Bannalec
Bannalec Banaleg | |
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Coordinates: 47°56′00″N 3°41′45″W / 47.9333°N 3.6958°W | |
Country | France |
Region | Brittany |
Department | Finistère |
Arrondissement | Quimper |
Canton | Moëlan-sur-Mer |
Intercommunality | CA Quimperlé Communauté |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Christophe Le Roux[1] |
Area 1 | 77.51 km2 (29.93 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[2] | 5,713 |
• Density | 74/km2 (190/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 29004 /29380 |
Elevation | 22–172 m (72–564 ft) |
Website | Official website |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Bannalec (French pronunciation: [banalɛk]; Breton: Banaleg) is a commune in the Finistère department in the Brittany region in northwestern France.[3] Bannalec station has rail connections to Quimper, Lorient and Vannes. Bannalec is twinned with the Irish town of Castleisland.
Geography
[edit]Climate
[edit]Bannalec has an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb). The average annual temperature in Bannalec is 12.0 °C (53.6 °F). The average annual rainfall is 1,221.0 mm (48.07 in) with January as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 18.1 °C (64.6 °F), and lowest in January, at around 6.3 °C (43.3 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Bannalec was 38.0 °C (100.4 °F) on 9 August 2003; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −10.9 °C (12.4 °F) on 2 January 1997.
Climate data for Bannalec (1981–2010 averages, extremes 1984−2015) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 15.6 (60.1) | 18.8 (65.8) | 23.9 (75.0) | 27.7 (81.9) | 31.4 (88.5) | 34.2 (93.6) | 36.2 (97.2) | 38.0 (100.4) | 31.8 (89.2) | 28.9 (84.0) | 20.8 (69.4) | 16.7 (62.1) | 38.0 (100.4) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 9.0 (48.2) | 9.9 (49.8) | 12.5 (54.5) | 14.8 (58.6) | 18.5 (65.3) | 21.3 (70.3) | 23.0 (73.4) | 23.1 (73.6) | 20.6 (69.1) | 16.4 (61.5) | 12.2 (54.0) | 9.6 (49.3) | 15.9 (60.6) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 6.3 (43.3) | 6.7 (44.1) | 8.6 (47.5) | 10.3 (50.5) | 13.8 (56.8) | 16.4 (61.5) | 18.1 (64.6) | 18.1 (64.6) | 16.0 (60.8) | 12.9 (55.2) | 9.1 (48.4) | 6.9 (44.4) | 12.0 (53.6) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 3.6 (38.5) | 3.5 (38.3) | 4.7 (40.5) | 5.9 (42.6) | 9.1 (48.4) | 11.4 (52.5) | 13.2 (55.8) | 13.1 (55.6) | 11.3 (52.3) | 9.3 (48.7) | 6.0 (42.8) | 4.1 (39.4) | 8.0 (46.4) |
Record low °C (°F) | −10.9 (12.4) | −8.5 (16.7) | −7.1 (19.2) | −3.5 (25.7) | 0.0 (32.0) | 3.0 (37.4) | 5.0 (41.0) | 3.5 (38.3) | 3.0 (37.4) | −1.5 (29.3) | −4.5 (23.9) | −7.2 (19.0) | −10.9 (12.4) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 151.2 (5.95) | 116.5 (4.59) | 94.8 (3.73) | 89.7 (3.53) | 83.6 (3.29) | 59.2 (2.33) | 64.4 (2.54) | 65.6 (2.58) | 83.3 (3.28) | 126.0 (4.96) | 139.5 (5.49) | 147.2 (5.80) | 1,221 (48.07) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 16.3 | 13.0 | 13.2 | 13.0 | 10.7 | 8.5 | 9.7 | 8.7 | 9.4 | 14.2 | 15.4 | 15.1 | 147.1 |
Source: Meteociel[4] |
Population
[edit]Inhabitants of Bannalec are called Bannalécois.
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Source: EHESS[5] and INSEE (1968-2017)[6] |
Breton language
[edit]In 2008, 7.91% of primary-school children attended bilingual schools, where Breton language is taught alongside French.[7]
See also
[edit]- Communes of the Finistère department
- François Bazin (sculptor) Sculptor monument to aviator
References
[edit]- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ Commune de Bannalec (29004), INSEE
- ^ "Normales et records pour Bannalec (29)". Meteociel. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
- ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Bannalec, EHESS (in French).
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- ^ (in French) Ofis ar Brezhoneg: Enseignement bilingue
External links
[edit]- Official website (in French)
- Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
- www.bannalec.com
- Mayors of Finistère Association Archived 2021-03-18 at the Wayback Machine (in French);