8.6)	−3.4 (25.9)	−4.0 (24.8)	1.0 (33.8)	6.1 (43.0)	8.9 (48.0)	8.5 (47.3)	4.2 (39.6)	−1.5 (29.3)	−6.4 (20.5)	−8.5 (16.7)	−13.0 (8.6)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	148.8 (5.86)	89.9 (3.54)	96.5 (3.80)	137.1 (5.40)	103.3 (4.07)	72.3 (2.85)	42.8 (1.69)	45.0 (1.77)	156.4 (6.16)	231.1 (9.10)	216.2 (8.51)	147.6 (5.81)	1,487 (58.54)
Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm)	9.4	6.8	7.2	8.9	8.4	5.6	4.5	4.9	6.3	10.5	10.1	9.1	91.7
Source: Météo-France^[3]

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	215	—
1975	197	−1.24%
1982	178	−1.44%
1990	157	−1.56%
1999	187	+1.96%
2009	195	+0.42%
2014	207	+1.20%
2020	191	−1.33%
Source: INSEE^[4]

Sights

The castle in neo-gothic style
La Tude massif
The church

Several quarries above Montdardier were formerly important sources of lithographic limestone. Stone from these quarries, marketed as Vigan stone, earned an honorable mention in the Great Exhibition of 1851.^[5]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 30 November 2023.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ "Fiche Climatologique Statistiques 1991-2020 et records" (PDF) (in French). Météo-France. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ Class I, Report on Mining, Quarrying, Metallurgical Operations, and Mineral Products, Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes Into Which the Exhibition was Divided, Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851, Clowes, London, 1852; page 28.