What are the 10 French cities ranked by cinema screens?

In order: Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Nice, Lille, Strasbourg, Tours, Montpellier and Rouen.

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

Paris (400 screens), Lyon (99 screens), Marseille (75 screens), Bordeaux (65 screens) and Nice (55 screens).

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

Lyon, at 99 screens, just behind Paris (400 screens).

Is Paris really the French city ranked first on cinema screens?

Yes, at 400 screens, ahead of Lyon (99 screens) and Marseille (75 screens).

In which département is Paris?

Paris is in département 75, in the Île-de-France region.

What is the difference between Paris and Lyon?

Paris is at 400 screens, Lyon at 99 screens. The table gives the same figure for all 50 places, so any two of them can be compared the same way.

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: Paris leads with 400 screens.

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: Paris (400 screens), Lyon (99 screens), Marseille (75 screens), Bordeaux (65 screens), Nice (55 screens), Lille (47 screens), Strasbourg (41 screens), Tours (37 screens), Montpellier (36 screens), Rouen (36 screens).

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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Paris leads on cinema screens, with 400 screens, then Lyon (99 screens) and Marseille (75 screens).

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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. 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	75 Paris	400	2,103,778	Île-de-France
2	69 Lyon	99	519,127	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
3	13 Marseille	75	886,040	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
4	33 Bordeaux	65	267,991	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
5	06 Nice	55	357,737	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
6	59 Lille	47	238,246	Hauts-de-France
7	67 Strasbourg	41	293,771	Grand Est
8	37 Tours	37	139,259	Centre-Val de Loire
9	34 Montpellier	36	310,240	Occitanie
10	76 Rouen	36	117,662	Normandie
11	63 Clermont-Ferrand	35	146,351	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
12	29 Brest	35	142,346	Bretagne
13	31 Toulouse	33	514,819	Occitanie
14	38 Grenoble	31	156,140	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
15	87 Limoges	31	129,937	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
16	06 Cannes	29	74,350	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
17	21 Dijon	28	161,830	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
18	30 Nîmes	28	151,839	Occitanie
19	74 Annecy	28	132,117	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
20	54 Nancy	27	103,671	Grand Est
21	44 Saint-Herblain	27	50,973	Pays de la Loire
22	42 Saint-Étienne	26	173,136	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
23	44 Nantes	24	327,734	Pays de la Loire
24	72 Le Mans	24	146,249	Pays de la Loire
25	68 Mulhouse	23	104,978	Grand Est
26	94 Créteil	22	93,397	Île-de-France
27	64 Pau	22	80,441	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
28	66 Perpignan	21	121,616	Occitanie
29	84 Avignon	21	92,188	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
30	35 Rennes	20	230,890	Bretagne
31	17 La Rochelle	20	79,851	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
32	49 Angers	19	159,022	Pays de la Loire
33	26 Valence	19	64,458	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
34	92 Villeneuve-la-Garenne	19	26,021	Île-de-France
35	76 Le Havre	18	166,687	Normandie
36	974 Saint-Paul	18	108,088	La Réunion
37	59 Dunkerque	18	86,263	Hauts-de-France
38	50 Cherbourg-en-Cotentin	18	78,258	Normandie
39	92 Puteaux	18	44,002	Île-de-France
40	78 Vélizy-Villacoublay	18	23,011	Île-de-France
41	45 Orléans	17	116,357	Centre-Val de Loire
42	73 Chambéry	17	59,964	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
43	78 Montigny-le-Bretonneux	17	32,465	Île-de-France
44	83 La Valette-du-Var	17	23,719	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
45	77 Lieusaint	17	14,017	Île-de-France
46	13 Aix-en-Provence	16	149,695	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
47	93 Aulnay-sous-Bois	16	87,599	Île-de-France
48	94 Ivry-sur-Seine	16	65,064	Île-de-France
49	29 Quimper	16	64,385	Bretagne
50	93 Rosny-sous-Bois	16	47,180	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.

12 questions about this ranking

What are the 10 French cities ranked by cinema screens?: In order: Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Nice, Lille, Strasbourg, Tours, Montpellier and Rouen.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by cinema screens?: Paris (400 screens), Lyon (99 screens), Marseille (75 screens), Bordeaux (65 screens) and Nice (55 screens).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by cinema screens?: Lyon, at 99 screens, just behind Paris (400 screens).
Is Paris really the French city ranked first on cinema screens?: Yes, at 400 screens, ahead of Lyon (99 screens) and Marseille (75 screens).
In which département is Paris?: Paris is in département 75, in the Île-de-France region.
What is the difference between Paris and Lyon?: Paris is at 400 screens, Lyon at 99 screens. The table gives the same figure for all 50 places, so any two of them can be compared the same way.
Which city is 10th in the ranking of French cities ranked by cinema screens?: Rouen, at 36 screens.
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: Paris leads with 400 screens.
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: Paris (400 screens), Lyon (99 screens), Marseille (75 screens), Bordeaux (65 screens), Nice (55 screens), Lille (47 screens), Strasbourg (41 screens), Tours (37 screens), Montpellier (36 screens), Rouen (36 screens).
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 Cinema screens: the bottom 50 French cities and Bookshops: the top 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.