Le Mont-Saint-Michel

Manche · CA Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie · INSEE 50353

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school.

No daily shops 13.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 82 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Mont-Saint-Michel (INSEE 50353) is in Manche (50), part of CA Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie. Population 23 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 13.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 82 % of the 1,194 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	25	0
Social	0.5	20	10
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0	10	0
Housing mix	0	5	0

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 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”.

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

12 × Restaurant (LA FRINGALE · LA BRIOCHE DOREE · LES TERRASSES DE LA BAIE · LA BELLE NORMANDE · LA MERE POULARD). ^[3,4]

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

10 × Hotel (HOTEL DE LA DIGUE · AUBERGE SAINT PIERRE · LA VIEILLE AUBERGE · HÔTEL DU MOUTON BLANC · HOTEL DU GUESCLIN). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING MT ST MICHEL). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 2 × Restaurant.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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	12	LA FRINGALE · LA BRIOCHE DOREE · LES TERRASSES DE LA BAIE · LA BELLE NORMANDE · LA MERE POULARD	INSEE BPE 12 / INSEE SIRENE 19 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	10	HOTEL DE LA DIGUE · AUBERGE SAINT PIERRE · LA VIEILLE AUBERGE · HÔTEL DU MOUTON BLANC · HOTEL DU GUESCLIN	INSEE BPE 10 / INSEE SIRENE 13 [3,4]
Campsite	1	CAMPING MT ST MICHEL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 105 peak 1975: 114 2023: 23 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 41 (2012) → 23 (2023): -43.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 72 (1990) → 23 (2023): -68.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 40, of which 50 % second homes and 32.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 4.1 km SBakery — 4.2 km SPrimary school — 7.5 km EGP — 8.9 km SPharmacy — 9.0 km S 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 (Beauvoir): 4.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Beauvoir): 4.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Pontorson): 8.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Pontorson): 9 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Courtils): 7.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 5.5

Days at or below 0 °C 27.1

Muggy days a summer 1.8

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 27 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the PONTORSON weather station, 5.5 km away at 33 m; the village itself is at 7 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at PONTORSON, 5.5 km away at 33 m, over 28 summers. ^[11]

An average of 813 mm of rain a year, spread over 134 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at PONTORSON, 5.5 km away at 33 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 — 50353/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50353/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50353/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50353/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50042
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50410
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50146
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
Villard-Notre-Dame	38	701 km SE	25	16.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Lagarde-d'Apt	84	745 km SE	30	12.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Grailhen	65	660 km S	22	19.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Lucelle	68	665 km E	29	7.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 28 %
Saint-Martin-des-Puits	11	697 km SE	30	18.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 93 % · humidity 50 %
Villar-en-Val	11	689 km SE	23	5.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 88 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Grailhen	65	660 km S	22	19.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Lucelle	68	665 km E	29	7.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 28 %
Villar-en-Val	11	689 km SE	23	5.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 88 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Martin-des-Puits	11	697 km SE	30	18.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 93 % · humidity 50 %
Villard-Notre-Dame	38	701 km SE	25	16.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Lagarde-d'Apt	84	745 km SE	30	12.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Le Mont-Saint-Michel'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
La Tourette-Cabardès	11	655 km SE	20	3.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Piedipartino	2B	1,095 km SE	19	11.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Neuville-en-Beaumont	50	80 km N	27	1.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Le Mesnil-Durdent	76	212 km NE	18	4.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Romiguières	34	648 km SE	24	14.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Neulette	62	329 km NE	22	8.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %

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