La Foa
La Foa | |
|---|---|
 Location of the commune (in red) within New Caledonia | |
Location of La Foa  | |
| Coordinates: 21°42′41″S 165°49′06″E / 21.7115°S 165.8182°E | |
| Country | Mixed 17.96% Other 11.6% |
| Time zone | UTC+11:00 |
| INSEE/Postal code | /98880 |
| Elevation | 0–1,058 m (0–3,471 ft) (avg. 20 m or 66 ft) |
| 1 New Caledonia Land Register (DITTT) data, which exclude lakes and ponds larger than 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) as well as the estuaries of rivers. | |
MHNT
La Foa is a
commune in the South Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean
.
Although the provincial seat of the South Province is in
arrondissement of Metropolitan France, with a Deputy Commissioner of the Republic (commissaire délégué de la République), akin to a subprefect
of metropolitan France, in residence in La Foa.
Geography
Climate
La Foa has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen climate classification Aw). The average annual temperature in La Foa is 22.7 °C (72.9 °F). The average annual rainfall is 1,128.4 mm (44.43 in) with February as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in February, at around 26.5 °C (79.7 °F), and lowest in July, at around 18.9 °C (66.0 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in La Foa was 38.0 °C (100.4 °F) on 12 December 1952; the coldest temperature ever recorded was 4.2 °C (39.6 °F) on 29 July 1968.
| Climate data for La Foa (1991−2020 normals, extremes 1952−present) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 36.4 (97.5) |
37.1 (98.8) |
36.9 (98.4) |
34.8 (94.6) |
33.5 (92.3) |
32.5 (90.5) |
31.2 (88.2) |
32.0 (89.6) |
34.5 (94.1) |
34.8 (94.6) |
37.2 (99.0) |
38.0 (100.4) |
38.0 (100.4) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 31.7 (89.1) |
31.8 (89.2) |
30.9 (87.6) |
29.5 (85.1) |
27.5 (81.5) |
26.0 (78.8) |
25.1 (77.2) |
25.3 (77.5) |
26.9 (80.4) |
28.8 (83.8) |
30.1 (86.2) |
31.3 (88.3) |
28.7 (83.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 26.0 (78.8) |
26.5 (79.7) |
25.8 (78.4) |
24.0 (75.2) |
21.8 (71.2) |
20.1 (68.2) |
18.9 (66.0) |
18.9 (66.0) |
20.0 (68.0) |
21.9 (71.4) |
23.5 (74.3) |
25.3 (77.5) |
22.7 (72.9) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 20.4 (68.7) |
21.3 (70.3) |
20.7 (69.3) |
18.5 (65.3) |
16.0 (60.8) |
14.2 (57.6) |
12.6 (54.7) |
12.5 (54.5) |
13.1 (55.6) |
15.0 (59.0) |
16.9 (62.4) |
19.2 (66.6) |
16.7 (62.1) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 12.0 (53.6) |
9.0 (48.2) |
12.2 (54.0) |
8.8 (47.8) |
7.0 (44.6) |
4.9 (40.8) |
4.2 (39.6) |
5.4 (41.7) |
5.3 (41.5) |
6.0 (42.8) |
8.5 (47.3) |
11.4 (52.5) |
4.2 (39.6) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 155.0 (6.10) |
184.3 (7.26) |
177.3 (6.98) |
102.9 (4.05) |
78.0 (3.07) |
72.2 (2.84) |
64.8 (2.55) |
62.7 (2.47) |
35.7 (1.41) |
29.6 (1.17) |
63.2 (2.49) |
102.7 (4.04) |
1,128.4 (44.43) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 9.9 | 11.4 | 11.7 | 7.8 | 7.4 | 7.0 | 6.5 | 6.2 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 5.7 | 8.1 | 89.5 |
| Source: Météo-France[3] | |||||||||||||
References
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
- ^ Population, ménages et logement par commune, en 2019, Institut de la statistique et des études économiques Nouvelle-Calédonie
- ^ "Fiche Climatologique Statistiques 1991-2020 et records" (PDF). Météo-France. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
External links
La Foa travel guide from Wikivoyage
Wikimedia Commons has media related to La Foa.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for La Foa.
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