Brignogan-Plages Brignogan | |
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Part ofPlounéour-Brignogan-Plages | |
 The beach at Brignogan-Plages | |
Location of Brignogan-Plages  | |
  Brignogan-Plages  Brignogan-Plages | |
| Coordinates:48°39′55″N4°19′29″W / 48.6653°N 4.3247°W /48.6653; -4.3247 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Brittany |
| Department | Finistère |
| Arrondissement | Brest |
| Canton | Lesneven |
| Commune | Plounéour-Brignogan-Plages |
Area 1 | 3.60 km2 (1.39 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[1] | 752 |
| • Density | 210/km2 (540/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 29890 |
| Elevation | 0–25 m (0–82 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Brignogan-Plages (or simplyBrignogan) (French pronunciation:[bʁiɲogɑ̃plaʒ];Breton:Brignogan) is a formercommune in theFinistèredepartment ofBrittany in north-westernFrance. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new communePlounéour-Brignogan-Plages.[2]
Brignogan is 32 kilometres fromBrest. Submarine telegraph cables betweenCornwall and France came ashore at Brignogan.
Brignogan-Plages has anoceanic climate (Köppen climate classificationCfb). The average annual temperature in Brignogan-Plages is 12.1 °C (53.8 °F). The average annual rainfall is 908.0 mm (35.75 in) with December as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 14.1 °C (57.4 °F), and lowest in February, at around 7.9 °C (46.2 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Brignogan-Plages was 32.6 °C (90.7 °F) on 2 August 1990; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −7.0 °C (19.4 °F) on 12 January 1987.
| Climate data for Brignogan-Plages (1981–2010 averages, extremes 1982−2018) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 17.9 (64.2) | 19.6 (67.3) | 24.0 (75.2) | 24.5 (76.1) | 29.1 (84.4) | 32.0 (89.6) | 30.4 (86.7) | 32.6 (90.7) | 30.3 (86.5) | 29.3 (84.7) | 21.7 (71.1) | 19.0 (66.2) | 32.6 (90.7) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 10.1 (50.2) | 10.1 (50.2) | 11.6 (52.9) | 12.7 (54.9) | 15.0 (59.0) | 17.4 (63.3) | 19.2 (66.6) | 19.6 (67.3) | 18.3 (64.9) | 16.0 (60.8) | 12.8 (55.0) | 10.8 (51.4) | 14.5 (58.1) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 7.9 (46.2) | 7.9 (46.2) | 9.2 (48.6) | 10.2 (50.4) | 12.6 (54.7) | 14.9 (58.8) | 16.6 (61.9) | 16.9 (62.4) | 15.7 (60.3) | 13.4 (56.1) | 10.5 (50.9) | 8.6 (47.5) | 12.1 (53.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 5.7 (42.3) | 5.6 (42.1) | 6.8 (44.2) | 7.6 (45.7) | 10.2 (50.4) | 12.4 (54.3) | 14.0 (57.2) | 14.1 (57.4) | 13.0 (55.4) | 10.9 (51.6) | 8.3 (46.9) | 6.4 (43.5) | 9.6 (49.3) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −7.0 (19.4) | −5.0 (23.0) | −1.7 (28.9) | 1.2 (34.2) | 3.1 (37.6) | 5.6 (42.1) | 9.2 (48.6) | 8.8 (47.8) | 7.0 (44.6) | 1.1 (34.0) | −0.5 (31.1) | −3.4 (25.9) | −7.0 (19.4) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 107.8 (4.24) | 86.1 (3.39) | 69.8 (2.75) | 66.3 (2.61) | 61.4 (2.42) | 43.2 (1.70) | 48.5 (1.91) | 50.8 (2.00) | 56.7 (2.23) | 99.8 (3.93) | 104.2 (4.10) | 113.4 (4.46) | 908.0 (35.75) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 1.0 mm) | 16.7 | 13.3 | 12.4 | 12.0 | 10.1 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 8.7 | 8.9 | 13.6 | 16.1 | 16.4 | 144.2 |
| Source: Météo France[3] | |||||||||||||
Inhabitants of Brignogan-Plages are calledBrignoganais in French.
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