Sare

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CA du Pays Basque · INSEE 64504

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

Served 66.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 97 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sare (INSEE 64504) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CA du Pays Basque. Population 2,763 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/64504-sare

Vitality score

Vitality score 66.1/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 97 % of the 7,649 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	0.42	25	10.48
Social	0.88	20	17.59
Education	0.78	10	7.77
Health	0.67	10	6.72
Public & culture	0.51	5	2.56
Population trend	0.85	10	8.45
Housing mix	0.53	5	2.64

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 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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”.

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

4 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOUTIQUE ARRAYA · BOULANGERIE PRADERE · LE MUSEE DU GATEAU BASQUE · PATISSERIE MAITIA). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3,4]

8 × Restaurant (SEMINARIO · RESTAURANT LES TROIS FONTAINES · SARL HIRU ANAIAK · LE PULLMAN · PIZZA GOXO). ^[3,4]

3 × Café / bar (HERRIKO ETXEKO EDANTEGIA - BAR DE LA MAIRIE · HORDAGO OSTATUA). ^[4]

3 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINT-JOSEPH · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE OLHAIN IKASTOLA). ^[3]

6 × GP (médecin généraliste) (FRANCOIS BASTIAT, MÉDECIN · BENJAMIN BRIZARD, MÉDECIN · AGNES DE BEAUCHAMP, MÉDECIN · SANDRINE MATHIERE, MÉDECIN · RUDY DRILLON, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DU FRONTON). ^[3,4]

2 × Post office / agence postale (SARE BURALISTE LPR RP · LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE DE SARE BÂTIMENT LARRUN, A). ^[3]

7 × Hairdresser (SYLVIE COIFFURE · PANTXIKA COIFFURE · IZATE). ^[3,4]

4 × Hotel (HOTEL RESTAURANT ARRAYA · HOTEL PIKASSARIA · HOTEL LASTIRY · HOTEL BARATXARTEA). ^[3,4]

3 × Campsite (CAMPING TELLECHEA · CAMPING GOYENETCHE · CAMPING LA PETITE RHUNE - INGURU LAN). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	4	BOUTIQUE ARRAYA · BOULANGERIE PRADERE · LE MUSEE DU GATEAU BASQUE · PATISSERIE MAITIA	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	8	SEMINARIO · RESTAURANT LES TROIS FONTAINES · SARL HIRU ANAIAK · LE PULLMAN · PIZZA GOXO	INSEE BPE 8 / INSEE SIRENE 13 [3,4]
Café / bar	3	HERRIKO ETXEKO EDANTEGIA - BAR DE LA MAIRIE · HORDAGO OSTATUA	INSEE SIRENE 3 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	3	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINT-JOSEPH · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE OLHAIN IKASTOLA	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	6	FRANCOIS BASTIAT, MÉDECIN · BENJAMIN BRIZARD, MÉDECIN · AGNES DE BEAUCHAMP, MÉDECIN · SANDRINE MATHIERE, MÉDECIN · RUDY DRILLON, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 6 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DU FRONTON	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	2	SARE BURALISTE LPR RP · LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE DE SARE BÂTIMENT LARRUN, A	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	7	SYLVIE COIFFURE · PANTXIKA COIFFURE · IZATE	INSEE BPE 7 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	4	HOTEL RESTAURANT ARRAYA · HOTEL PIKASSARIA · HOTEL LASTIRY · HOTEL BARATXARTEA	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Campsite	3	CAMPING TELLECHEA · CAMPING GOYENETCHE · CAMPING LA PETITE RHUNE - INGURU LAN	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]

Market and village life

Weekly market (reported, unverified): Thursday à partir de 9h00 au fronton du village (seasonal). ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 1,921 2023: 2,763 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,535 (2012) → 2,763 (2023): 9 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 2,054 (1990) → 2,763 (2023): 34.5 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,659, of which 23.6 % second homes and 6 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Food shop — 0.6 km W 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 (Sare): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Sare): 0.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

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

Pharmacy (Sare): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Sare): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 23.3

Days at or below 0 °C 16.6▸

Muggy days a summer 18.7▸

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 23 days a year at or above 30 °C and 17 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ESPELETTE weather station, 12.3 km away at 97 m; the village itself is at 75 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 19 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at SOCOA, 12.5 km away at 21 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 54 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 1,697 mm of rain a year, spread over 145 days — about 11.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ESPELETTE, 12.3 km away at 97 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

The market day comes from the commune's own website and has not been confirmed by a second source. ^[5]

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64504/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
Commune website 2026-10— https://www.sare.fr/agriculture— “Tous les jeudis matins, de mai à septembre, le marché des producteurs a lieu au fronton du village, à partir de 9h00.”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64504/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64504/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64504/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64504
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
Valdivienne	86	396 km NE	2,715	53.6	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 51 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Maurice-de-Lignon	43	502 km NE	2,688	59.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 11 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Julien	83	606 km E	2,453	55	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 10 % · winter 0 % · humidity 0 %
Le Thoronet	83	637 km E	2,631	57.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 84 % · humidity 0 %
Férel	56	468 km N	3,499	45.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 86 % · humidity 0 %
Perche en Nocé	61	590 km N	1,956	42.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 47 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Valdivienne	86	396 km NE	2,715	53.6	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 51 % · humidity 0 %
Férel	56	468 km N	3,499	45.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 86 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Maurice-de-Lignon	43	502 km NE	2,688	59.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 11 % · humidity 0 %
Perche en Nocé	61	590 km N	1,956	42.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 47 %
Saint-Julien	83	606 km E	2,453	55	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 10 % · winter 0 % · humidity 0 %
Le Thoronet	83	637 km E	2,631	57.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 84 % · humidity 0 %

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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 Sare'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
Saint-Martin-de-Hinx	40	39 km NE	1,808	41	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Saubrigues	40	40 km NE	1,659	49.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-André-de-Seignanx	40	33 km NE	1,945	36.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Nazaire	66	379 km E	2,779	56.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Bénesse-Maremne	40	40 km NE	3,780	48.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Villelongue-de-la-Salanque	66	377 km E	3,335	40.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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