What are the 10 French cities ranked by altitude?

In order: Aigues-Mortes, Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Coudekerque-Branche, Pointe-à-Pitre, Calais, Arles, Grande-Synthe, Saint-Omer, Parempuyre and Marck.

What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by altitude?

Aigues-Mortes (1 m), Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (1 m), Coudekerque-Branche (3 m), Pointe-à-Pitre (3 m) and Calais (4 m).

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

Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, at 1 m, just behind Aigues-Mortes (1 m).

In which département is Aigues-Mortes?

Aigues-Mortes is in département 30, in the Occitanie region.

How many French cities does this ranking compare?

1,111, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.

What are the French cities ranked by altitude in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Aigues-Mortes leads with 1 m.

Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by altitude?

Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,111, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.

In order: Aigues-Mortes (1 m), Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (1 m), Coudekerque-Branche (3 m), Pointe-à-Pitre (3 m), Calais (4 m), Arles (4 m), Grande-Synthe (4 m), Saint-Omer (4 m), Parempuyre (4 m), Marck (4 m).

Where does this figure come from?

Straight from IGN, via data.gouv.fr, 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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The lowest city in France by altitude is Aigues-Mortes, at 1 m (altitude), ahead of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (1 m) and Coudekerque-Branche (3 m).

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Altitude, 1051 cities shown. The coloured surface is a local average over 34,863 communes, 99.1% of the country's population, weighted by the population of each one. Every commune with a published value counts, not only the towns in the table. 60 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: IGN, via data.gouv.fr.

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Top 50 of 1,111 cities
Rank	City	Altitude m	Population	Region
1	30 Aigues-Mortes	1	8,699	Occitanie
2	13 Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer	1	2,433	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
3	59 Coudekerque-Branche	3	20,787	Hauts-de-France
4	971 Pointe-à-Pitre	3	15,040	Guadeloupe
5	62 Calais	4	67,571	Hauts-de-France
6	13 Arles	4	51,811	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
7	59 Grande-Synthe	4	20,239	Hauts-de-France
8	62 Saint-Omer	4	14,382	Hauts-de-France
9	33 Parempuyre	4	10,672	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
10	62 Marck	4	10,467	Hauts-de-France
11	14 Cabourg	4	3,725	Normandie
12	59 Dunkerque	5	86,263	Hauts-de-France
13	17 Rochefort	5	23,460	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
14	34 Mauguio	5	16,522	Occitanie
15	13 Fos-sur-Mer	5	15,862	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
16	85 Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez	5	13,074	Pays de la Loire
17	66 Saint-Cyprien	5	12,068	Occitanie
18	59 Gravelines	5	11,430	Hauts-de-France
19	33 Bruges	6	20,020	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
20	66 Canet-en-Roussillon	6	13,227	Occitanie
21	34 Sète	7	45,337	Occitanie
22	33 Bègles	7	31,831	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
23	34 Lattes	7	17,351	Occitanie
24	50 Le Mont-Saint-Michel	7	23	Normandie
25	973 Cayenne	8	62,675	Guyane
26	85 Les Sables-d'Olonne	8	49,603	Pays de la Loire
27	34 Agde	8	29,939	Occitanie
28	62 Berck	8	12,951	Hauts-de-France
29	34 Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone	8	10,872	Occitanie
30	33 Bordeaux	9	267,991	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
31	17 La Rochelle	9	79,851	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
32	973 Matoury	9	36,512	Guyane
33	33 Ambarès-et-Lagrave	9	17,644	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
34	33 Libourne	10	25,036	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
35	44 Saint-Brevin-les-Pins	10	14,541	Pays de la Loire
36	50 Carentan-les-Marais	10	10,218	Normandie
37	973 Macouria	11	19,899	Guyane
38	40 Soorts-Hossegor	11	3,817	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
39	34 Lunel	12	26,623	Occitanie
40	62 Le Touquet-Paris-Plage	12	4,224	Hauts-de-France
41	33 Blanquefort	13	17,215	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
42	33 Villenave-d'Ornon	14	42,545	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
43	13 Marignane	14	33,692	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
44	76 Sotteville-lès-Rouen	14	29,003	Normandie
45	40 Dax	14	22,109	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
46	17 Royan	14	19,425	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
47	44 Sainte-Luce-sur-Loire	14	16,400	Pays de la Loire
48	13 Berre-l'Étang	14	13,832	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
49	33 Andernos-les-Bains	14	12,710	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
50	30 Vauvert	14	11,671	Occitanie

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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.

11 questions about this ranking

What are the 10 French cities ranked by altitude?: In order: Aigues-Mortes, Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Coudekerque-Branche, Pointe-à-Pitre, Calais, Arles, Grande-Synthe, Saint-Omer, Parempuyre and Marck.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by altitude?: Aigues-Mortes (1 m), Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (1 m), Coudekerque-Branche (3 m), Pointe-à-Pitre (3 m) and Calais (4 m).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by altitude?: Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, at 1 m, just behind Aigues-Mortes (1 m).
Is Aigues-Mortes really the French city ranked last on altitude?: Yes, at 1 m, ahead of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (1 m) and Coudekerque-Branche (3 m).
In which département is Aigues-Mortes?: Aigues-Mortes is in département 30, in the Occitanie region.
Which city is 10th in the ranking of French cities ranked by altitude?: Marck, at 4 m.
How many French cities does this ranking compare?: 1,111, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.
What are the French cities ranked by altitude in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Aigues-Mortes leads with 1 m.
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by altitude?: Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,111, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.
What are the top 10?: In order: Aigues-Mortes (1 m), Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (1 m), Coudekerque-Branche (3 m), Pointe-à-Pitre (3 m), Calais (4 m), Arles (4 m), Grande-Synthe (4 m), Saint-Omer (4 m), Parempuyre (4 m), Marck (4 m).
Where does this figure come from?: Straight from IGN, via data.gouv.fr, 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 1,111 cities in the dataset, each with its département, its region and the figure it is ranked on (altitude), 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 where rugby is least played and The French cities where pétanque is least played, 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.