Porquerolles (; ), also known as the ÃÂle de Porquerolles, is an island in the ÃÂles d'Hyères, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Its land area is and in 2004, its population was about 200.
Porquerolles is the largest and most westerly of the ÃÂles d'Hyères, about long by wide, with five small ranges of hills. The south coast is lined with cliffs, and on the north coast are the port and the beaches of Notre Dame, La Courtade and Plage d'Argent.
The island's village was established in 1820, with its lighthouse constructed in 1837 and its church in 1850. The entire island was purchased in 1912 by François Joseph Fournier, apparently as a wedding present for his wife; he planted of vineyards, which produced a wine that was among the first to be classified as vin des Côtes de Provence.
In 1971, the French government bought 80 percent of the island to preserve it from development. Much of the island is now part of the Port-Cros Parc National and the Conservatoire botanique national méditerranéen de Porquerolles nature conservation area.
Porquerolles is the setting for Georges Simenon's novels Le Cercle des Mahé (1946) and My Friend Maigret (1949), and for the 1964 novel Valparaiso by Nicolas Freeling.
Some scenes of the 1965 film Pierrot le Fou by Jean-Luc Godard were filmed in Porquerolles.
Since 2010, the island has hosted a jazz festival each summer known as "Jazz ÃÂ Porquerolles".
Porquerolles has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csa). The average annual temperature in Porquerolles 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 February, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Porquerolles was on 7 August 2003; the lowest temperature ever recorded was on 2 February 1956.