Pornic

Pornic Port-Nitz (Gallo) Pornizh (Breton)
Commune
Castle of Pornic and the port
Coat of arms
Location of Pornic
Pornic Pornic
Coordinates: 47°07′00″N 2°06′00″W
Country	France
Region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Loire-Atlantique
Arrondissement	Saint-Nazaire
Canton	Pornic
Intercommunality	CA Pornic Agglo Pays de Retz
Boroughs	Sainte-Marie-sur-Mer, Clion-sur-Mer
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Michel Brard
Area 1	94.2 km2 (36.4 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	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%
Source: EHESS and INSEE (1968-2017)

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

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

See also

• Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department
• Sainte-Marie-sur-Mer