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France Coastal Towns

Source: AirROI Reviewed by , Founder @ AirROI Updated

Figures are AirROI estimates. How they are made

Among the 259 towns with 200+ homes

Most booked of these 259
Nice 218,538 stays
Highest revenue per home of these 259
Saint Barthélemy €70,212 a year
Highest rated of these 259
Saint Barthélemy 4.92 out of 5
Lowest nightly rate of these 259
Cherbourg-en-Cotentin €74 a night
Longest typical stay of these 259
Noumea 8.8 nights

Ranking

France Coastal Towns Ranked by Airbnb Stays

Every one of the coastal and beach towns in France with 100 or more Airbnb homes and recent stays, most booked first.

France Coastal Towns ranked by Airbnb stays, with homes, typical stay, busiest month, nightly rate, occupancy, revenue per home and guest rating
1Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur218,538€174
2Cannes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur107,396€278
3Antibes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur63,868€197
4La Rochelle, Nouvelle-Aquitaine52,717€121
5Saint-Malo, Brittany45,524€143
6Agde, Occitania38,808€124
7Sète, Occitania32,965€129
8Les Sables-d'Olonne, Pays de la Loire31,657€133
9Menton, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur30,621€159
10Hyères, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur30,068€165
11Saint-Raphaël, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur28,644€173
12Saint-Paul, Réunion28,160€156
13La Ciotat, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur27,505€149
14Arcachon, Nouvelle-Aquitaine26,852€186
15Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, Hauts-de-France26,056€198
16Porto-Vecchio, Corsica25,866€219
17Saint Martin (France). Includes Marigot and Grand-Case.25,546€355
18Biarritz, Nouvelle-Aquitaine24,299€219
19La Grande-Motte, Occitania21,774€109
20Le Grau-du-Roi, Occitania21,754€108
21Le Havre, Normandy21,752€84
22Dunkirk, Hauts-de-France20,534€114
23Cassis, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur20,437€233
24Fréjus, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur20,366€144
25Dinard, Brittany19,428€152

Figures are AirROI estimates for the 12 months to October 2026, and stays count Airbnb bookings only. Typical stay is a booking's length, occupancy the share of available nights booked, and revenue the yearly average per home, before costs. Guest rating is out of 5. Airbnb data files some places as one district or township, so Saint Martin (France) and rows like it cover several towns.

Money figures on this page are in euros, converted from US dollars at €0.86 per US$, the typical rate from November 2025 to October 2026.

By region

Stays and Top Town by Region

France Coastal Towns by region: towns, Airbnb stays and the top town in each
RegionStaysTop town
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur805,705Nice
Nouvelle-Aquitaine480,384La Rochelle
Brittany396,748Saint-Malo
Occitania303,496Agde
Normandy270,397Le Havre
Pays de la Loire231,090Les Sables-d'Olonne
Hauts-de-France205,933Le Touquet-Paris-Plage
Corsica153,594Porto-Vecchio
Guadeloupe72,573Saint-François
Réunion64,814Saint-Paul
Martinique55,838Les Trois-Îlets
French Polynesia39,003Moorea-Maiao
Saint Martin (France)25,546Saint Martin (France)
Saint Barthélemy7,032Saint Barthélemy
New Caledonia3,159Noumea
French Guiana2,406Rémire-Montjoly

Town by town

Where the Top Towns Stand Out

All 8 are busiest in August. Among guests who left a review, Paris is the top home city in 7 of the 8. Apartments and condos are the largest home type in all 8. The lines below add what the table can't show, where one of the 8 most booked towns leads its peers or differs from the rest.

  1. Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

    Of the 259 coastal towns in France with 200 or more homes, Nice (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) had the most Airbnb homes, at 9,629, in the 12 months to October 2026.

When to go

Busiest and Quietest Months

August, July and September rank as the busiest months for Airbnb nights across the coastal towns in France, and February and January as the quietest. August is the busiest month in 352 of the 397, while Saint-Paul peaks in November, Saint Martin (France) in March, and Moorea-Maiao in September. Across the 397 towns, nightly rates run lowest in November, at about €158, and highest in July, at about €195.

August ranks first, January last

Airbnb months in calendar order. The number is the month's rank, and 1 is the busiest. The bar shows its part of Airbnb nights.

  • Three busiest months
  • Other months
Month by month: rank, typical stay and nightly rate
Months in France by rank
RankMonth Typical stay Nightly rate
1August6.7 nights€193
2July8.0 nights€195
3September4.7 nights€170
4June5.8 nights€182
5May4.9 nights€173
6October4.7 nights€161
7April5.2 nights€165
8December4.7 nights€161
9March5.5 nights€164
10November4.9 nights€158
11February5.4 nights€165
12January5.9 nights€165

Who comes

Where Guests Come From

Among guests who left a review, 71% come from within France. Among those guests, the largest groups from abroad come from Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. The top home cities among those guests are Paris, Lyon and Toulouse. Saint Martin (France) draws the most from abroad, at 87%, among towns with 200 or more homes.

Top countries abroad

Among guests who left a review

  • Germany 4.8%
  • United Kingdom 4%
  • United States 3.4%
  • Belgium 1.7%
  • Canada 1.2%
  • Switzerland 1.2%

Top home cities

Among guests who left a review

71% from within France

  • Paris 7.5%
  • Lyon 1.1%
  • Toulouse 1.1%
  • Nantes 1.1%

The money view

Revenue, Occupancy and Nightly Rate

Among the 259 towns with 200 or more Airbnb homes, Saint Barthélemy has the highest estimated revenue per home, at €70,212 a year. Of those 259, Villefranche-sur-Mer and Nice share the highest occupancy, at 50%, and Cherbourg-en-Cotentin has the lowest nightly rate on Airbnb, at €74. The most booked of the 397, Nice, earns about €22,304 per home.

Highest revenue per home of these 259

A year, AirROI estimate

  1. Ramatuelle €46,113

    Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

  2. Moorea-Maiao €40,333

    French Polynesia

  3. Saint-Tropez €39,016

    Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Highest occupancy of these 259

Nights booked, AirROI estimate

  1. Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

  2. Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

  3. Réunion

  4. Réunion

  5. Normandy

Lowest nightly rate of these 259

On Airbnb, AirROI estimate

  1. Normandy

  2. Noumea €80

    New Caledonia

  3. Normandy

  4. Calais €93

    Hauts-de-France

  5. Pays de la Loire

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the most popular coastal town in France?

By AirROI's estimates, Nice (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) is the most booked of the 397 coastal towns in France, with 218,538 Airbnb stays in the 12 months to October 2026. Cannes is second, with 107,396. This counts Airbnb bookings only.

What is the most affordable coastal town in France?

By AirROI's estimated nightly rate on Airbnb in the 12 months to October 2026, among coastal towns in France with 200 or more homes, the lowest are Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (Normandy) (€74), Noumea (New Caledonia) (€80) and Le Havre (Normandy) (€84). That is the average asking price on booked nights, not what it costs to live or buy there.

What are some small coastal towns in France?

By AirROI's count of active Airbnb homes as of October 2026, the smallest of the 397 coastal towns it lists in France are Saint-Germain-sur-Ay (Normandy) (95), Louannec (Brittany) (99) and Kerlouan (Brittany) (100). AirROI's list starts at 100 homes, so smaller places are not on it.

What coastal towns in France offer the strongest Airbnb returns?

Returns depend on what a home costs to buy and run, which AirROI's figures do not cover. On AirROI's estimated revenue per home in the 12 months to October 2026, among coastal towns in France with 200 or more homes, the highest are Saint Barthélemy (€70,212), Ramatuelle (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) (€46,113) and Moorea-Maiao (French Polynesia) (€40,333). Among the same towns, Villefranche-sur-Mer (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) and Nice (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) share the highest occupancy, at 50%.

Method

How These Lists and Numbers Are Made

How a town gets on this list. A town needs 100 or more Airbnb homes with recent stays. A language model then judges the place from its name, state, country and coordinates, not from words in its name: it has to be on an ocean or sea coast with its own beach, seafront or harbour, or on a Great Lake with a public beach, and within about 10 km of the shore. The town's own listings can back that up, with 30% of its homes listing beach access, or 10% with ocean views, waterfront homes or beach in their titles besides. A town whose listings do not gets a second, stricter check, which asks whether people go there for that or mainly for something else. Big cities stay off. Corrections come last: places the checks got wrong are added or taken off, and rows that name one place are joined.

How the figures are made. Stays, occupancy, nightly rate and revenue are AirROI estimates built from Airbnb listing data, and cover Airbnb only. A town's stays are its bookings in the period, and the typical stay and busiest month come from the same data. Guest ratings, home sizes and how far ahead guests book are the latest figures in each town's AirROI data. Month ranks compare each month's part of Airbnb nights. Origin rests on 9,014,144 reviews and describes guests who left a review, not everyone who stayed. A town needs 1,000 reviews before this page gives its share from abroad.