Villers-Sire-Nicole

Villers-Sire-Nicole is a French commune in the Nord department of the Hauts-de-France region. It lies on the Trouille, a Franco-Belgian river that rises in Erquelinnes, crosses the border into France and winds past the butte Solmont, and the northern part of the commune forms a frontier with Belgium. The commune is in the Artois-Picardie water basin and is drained by the Trouille and several small streams, with a small lake, the étang du Peignage of 0.7 hectares, completing the network. It falls within the Escaut water management scheme. The French statistics institute classes it as a rural town outside any urban unit, and its climate is classed Cfb in the Köppen-Geiger scheme for 1988 to 2017, a temperate climate with a cool summer and no dry season, with a mean annual temperature of about 10.2 degrees Celsius for 1971 to 2000.