Volmunster
Volmunster | |
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 The church in Volmunster | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Volmunster | |
  Volmunster  Volmunster | |
| Coordinates: 49°07′21″N 7°21′24″E / 49.1225°N 7.3567°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Grand Est |
| Department | Moselle |
| Arrondissement | Sarreguemines |
| Canton | Bitche |
| Intercommunality | Pays de Bitche |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Jean Michel Heckel[1] |
Area 1 | 14.91 km2 (5.76 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 774 |
| • Density | 52/km2 (130/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 57732 /57720 |
| Elevation | 242–368 m (794–1,207 ft) (avg. 250 m or 820 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Volmunster (French pronunciation: [vɔlmœ̃stɛʁ]; German: Wolmünster; Lorraine Franconian: Wolminschter) is a commune in the Moselle department of the Grand Est administrative region in north-eastern France.
The village belongs to the Pays de Bitche and to the Northern Vosges Regional Nature Park.
Localities of the commune: Eschviller, Weiskirch.
Climate
| Climate data for Volmunster (1991–2020 averages) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 14.6 (58.3) | 21.5 (70.7) | 24.0 (75.2) | 28.5 (83.3) | 30.8 (87.4) | 35.0 (95.0) | 37.6 (99.7) | 37.4 (99.3) | 33.0 (91.4) | 26.9 (80.4) | 21.1 (70.0) | 15.7 (60.3) | 37.6 (99.7) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 3.8 (38.8) | 5.5 (41.9) | 10.0 (50.0) | 15.2 (59.4) | 18.7 (65.7) | 22.9 (73.2) | 24.8 (76.6) | 24.0 (75.2) | 19.7 (67.5) | 14.5 (58.1) | 8.4 (47.1) | 4.6 (40.3) | 14.3 (57.7) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −0.9 (30.4) | −0.5 (31.1) | 1.7 (35.1) | 4.8 (40.6) | 8.4 (47.1) | 11.8 (53.2) | 13.7 (56.7) | 13.5 (56.3) | 9.8 (49.6) | 7.0 (44.6) | 3.1 (37.6) | 0.2 (32.4) | 6.0 (42.8) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −15.5 (4.1) | −16.5 (2.3) | −15.5 (4.1) | −6.2 (20.8) | −1.5 (29.3) | 2.7 (36.9) | 5.8 (42.4) | 4.0 (39.2) | 1.5 (34.7) | −6.2 (20.8) | −6.4 (20.5) | −18.6 (−1.5) | −18.6 (−1.5) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 67.0 (2.64) | 56.5 (2.22) | 55.6 (2.19) | 41.3 (1.63) | 70.1 (2.76) | 60.3 (2.37) | 66.2 (2.61) | 76.7 (3.02) | 55.3 (2.18) | 65.1 (2.56) | 66.7 (2.63) | 79.3 (3.12) | 760.1 (29.93) |
| Average precipitation days | 12.8 | 10.2 | 9.8 | 8.2 | 10.1 | 8.6 | 9.5 | 10.4 | 8.1 | 10.3 | 10.9 | 12.9 | 121.8 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 49.8 | 76.9 | 160.1 | 205.4 | 217.7 | 240.5 | 245.9 | 212.3 | 172.6 | 105.3 | 52.0 | 39.6 | 1,777.8 |
See also
References
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 9 August 2021.
- ^ "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
External links
Media related to Volmunster at Wikimedia Commons
