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

In order: Marseille, Martigues, Istres, Salon-de-Provence, Vitrolles, Marignane, Miramas, Les Pennes-Mirabeau, Châteauneuf-les-Martigues and Fos-sur-Mer.

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

Marseille (2,898 h/year), Martigues (2,898 h/year), Istres (2,898 h/year), Salon-de-Provence (2,898 h/year) and Vitrolles (2,898 h/year).

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

Martigues, at 2,898 h/year, just behind Marseille (2,898 h/year).

Is Marseille really the French city ranked first on hours of sunshine?

Yes, at 2,898 h/year, ahead of Martigues (2,898 h/year) and Istres (2,898 h/year).

In which département is Marseille?

Marseille is in département 13, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.

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: Marseille leads with 2,898 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: Marseille (2,898 h/year), Martigues (2,898 h/year), Istres (2,898 h/year), Salon-de-Provence (2,898 h/year), Vitrolles (2,898 h/year), Marignane (2,898 h/year), Miramas (2,898 h/year), Les Pennes-Mirabeau (2,898 h/year), Châteauneuf-les-Martigues (2,898 h/year), Fos-sur-Mer (2,898 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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Marseille leads on hours of sunshine, with 2,898 h/year, then Martigues (2,898 h/year) and Istres (2,898 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	13 Marseille	2,898	886,040	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
2	13 Martigues	2,898	48,298	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
3	13 Istres	2,898	44,292	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
4	13 Salon-de-Provence	2,898	44,194	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
5	13 Vitrolles	2,898	36,758	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
6	13 Marignane	2,898	33,692	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
7	13 Miramas	2,898	26,203	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
8	13 Les Pennes-Mirabeau	2,898	22,537	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
9	13 Châteauneuf-les-Martigues	2,898	18,455	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
10	13 Fos-sur-Mer	2,898	15,862	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
11	13 Port-de-Bouc	2,898	15,802	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
12	13 Saint-Martin-de-Crau	2,898	14,145	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
13	13 Berre-l'Étang	2,898	13,832	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
14	13 Rognac	2,898	12,576	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
15	13 Septèmes-les-Vallons	2,898	11,995	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
16	13 Pélissanne	2,898	11,085	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
17	13 Gignac-la-Nerthe	2,898	10,343	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
18	13 Aix-en-Provence	2,873	149,695	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
19	13 Aubagne	2,873	47,529	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
20	13 Gardanne	2,873	21,597	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
21	13 Allauch	2,873	21,443	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
22	84 Pertuis	2,873	19,548	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
23	13 Bouc-Bel-Air	2,873	15,381	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
24	13 Auriol	2,873	13,037	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
25	13 Plan-de-Cuques	2,873	11,632	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
26	13 Trets	2,873	10,946	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
27	13 Fuveau	2,873	10,337	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
28	13 Cabriès	2,873	10,240	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
29	13 Lambesc	2,873	10,024	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
30	84 Avignon	2,835	92,188	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
31	84 Carpentras	2,835	31,619	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
32	84 Orange	2,835	29,706	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
33	84 Cavaillon	2,835	25,636	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
34	84 L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue	2,835	20,244	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
35	84 Sorgues	2,835	19,006	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
36	84 Le Pontet	2,835	18,386	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
37	13 Châteaurenard	2,835	16,545	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
38	84 Monteux	2,835	13,301	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
39	30 Villeneuve-lès-Avignon	2,835	13,148	Occitanie
40	84 Vedène	2,835	11,974	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
41	84 Pernes-les-Fontaines	2,835	10,504	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
42	84 Apt	2,835	10,143	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
43	84 Vaison-la-Romaine	2,835	6,058	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
44	84 Châteauneuf-du-Pape	2,835	2,050	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
45	84 Gordes	2,835	1,661	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
46	84 Bonnieux	2,835	1,198	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
47	84 Ménerbes	2,835	962	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
48	2A Ajaccio	2,802	76,320	Corse
49	976 Mamoudzou	2,787	71,437	Mayotte
50	976 Koungou	2,787	32,156	Mayotte

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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.

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 hours of sunshine?: In order: Marseille, Martigues, Istres, Salon-de-Provence, Vitrolles, Marignane, Miramas, Les Pennes-Mirabeau, Châteauneuf-les-Martigues and Fos-sur-Mer.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by hours of sunshine?: Marseille (2,898 h/year), Martigues (2,898 h/year), Istres (2,898 h/year), Salon-de-Provence (2,898 h/year) and Vitrolles (2,898 h/year).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by hours of sunshine?: Martigues, at 2,898 h/year, just behind Marseille (2,898 h/year).
Is Marseille really the French city ranked first on hours of sunshine?: Yes, at 2,898 h/year, ahead of Martigues (2,898 h/year) and Istres (2,898 h/year).
In which département is Marseille?: Marseille is in département 13, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
Which city is 10th in the ranking of French cities ranked by hours of sunshine?: Fos-sur-Mer, at 2,898 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: Marseille leads with 2,898 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: Marseille (2,898 h/year), Martigues (2,898 h/year), Istres (2,898 h/year), Salon-de-Provence (2,898 h/year), Vitrolles (2,898 h/year), Marignane (2,898 h/year), Miramas (2,898 h/year), Les Pennes-Mirabeau (2,898 h/year), Châteauneuf-les-Martigues (2,898 h/year), Fos-sur-Mer (2,898 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 Hours of sunshine: the bottom 50 French cities and The best-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.