Best anchorages and harbours in France
1192 documented anchorages and harbours in France, ranked by boaters' ratings: shelter, seabed, services, photos and reviews, ready to open in the BoatMap app.
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- 391PortSaint-Pierre, Martinique
La Rade de Saint-Pierre
3.7Organised mooring field of 80 buoys off Saint-Pierre, the former capital of Martinique destroyed by the 1902 eruption of Montagne Pelée, on the north Caribbean coast.
392PortLe Croisic, FranceLe Croisic
3.7Drying town harbour of 500 berths at the end of a narrow tidal ria on the Guérande peninsula, where visitors take the ground on soft mud or lie on buoys in the pool, with an active fishing fleet and a bottlenose dolphin research station on the quay.
- 393PortStrasbourg, France
Marinest
3.7River marina on the Bassin des Remparts in Strasbourg, just north of the historic city centre, operated by Marinest since 2019.
394PortThilay, FranceMonthermé
3.7River halt on the Meuse in the Ardennes, 15 berths, at the confluence of the Meuse and the Semoy.
395PortFranceMouré Rouge
3.7Municipal marina of 450 berths east of the Pointe de la Croisette in Cannes, sheltered by a curved breakwater opening south-west toward the Îles de Lérins.
396PortDouarnenez, FrancePort de Tréboul
3.7Marina of around 500 berths on the west bank of the Pouldavid river at the entrance of Douarnenez Bay, western Finistère.
397PortLa Foret Fouesnant, FrancePort-La-Forêt
3.7Large marina of 1130 berths at the head of the Anse de la Forêt, south Finistère, home of the Pôle Finistère Course au Large.
- 398PortMarseille, France
Quai st Henri "port de commerce"
3.7Commercial quay in the northern part of the Grand Port Maritime de Marseille, in the Saint-Henri district.
399PortCamaret-sur-Mer, FranceCamaret-sur-Mer
3.7Marina of around 800 berths on the Crozon peninsula, sheltered behind the Sillon gravel spit at the entrance of the Brest roadstead.
400PortLe-Grau-du-Roi, FranceLe Grau du Roi
3.7Fishing and pleasure harbour at the mouth of the Canal du Rhône à Sète, in Petite Camargue. Berthing in the town quays is limited, most visiting yachts head for the Port Camargue marina 1.3 nautical miles to the south-west.
401PortPort-en-Bessin, FrancePort-en-Bessin
3.7Tidal fishing harbour on the Bessin coast of Normandy, with a single small visitor pontoon rather than a marina, max draught 4 m.
402PortSète, FranceQuai d'Alger "port de commerce"
3.7Honour quay of Sète's commercial port, on the western side of the Môle Saint-Louis basin, in Occitanie. Not a plaisance berth, but the occasional visitor pontoon for tall ships and events.
- 403PortSteinbourg, France
steinbourg
3.7Canal halt of 12 berths on the Canal de la Marne au Rhin, at Steinbourg in Alsace, just north of Saverne.
404PortHendaye, FranceHendaye
3.7Marina of 890 berths on the Bidassoa estuary, last French harbour on the Atlantic before the Spanish border.
- 405PortHyères les Palmiers, France
La Madrague de Giens
3.7Shallow-draught harbour of 159 berths on the western side of the Giens peninsula, at Hyères, facing the Île de Porquerolles.
406PortLa Rochelle, FranceLa Rochelle - Port des Minimes
3.7Marina of 5 100 berths south of La Rochelle, one of the largest leisure harbours on the European Atlantic coast.
407PortLézardrieux, FranceLézardrieux
3.7River marina on the Trieux estuary, Côtes-d'Armor, 4 nautical miles upriver from the open sea, with 741 berths.
408PortFrancePlagne
3.7River port on the Dordogne at Saint-André-de-Cubzac in Gironde, about 1.5 nautical miles north of Cubzac-les-Ponts.
- 409PortFrance
Plaisance Club De Strasbourg
3.7Yacht club on the Bassin des Remparts in Strasbourg, on the Rhine-Rhône canal network, Grand Est.
410PortFranceVallon des Auffes
3.7Small fishing cove wedged between cliffs on the Corniche Kennedy in Marseille, west of the Anse de la Fausse Monnaie.
- 411PortBrest, France
Brest-Marina du Château
3.7Marina of around 750 berths in the Penfeld mouth at the foot of the Château de Brest, in the heart of the city on the northern shore of the roadstead.
412PortLe Tréport, FranceLe Tréport
3.7Tidal harbour at the mouth of the Bresle, on the Normandy coast at the foot of 100 m chalk cliffs.
413PortCerbere, FrancePort de Cerbère
3.7Marina of 190 berths on the Côte Vermeille in Occitanie, the last French port before the Spanish border at Cap Cerbère.
414PortSaint-Jean-de-Luz, FranceSaint-Jean-de-Luz - Ciboure - Port Larraldenia
3.7Marina of 81 berths in the bay of Saint-Jean-de-Luz and Ciboure, on the Basque coast, sheltered behind the three breakwaters of the bay.
- 415PortVilleneuve-lès-Béziers, France
Villeneuve les Béziers
3.7Halt on the Canal du Midi at Villeneuve-lès-Béziers, between the Fonseranes lock staircase and the Mediterranean.
- 416PortEtaples, France
Etaples
3.7Tidal marina of 240 berths on the Canche estuary, opposite Le Touquet, in the Pas-de-Calais.
- 417PortFrance
Port de Erbalunga
3.7Small fishing harbour on the east coast of Cap Corse, 4 nm north of Bastia.
418PortFranceHalte fluival louhans
3.7Town halt on the Seille river at Louhans, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, a few hundred metres from the centre.
419PortPlobannalec - Lesconil, FranceLesconil
3.7Small fishing harbour on the Pays Bigouden coast of south Finistère, 32 plaisance berths alongside the working fleet.
420PortFranceLocmariaquer
3.7Drying harbour of 119 berths on the western shore of the entrance to the Golfe du Morbihan, opposite Port-Navalo across the narrow pass.