La Couronne, Charente
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| Coordinates: 45°36′30″N 0°06′03″E / 45.6083°N 0.1008°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
| Department | Charente |
| Arrondissement | Angoulême |
| Canton | La Couronne |
| Intercommunality | Grand Angoulême |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Jean-François Dauré[1] |
Area 1 | 28.82 km2 (11.13 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[2] | 7,765 |
| • Density | 269.4/km2 (697.8/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 16113 /16400 |
| Elevation | 31–137 m (102–449 ft) (avg. 100 m or 330 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
La Couronne (French pronunciation: [la kuʁɔn]) is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.
The commune lies to the southwest of Angoulême. Jean-Edmond Laroche-Joubert (1820–1884) was born in La Couronne. He established two modern paper manufacturing plants in La Couronne, L’Escalier and Girac, where he installed second-generation machines almost 12 metres (39 ft) long making sheets of paper 1.25 to 1.5 metres (4 ft 1 in to 4 ft 11 in) wide.[3]
Climate
[edit]On average, La Couronne experiences 41.6 days per year with a minimum temperature below 0 °C (32.0 °F), 0.3 days per year with a minimum temperature below −10 °C (14.0 °F), 1.5 days per year with a maximum temperature below 0 °C (32.0 °F), and 26.5 days per year with a maximum temperature above 30 °C (86.0 °F). The record high temperature was 43.9 °C (111.0 °F) on June 23, 2026, while the record low temperature was −17.0 °C (1.4 °F) on January 16, 1985.[4]
| Climate data for La Couronne (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1976–present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 18.3 (64.9) |
25.6 (78.1) |
26.7 (80.1) |
30.4 (86.7) |
37.8 (100.0) |
43.9 (111.0) |
40.5 (104.9) |
42.3 (108.1) |
37.7 (99.9) |
32.7 (90.9) |
24.6 (76.3) |
19.3 (66.7) |
43.9 (111.0) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 9.5 (49.1) |
11.0 (51.8) |
14.8 (58.6) |
17.6 (63.7) |
21.5 (70.7) |
25.1 (77.2) |
27.5 (81.5) |
27.7 (81.9) |
23.8 (74.8) |
19.0 (66.2) |
13.3 (55.9) |
10.2 (50.4) |
18.4 (65.1) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 6.1 (43.0) |
6.6 (43.9) |
9.6 (49.3) |
12.0 (53.6) |
15.6 (60.1) |
19.0 (66.2) |
20.9 (69.6) |
20.8 (69.4) |
17.4 (63.3) |
14.0 (57.2) |
9.3 (48.7) |
6.7 (44.1) |
13.2 (55.7) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 2.8 (37.0) |
2.2 (36.0) |
4.4 (39.9) |
6.3 (43.3) |
9.8 (49.6) |
12.9 (55.2) |
14.2 (57.6) |
13.9 (57.0) |
10.9 (51.6) |
9.0 (48.2) |
5.3 (41.5) |
3.2 (37.8) |
7.9 (46.2) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −17.0 (1.4) |
−14.6 (5.7) |
−11.0 (12.2) |
−5.1 (22.8) |
−1.0 (30.2) |
1.5 (34.7) |
5.0 (41.0) |
4.0 (39.2) |
0.5 (32.9) |
−3.9 (25.0) |
−8.3 (17.1) |
−11.5 (11.3) |
−17.0 (1.4) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 77.2 (3.04) |
58.9 (2.32) |
60.2 (2.37) |
69.0 (2.72) |
69.4 (2.73) |
69.6 (2.74) |
54.5 (2.15) |
55.6 (2.19) |
68.8 (2.71) |
78.2 (3.08) |
93.2 (3.67) |
90.6 (3.57) |
845.2 (33.29) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 12.5 | 9.8 | 10.2 | 10.9 | 10.5 | 8.3 | 7.4 | 7.2 | 8.6 | 11.6 | 12.0 | 12.6 | 121.6 |
| Source: Meteociel[4] | |||||||||||||
Population
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| Source: EHESS[5] and INSEE (1968-2023)[6] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
- ↑ "Populations de référence 2023" (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 18 December 2025.
- ↑ Conseil général de la Charente (2009), Dossier pédagogique n°4 : Jean-Edmond Laroche-Joubert (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015, retrieved 23 January 2018
- 1 2 "1991–2020 Normals and Records – Station: La Couronne". Meteociel.fr. Retrieved 24 June 2026.
- ↑ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet La Couronne, EHESS (in French).
- ↑ Population municipale entre 1968 et 2023, INSEE
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