Cournonterral

Hérault · Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole · INSEE 34088

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

Partly served 54.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 58 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Cournonterral (INSEE 34088) is in Hérault (34), part of Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole. Population 7,359 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Petites villes (level 3). ^[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/34088-cournonterral

Vitality score

Vitality score 54.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 58 % of the 3,289 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	0.38	25	9.52
Social	0.6	20	11.91
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.52	10	5.24
Public & culture	0.22	5	1.11
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.8

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 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 2 of 3

Lodging 0 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]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (CITRON ET MERINGUE). ^[3,4]

3 × Butcher (boucherie) (L ALOYAU). ^[3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (L'EPICERIE DE DEMAIN · J BOCCA). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket. ^[3,4]

14 × Restaurant (PEPICO · PIZZ 'A GOGO · BOUDLLAL · CBC). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (BAR DE LA MAIRIE). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE LA CALANDRETTE). ^[3]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE GEORGE BASTIDE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINTE JEANNE D'ARC). ^[3]

7 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CAROLINE PASSERON, MÉDECIN · MATHIEU DUJOLS, MÉDECIN · BERENGERE TACAIL-KESSLER, MÉDECIN · ANTOINE SERRES-COUSINE, MÉDECIN · GREGOIRE MARTOCQ, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (SELAS PHARMACIE DU PLAN DE LA CROIX). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

1 × Bank (CAISSE EPARGNE PREVOYANCE LANGUEDOC ROUSSILLON). ^[3]

10 × Hairdresser (DOMICIL'HAIR · SALON ARTIS · PHILOU COIFFURE HOMME PONS PHILIPPE · SEKENCE · AMAZONE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Restaurant, 2 × Hairdresser.

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	CITRON ET MERINGUE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	3	L ALOYAU	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	L'EPICERIE DE DEMAIN · J BOCCA	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Supermarket	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	14	PEPICO · PIZZ 'A GOGO · BOUDLLAL · CBC	INSEE BPE 14 / INSEE SIRENE 24 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	BAR DE LA MAIRIE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE LA CALANDRETTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE GEORGE BASTIDE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINTE JEANNE D'ARC	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	7	CAROLINE PASSERON, MÉDECIN · MATHIEU DUJOLS, MÉDECIN · BERENGERE TACAIL-KESSLER, MÉDECIN · ANTOINE SERRES-COUSINE, MÉDECIN · GREGOIRE MARTOCQ, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 7 [3]
Pharmacy	1	SELAS PHARMACIE DU PLAN DE LA CROIX	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	1	CAISSE EPARGNE PREVOYANCE LANGUEDOC ROUSSILLON	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Hairdresser	10	DOMICIL'HAIR · SALON ARTIS · PHILOU COIFFURE HOMME PONS PHILIPPE · SEKENCE · AMAZONE COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 10 / INSEE SIRENE 10 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 2,088 2023: 7,359 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 5,859 (2012) → 7,359 (2023): 25.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 4,095 (1990) → 7,359 (2023): 79.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 3,312, of which 2 % second homes and 6.3 % 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 (Cournonterral): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Cournonterral): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Cournonterral): 0.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Cournonterral): 0.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Cournonterral): 0.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 58.7▸

Days at or below 0 °C 33.2

Muggy days a summer 17.5▸

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 59 days a year at or above 30 °C and 33 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the MONTARNAUD weather station, 9.2 km away at 148 m; the village itself is at 54 m. ^[9]

The village sits 94 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.7 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[9]

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

Humidity measured at VILLENEUVE-LES-MAG-INRAE, 11.2 km away at 20 m, over 11 summers. ^[9]

An average of 914 mm of rain a year, spread over 69 days — about 13.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at MONTARNAUD, 9.2 km away at 148 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34088/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34088/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34088/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34088/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34088
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
Digoin	71	326 km N	7,353	62.4	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 55 % · humidity 0 %
Pontcharra	38	277 km NE	7,350	61.2	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 10 % · winter 80 %
Clisson	44	554 km NW	7,452	65	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 0 % · winter 99 %
Auxonne	21	425 km N	7,581	70.3	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 10 % · winter 61 %
Langres	52	495 km N	7,421	61.7	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 59 % · humidity 0 %
Jaunay-Marigny	86	436 km NW	7,528	60.5	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 100 % · humidity 0 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Pontcharra	38	277 km NE	7,350	61.2	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 10 % · winter 80 %
Digoin	71	326 km N	7,353	62.4	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 55 % · humidity 0 %
Auxonne	21	425 km N	7,581	70.3	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 10 % · winter 61 %
Jaunay-Marigny	86	436 km NW	7,528	60.5	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 100 % · humidity 0 %
Langres	52	495 km N	7,421	61.7	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 59 % · humidity 0 %
Clisson	44	554 km NW	7,452	65	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 0 % · winter 99 %

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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 Cournonterral'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
Pignan	34	4.6 km NE	8,431	57.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Cournonsec	34	1.1 km SW	3,616	41.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Georges-d'Orques	34	8.1 km NE	5,676	49.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %

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