Servoz
Sarvô (Savoyard) | |
|---|---|
 The church in Servoz | |
 Location of Servoz | |
Servoz Servoz | |
| Coordinates: 45°55′57″N 6°45′46″E / 45.9325°N 6.7628°E / 45.9325; 6.7628 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |
| Department | Haute-Savoie |
| Arrondissement | Bonneville |
| Canton | Le Mont-Blanc |
| Intercommunality | Vallée de Chamonix-Mont-Blanc |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Nicolas Évrard1 |
Area 1 | 13.47 km2 (5.20 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)2 | 1,169 |
| • Density | 86.79/km2 (224.8/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 74266 /74310 |
| Elevation | 758–2,324 m (2,487–7,625 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Servoz (Franco-Provençal pronunciation: [ˈsɛr.vo]; Savoyard: Sarvô)3, but pronounced by inhabitants, and people of the region, by sounding the terminal “z”, is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.
Servoz has a railway station on the Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine railway and the section between Les Houches and Servoz holds the world record gradient for an adhesion railway at a 9% gradient over a distance of 2,000 m (6,562 ft).
Climate
On average, Servoz experiences 111.6 days per year with a minimum temperature below 0 °C (32.0 °F), 8.8 days per year with a minimum temperature below −10 °C (14.0 °F), 10.9 days per year with a maximum temperature below 0 °C (32.0 °F), and 17.4 days per year with a maximum temperature above 30 °C (86.0 °F). The record high temperature was 37.8 °C (100.0 °F) on 11 July 2023, while the record low temperature was −21.3 °C (−6.3 °F) on 5 February 2012.4
| Climate data for Servoz (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1992–present) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 17.8 (64.0) |
21.6 (70.9) |
24.1 (75.4) |
27.4 (81.3) |
33.3 (91.9) |
36.7 (98.1) |
37.8 (100.0) |
37.0 (98.6) |
32.3 (90.1) |
29.1 (84.4) |
25.1 (77.2) |
16.6 (61.9) |
37.8 (100.0) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 4.7 (40.5) |
6.9 (44.4) |
11.9 (53.4) |
16.1 (61.0) |
20.1 (68.2) |
24.2 (75.6) |
26.0 (78.8) |
25.5 (77.9) |
20.8 (69.4) |
16.0 (60.8) |
9.1 (48.4) |
4.6 (40.3) |
15.5 (59.9) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 0.3 (32.5) |
1.6 (34.9) |
5.7 (42.3) |
9.4 (48.9) |
13.5 (56.3) |
17.2 (63.0) |
19.1 (66.4) |
18.7 (65.7) |
14.6 (58.3) |
10.5 (50.9) |
4.6 (40.3) |
0.8 (33.4) |
9.7 (49.4) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −4.1 (24.6) |
−3.6 (25.5) |
−0.5 (31.1) |
2.8 (37.0) |
6.9 (44.4) |
10.3 (50.5) |
12.1 (53.8) |
11.9 (53.4) |
8.5 (47.3) |
5.0 (41.0) |
0.2 (32.4) |
−3.1 (26.4) |
3.9 (38.9) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −18.3 (−0.9) |
−21.3 (−6.3) |
−16.0 (3.2) |
−6.8 (19.8) |
−3.2 (26.2) |
−1.1 (30.0) |
4.0 (39.2) |
1.4 (34.5) |
−1.0 (30.2) |
−6.7 (19.9) |
−12.7 (9.1) |
−17.5 (0.5) |
−21.3 (−6.3) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 138.0 (5.43) |
106.3 (4.19) |
107.0 (4.21) |
104.8 (4.13) |
132.5 (5.22) |
123.3 (4.85) |
127.7 (5.03) |
127.1 (5.00) |
100.4 (3.95) |
110.8 (4.36) |
115.9 (4.56) |
152.0 (5.98) |
1,445.8 (56.91) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 10.8 | 9.4 | 9.6 | 10.2 | 13.3 | 12.1 | 11.5 | 11.8 | 10.1 | 10.5 | 10.3 | 11.2 | 130.8 |
| Source: Meteociel4 | |||||||||||||
References
References
- "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
- "Populations de référence 2023" (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 18 December 2025.
- TERREAUX, Louis (October 2012). Lexique Français - Francoprovençal du nom des communes de Savoie "Lé Kmoune in Savoué" (in French). ISBN 978-2-7466-3902-7.
- "1991–2020 Normals and Records – Station: Servoz". Meteociel.fr. Retrieved August 22, 2023.