Cugand (French pronunciation: [kyɡɑ̃]) is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.

Before the creation of the departments with the French Republic, under the French Kingdom, the parish of Cugand was part of "Marches Bretagne-Poitou" (joint possession) and of Brittany on the religious level (Roman Catholic Diocese of Nantes).

It is part of the urban unit of Clisson.

The commune of Cugand will merge with the nearby commune of La Bernardière in 2025 to form the commune of Cugand-La Bernardière.

Cugand is located along the Sèvre Nantaise, 28km south-east of Nantes and 29km south-west of Cholet.

Its neighboring communes are:

• In Vendée
  • La Bernardière
  • La Bruffière
• In Loire-Atlantique :
  • Clisson
  • Gétigné
  • Saint-Hilaire-de-Clisson
  • Boussay

In 2020, Météo-France has published a typology of the climates of Metropolitan France in which Cugand is exposed to an Oceanic climate and located in the "Bretagne Orientale et Méridionale, Pays Nantais, Vendée" climatic region where the amount of rainfall is low in summer and the insolation is good.

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	2,199	—
1975	2,425	+1.41%
1982	2,525	+0.58%
1990	2,627	+0.50%
1999	2,776	+0.61%
2010	3,269	+1.50%
2015	3,448	+1.07%
2021	3,685	+1.11%
Source: INSEE

• Sportive Union Bernardière Cugand : football division
• Basketball Association Cugand Bernardière : basketball division
• St Michel Handball : handball division
• "Les raquettes Cugandaises" : tennis division
• Athlétisme Mingot Association : athletics division
• TTAL Cugand : table tennis division

• Health Center Les Caducées

• Private elementary school St Michel / Jeanne d'Arc
• Public elementary school Jean Moulin

• Cugandan library
• World dance and music festival

• "Festival de Cugand", world dance and music, folk bands of the all world, during 4 days in August (20,000 spectators in 2005 for the 7th festival edition)

• Communes of the Vendée department