What are the 10 French cities ranked by cinema screens?

In order: Villeurbanne, Aubervilliers, Drancy, Mamoudzou, Clichy, La Seyne-sur-Mer, Villejuif, Clamart, Bobigny and Maisons-Alfort.

What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by cinema screens?

Villeurbanne (1 screen), Aubervilliers (1 screen), Drancy (1 screen), Mamoudzou (1 screen) and Clichy (1 screen).

Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by cinema screens?

Aubervilliers, at 1 screen, just behind Villeurbanne (1 screen).

In which département is Villeurbanne?

Villeurbanne is in département 69, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

How many French cities does this ranking compare?

733, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.

What are the French cities ranked by cinema screens in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Villeurbanne leads with 1 screen.

Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by cinema screens?

Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 733, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.

In order: Villeurbanne (1 screen), Aubervilliers (1 screen), Drancy (1 screen), Mamoudzou (1 screen), Clichy (1 screen), La Seyne-sur-Mer (1 screen), Villejuif (1 screen), Clamart (1 screen), Bobigny (1 screen), Maisons-Alfort (1 screen).

Where does this figure come from?

Straight from Ministère de la Culture / DEPS, base des lieux et équipements culturels (Basilic), joined to each commune by its INSEE code and never retyped by hand. A commune the source does not cover is left out of the table rather than shown as a zero: an absence and a measured zero are different facts, and only one of them is safe to rank.

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Cinema screens: the bottom 50 French cities

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Villeurbanne comes last on cinema screens, with 1 screen, ahead of Aubervilliers (1 screen) and Drancy (1 screen).

Cinema screens, 717 cities shown. The coloured surface adds up cinema screens over 34,963 communes, 100.0% of the country's population, within about 30 km of each point. Every commune with a published value counts, not only the towns in the table. This ranking rewards the smallest total, so the darkest areas are the emptiest ones. 16 ranked overseas cities are not plotted: they fall outside this map's frame. Projection: longitude compressed by cos(46.3°N), so east-west and north-south distances stay comparable. Source: Ministère de la Culture / DEPS, base des lieux et équipements culturels (Basilic) · 2026-02-18.

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Top 50 of 733 cities
Rank	City	Cinema screens	Population	Region
1	69 Villeurbanne	1	163,684	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
2	93 Aubervilliers	1	88,365	Île-de-France
3	93 Drancy	1	72,390	Île-de-France
4	976 Mamoudzou	1	71,437	Mayotte
5	92 Clichy	1	64,410	Île-de-France
6	83 La Seyne-sur-Mer	1	63,732	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
7	94 Villejuif	1	60,183	Île-de-France
8	92 Clamart	1	58,576	Île-de-France
9	93 Bobigny	1	56,927	Île-de-France
10	94 Maisons-Alfort	1	56,799	Île-de-France
11	974 Saint-Louis (974)	1	54,941	La Réunion
12	94 Fontenay-sous-Bois	1	53,757	Île-de-France
13	93 Bondy	1	50,595	Île-de-France
14	93 Livry-Gargan	1	47,228	Île-de-France
15	93 La Courneuve	1	47,167	Île-de-France
16	92 Montrouge	1	46,324	Île-de-France
17	94 Choisy-le-Roi	1	45,946	Île-de-France
18	94 Alfortville	1	45,531	Île-de-France
19	92 Bagneux	1	44,572	Île-de-France
20	69 Caluire-et-Cuire	1	43,597	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
21	44 Rezé	1	43,556	Pays de la Loire
22	93 Gagny	1	42,313	Île-de-France
23	95 Garges-lès-Gonesse	1	41,791	Île-de-France
24	93 Stains	1	41,388	Île-de-France
25	974 Saint-Benoît	1	38,604	La Réunion
26	37 Joué-lès-Tours	1	38,423	Centre-Val de Loire
27	69 Oullins-Pierre-Bénite	1	38,168	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
28	38 Saint-Martin-d'Hères	1	37,695	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
29	93 Romainville	1	37,152	Île-de-France
30	92 Châtillon	1	36,705	Île-de-France
31	91 Athis-Mons	1	36,613	Île-de-France
32	60 Creil	1	36,301	Hauts-de-France
33	94 Le Perreux-sur-Marne	1	35,260	Île-de-France
34	78 Trappes	1	34,689	Île-de-France
35	94 Villiers-sur-Marne	1	33,162	Île-de-France
36	95 Pontoise	1	31,970	Île-de-France
37	95 Goussainville	1	31,301	Île-de-France
38	94 L'Haÿ-les-Roses	1	31,188	Île-de-France
39	77 Savigny-le-Temple	1	31,148	Île-de-France
40	92 Malakoff	1	30,557	Île-de-France
41	69 Décines-Charpieu	1	29,877	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
42	94 Fresnes	1	29,528	Île-de-France
43	95 Ermont	1	29,489	Île-de-France
44	06 Vallauris	1	29,259	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
45	92 Bois-Colombes	1	28,909	Île-de-France
46	92 Vanves	1	28,622	Île-de-France
47	91 Yerres	1	27,906	Île-de-France
48	94 Sucy-en-Brie	1	27,764	Île-de-France
49	78 Rambouillet	1	27,724	Île-de-France
50	95 Gonesse	1	27,707	Île-de-France

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Scope: France, metropolitan and overseas, Corsica and the DROM included. This dataset holds every commune of 10,000 inhabitants or more, plus smaller communes famous enough to be household names, 1,131 in all. It is not the full list of 35,000 French communes, so a village can sit outside a ranking whose extreme it would otherwise hold.

Method and sources: populations are the INSEE legal populations, boundaries and coordinates come from the IGN commune registry, both served by geo.api.gouv.fr. Density is the population divided by the commune's area; distances are measured as the crow flies from the commune's centre. Data read on August 28, 2026.

11 questions about this ranking

What are the 10 French cities ranked by cinema screens?: In order: Villeurbanne, Aubervilliers, Drancy, Mamoudzou, Clichy, La Seyne-sur-Mer, Villejuif, Clamart, Bobigny and Maisons-Alfort.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by cinema screens?: Villeurbanne (1 screen), Aubervilliers (1 screen), Drancy (1 screen), Mamoudzou (1 screen) and Clichy (1 screen).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by cinema screens?: Aubervilliers, at 1 screen, just behind Villeurbanne (1 screen).
Is Villeurbanne really the French city ranked last on cinema screens?: Yes, at 1 screen, ahead of Aubervilliers (1 screen) and Drancy (1 screen).
In which département is Villeurbanne?: Villeurbanne is in département 69, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
Which city is 10th in the ranking of French cities ranked by cinema screens?: Maisons-Alfort, at 1 screen.
How many French cities does this ranking compare?: 733, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.
What are the French cities ranked by cinema screens in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Villeurbanne leads with 1 screen.
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by cinema screens?: Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 733, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.
What are the top 10?: In order: Villeurbanne (1 screen), Aubervilliers (1 screen), Drancy (1 screen), Mamoudzou (1 screen), Clichy (1 screen), La Seyne-sur-Mer (1 screen), Villejuif (1 screen), Clamart (1 screen), Bobigny (1 screen), Maisons-Alfort (1 screen).
Where does this figure come from?: Straight from Ministère de la Culture / DEPS, base des lieux et équipements culturels (Basilic), joined to each commune by its INSEE code and never retyped by hand. A commune the source does not cover is left out of the table rather than shown as a zero: an absence and a measured zero are different facts, and only one of them is safe to rank.

The table below ranks the top 50 of the 733 cities in the dataset, each with its département, its region and the figure it is ranked on (cinema screens), so you can see not just the order but how far apart the places are. The numbers are official public data: INSEE legal populations and the IGN commune registry, with the exact method and the exact scope stated under the table rather than left to be guessed at.

The same data answers neighbouring questions too: see Bookshops: the top 50 French cities and Bookshops: the bottom 50 French cities, or all rankings for the full list. All of it comes from Le Bon Rang, a free daily game that gives you five French cities and one of these statistics and asks you for the order.