Moëlan-sur-Mer

Finistère · CA Quimperlé Communauté · INSEE 29150

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Served 60.9/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 78 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Moëlan-sur-Mer (INSEE 29150) is in Finistère (29), part of CA Quimperlé Communauté. Population 6,749 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/29150-moelan-sur-mer

Vitality score

Vitality score 60.9/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Grocery (épicerie / supérette)).

Better served than 78 % of the 3,549 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.

Component	Value (0–1)	Weight	Contribution
Daily food	0.44	25	11.07
Social	0.91	20	18.13
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.72	10	7.23
Public & culture	0.31	5	1.54
Population trend	0.52	10	5.23
Housing mix	0.45	5	2.27

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 2 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 3 of 3

Lodging 2 of 2

One square per service type, shaded by how many: none, one, a few, five or more. A blank square means none was counted — the sources do not distinguish “none here” from “not counted”.

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

5 × Bakery (boulangerie) (CHEZ FERNAND · LES GOURMANDS DISENT ... · LE DOZE · EPI D'ABORD · LES GOURMANDISES DE CHARLIE). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (LES VOLAILLES DE COAT SAVE). ^[3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (BETISES ET GOURMANDIZ · DE KEROUSSE). ^[3,4]

2 × Supermarket (ACHAR · PROXI). ^[3,4]

10 × Restaurant (AUX 3 B · LE BEC ALAIN · LE PREAU · LES SAVEURS DU PUITS · L'AUBERGE DE LA MER). ^[3,4]

9 × Café / bar (LE TY CORN · MOKA K'FE). ^[4]

4 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE DE MOELAN-SUR-MER · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE KERGROES · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE KERMOULIN · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE IMMACULEE CONCEPTION). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE PARC-AR-C'HOAT-YVES COTTY). ^[3]

10 × GP (médecin généraliste) (GLENN GUILLEMOT, MÉDECIN · PAULINE TÈCHE, MÉDECIN · TRISTAN MICHINEAU, MÉDECIN · GAELLE PENIN, MÉDECIN · MARIE-LAURE MORVAN, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

3 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE LA COTE · SELURL PHARMACIE DU CENTRE · PHARMACIE DES RIAS). ^[3,4]

2 × Post office / agence postale (MOELAN MER RP · LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE L'ELLIPSE). ^[3]

1 × Cinema (LE KERFANY). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF DE PARC AR C HOAT). ^[3]

4 × Bank (CAISSE CREDIT MUTUEL MOELAN SUR MER · AGENCE MOELAN SUR MER · CREDIT AGRICOLE · BANQUE POPULAIRE GRAND OUEST). ^[3]

8 × Hairdresser (EINODIS · JOLIVET MARYLENE · SYLVIE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

2 × Hotel (MANOIR DE KERTALG · HÔTEL LES MOULINS DU DUC). ^[3,4]

3 × Campsite (CAMPING TAL AR MOOR · CAMPING DE LA GRANDE LANDE · CAMPING DE L'ILE PERCEE). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	5	CHEZ FERNAND · LES GOURMANDS DISENT ... · LE DOZE · EPI D'ABORD · LES GOURMANDISES DE CHARLIE	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	LES VOLAILLES DE COAT SAVE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	BETISES ET GOURMANDIZ · DE KEROUSSE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Supermarket	2	ACHAR · PROXI	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	10	AUX 3 B · LE BEC ALAIN · LE PREAU · LES SAVEURS DU PUITS · L'AUBERGE DE LA MER	INSEE BPE 10 / INSEE SIRENE 13 [3,4]
Café / bar	9	LE TY CORN · MOKA K'FE	INSEE SIRENE 9 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	4	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE DE MOELAN-SUR-MER · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE KERGROES · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE KERMOULIN · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE IMMACULEE CONCEPTION	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE PARC-AR-C'HOAT-YVES COTTY	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	10	GLENN GUILLEMOT, MÉDECIN · PAULINE TÈCHE, MÉDECIN · TRISTAN MICHINEAU, MÉDECIN · GAELLE PENIN, MÉDECIN · MARIE-LAURE MORVAN, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 10 [3]
Pharmacy	3	PHARMACIE DE LA COTE · SELURL PHARMACIE DU CENTRE · PHARMACIE DES RIAS	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	2	MOELAN MER RP · LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE L'ELLIPSE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	1	LE KERFANY	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF DE PARC AR C HOAT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	4	CAISSE CREDIT MUTUEL MOELAN SUR MER · AGENCE MOELAN SUR MER · CREDIT AGRICOLE · BANQUE POPULAIRE GRAND OUEST	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Hairdresser	8	EINODIS · JOLIVET MARYLENE · SYLVIE COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 8 / INSEE SIRENE 9 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Hotel	2	MANOIR DE KERTALG · HÔTEL LES MOULINS DU DUC	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Campsite	3	CAMPING TAL AR MOOR · CAMPING DE LA GRANDE LANDE · CAMPING DE L'ILE PERCEE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 6,276 peak 2012: 7,002 2023: 6,749 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 7,002 (2012) → 6,749 (2023): -3.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 6,596 (1990) → 6,749 (2023): 2.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 5,253, of which 27.3 % second homes and 8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Straight-line, from the mairie, in the direction given. Services in the same town share a spoke. Distance is not travel time: a pass or an estuary can double it.

Bakery (Moëlan-sur-Mer): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Moëlan-sur-Mer): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Moëlan-sur-Mer): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Moëlan-sur-Mer): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Moëlan-sur-Mer): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 5.7

Days at or below 0 °C 25.9

Muggy days a summer 1.5

Each track runs from the 5th to the 95th percentile of the 34,141 communes with that measurement; the tick is the median. A value beyond either end sits at the end and is marked ▸.

An average of 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 26 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the QUIMPERLE S A weather station, 7.5 km away at 70 m; the village itself is at 56 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at QUIMPERLE S A, 7.5 km away at 70 m, over 10 summers. ^[9]

An average of 1,052 mm of rain a year, spread over 136 days — about 7.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at QUIMPERLE S A, 7.5 km away at 70 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Grocery (épicerie / supérette)

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29150/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29150/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29150/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29150/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 29150
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

Villages like this one

Matched on size, density, second homes and which everyday shops and services are present — not on the score, so a village of the same kind that is doing better or worse shows up rather than being hidden.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Trégunc	29	17 km W	7,148	65	Served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Plouhinec	56	31 km SE	5,400	57	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Le Mené	22	98 km NE	6,556	57.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Plouha	22	109 km NE	4,634	51.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Guipry-Messac	35	136 km E	7,354	64.2	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Mesnils-sur-Iton	27	367 km E	6,078	55.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 55 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Trégunc	29	17 km W	7,148	65	Served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Plouhinec	56	31 km SE	5,400	57	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Le Mené	22	98 km NE	6,556	57.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Plouha	22	109 km NE	4,634	51.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Guipry-Messac	35	136 km E	7,354	64.2	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Mesnils-sur-Iton	27	367 km E	6,078	55.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 55 %

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…and in much the same climate

The same match on size and services, narrowed to communes whose summers, winters and summer humidity are all close to Moëlan-sur-Mer's. All three are required, so this section is absent for the 11.8 % of communes with no humidity station near enough to measure: two temperature axes alone cannot tell a muggy coast from a dry one.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Plouhinec	56	31 km SE	5,400	57	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Le Mené	22	98 km NE	6,556	57.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Plouha	22	109 km NE	4,634	51.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Herbignac	44	107 km E	7,224	68.1	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Kervignac	56	30 km E	7,204	57.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Baden	56	57 km E	5,086	43.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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