What are the 10 French cities ranked by wine shops?

In order: Beaune, Saint-Barthélemy, Limoux, Argelès-sur-Mer, Gaillac, Arcachon, Obernai, Épernay, Agde and Chantilly.

What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by wine shops?

Beaune (24.08 / 10,000 inhab.), Saint-Barthélemy (13.13 / 10,000 inhab.), Limoux (7.6 / 10,000 inhab.), Argelès-sur-Mer (7.54 / 10,000 inhab.) and Gaillac (7.42 / 10,000 inhab.).

Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by wine shops?

Saint-Barthélemy, at 13.13 / 10,000 inhab., just behind Beaune (24.08 / 10,000 inhab.).

Is Beaune really the French city ranked first on wine shops?

Yes, at 24.08 / 10,000 inhab., ahead of Saint-Barthélemy (13.13 / 10,000 inhab.) and Limoux (7.6 / 10,000 inhab.).

In which département is Beaune?

Beaune is in département 21, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.

What is the difference between Beaune and Saint-Barthélemy?

Beaune is at 24.08 / 10,000 inhab., Saint-Barthélemy at 13.13 / 10,000 inhab. 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 wine shops?

Chantilly, at 6.61 / 10,000 inhab.

How many French cities does this ranking compare?

1,050, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.

What are the French cities ranked by wine shops in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Beaune leads with 24.08 / 10,000 inhab.

Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by wine shops?

Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,050, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.

In order: Beaune (24.08 / 10,000 inhab.), Saint-Barthélemy (13.13 / 10,000 inhab.), Limoux (7.6 / 10,000 inhab.), Argelès-sur-Mer (7.54 / 10,000 inhab.), Gaillac (7.42 / 10,000 inhab.), Arcachon (7.21 / 10,000 inhab.), Obernai (7.15 / 10,000 inhab.), Épernay (6.76 / 10,000 inhab.), Agde (6.68 / 10,000 inhab.), Chantilly (6.61 / 10,000 inhab.).

Where does this figure come from?

Straight from INSEE, SIRENE, stock des établissements, 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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Beaune leads on wine shops, with 24.08 / 10,000 inhabitants, then Saint-Barthélemy (13.13 / 10,000 inhabitants) and Limoux (7.6 / 10,000 inhabitants).

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Wine shops, 988 cities shown. The coloured surface estimates the local tendency from nearby ranked cities. Exact city values remain in the table. 62 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: INSEE, SIRENE, stock des établissements · 2026.

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Top 50 of 1,050 cities
Rank	City	Wine shops / 10,000 inhab.	Population	Region
1	21 Beaune	24.08	20,352	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
2	977 Saint-Barthélemy	13.13	10,660	Saint-Barthélemy
3	11 Limoux	7.6	10,532	Occitanie
4	66 Argelès-sur-Mer	7.54	10,616	Occitanie
5	81 Gaillac	7.42	16,162	Occitanie
6	33 Arcachon	7.21	11,092	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
7	67 Obernai	7.15	12,587	Grand Est
8	51 Épernay	6.76	22,174	Grand Est
9	34 Agde	6.68	29,939	Occitanie
10	60 Chantilly	6.61	10,591	Hauts-de-France
11	14 Bayeux	6.32	12,659	Normandie
12	57 Sarrebourg	5.75	12,170	Grand Est
13	64 Biarritz	5.72	26,206	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
14	83 Sainte-Maxime	5.67	14,118	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
15	33 Libourne	5.59	25,036	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
16	33 Andernos-les-Bains	5.51	12,710	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
17	2A Porto-Vecchio	5.36	11,198	Corse
18	06 Valbonne	5.03	11,939	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
19	84 Apt	4.93	10,143	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
20	50 Avranches	4.93	10,143	Normandie
21	04 Manosque	4.84	22,718	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
22	50 Granville	4.8	12,510	Normandie
23	31 L'Union	4.75	12,638	Occitanie
24	64 Orthez	4.6	10,881	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
25	30 Pont-Saint-Esprit	4.56	10,958	Occitanie
26	07 Tournon-sur-Rhône	4.43	11,279	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
27	37 Montlouis-sur-Loire	4.41	11,335	Centre-Val de Loire
28	95 Enghien-les-Bains	4.37	11,432	Île-de-France
29	75 Paris	4.36	2,103,778	Île-de-France
30	83 Sanary-sur-Mer	4.32	18,538	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
31	16 Cognac	4.32	18,532	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
32	978 Saint-Martin	4.17	31,160	Saint-Martin
33	12 Rodez	4.17	23,981	Occitanie
34	69 Craponne	4.14	12,084	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
35	11 Castelnaudary	4.11	12,151	Occitanie
36	71 Montceau-les-Mines	4.1	17,064	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
37	22 Dinan	4.06	14,764	Bretagne
38	64 Saint-Jean-de-Luz	4.04	14,857	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
39	33 Bordeaux	4.03	267,991	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
40	29 Quimperlé	4.01	12,469	Bretagne
41	33 La Teste-de-Buch	3.99	27,566	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
42	81 Mazamet	3.97	10,085	Occitanie
43	40 Saint-Pierre-du-Mont	3.96	10,092	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
44	17 Saintes	3.94	25,363	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
45	37 Chambray-lès-Tours	3.93	12,720	Centre-Val de Loire
46	44 Pornichet	3.91	12,800	Pays de la Loire
47	04 Digne-les-Bains	3.89	17,979	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
48	11 Lézignan-Corbières	3.87	10,343	Occitanie
49	34 Saint-Gély-du-Fesc	3.82	10,472	Occitanie
50	63 Aubière	3.82	10,459	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

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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 a rate per inhabitant, so it covers towns of 10,000 people or more only: in a village of a hundred, three licence holders would read as thirty per thousand and outrank a town with a professional club, so no rate is published below that size rather than a meaningless 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 wine shops?: In order: Beaune, Saint-Barthélemy, Limoux, Argelès-sur-Mer, Gaillac, Arcachon, Obernai, Épernay, Agde and Chantilly.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by wine shops?: Beaune (24.08 / 10,000 inhab.), Saint-Barthélemy (13.13 / 10,000 inhab.), Limoux (7.6 / 10,000 inhab.), Argelès-sur-Mer (7.54 / 10,000 inhab.) and Gaillac (7.42 / 10,000 inhab.).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by wine shops?: Saint-Barthélemy, at 13.13 / 10,000 inhab., just behind Beaune (24.08 / 10,000 inhab.).
Is Beaune really the French city ranked first on wine shops?: Yes, at 24.08 / 10,000 inhab., ahead of Saint-Barthélemy (13.13 / 10,000 inhab.) and Limoux (7.6 / 10,000 inhab.).
In which département is Beaune?: Beaune is in département 21, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.
What is the difference between Beaune and Saint-Barthélemy?: Beaune is at 24.08 / 10,000 inhab., Saint-Barthélemy at 13.13 / 10,000 inhab. 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 wine shops?: Chantilly, at 6.61 / 10,000 inhab.
How many French cities does this ranking compare?: 1,050, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.
What are the French cities ranked by wine shops in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Beaune leads with 24.08 / 10,000 inhab.
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by wine shops?: Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,050, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.
What are the top 10?: In order: Beaune (24.08 / 10,000 inhab.), Saint-Barthélemy (13.13 / 10,000 inhab.), Limoux (7.6 / 10,000 inhab.), Argelès-sur-Mer (7.54 / 10,000 inhab.), Gaillac (7.42 / 10,000 inhab.), Arcachon (7.21 / 10,000 inhab.), Obernai (7.15 / 10,000 inhab.), Épernay (6.76 / 10,000 inhab.), Agde (6.68 / 10,000 inhab.), Chantilly (6.61 / 10,000 inhab.).
Where does this figure come from?: Straight from INSEE, SIRENE, stock des établissements, 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 1,050 cities in the dataset, each with its département, its region and the figure it is ranked on (wine shops), 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 fewest wine shops per inhabitant and The French cities with the most distilleries (by département), 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.