Les Mielles
District of Cherbourg-Octeville
in Manche of Normandy, France
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Cherbourg-Maupertus Airport (7 mi) -
Alderney Airport (27 mi) -
Jersey Airport (40 mi) - Guernsey Airport (46 mi)
- Granville Airport (52 mi)
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Bembridge Airport (75 mi) - Dinard-Pleurtuit-Saint-Malo Airport (76 mi)
- Bournemouth Airport (79 mi)
- Southampton Airport (91 mi)
- London Gatwick Airport (122 mi)
- Bristol International Airport (130 mi)
- RAF Fairford (141 mi)
- Le Havre, the City Rebuilt by Auguste Perret (Unesco heritage, 78 mi)
- Dorset and East Devon Coast (Unesco heritage, 78 mi)
- Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay (Unesco heritage, 86 mi)
- Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites (Unesco heritage, 124 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- 49.640 and -1.616 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- N 49° 38' 23" and W -1° 36' 58"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Euro - EUR
- Spoken languages:
- French, Breton, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Occitan
- Local electricity:
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- Local Time: 01:02 AM (Saturday)
- Timezone: Europe/Paris
- UTC/GMT offset: 1 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 7:02 am and 9:08 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- -43.750 and 173.083 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Le Bons Bay - References
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Safety Score: 3,0 of 5.0 based on data from 9 authorites. Meaning we advice caution when travelling to France.
Travel warnings are updated daily. Source: Travel Warning France. Last Update: 2024-04-19 08:03:45
Discover Les Mielles
The district Les Mielles of Cherbourg-Octeville in Manche (Normandy) is a subburb in France about 186 mi west of Paris, the country's capital city.
If you need a hotel, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
While being here, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: St Anne, Coutances, Le Hocq, Saint Helier and Saint-Lo. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 12°C / 53 °F
| Morning Temperature | 9°C / 49 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 11°C / 53 °F |
| Night Temperature | 9°C / 49 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 0% |
| Air Humidity | 81% |
| Air Pressure | 1020 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Fresh Breeze with 13 km/h (8 mph) from East |
| Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 93% of sky |
| General Conditions | Light rain |
Saturday, 20th of April 2024
8°C (47 °F)
6°C (42 °F)
Sky is clear, moderate breeze, few clouds.
Sunday, 21st of April 2024
9°C (48 °F)
7°C (44 °F)
Scattered clouds, moderate breeze.
Monday, 22nd of April 2024
9°C (49 °F)
7°C (44 °F)
Few clouds, moderate breeze.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Hôtel Mercure Cherbourg Centre Port
Marine Hotel Cherbourg Plaisance
Ambassadeur
ibis Cherbourg La Glacerie
Campanile - Cherbourg - La Glaciere
Le Louvre
Kyriad - Cherbourg Equeurdreville
Appart City Cherbourg Centre Port Résidence de Tourisme
La Regence Logis
Hotel Moderna
Videos from this area
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Spring Break On-ride fête foraine Cherbourg 2014
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Cotentin Peninsula
The Cotentin Peninsula, also known as the Cherbourg Peninsula, is a peninsula in Normandy that forms part of the northwest coast of France. It extends north-westward into the English Channel, towards Great Britain. To its west lie the Channel Islands and to the southwest lies the Brittany Peninsula. The peninsula lies wholly within the department of Manche, in the region of Lower Normandy.
CSS Alabama
CSS Alabama was a screw sloop-of-war built for the Confederate States Navy at Birkenhead, United Kingdom, in 1862 by John Laird Sons and Company. Alabama served as a successful commerce raider, attacking Union merchant and naval ships over the course of her two-year career, during which she never anchored in a Southern port. She was sunk in battle by the USS Kearsarge in June 1864 at the Battle of Cherbourg outside the port of Cherbourg, France.
German auxiliary cruiser Komet
Komet (HSK-7) was an auxiliary cruiser of the German Kriegsmarine in the Second World War, intended for service as a commerce raider. Known to the Kriegsmarine as Schiff 45, to the Royal Navy she was Raider B. She was sunk by British motor torpedo boats in October 1942.
Battle of Cherbourg (1864)
The Battle of Cherbourg, or sometimes the Battle off Cherbourg or the Sinking of CSS Alabama, was a single-ship action fought during the American Civil War between a United States Navy warship, the USS Kearsarge, and a Confederate States Navy warship, the CSS Alabama, on June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France.
Cité de la Mer
The Cité de la Mer ("city of the sea") is a maritime museum in Cherbourg, France. The museum is in the cruise terminal of Cherbourg. This monument was built in 1933; it is one of the bigger art-deco monuments of today.
Gare Maritime de Cherbourg
Cherbourg's Gare Maritime or Gare Maritime Transatlantique was a railway station at the end of the railway line from Paris' Gare Saint-Lazare and of the short branch from Cherbourg's main station.
SS Leopoldville (1929)
The Belgian transport ship SS Leopoldville, an 11,500-long-ton passenger liner converted for use as a troopship in the Second World War, was struck by a torpedo fired from U-486 in the English Channel approximately five miles from the coast of Cherbourg, France, on Christmas Eve, 24 December 1944, less than five months before the end of the war in Europe. As a result, approximately 763 soldiers died.
Brécourt
Brécourt was a Nazi Germany bunker started inside an underground French Naval oil storage facility. On July 7, 1943, the site was ordered to be completed as a V-2 rocket launch facility. Early in 1944, the facility was converted to a V-1 flying bomb launch facility and subsequently completed.
Cherbourg School of Engineering
The Cherbourg Engineering School is a French engineering university funded in 1993. It is situated in Cherbourg-Octeville. The school is accredited by the "Commission des titres d'ingénieur" to deliver Engineering Degrees. This school is now part of the ESIX Normandie.
Jardin botanique de la Roche Fauconnière
The Jardin botanique de la Roche Fauconnière is a private botanical garden located in the Parc de la Fauconnière, Cherbourg-Octeville, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France. The garden was created in 1870 or 1873 by Alfred Favier and maintained by subsequent family members Léon Favier and Dr. Charles Favier. Today it contains 3,400 taxa, many from the Southern Hemisphere, with eucalyptus, magnolia, and unusual specimens including Ilex nothofagifolia and Pseudopanax laetevirens.
Gare de Valognes
Gare de Valognes is a railway station serving the town Valognes, Manche department, northwestern France. It is situated on the Mantes-la-Jolie–Cherbourg railway.
Cherbourg Harbour
Cherbourg Harbour (French rade de Cherbourg; literally, the roadstead of Cherbourg), a harbour in France, is the largest artificial harbour in the world, with a surface area of around 1,500 hectares. Historically it has been used for mercantile shipping as well as a naval base. It was begun in 1783, with its central harbour wall was completed in 1853 - this was 3.64 km long, an average of 100m wide at its base and an average of 12 m wide at its top, and sited 4 km from the coast.
Musée Thomas-Henry
The Musée des beaux-arts Thomas Henry is a museum at Cherbourg-Octeville (Manche) with around 300 artworks, mainly paintings from the 15th to 19th centuries. It has been rated as the third most important collection in Normandy.
French submarine Prométhée (Q153)
Prométhée (Q153) was a French Redoutable class submarine. The submarine sank while on trials near Cap Lévi, off Cherbourg, France, killing 62 men.
1993 Cherbourg incident
The 1993 Cherbourg incident were a series of maritime incidents which took place from 26 March to 2 April 1993 between the Royal Navy and French fishermen as a result of a fishing rights dispute in and around the Channel Islands waters.
Querqueville Airfield
Querqueville Airfield is a former airfield .4 km north-northwest of Querqueville in the Normandy region of France.
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