Zalana

Identity

Zalana (INSEE 2B356) is in Haute-Corse (2B), part of CC de l'Oriente. Population 153 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/2B356-zalana

Vitality score

Vitality score 13.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 40 % of the 14,226 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

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

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (ZALANA AP). ^[3]

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

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 135 (2012) → 153 (2023): 13.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 172 (1990) → 153 (2023): -11 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 161, of which 50.3 % second homes and 2.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Tallone): 6.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Antisanti): 11.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Cervione): 12.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (San-Giuliano): 14.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Piedicorte-di-Gaggio): 4.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[12]

Climate

An average of 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 3 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the ALISTRO weather station, 13.8 km away at 65 m; the village itself is at 588 m. ^[13]

The village sits 523 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 4.13 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 11 days a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at ALISTRO, 13.8 km away at 65 m, over 30 summers. ^[13]

That station sits 523 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[13]

An average of 1,068 mm of rain a year, spread over 84 days — about 12.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at MATRA, 3 km away at 575 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B356/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B356/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B356/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B356/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B320
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B016
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B087
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B303
12. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B218
13. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024