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Brest is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay not far from the western tip of a peninsula and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second largest French military port after Toulon. The city is located on the western edge of continental France. With 142,346 inhabitants (2023), Brest forms Western Brittany's largest metropolitan area, ranking third behind only Nantes and Rennes in the whole of historic Brittany, and the 25th most populous city in France (2019).
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The next week in Brest
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Drizzle
14° / 8°
UV High
Sat
Drizzle
14° / 7°
1.2 mm
UV Moderate
Sun
Drizzle
15° / 9°
1.1 mm
UV Moderate
Mon
Rain
12° / 10°
13.3 mm
Tue
Rain
16° / 12°
4.0 mm
UV High
Wed
Drizzle
15° / 13°
3.6 mm
UV High
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
26° / 5°
Typical high / low
2 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
15.2h
06:38 – 21:49local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Brest
1 commercial airport within 100 km. Closest is Brest Bretagne airport (BES) at 8 km.
Getting around Brest
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
LEXFlixBus-euLiaisons maritimes FinistèreBreizhGo en FinistèreTER BreizhGoBlaBlaCar BusBibusB MetroSNCF VoyageursBrittany Ferries
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
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- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
Public domain, Mrmw.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.