Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume (Provençal: Lo Plan d’Aups de la Santa Bauma, before 1993: Plan-d'Aups) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. It lies to the north of the Sainte-Baume mountain range.

History

Second World War

In June 1944, at the aftermath of D-Day when the French Resistance went on an offensive against the German occupiers, the hills near Plan-d'Aups were the site of a bloody battle. Some 200 Maquis had set up a camp there, commanded by SOE agent Robert Burdett. They were attacked by large German forces. Though taken by surprise due to a faulty placing of guards, the Maquis did inflict considerable casualties on the Germans and many of them managed to escape into the surrounding mountains.

Geography

Climate

Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csa). The average annual temperature in Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume is 14.0 C. The average annual rainfall is 1001.8 mm with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 23.5 C, and lowest in January, at around 6.0 C. The highest temperature ever recorded in Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume was 41.6 C on 28 June 2019; the coldest temperature ever recorded was -8.9 C on 4 February 2012.

Population