| Aumelas | |
| Commune Status: | Commune |
| Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason ville fr Aumelas (Hérault).svg |
| Arrondissement: | Lodève |
| Canton: | Gignac |
| Insee: | 34016 |
| Postal Code: | 34230 |
| Mayor: | Ronny Poncé[1] |
| Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
| Intercommunality: | CC Vallée Hérault |
| Coordinates: | 43.6039°N 3.5992°W |
| Elevation M: | 295 |
| Elevation Min M: | 64 |
| Elevation Max M: | 341 |
| Area Km2: | 58.26 |
Aumelas (pronounced as /fr/; Languedocien: Aumelaç) is a commune in the Hérault department in southern France.
The neighboring communes are La Boissière to the north, Saint-Paul-et-Valmalle to the northeast, Cournonterral to the east, Montbazin to the east-southeast, Saint-Pargoire and Villeveyrac to the south, Plaissan to the southwest, Saint-Bauzille-de-la-Sylve and Vendémian to the west and Gignac to the northwest.
In 2010, the climate of the commune is classified as a frank Mediterranean climate, according to a study based on a dataset covering the 1971-2000 period. In 2020, Météo-France published a typology of climates in mainland France in which the commune is exposed to a Mediterranean climate and is part of the Provence, Languedoc-Roussillon climatic region, characterized by low rainfall in summer, very good sunshine (2,600 h/year), a hot summer 21.5°C, very dry air in summer, dry conditions in all seasons, strong winds (with a frequency of 40 to 50% for winds > 5 m/s), and little fog.[2]
For the 1971-2000 period, the average annual temperature was 13.9°C with an annual atmospheric temperature of 15.8°C. The average annual total rainfall during this period was 837 mm, with 6.9 days of precipitation in January and 2.7 days in July.[3] For the subsequent period of 1991 to 2020, the average annual temperature observed at the nearest weather station, located in the commune of Saint-André-de-Sangonis, 9km (06miles) away as the crow flies,[4] is 15.5°C, and the average annual total rainfall is 652.4 mm.[5] [6]
For the future, climate parameters for the commune projected for 2050, based on different greenhouse gas emission scenarios, can be consulted on a dedicated website published by Météo-France in November 2022.[7]
Changes in the number of inhabitants have been documented through population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. For communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants, a full census of the population is conducted every five years, with the legal populations for the intervening years estimated through interpolation or extrapolation.[8] For this commune, the first complete census under the new system was carried out in 2004.[9]
In 2021, the commune had a population of 557,[10] reflecting an increase +7.32% since 2015 (Hérault: +7.29%, France excluding Mayotte: +1.84%).