Fontanes

Lot · CA du Grand Cahors · INSEE 46109

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

Partly served 41.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 83 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Fontanes (INSEE 46109) is in Lot (46), part of CA du Grand Cahors. Population 547 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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/46109-fontanes

Vitality score

Vitality score 41.1/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 83 % of the 17,533 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.77	5	3.84

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 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). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (AUX BIENVENUS). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE FONTANES). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	1	AUX BIENVENUS	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	FONTANES AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE FONTANES	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 373 2023: 547 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 460 (2012) → 547 (2023): 18.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 353 (1990) → 547 (2023): 55 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 318, of which 11.6 % second homes and 10.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 4.4 km NEBakery — 4.6 km NEFood shop — 4.8 km NEPharmacy — 12.6 km SW 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 (Lalbenque): 4.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lalbenque): 4.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Lalbenque): 4.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Castelnau-Montratier): 12.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Fontanes): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 42.9

Days at or below 0 °C 36.7

Muggy days a summer 3.6

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 43 days a year at or above 30 °C and 37 days at or below 0 °C, over 28 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LE MONTAT weather station, 8.5 km away at 260 m; the village itself is at 210 m. ^[11]

The village sits 50 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at LE MONTAT, 8.5 km away at 260 m, over 28 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 50 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 827 mm of rain a year, spread over 113 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at SAINT-PAUL-FLAUGNAC, 4.2 km away at 266 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46109/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46109/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46109/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 46109/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 46148
INSEE BPE 2025 — 46063
INSEE BPE 2025 — 46109
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
Noth	23	214 km N	498	35.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 21 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
La Goutelle	63	197 km NE	609	35.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 39 % · humidity 71 %
Poisson	71	309 km NE	551	35.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 69 % · humidity 79 %
Ségrie	72	447 km N	592	37	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 95 % · humidity 79 %
Cossaye	58	312 km NE	652	34.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 64 %
Le Cloître-Saint-Thégonnec	29	616 km NW	641	36.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 80 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Goutelle	63	197 km NE	609	35.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 39 % · humidity 71 %
Noth	23	214 km N	498	35.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 21 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Poisson	71	309 km NE	551	35.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 69 % · humidity 79 %
Cossaye	58	312 km NE	652	34.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 64 %
Ségrie	72	447 km N	592	37	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 95 % · humidity 79 %
Le Cloître-Saint-Thégonnec	29	616 km NW	641	36.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 80 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Fontanes'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
Castelsagrat	82	46 km W	547	55.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Belfort-du-Quercy	46	6.0 km SE	504	32.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Puycornet	82	23 km SW	785	42.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Concots	46	15 km NE	420	48.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Verfeil	82	33 km SE	402	31.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Compolibat	12	56 km E	335	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %

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