Arcangues

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CA du Pays Basque · INSEE 64038

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

Few services 35.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 9 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Arcangues (INSEE 64038) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CA du Pays Basque. Population 3,657 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[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/64038-arcangues

Vitality score

Vitality score 35.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 9 % of the 6,066 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	0.15	25	3.69
Social	0.43	20	8.53
Education	0.22	10	2.21
Health	0.31	10	3.07
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.96	10	9.59
Housing mix	0.69	5	3.46

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 1 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) (ICE CREME). ^[3]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (D.L.M). ^[3,4]

4 × Restaurant (ACHTAL · TRINQUET D'ARCANGUES · LE MOULIN D'ALOTZ · GAZTELUR RESTAURATION). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE CHAPELET). ^[4]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (AMANDINE FARA, MÉDECIN · JEREMY FABRE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (BOURDAT). ^[3,4]

4 × Hairdresser (SARASTUME REGINE · BIAK). ^[3,4]

7 × Hotel. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	ICE CREME	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	D.L.M	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	4	ACHTAL · TRINQUET D'ARCANGUES · LE MOULIN D'ALOTZ · GAZTELUR RESTAURATION	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LE CHAPELET	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	AMANDINE FARA, MÉDECIN · JEREMY FABRE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	BOURDAT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	4	SARASTUME REGINE · BIAK	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	7		INSEE SIRENE 7 / INSEE BPE 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: 1,580 2023: 3,657 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 3,133 (2012) → 3,657 (2023): 16.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 2,506 (1990) → 3,657 (2023): 45.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 2,056, of which 15.4 % second homes and 6.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 1.8 km NBakery — 2.4 km NW 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 (Biarritz): 2.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Arcangues): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Arcangues): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Arcangues): 1.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Arcangues): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 12.8

Days at or below 0 °C 14.3▸

Muggy days a summer 16.3▸

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 14 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the BIARRITZ-PAYS-BASQUE weather station, 3.8 km away at 71 m; the village itself is at 74 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 16 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at BIARRITZ-PAYS-BASQUE, 3.8 km away at 71 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,468 mm of rain a year, spread over 140 days — about 10.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BIARRITZ-PAYS-BASQUE, 3.8 km away at 71 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64038/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64038/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64038/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64038/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64122
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64038
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
Neuvecelle	74	720 km NE	3,256	39.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 41 % · humidity 0 %
Pontpoint	60	726 km NE	3,275	32.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 50 % · humidity 0 %
Montagny	69	553 km NE	3,218	40.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 46 % · humidity 21 %
L'Houmeau	17	308 km N	3,000	46.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 21 %
Bassussarry	64	1.5 km NE	3,414	48.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
San-Martino-di-Lota	2B	894 km E	3,056	37.8	Few services	no figures

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bassussarry	64	1.5 km NE	3,414	48.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
L'Houmeau	17	308 km N	3,000	46.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 21 %
Montagny	69	553 km NE	3,218	40.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 46 % · humidity 21 %
Neuvecelle	74	720 km NE	3,256	39.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 41 % · humidity 0 %
Pontpoint	60	726 km NE	3,275	32.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 50 % · humidity 0 %
San-Martino-di-Lota	2B	894 km E	3,056	37.8	Few services	no figures

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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 Arcangues'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
Bassussarry	64	1.5 km NE	3,414	48.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Arbonne	64	2.5 km W	2,447	54.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Lahonce	64	12 km NE	2,740	39	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Mouguerre	64	8.7 km NE	5,428	51.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pierre-d'Irube	64	7.0 km NE	5,900	61.4	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Ahetze	64	5.3 km SW	2,104	45.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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