What are the 10 French cities ranked by hours of sunshine?

In order: Morlaix, Rouen, Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, Le Grand-Quevilly, Le Petit-Quevilly, Mont-Saint-Aignan, Louviers, Elbeuf and Bois-Guillaume.

What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by hours of sunshine?

Morlaix (1,463 h/year), Rouen (1,554 h/year), Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray (1,554 h/year), Sotteville-lès-Rouen (1,554 h/year) and Le Grand-Quevilly (1,554 h/year).

Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by hours of sunshine?

Rouen, at 1,554 h/year, just behind Morlaix (1,463 h/year).

In which département is Morlaix?

Morlaix is in département 29, in the Bretagne region.

What is the difference between Morlaix and Rouen?

Morlaix is at 1,463 h/year, Rouen at 1,554 h/year. 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 hours of sunshine?

Bois-Guillaume, at 1,554 h/year.

How many French cities does this ranking compare?

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

What are the French cities ranked by hours of sunshine in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Morlaix leads with 1,463 h/year.

Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by hours of sunshine?

Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 923, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.

In order: Morlaix (1,463 h/year), Rouen (1,554 h/year), Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray (1,554 h/year), Sotteville-lès-Rouen (1,554 h/year), Le Grand-Quevilly (1,554 h/year), Le Petit-Quevilly (1,554 h/year), Mont-Saint-Aignan (1,554 h/year), Louviers (1,554 h/year), Elbeuf (1,554 h/year), Bois-Guillaume (1,554 h/year).

Where does this figure come from?

Straight from Météo-France, fiches climatologiques, 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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Morlaix comes last on hours of sunshine, with 1,463 h/year, ahead of Rouen (1,554 h/year) and Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray (1,554 h/year).

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Hours of sunshine, 870 cities shown. The coloured surface estimates the local tendency from nearby ranked cities. Exact city values remain in the table. 53 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: Météo-France, fiches climatologiques · 1991-2020.

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Top 50 of 923 cities
Rank	City	Hours of sunshine h/year	Population	Region
1	29 Morlaix	1,463	15,194	Bretagne
2	76 Rouen	1,554	117,662	Normandie
3	76 Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray	1,554	29,518	Normandie
4	76 Sotteville-lès-Rouen	1,554	29,003	Normandie
5	76 Le Grand-Quevilly	1,554	25,789	Normandie
6	76 Le Petit-Quevilly	1,554	22,208	Normandie
7	76 Mont-Saint-Aignan	1,554	20,165	Normandie
8	27 Louviers	1,554	18,705	Normandie
9	76 Elbeuf	1,554	15,474	Normandie
10	76 Bois-Guillaume	1,554	14,539	Normandie
11	76 Canteleu	1,554	14,402	Normandie
12	27 Val-de-Reuil	1,554	13,245	Normandie
13	76 Oissel-sur-Seine	1,554	12,317	Normandie
14	76 Barentin	1,554	12,022	Normandie
15	76 Maromme	1,554	10,957	Normandie
16	76 Déville-lès-Rouen	1,554	10,802	Normandie
17	76 Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf	1,554	10,476	Normandie
18	29 Brest	1,555	142,346	Bretagne
19	29 Landerneau	1,555	16,363	Bretagne
20	29 Guipavas	1,555	15,538	Bretagne
21	29 Le Relecq-Kerhuon	1,555	11,897	Bretagne
22	08 Charleville-Mézières	1,576	45,560	Grand Est
23	08 Sedan	1,576	16,667	Grand Est
24	22 Saint-Brieuc	1,616	44,364	Bretagne
25	22 Lamballe-Armor	1,616	17,241	Bretagne
26	22 Plérin	1,616	14,425	Bretagne
27	22 Ploufragan	1,616	11,507	Bretagne
28	59 Lille	1,627	238,246	Hauts-de-France
29	59 Tourcoing	1,627	98,772	Hauts-de-France
30	59 Roubaix	1,627	98,286	Hauts-de-France
31	59 Villeneuve-d'Ascq	1,627	62,868	Hauts-de-France
32	59 Wattrelos	1,627	40,847	Hauts-de-France
33	59 Douai	1,627	40,250	Hauts-de-France
34	59 Marcq-en-Barœul	1,627	40,184	Hauts-de-France
35	62 Lens	1,627	32,920	Hauts-de-France
36	62 Liévin	1,627	30,063	Hauts-de-France
37	59 Lambersart	1,627	27,090	Hauts-de-France
38	59 Armentières	1,627	26,998	Hauts-de-France
39	62 Hénin-Beaumont	1,627	25,688	Hauts-de-France
40	62 Béthune	1,627	25,224	Hauts-de-France
41	59 Loos	1,627	22,567	Hauts-de-France
42	59 La Madeleine	1,627	21,790	Hauts-de-France
43	59 Mons-en-Barœul	1,627	21,105	Hauts-de-France
44	59 Wasquehal	1,627	20,726	Hauts-de-France
45	59 Halluin	1,627	20,715	Hauts-de-France
46	59 Denain	1,627	20,665	Hauts-de-France
47	59 Croix	1,627	20,566	Hauts-de-France
48	59 Ronchin	1,627	19,787	Hauts-de-France
49	59 Faches-Thumesnil	1,627	18,619	Hauts-de-France
50	59 Hem	1,627	18,582	Hauts-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 hours of sunshine?: In order: Morlaix, Rouen, Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, Le Grand-Quevilly, Le Petit-Quevilly, Mont-Saint-Aignan, Louviers, Elbeuf and Bois-Guillaume.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by hours of sunshine?: Morlaix (1,463 h/year), Rouen (1,554 h/year), Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray (1,554 h/year), Sotteville-lès-Rouen (1,554 h/year) and Le Grand-Quevilly (1,554 h/year).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by hours of sunshine?: Rouen, at 1,554 h/year, just behind Morlaix (1,463 h/year).
Is Morlaix really the French city ranked last on hours of sunshine?: Yes, at 1,463 h/year, ahead of Rouen (1,554 h/year) and Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray (1,554 h/year).
In which département is Morlaix?: Morlaix is in département 29, in the Bretagne region.
What is the difference between Morlaix and Rouen?: Morlaix is at 1,463 h/year, Rouen at 1,554 h/year. 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 hours of sunshine?: Bois-Guillaume, at 1,554 h/year.
How many French cities does this ranking compare?: 923, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.
What are the French cities ranked by hours of sunshine in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Morlaix leads with 1,463 h/year.
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by hours of sunshine?: Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 923, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.
What are the top 10?: In order: Morlaix (1,463 h/year), Rouen (1,554 h/year), Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray (1,554 h/year), Sotteville-lès-Rouen (1,554 h/year), Le Grand-Quevilly (1,554 h/year), Le Petit-Quevilly (1,554 h/year), Mont-Saint-Aignan (1,554 h/year), Louviers (1,554 h/year), Elbeuf (1,554 h/year), Bois-Guillaume (1,554 h/year).
Where does this figure come from?: Straight from Météo-France, fiches climatologiques, 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 923 cities in the dataset, each with its département, its region and the figure it is ranked on (hours of sunshine), 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 best-known cities in France on Wikipedia and The least-known cities in France on Wikipedia, 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.