Belvédère

Identity

Belvédère (INSEE 06013) is in Alpes-Maritimes (06), part of Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur. Population 601 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/06013-belvedere

Vitality score

Vitality score 36/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 70 % of the 17,050 communes of a similar size.

Compare this with communes of a similar size. The score measures how well a place is served relative to its own size band, and larger communes score higher as a rule — so it reads meaningfully against another village, and misleadingly against a town.

Measured but not scored in this model: Market. See the methodology for why.

Services

A school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

4 × Restaurant (LA MERENDA · REFUGE DE NICE · LES ARCADES). ^[4,3]

1 × Café / bar. ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE BELVEDERE). ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (BELVEDERE AP). ^[4]

1 × Hotel (HOTEL DU GRAND CAPELET). ^[4,3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

A market is recorded here, but no source gives the day. ^[5]

Trajectory

Population 640 (2012) → 601 (2023): -6.1 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 519 (1990) → 601 (2023): 15.8 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 976, of which 61.6 % second homes and 6.3 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Roquebillière): 0.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Roquebillière): 0.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Roquebillière): 1.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Lantosque): 4.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Belvédère): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

An average of 31 days a year at or above 30 °C and 67 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the LANTOSQUE_SAPC weather station, 4.9 km away at 550 m; the village itself is at 817 m. ^[12]

The village sits 267 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.21 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at ST MARTIN VESUBIE, 8.2 km away at 1,044 m, over 15 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 227 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.57 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 924 mm of rain a year, spread over 77 days — about 12 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at LANTOSQUE_SAPC, 4.9 km away at 550 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 06013/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
4. INSEE BPE 2025
5. DATAtourisme 2026-05— https://data.datatourisme.fr/13/e5fadc0a-9597-3d49-8833-d6e76b608715— “Marché des producteurs”(unverified)
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 06013/2012
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 06013/1990
8. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 06013/logement/2023
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 06103
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 06074
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 06013
12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024