| Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume | |
| Commune Status: | Commune |
| Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason ville fr Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume (Var).svg |
| Arrondissement: | Brignoles |
| Canton: | Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer |
| Insee: | 83093 |
| Postal Code: | 83640 |
| Mayor: | Carine Paillard[1] |
| Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
| Intercommunality: | CA Provence Verte |
| Coordinates: | 43.3295°N 5.717°W |
| Elevation M: | 700 |
| Elevation Min M: | 510 |
| Elevation Max M: | 1148 |
| Area Km2: | 24.91 |
Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume (in French pronounced as /plɑ̃ dops sɛ̃t bom/; Provençal: Lo Plan d’Aups de la Santa Bauma) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. It lies to the north of the Sainte-Baume mountain range.
In June 1944, at the aftermath of D-Day when the French Resistance went on an offensive against the German occupiers, the hills near Plan-d'Aups were the site of a bloody battle. Some 200 Maquis had set up a camp there, commanded by SOE agent Robert Burdett. They were attacked by large German forces. Though taken by surprise due to a faulty placing of guards, the Maquis did inflict considerable casualties on the Germans and many of them managed to escape into the surrounding mountains.[2]
Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csa). The average annual temperature in Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume is . The average annual rainfall is with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around, and lowest in January, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume was on 28 June 2019; the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 4 February 2012.