What are the 10 French cities ranked by train station?

In order: Paris, Saint-Denis (93), Lyon, Juvisy-sur-Orge, Versailles, Drancy, Épinay-sur-Seine, Puteaux, Lille and Aulnay-sous-Bois.

What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by train station?

Paris (841,954,778), Saint-Denis (93) (59,625,499), Lyon (55,563,984), Juvisy-sur-Orge (41,881,077) and Versailles (40,307,227).

Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by train station?

Saint-Denis (93), at 59,625,499, just behind Paris (841,954,778).

Is Paris really the French city ranked first on train station?

Yes, at 841,954,778, ahead of Saint-Denis (93) (59,625,499) and Lyon (55,563,984).

In which département is Paris?

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

What is the difference between Paris and Saint-Denis (93)?

Paris is at 841,954,778, Saint-Denis (93) at 59,625,499. 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 train station?

Aulnay-sous-Bois, at 31,683,770.

How many French cities does this ranking compare?

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

What are the French cities ranked by train station in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Paris leads with 841,954,778.

Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by train station?

Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 599, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.

In order: Paris (841,954,778), Saint-Denis (93) (59,625,499), Lyon (55,563,984), Juvisy-sur-Orge (41,881,077), Versailles (40,307,227), Drancy (38,557,177), Épinay-sur-Seine (38,297,616), Puteaux (35,873,601), Lille (32,398,939), Aulnay-sous-Bois (31,683,770).

Where does this figure come from?

Straight from SNCF, fréquentation en gares, 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 train station, with 841,954,778, then Saint-Denis (93) (59,625,499) and Lyon (55,563,984).

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Train station, 599 cities shown. The coloured surface adds up train station over 2,424 communes, 44.6% 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. Projection: longitude compressed by cos(46.3°N), so east-west and north-south distances stay comparable. Source: SNCF, fréquentation en gares.

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Top 50 of 599 cities
Rank	City	Train station	Population	Region
1	75 Paris	841,954,778	2,103,778	Île-de-France
2	93 Saint-Denis (93)	59,625,499	149,077	Île-de-France
3	69 Lyon	55,563,984	519,127	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
4	91 Juvisy-sur-Orge	41,881,077	19,292	Île-de-France
5	78 Versailles	40,307,227	84,095	Île-de-France
6	93 Drancy	38,557,177	72,390	Île-de-France
7	93 Épinay-sur-Seine	38,297,616	52,833	Île-de-France
8	92 Puteaux	35,873,601	44,002	Île-de-France
9	59 Lille	32,398,939	238,246	Hauts-de-France
10	93 Aulnay-sous-Bois	31,683,770	87,599	Île-de-France
11	95 Cergy	29,728,565	70,906	Île-de-France
12	95 Ermont	29,454,244	29,489	Île-de-France
13	93 Tremblay-en-France	26,220,913	38,348	Île-de-France
14	67 Strasbourg	24,778,905	293,771	Grand Est
15	95 Argenteuil	24,563,775	106,130	Île-de-France
16	33 Bordeaux	23,059,619	267,991	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
17	95 Garges-lès-Gonesse	22,265,054	41,791	Île-de-France
18	93 Sevran	20,819,034	52,535	Île-de-France
19	94 Fontenay-sous-Bois	19,300,104	53,757	Île-de-France
20	13 Marseille	19,065,390	886,040	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
21	94 Villeneuve-Saint-Georges	18,368,493	36,221	Île-de-France
22	93 Noisy-le-Sec	18,359,020	45,510	Île-de-France
23	78 Houilles	18,250,565	33,983	Île-de-France
24	92 Asnières-sur-Seine	18,129,540	93,941	Île-de-France
25	93 Bondy	17,868,333	50,595	Île-de-France
26	44 Nantes	17,741,934	327,734	Pays de la Loire
27	93 La Courneuve	17,533,507	47,167	Île-de-France
28	06 Nice	17,432,749	357,737	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
29	77 Melun	17,067,994	45,995	Île-de-France
30	91 Évry-Courcouronnes	16,921,223	66,919	Île-de-France
31	92 Courbevoie	16,324,884	82,902	Île-de-France
32	35 Rennes	16,167,305	230,890	Bretagne
33	31 Toulouse	16,101,114	514,819	Occitanie
34	94 Maisons-Alfort	14,504,292	56,799	Île-de-France
35	92 Colombes	14,337,443	91,053	Île-de-France
36	77 Chelles	13,630,254	54,620	Île-de-France
37	93 Villepinte	13,565,718	41,470	Île-de-France
38	78 Poissy	13,098,813	40,983	Île-de-France
39	91 Corbeil-Essonnes	12,883,870	54,471	Île-de-France
40	94 Choisy-le-Roi	12,833,963	45,946	Île-de-France
41	95 Arnouville	12,566,762	15,023	Île-de-France
42	93 Rosny-sous-Bois	12,565,254	47,180	Île-de-France
43	92 Saint-Cloud	12,460,543	29,855	Île-de-France
44	78 Montigny-le-Bretonneux	12,011,294	32,465	Île-de-France
45	78 Conflans-Sainte-Honorine	11,967,603	36,958	Île-de-France
46	78 Sartrouville	11,419,082	52,763	Île-de-France
47	78 Mantes-la-Jolie	11,188,745	43,526	Île-de-France
48	92 Bois-Colombes	10,972,077	28,909	Île-de-France
49	77 Meaux	10,375,161	56,905	Île-de-France
50	93 Les Pavillons-sous-Bois	10,051,199	25,804	Île-de-France

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Scope, method and sources

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. This particular ranking is metropolitan only: the distance to the coast is measured against the coastlines of the Hexagon and Corsica, which would put an overseas port thousands of kilometres from a sea it sits on, so no value is published for overseas France rather than a wrong one.

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 train station?: In order: Paris, Saint-Denis (93), Lyon, Juvisy-sur-Orge, Versailles, Drancy, Épinay-sur-Seine, Puteaux, Lille and Aulnay-sous-Bois.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by train station?: Paris (841,954,778), Saint-Denis (93) (59,625,499), Lyon (55,563,984), Juvisy-sur-Orge (41,881,077) and Versailles (40,307,227).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by train station?: Saint-Denis (93), at 59,625,499, just behind Paris (841,954,778).
Is Paris really the French city ranked first on train station?: Yes, at 841,954,778, ahead of Saint-Denis (93) (59,625,499) and Lyon (55,563,984).
In which département is Paris?: Paris is in département 75, in the Île-de-France region.
What is the difference between Paris and Saint-Denis (93)?: Paris is at 841,954,778, Saint-Denis (93) at 59,625,499. 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 train station?: Aulnay-sous-Bois, at 31,683,770.
How many French cities does this ranking compare?: 599, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.
What are the French cities ranked by train station in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Paris leads with 841,954,778.
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by train station?: Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 599, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.
What are the top 10?: In order: Paris (841,954,778), Saint-Denis (93) (59,625,499), Lyon (55,563,984), Juvisy-sur-Orge (41,881,077), Versailles (40,307,227), Drancy (38,557,177), Épinay-sur-Seine (38,297,616), Puteaux (35,873,601), Lille (32,398,939), Aulnay-sous-Bois (31,683,770).
Where does this figure come from?: Straight from SNCF, fréquentation en gares, 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 599 cities in the dataset, each with its département, its region and the figure it is ranked on (train station), 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 The French cities with the quietest train stations and Home burglaries: 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.