Nestier

Commune in Occitania, France

Coat of arms

Location of Nestier

(2020–2026) Bernard Rouede^[1]Area

4.94 km² (1.91 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

186 • Density38/km² (98/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

65327 /65150

Elevation458–604 m (1,503–1,982 ft)
(avg. 478 m or 1,568 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Nestier (French pronunciation: [nɛstje]; Occitan: Nestièr) is a French commune located in the department of Hautes-Pyrenees, in the region Occitanie. Its historic region is the Gascony.

Its geography is that of a village of Piedmont Pyrenean characterized by a mountain climate subject to ocean and continental influences.

Its history is marked by the following periods : the prehistory with the remains of the Neanderthal cave of the "Cap de la Bielle" ; Modern era with two central characters : François de Saint-Paul and Louis de Cazaux, Lords de Nestier, the first large army officer of Louis XIV and Governor of the "Val de Aran", the second large master of the Cavalry School of Versailles and squire Cavalcadour of Louis XV ; the post-revolutionary period : Nestier is then chief town of canton and sees the construction of the devotional site called "Calvaire du Mont-Arès" ; the contemporary period with the reconstruction of the calvary registered with the inventory of the historical monuments and the realization of a organic swim.

Its peasant sociology has been strongly marked by the pyrenean traditions and the lifestyles that rest essentially, until the middle of XX^e s., on a polyculture of subsistence.

At XXI^e s., Nestier undergoes the deep transformations of the rural world within a new territorial reorganization.

Geography

Climate

Nestier has a oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb). The average annual temperature in Nestier is 11.8 °C (53.2 °F). The average annual rainfall is 1,049.8 mm (41.33 in) with May as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around 19.5 °C (67.1 °F), and lowest in January, at around 4.7 °C (40.5 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Nestier was 41.0 °C (105.8 °F) on 28 July 1947; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −20.0 °C (−4.0 °F) on 16 February 1956.

Climate data for Nestier (1981−2010 normals, extremes 1946−2008)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Record high °C (°F)	24.0 (75.2)	29.0 (84.2)	29.0 (84.2)	32.0 (89.6)	33.0 (91.4)	40.0 (104.0)	41.0 (105.8)	39.0 (102.2)	36.0 (96.8)	33.0 (91.4)	28.0 (82.4)	24.0 (75.2)	41.0 (105.8)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	9.1 (48.4)	10.4 (50.7)	13.7 (56.7)	15.5 (59.9)	19.1 (66.4)	22.5 (72.5)	25.0 (77.0)	24.9 (76.8)	22.2 (72.0)	17.8 (64.0)	12.4 (54.3)	9.8 (49.6)	16.9 (62.4)
Daily mean °C (°F)	4.7 (40.5)	5.7 (42.3)	8.4 (47.1)	10.1 (50.2)	13.8 (56.8)	17.2 (63.0)	19.5 (67.1)	19.5 (67.1)	16.6 (61.9)	12.7 (54.9)	7.9 (46.2)	5.4 (41.7)	11.8 (53.2)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	0.3 (32.5)	0.9 (33.6)	3.1 (37.6)	4.8 (40.6)	8.4 (47.1)	11.9 (53.4)	14.0 (57.2)	14.0 (57.2)	11.0 (51.8)	7.6 (45.7)	3.3 (37.9)	1.1 (34.0)	6.7 (44.1)
Record low °C (°F)	−18.5 (−1.3)	−20.0 (−4.0)	−12.6 (9.3)	−6.5 (20.3)	−1.5 (29.3)	0.5 (32.9)	3.0 (37.4)	2.0 (35.6)	0.0 (32.0)	−5.0 (23.0)	−10.5 (13.1)	−13.2 (8.2)	−20.0 (−4.0)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	93.2 (3.67)	75.2 (2.96)	88.8 (3.50)	104.2 (4.10)	111.9 (4.41)	72.2 (2.84)	69.2 (2.72)	79.6 (3.13)	82.2 (3.24)	81.6 (3.21)	91.9 (3.62)	99.8 (3.93)	1,049.8 (41.33)
Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm)	10.4	9.7	10.4	12.3	12.4	9.2	7.6	9.2	9.0	10.1	9.7	10.4	120.4
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.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ "Fiche Climatologique Statistiques 1981-2010 et records" (PDF) (in French). Météo-France. Retrieved September 12, 2022.