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Virieu-le-Petit
Part of Arvière-en-Valromey
Église St Pierre
Location of Virieu-le-Petit
Virieu-le-Petit Show map of France Virieu-le-Petit Show map of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Coordinates: 45°54′31″N 5°43′28″E / 45.9086°N 5.7244°E / 45.9086; 5.7244
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Ain
Arrondissement	Belley
Canton	Plateau d'Hauteville
Commune	Arvière-en-Valromey
Area 1	16.4 km2 (6.3 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[1]	330
• Density	20/km2 (52/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	01260
Elevation	419–1,524 m (1,375–5,000 ft) (avg. 635 m or 2,083 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Virieu-le-Petit (French pronunciation: [viʁjø lə pəti]; Arpitan: Veriô-le-Petit) is a former commune in the Ain department in eastern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Arvière-en-Valromey.^[2]

Virieu-le-Petit has an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb). The average annual temperature in Virieu-le-Petit is 11.0 °C (51.8 °F). The average annual rainfall is 1,363.9 mm (53.70 in) with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around 20.2 °C (68.4 °F), and lowest in January, at around 1.7 °C (35.1 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Virieu-le-Petit was 37.6 °C (99.7 °F) on 13 August 2003; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −14.2 °C (6.4 °F) on 5 February 2012.

• Communes of the Ain department

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