Arreau ( French pronunciation: [aʁo] ; Occitan : Àrreu ) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in southwestern France .
3-961: It is situated on the former Route nationale 618 , the Route of the Pyrénées . Arreau is at the crossroads of the Louron valley and the Aure valley. Arreau has an oceanic climate ( Köppen climate classification Cfb ). The average annual temperature in Arreau is 9.6 °C (49.3 °F). The average annual rainfall is 894.8 mm (35.23 in) with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around 17.6 °C (63.7 °F), and lowest in January, at around 2.0 °C (35.6 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Arreau
6-622: The Mediterranean ). En route it crossed many of the famous passes in the Pyrenees , immortalized by the Tour de France ; hence its name was the " Route of the Pyrénées ". In 1970, the road was down-graded and is now the RD 918 from Saint-Jean-de-Luz to Arreau and the RD 618 from Arreau to Argelès Plage. The places named in italic are mountain passes used in the Tour de France . Common with
9-481: Was 38.5 °C (101.3 °F) on 30 July 1983; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −23.0 °C (−9.4 °F) on 3 February 1956. This Hautes-Pyrénées geographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Route nationale 618 Route nationale 618 or RN 618 was a French national road linking Saint-Jean-de-Luz (on the Atlantic Ocean ) to Argelès-sur-Mer (on
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