Galan

Hautes-Pyrénées · CC du Plateau de Lannemezan · INSEE 65183

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

Partly served 52.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 93 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Galan (INSEE 65183) is in Hautes-Pyrénées (65), part of CC du Plateau de Lannemezan. Population 698 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/65183-galan

Vitality score

Vitality score 52.2/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 93 % of the 16,393 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	0.75	20	14.97
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.75	10	7.48
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.32	10	3.22
Housing mix	0.8	5	3.98

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 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) (LE PAIN DES LYS). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (SANDIKALA). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (BAR RESTAURANT LES ARCADES · AU COCHON JOYEUX). ^[4]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (PHILIPPE GUIRAUD, MÉDECIN · ALAIN SOUBIE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE LES AMIS DES LIVRES). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (MIZOPLI). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie).

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LE PAIN DES LYS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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	SANDIKALA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	BAR RESTAURANT LES ARCADES · AU COCHON JOYEUX	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE JULES FERRY	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	PHILIPPE GUIRAUD, MÉDECIN · ALAIN SOUBIE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE CAUJOLLE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE LES AMIS DES LIVRES	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	1	MIZOPLI	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 947 2023: 698 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 731 (2012) → 698 (2023): -4.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 849 (1990) → 698 (2023): -17.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 374, of which 10.2 % second homes and 10.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Food shop — 7.8 km NE 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 (Galan): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Hachan): 7.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Galan): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Galan): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Galan): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 18.1

Days at or below 0 °C 52.9

Muggy days a summer 5.1

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 18 days a year at or above 30 °C and 53 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CASTELNAU MAGNOAC weather station, 10.9 km away at 298 m; the village itself is at 375 m. ^[10]

The village sits 77 m above 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at CASTELNAU MAGNOAC, 10.9 km away at 298 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 77 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 868 mm of rain a year, spread over 112 days — about 7.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CASTELNAU MAGNOAC, 10.9 km away at 298 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 — 65183/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65183/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65183/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65183/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 65183
INSEE BPE 2025 — 65214
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
Merlines	19	315 km NE	741	52.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 23 % · humidity 64 %
Andelot-Blancheville	52	675 km NE	799	52.7	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 54 % · humidity 79 %
Juliénas	69	477 km NE	880	55.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 74 % · humidity 86 %
Moulins-la-Marche	61	603 km N	710	61.7	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 86 % · humidity 71 %
Gensac	33	178 km N	687	60.7	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 59 % · winter 99 %
Sellières	39	570 km NE	737	61.2	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Gensac	33	178 km N	687	60.7	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 59 % · winter 99 %
Merlines	19	315 km NE	741	52.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 23 % · humidity 64 %
Juliénas	69	477 km NE	880	55.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 74 % · humidity 86 %
Sellières	39	570 km NE	737	61.2	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Moulins-la-Marche	61	603 km N	710	61.7	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 86 % · humidity 71 %
Andelot-Blancheville	52	675 km NE	799	52.7	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 54 % · 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 Galan'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
Sancergues	18	480 km NE	620	57.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Adriers	86	339 km N	698	46.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Sommières-du-Clain	86	340 km N	729	57.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Castelnau-Magnoac	65	11 km NE	750	71	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Encausse-les-Thermes	31	33 km SE	641	47.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Moncontour	86	408 km N	976	58.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %

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