Ain
Ain (, ; frp, En) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France. Named after the Ain river, it is bordered by the Saône and Rhône rivers. Ain is located on the country's eastern edge, on the Swiss border, where ...
department
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
in eastern
France
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.
Geography
The
Sâne Vive
The Sâne Vive (french: la Sâne Vive), or Sâne, is a long river in the Ain and Saône-et-Loire ''départements'', eastern France. Its source is at Lescheroux. It flows generally northwest. It is a left tributary of the Seille into which it fl ...
forms part of the commune's eastern border.
Climate
Courtes has a
oceanic climate
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(
Köppen climate classification
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''Cfb''). The average annual temperature in Courtes is . The average annual rainfall is with October as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around , and lowest in January, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Courtes was on 11 August 1998; the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 16 January 1985.