Freney

Commune in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Location of Freney

(2020–2026) Roland Avenière^[1]Area

11.13 km² (4.30 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

99 • Density8.9/km² (23/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

73119 /73500

Elevation939–2,960 m (3,081–9,711 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Freney 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 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 7.9 °C (46.2 °F), with an annual range of 16.5 °C (61.7 °F). The average annual rainfall was 876 millimetres (34.5 in), with 8.5 days of rainfall in January and 7.7 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). 2 December 2020.
^ "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.