Foix
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📷 BastienM· CC BY-SA 3.0Bienvenue à Foix | Benvenguda a Fois (French | Occitan)
About
Foix is a commune, the former capital of the County of Foix. It is the capital of the department of Ariège as it is the seat of the prefecture of that department. Foix is located in the Occitanie region of southwestern France. It is the second least populous French departmental capital, the least populous being Privas. Foix lies south of Toulouse, close to the borders with Spain and Andorra.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Foix, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Foix
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Rain
12° / 7°
6.6 mm
UV Moderate
Sat
Rain
14° / 7°
2.8 mm
UV Moderate
Sun
Rain
17° / 7°
11.0 mm
UV High
Mon
Drizzle
18° / 11°
UV High
Tue
Overcast
20° / 11°
UV High
Wed
Overcast
20° / 10°
UV High
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
32° / -1°
Typical high / low
3 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
14.6h
06:31 – 21:08local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Foix
4 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Carcassonne Salvaza Airport (CCF) at 63 km.
Getting around Foix
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
RenfeFlixBus-euNeckar-DonauBlaBlaCar BusFlixBus-deliO Occitanie 09B MetroRENFE OPERADORANS IntSNCF Voyageurs.liO TILFoix UrbainRHDF-80-SCO
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
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- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
CC0, Patricia.fidi.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.