Pornic

Commune in Pays de la Loire, France

Pornic Port-Nitz (Gallo) Pornizh (Breton)
Commune
Castle of Pornic and the port
Coat of arms
Location of Pornic
(2020–2026)		Jean-Michel Brard^[1]
Area ¹	94.2 km² (36.4 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	17,910
• Density	190/km² (490/sq mi)
Demonym	Pornicais (French)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	44131 /44210
Elevation	0–31 m (0–102 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Pornic (French pronunciation: [pɔʁnik] ^ⓘ; Pornizh in Breton, Port-Nitz in Gallo) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.

In 1973 the commune of Pornic absorbed the neighbouring municipalities of Sainte-Marie-sur-Mer and Clion-sur-Mer.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	948	—
1800	806	−2.29%
1806	834	+0.57%
1821	1,040	+1.48%
1831	1,106	+0.62%
1841	1,324	+1.82%
1846	1,505	+2.60%
1851	1,497	−0.11%
1856	1,494	−0.04%
1861	1,608	+1.48%
1866	1,630	+0.27%
1872	1,732	+1.02%
1876	1,666	−0.97%
1881	1,809	+1.66%
1886	1,919	+1.19%
1891	1,980	+0.63%
1896	2,017	+0.37%
1901	2,034	+0.17%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1906	2,004	−0.30%
1911	2,101	+0.95%
1921	1,957	−0.71%
1926	2,001	+0.45%
1931	1,910	−0.93%
1936	2,015	+1.08%
1946	2,358	+1.58%
1954	2,460	+0.53%
1962	2,759	+1.44%
1968	2,795	+0.22%
1975	8,154	+16.53%
1982	8,704	+0.94%
1990	9,815	+1.51%
1999	11,903	+2.17%
2007	13,906	+1.96%
2012	13,937	+0.04%
2017	15,018	+1.51%

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Source: EHESS^[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[4]

Sights

Château de Pornic; medieval castle

Breton language

The municipality launched a linguistic plan through Ya d'ar brezhoneg on 1 March 2006.

Transport

The Pornic train station is served by trains to Nantes and Sainte-Pazanne.

Twin towns

Scalby, North Yorkshire - since 1995
Linz am Rhein, Germany - since 1995
Baiona, Spain - since 1995^[5]

Climate

Pornic has a Csb type climate (Mediterranean with mild summers). The highest temperature recorded in Pornic is 38.1 °C on 4 August 2003, while the lowest temperature was -11.2 °C on 2 February 1986. Pornic's average temperature between 1971 and 2000 is approximately 12.8 °C.

Pornic

Climate chart (explanation)

J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D
72 9 4	66 10 4	51 13 6	48 15 7	55 19 10	36 22 13	34 24 15	27 25 15	64 22 13	79 17 10	85 13 7	78 10 5
█ Average max. and min. temperatures in °C
█ Precipitation totals in mm
Source: [1]

Imperial conversion
J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D
2.8 48 39	2.6 50 39	2 55 42	1.9 59 44	2.2 65 50	1.4 71 55	1.3 76 59	1.1 76 59	2.5 71 55	3.1 63 50	3.3 55 44	3.1 49 41
█ Average max. and min. temperatures in °F
█ Precipitation totals in inches

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Pornic, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ "Connexion - CNCD Titre 1 Eng". pastel.diplomatie.gouv.fr. Retrieved 24 February 2021.