Montdardier is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.

Geography

Climate

Montdardier has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csb) closely bordering on a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa). The average annual temperature in Montdardier is 12.9 C. The average annual rainfall is 1487.0 mm with October as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around 21.9 C, and lowest in January, at around 5.3 C. The highest temperature ever recorded in Montdardier was 40.3 C on 28 June 2019; the coldest temperature ever recorded was -13.0 C on 27 February 2018.

Population

Sights

Several quarries above Montdardier were formerly important sources of lithographic limestone. Stone from these quarries, marketed as Vigan stone, earned an honorable mention in the Great Exhibition of 1851.