29. Brest
The Le Castellet sampling site (elevation 103 meters) is located in the western part of the Var department (Southeastern France), between the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Sainte-Baume massif (culminating at 1148 m) to the north. The climate is Mediterranean, including extreme “Mediterranean-type” precipitation events with up to 100 mm of rain falling per day, and a very heterogeneous temporal distribution of rainfall, with little or no rain falling during the summer. The average annual rainfall measured at the nearest Météo-France station (located 7 km from the Le Castellet station, at an elevation of 417 m) is 689 mm (for the years 1991 to 2020), and the average interannual temperature is 13.7°C.