Finestret

Pyrénées-Orientales · CC Conflent-Canigó · INSEE 66079

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

Few services 21.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 67 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Finestret (INSEE 66079) is in Pyrénées-Orientales (66), part of CC Conflent-Canigó. Population 204 (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 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 21.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 67 % of the 16,069 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	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.35	5	1.76

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 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, but no school and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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

Weekly market (reported, unverified): Tuesday. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 196 2023: 204 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 199 (2012) → 204 (2023): 2.5 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 124 (1990) → 204 (2023): 64.5 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 210, of which 32.4 % second homes and 18.6 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.2 km NWBakery — 3.4 km NEGP — 3.5 km NEPharmacy — 3.5 km NEFood shop — 3.6 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 (Vinça): 3.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Vinça): 3.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Vinça): 3.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Vinça): 3.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Marquixanes): 3.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 32.3

Days at or below 0 °C 53.3

Muggy days a summer 4.8

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 32 days a year at or above 30 °C and 53 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the EUS weather station, 5.4 km away at 321 m; the village itself is at 299 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at EUS, 5.4 km away at 321 m, over 25 summers. ^[11]

An average of 592 mm of rain a year, spread over 64 days — about 9.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at VINCA, 5.3 km away at 251 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

The market day comes from DATAtourisme and has not been confirmed by a second source. ^[5]

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66079/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2026-08— https://data.datatourisme.fr/56/d05c5441-7e4c-3039-8c00-044c48635ced— “Retrouvez le petit marché de Finestret tous les mardis à 18h à l'année.”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66079/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66079/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66079/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66230
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66103
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
Arcinges	42	416 km N	216	22.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 51 % · humidity 71 %
Lauroux	34	144 km NE	214	15	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
Tréduder	22	820 km NW	210	14	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 49 % · humidity 71 %
Fley	71	481 km N	192	9.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 86 % · humidity 79 %
Damrémont	52	642 km N	198	10.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 62 % · humidity 71 %
Fronsac	31	156 km W	185	16.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 100 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Lauroux	34	144 km NE	214	15	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
Fronsac	31	156 km W	185	16.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 100 % · humidity 79 %
Arcinges	42	416 km N	216	22.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 51 % · humidity 71 %
Fley	71	481 km N	192	9.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 86 % · humidity 79 %
Damrémont	52	642 km N	198	10.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 62 % · humidity 71 %
Tréduder	22	820 km NW	210	14	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 49 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Finestret'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
Rouffilhac	46	257 km N	203	12.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Estoher	66	2.7 km SW	163	12.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Liourdres	19	264 km N	271	14.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-Pouilloux	79	438 km NW	171	10.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Avit	16	352 km NW	215	18	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Forgues	31	150 km NW	214	18.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %

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