Conde-sur-Vire | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Arrondissement: | Saint-Lô |
Canton: | Condé-sur-Vire |
Insee: | 50139 |
Postal Code: | 50890 |
Mayor: | Laurent Pien[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | Saint-Lô Agglo |
Coordinates: | 49.0531°N -1.0358°W |
Elevation M: | 28 |
Elevation Min M: | 17 |
Elevation Max M: | 153 |
Area Km2: | 36.36 |
Demonym: | Condéens |
Website: | www.conde-sur-vire.com |
Condé-sur-Vire (in French pronounced as /kɔ̃de syʁ viʁ/, literally Condé on Vire) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, the former commune of Le Mesnil-Raoult was merged into Condé-sur-Vire.[2] On 1 January 2017, the former commune of Troisgots was merged into Condé-sur-Vire.[3]
Condé-sur-Vire has an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb). The average annual temperature in Condé-sur-Vire is . The average annual rainfall is with December as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around, and lowest in January, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Condé-sur-Vire was on 5 August 2003; the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 17 January 1985.
Among well known people born here is Father Jean de Brébeuf, a martyr and since 1930 a Catholic saint.
In the late 1970s, arrangements were made for the twinning of Condé-sur-Vire with Bordon in Hampshire. For several years, parties of civic leaders and school teachers would arrive in Bordon, accompanying 70 or more school children for a week of activities.