Souraïde

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CA du Pays Basque · INSEE 64527

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

Partly served 40.6/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 51 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Souraïde (INSEE 64527) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CA du Pays Basque. Population 1,472 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 40.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 51 % of the 11,791 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	0.39	25	9.84
Social	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.7	5	3.48

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 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 0 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]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE DU FRONTON). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (XOKOA). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (JOAN MASSONDE). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (CARREFOUR EXPRESS). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (RESTAURANT CLUB HOUSE EPHERRA). ^[3,4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SACRE COEUR). ^[3]

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

1 × Hairdresser (KO'LORE). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (HOTEL BERGARA). ^[3,4]

2 × Campsite (CAMPING ALEGERA · CAMPING URLO GAINA - EPHERRA). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[4,3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	BOULANGERIE DU FRONTON	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	XOKOA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	JOAN MASSONDE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	CARREFOUR EXPRESS	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	1	RESTAURANT CLUB HOUSE EPHERRA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SACRE COEUR	INSEE BPE 2 [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	SOURAIDE AP	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	1	KO'LORE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	HOTEL BERGARA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Campsite	2	CAMPING ALEGERA · CAMPING URLO GAINA - EPHERRA	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 548 2023: 1,472 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,293 (2012) → 1,472 (2023): 13.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 937 (1990) → 1,472 (2023): 57.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 800, of which 15.3 % second homes and 8.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school Pharmacy — 1.6 km EGP — 1.7 km E 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 (Souraïde): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Souraïde): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Espelette): 1.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Espelette): 1.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Souraïde): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

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 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 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, 3.2 km away at 97 m; the village itself is at 69 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at BIARRITZ-PAYS-BASQUE, 15.1 km away at 71 m, over 30 summers. ^[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, 3.2 km away at 97 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64527/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64527/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64527/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64527/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64527
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64213
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
Montcaret	24	209 km NE	1,390	35.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 61 %
Monteils	82	261 km E	1,379	39.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 86 % · humidity 21 %
Sablonceaux	17	268 km N	1,458	36.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 92 % · humidity 29 %
Sadroc	19	323 km NE	1,010	38.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 0 % · humidity 0 %
Illiers-l'Évêque	27	645 km N	1,014	42	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 45 %
Bayard-sur-Marne	52	769 km NE	1,260	33.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 39 % · humidity 7 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Montcaret	24	209 km NE	1,390	35.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 61 %
Monteils	82	261 km E	1,379	39.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 86 % · humidity 21 %
Sablonceaux	17	268 km N	1,458	36.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 92 % · humidity 29 %
Sadroc	19	323 km NE	1,010	38.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 0 % · humidity 0 %
Illiers-l'Évêque	27	645 km N	1,014	42	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 45 %
Bayard-sur-Marne	52	769 km NE	1,260	33.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 39 % · humidity 7 %

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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 Souraïde'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
Rivière-Saas-et-Gourby	40	46 km NE	1,476	38.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Heugas	40	46 km NE	1,398	31.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Lacq	64	70 km E	1,036	46.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Mimbaste	40	53 km NE	1,001	26.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Ossès	64	19 km SE	878	59.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Came	64	33 km NE	1,024	34.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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