What are the 10 French cities ranked by skiers?

In order: Briançon, Fillière, Passy, Saint-Genis-Pouilly, Cluses, La Roche-sur-Foron, Sallanches, Meylan, Rumilly and Divonne-les-Bains.

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

Briançon (36.7 / 1,000 inhab.), Fillière (28.5 / 1,000 inhab.), Passy (27.2 / 1,000 inhab.), Saint-Genis-Pouilly (24.9 / 1,000 inhab.) and Cluses (18 / 1,000 inhab.).

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

Fillière, at 28.5 / 1,000 inhab., just behind Briançon (36.7 / 1,000 inhab.).

Is Briançon really the French city ranked first on skiers?

Yes, at 36.7 / 1,000 inhab., ahead of Fillière (28.5 / 1,000 inhab.) and Passy (27.2 / 1,000 inhab.).

In which département is Briançon?

Briançon is in département 05, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.

What is the difference between Briançon and Fillière?

Briançon is at 36.7 / 1,000 inhab., Fillière at 28.5 / 1,000 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 skiers?

Divonne-les-Bains, at 13.6 / 1,000 inhab.

How many French cities does this ranking compare?

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

What are the French cities ranked by skiers in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Briançon leads with 36.7 / 1,000 inhab.

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

Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 727, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.

In order: Briançon (36.7 / 1,000 inhab.), Fillière (28.5 / 1,000 inhab.), Passy (27.2 / 1,000 inhab.), Saint-Genis-Pouilly (24.9 / 1,000 inhab.), Cluses (18 / 1,000 inhab.), La Roche-sur-Foron (16.6 / 1,000 inhab.), Sallanches (15.6 / 1,000 inhab.), Meylan (14.6 / 1,000 inhab.), Rumilly (14.5 / 1,000 inhab.), Divonne-les-Bains (13.6 / 1,000 inhab.).

Where does this figure come from?

Straight from Ministère des Sports, recensement des licences sportives, 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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Briançon leads on skiers, with 36.7 / 1,000 inhabitants, then Fillière (28.5 / 1,000 inhabitants) and Passy (27.2 / 1,000 inhabitants).

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Skiers, 722 cities shown. The coloured surface estimates the local tendency from nearby ranked cities. Exact city values remain in the table. 5 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: Ministère des Sports, recensement des licences sportives · 2023.

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Top 50 of 727 cities
Rank	City	Skiers / 1,000 inhab.	Population	Region
1	05 Briançon	36.7	11,411	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
2	74 Fillière	28.5	10,075	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
3	74 Passy	27.2	10,856	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
4	01 Saint-Genis-Pouilly	24.9	14,432	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
5	74 Cluses	18	17,795	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
6	74 La Roche-sur-Foron	16.6	11,348	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
7	74 Sallanches	15.6	17,319	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
8	38 Meylan	14.6	18,770	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
9	74 Rumilly	14.5	16,442	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
10	01 Divonne-les-Bains	13.6	10,464	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
11	74 Annecy	12.8	132,117	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
12	74 Saint-Julien-en-Genevois	12.3	16,222	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
13	74 Bonneville	10.9	13,335	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
14	73 Albertville	8.7	19,978	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
15	67 Saverne	8.3	11,460	Grand Est
16	74 Vétraz-Monthoux	8.2	10,949	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
17	06 Saint-Laurent-du-Var	7.5	32,172	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
18	06 Vence	7.1	19,917	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
19	05 Gap	6.9	41,293	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
20	88 Saint-Dié-des-Vosges	6.6	19,251	Grand Est
21	38 Voiron	6.4	21,847	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
22	38 Eybens	6.2	10,493	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
23	73 Aix-les-Bains	6	32,406	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
24	73 La Motte-Servolex	6	12,067	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
25	73 Chambéry	5.9	59,964	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
26	38 Grenoble	5.8	156,140	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
27	09 Pamiers	5.5	16,473	Occitanie
28	38 Saint-Égrève	5.4	17,986	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
29	01 Gex	5.3	13,627	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
30	06 Biot	5.2	10,511	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
31	74 Annemasse	5	37,628	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
32	01 Valserhône	5	16,712	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
33	32 Auch	4.9	22,428	Occitanie
34	31 Cugnaux	4.9	20,662	Occitanie
35	65 Lourdes	4.7	13,266	Occitanie
36	63 Aubière	4.6	10,459	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
37	63 Chamalières	4.5	17,509	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
38	11 Limoux	4.4	10,532	Occitanie
39	40 Biscarrosse	4.3	15,836	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
40	68 Cernay	4.2	12,057	Grand Est
41	83 Vidauban	4.1	12,608	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
42	67 Obernai	4.1	12,587	Grand Est
43	06 Valbonne	4	11,939	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
44	25 Pontarlier	3.9	18,067	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
45	64 Pau	3.8	80,441	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
46	74 Thonon-les-Bains	3.7	37,928	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
47	06 Vallauris	3.7	29,259	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
48	64 Billère	3.7	14,384	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
49	31 Villeneuve-Tolosane	3.7	11,044	Occitanie
50	63 Beaumont	3.7	10,728	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

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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. 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 skiers?: In order: Briançon, Fillière, Passy, Saint-Genis-Pouilly, Cluses, La Roche-sur-Foron, Sallanches, Meylan, Rumilly and Divonne-les-Bains.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by skiers?: Briançon (36.7 / 1,000 inhab.), Fillière (28.5 / 1,000 inhab.), Passy (27.2 / 1,000 inhab.), Saint-Genis-Pouilly (24.9 / 1,000 inhab.) and Cluses (18 / 1,000 inhab.).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by skiers?: Fillière, at 28.5 / 1,000 inhab., just behind Briançon (36.7 / 1,000 inhab.).
Is Briançon really the French city ranked first on skiers?: Yes, at 36.7 / 1,000 inhab., ahead of Fillière (28.5 / 1,000 inhab.) and Passy (27.2 / 1,000 inhab.).
In which département is Briançon?: Briançon is in département 05, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
What is the difference between Briançon and Fillière?: Briançon is at 36.7 / 1,000 inhab., Fillière at 28.5 / 1,000 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 skiers?: Divonne-les-Bains, at 13.6 / 1,000 inhab.
How many French cities does this ranking compare?: 727, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.
What are the French cities ranked by skiers in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Briançon leads with 36.7 / 1,000 inhab.
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by skiers?: Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 727, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.
What are the top 10?: In order: Briançon (36.7 / 1,000 inhab.), Fillière (28.5 / 1,000 inhab.), Passy (27.2 / 1,000 inhab.), Saint-Genis-Pouilly (24.9 / 1,000 inhab.), Cluses (18 / 1,000 inhab.), La Roche-sur-Foron (16.6 / 1,000 inhab.), Sallanches (15.6 / 1,000 inhab.), Meylan (14.6 / 1,000 inhab.), Rumilly (14.5 / 1,000 inhab.), Divonne-les-Bains (13.6 / 1,000 inhab.).
Where does this figure come from?: Straight from Ministère des Sports, recensement des licences sportives, 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 727 cities in the dataset, each with its département, its region and the figure it is ranked on (skiers), 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 Skiers: the bottom 50 French cities and Horse riders: the top 50 French cities, 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.