In Centre-Val de Loire · INSEE / geo.api.gouv.fr
Dreux is the city closest to the sea in Centre-Val de Loire, at 111 km, ahead of Vernouillet (114 km) and Mainvilliers (139 km). At the other end, Bourges is the city furthest from the sea, at 288 km.
| Rank | City | Distance to the sea | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 28 Dreux | 111 km | 31,543 |
| 2 | 28 Vernouillet | 114 km | 12,310 |
| 3 | 28 Mainvilliers | 139 km | 10,629 |
| 4 | 28 Lucé | 142 km | 15,921 |
| 5 | 28 Chartres | 143 km | 38,324 |
| 6 | 37 Chinon | 154 km | 8,144 |
| 7 | 28 Châteaudun | 170 km | 12,830 |
| 8 | 41 Vendôme | 187 km | 15,758 |
| 9 | 37 Joué-lès-Tours | 188 km | 38,423 |
| 10 | 37 Fondettes | 191 km | 10,954 |
| 11 | 37 La Riche | 191 km | 10,487 |
| 12 | 37 Chambray-lès-Tours | 192 km | 12,720 |
| 13 | 37 Saint-Avertin | 194 km | 14,999 |
| 14 | 37 Tours | 195 km | 139,259 |
| 15 | 37 Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire | 195 km | 17,029 |
| 16 | 37 Saint-Pierre-des-Corps | 196 km | 15,898 |
| 17 | 37 Montlouis-sur-Loire | 202 km | 11,335 |
| 18 | 45 Saran | 204 km | 17,316 |
| 19 | 45 Ingré | 204 km | 10,062 |
| 20 | 45 Fleury-les-Aubrais | 206 km | 21,804 |
| 21 | 45 Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle | 207 km | 16,768 |
| 22 | 45 La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin | 208 km | 11,017 |
| 23 | 45 Saint-Jean-de-Braye | 210 km | 23,147 |
| 24 | 45 Orléans | 212 km | 116,357 |
| 25 | 37 Amboise | 212 km | 12,937 |
| 26 | 45 Olivet | 213 km | 23,507 |
| 27 | 41 Blois | 217 km | 47,219 |
| 28 | 41 Chambord | 221 km | 102 |
| 29 | 36 Châteauroux | 228 km | 42,963 |
| 30 | 45 Châlette-sur-Loing | 242 km | 12,677 |
| 31 | 45 Montargis | 244 km | 14,825 |
| 32 | 45 Amilly | 247 km | 13,582 |
| 33 | 41 Romorantin-Lanthenay | 253 km | 18,373 |
| 34 | 36 Issoudun | 255 km | 11,159 |
| 35 | 45 Gien | 262 km | 13,459 |
| 36 | 18 Vierzon | 271 km | 25,068 |
| 37 | 18 Bourges | 288 km | 64,186 |
The same ranking for the whole of France : The French cities closest to the sea · The French cities farthest from the sea
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.