Best anchorages and harbours in France
3174 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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- 691AnchorageFrance
Pointe du Grand Mont
4.2Anchorage off the Pointe du Grand Mont on the west coast of the Rhuys peninsula in southern Brittany, on rock and sand.
- Sheltered N, NE, E
692HarbourHyères les Palmiers, FrancePorquerolles
4.2Main harbour of the island of Porquerolles, on the northern shore, inside the Port-Cros national park, off Hyeres.
693HarbourPérols, FrancePort de Pérols
4.2Harbour of 130 berths on the étang du Méjean, on the Montpellier coast in Occitanie.
694HarbourSaint Jean Cap-Ferrat, FranceSaint Jean Cap Ferrat
4.2Marina of 550 berths on the west side of the Cap Ferrat peninsula, between Nice and Beaulieu, sheltered by the cape from easterly winds.
695AnchorageFranceTourelle Figuiet
4.2Anchorage near the Figuiet cardinal mark in the bay of Morlaix, north Finistère, south of Île Callot and the Roscoff approaches.
- Sheltered NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW
696HarbourVillefranche-sur-Mer, FranceVillefranche - Darse
4.2Former Sardinian military harbour in the Rade de Villefranche-sur-Mer, between Nice and Cap Ferrat.
- 697AnchorageFrance
Anse de la Fosse
4.2Small sand-bottom anchorage on the north coast of Île d'Oléron, about 0.4 nm east of Saint-Denis-d'Oléron.
- Paid
- Sheltered W, SW, S
698AnchorageFranceBaie de Banyuls
4.2Buoy mooring field off Banyuls-sur-Mer on the Côte Vermeille, close to the Spanish border in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
- Paid
- Sheltered NW, W, SW, S, SE
- 699AnchorageFrance
Baie de la Garonne
4.2Wide bay on the south coast of Le Pradet, sand and rock bottom with posidonia, day anchorage east of Toulon roadstead.
- Sheltered NE, E, SE
- 700AnchorageFrance
Cala di Palu
4.2Cove on the west coast of Corsica, between Cargèse and the Gulf of Porto, over sand and rock.
- Sheltered N, NE, E, NW
701AnchorageFranceCalanque de Fontagne
4.2Small south-facing inlet on the Marseilleveyre massif east of Les Goudes, inside the Parc national des Calanques.
- Sheltered S
702AnchorageFranceL'île d'Or
4.2Small private island off Le Dramont, east of Saint-Raphaël, recognisable by its square Saracen-style tower of red porphyry built in 1912.
- Sheltered N, S, SE
- 703HarbourLa Palmyre, France
La Palmyre - Bonne-Anse
4.2Marina of 360 berths inside the Bonne Anse lagoon at the northern entrance of the Gironde estuary, on the Côte de Beauté.
704AnchorageFranceLe blavet aval ferme
4.2River anchorage on the lower Blavet below Hennebont, sheltered from all directions, mud bottom.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
705HarbourLe Bono, FranceLe Bono
4.2Tidal harbour of 428 berths on the rivière du Bono, a tributary of the Golfe du Morbihan in southern Brittany.
706AnchorageFrancePort aux anglais
4.2Anchorage among the Iles de Glenan off southern Finistere, open to the south, with a mixed bottom of sand, rock and weed.
- Sheltered NW, W, SW
707HarbourHyères, FrancePort du Niel
4.2Small harbour of 106 berths on the east side of the Giens peninsula, in the commune of Hyères, Var.
- 708AnchorageFrance
Portz Plous
4.2Anchorage on the south coast of the Île de Groix, off Morbihan in southern Brittany.
- Sheltered N, NE, E
- 709AnchorageFrance
Samzun
4.2Anchorage on the east side of Belle-Île-en-Mer, Morbihan, south of Le Palais.
- Sheltered W, SW, S, SE
- 710AnchorageFrance
Anse du Bon Renaud
4.2South-facing cove on the northern coast of Île de Porquerolles, about 0.6 nm west of the village harbour, inside the Parc national de Port-Cros.
- Sheltered SE, S, SW, W
- 711HarbourAnse Marcel, St. Martin
Anse Marcel Marina
4.2Marina at the head of Anse Marcel, on the north coast of French Saint-Martin, reached by a channel past the hotel at the back of the bay.
- 712AnchorageFrance
Anse Ottioni
4.2Anchorage in a small cove on the west coast of Corsica, south of Ajaccio in the Gulf of Ajaccio.
- Sheltered N, NE, E, SE, S
- 713HarbourArs-en-Ré, France
Ars-en-Ré - Bassin de la Prée
4.2Tidal basin of the port of Ars-en-Re on the north shore of the Ile de Re, Charente-Maritime.
- 714AnchorageFrance
Cala de Malfacu
4.2Cove of the Désert des Agriates coast in northern Corsica, about 8.5 nm west of Saint-Florent.
- Sheltered E, SW, S, SE
- 715AnchorageFrance
Etang du Ponant
4.2Brackish coastal lagoon north of La Grande-Motte, about 270 hectares, connected to the sea by a narrow grau. Mud bottom with water available ashore.
- Sheltered N, S, SW, W, NW
716HarbourFranceHourtin Port
4.2Small inland marina on Lac d'Hourtin-Carcans in the Médoc, the largest natural freshwater lake in France.
717AnchorageFranceÎle de Bendor
4.2Small private island off Bandol, bought by Paul Ricard in 1950 and developed into a cultural site with a marina on its north side.
- Sheltered S, SE
718AnchorageFranceÎle de la Jument
4.2Small island in the Gulf of Morbihan between Larmor-Baden and the Île-aux-Moines, with 8 visitor buoys on a mixed mud and weed bottom.
- Free
- Sheltered NW, W, SW
719AnchorageFranceÎle de Litiri
4.2Small islet mooring in the Chenal du Four, off the Pointe Saint-Mathieu in Finistère, north Brittany.
- Sheltered NE, E, SE
- 720AnchorageFrance
La Pietra
4.2Rocky islet of La Pietra at the tip of the Ile Rousse peninsula in Balagne, north Corsica. Anchoring is prohibited in the immediate surroundings.
- Sheltered SW, S, SE
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Opal Coast and Bay of Somme: Dunkirk to Saint-Valery, Stopover harbours of North Brittany, Saint-Malo to Brest, Emerald Coast anchorages, Saint-Malo to Cancale, Jersey, Guernsey and Sark from Saint-Malo, Pink granite coast and Bréhat: the anchorages, Saint-Brieuc bay: Saint-Quay to Paimpol, Brest roadstead and the Crozon peninsula: the anchorages, Ushant, Molène and Sein: the Iroise anchorages, The Abers: Aber-Wrac'h to Roscoff, Stopover harbours of South Brittany, Brest to the Vilaine, The Glénan: anchorages of the archipelago, The Odet to Concarneau: stopovers and anchorages, Douarnenez bay, Cap Sizun and Audierne, Belle-Île, Houat and Hoëdic: the best anchorages, Gulf of Morbihan: anchorages and stopovers, Quiberon bay and La Trinité: sheltered anchorages, Groix, Lorient and the rias: a weekend from Lorient, The D-Day beaches by sea, East Cotentin: Cherbourg, Barfleur and Saint-Vaast, Granville, Chausey and the west coast of the Cotentin, Alderney and Guernsey from Cherbourg, Côte Fleurie and Alabaster Coast: the stopovers, The tidal Seine, from Le Havre and Honfleur to Rouen, Atlantic stopover harbours, the Loire to the Gironde, Guérande peninsula: Piriac, Le Croisic and La Baule, Côte de Jade: Saint-Brevin to Pornic, Vendée: Pornic, Noirmoutier, Yeu and Les Sables, Île d'Yeu and Noirmoutier: the anchorages, Ré, Aix and Oléron: the Pertuis from La Rochelle, Île de Ré and the Pertuis Breton: tidal harbours and anchorages, Oléron, Marennes and the Seudre: oyster channels and gated basins, Gironde estuary: Royan to Pauillac, Garonne and Dordogne: Pauillac to Bordeaux and Libourne, Arcachon basin: the anchorages, Basque coast: Capbreton, Saint-Jean-de-Luz and Hendaye, Côte Vermeille: Collioure, Port-Vendres and Banyuls, Sète, the Thau lagoon and the Camargue, Cap d'Agde to Port-Barcarès: lagoon harbours and fair-weather anchorages, Stopover harbours of the Gulf of Lion, Port-Vendres to Port-Camargue, Camargue, Gulf of Fos and the Étang de Berre: harbours and anchorages, Calanques, Marseille to Cassis: where you can still anchor, Frioul and Riou: the islands of Marseille, Côte Bleue: Carry, Sausset and Niolon, Cassis to Bandol via Île Verte, Îles d'Hyères: Porquerolles, Port-Cros and Levant, Gulf of Saint-Tropez, Pampelonne and the capes, Where to shelter from the mistral in the Var, Bandol to Giens: Sanary, Les Embiez and the Toulon roadstead, Corniche des Maures: Léoube to Cavalaire, beaches and anchorages, Stopover harbours of the Var, Bandol to Saint-Raphaël, Lérins islands and Cap d'Antibes: the anchorages, Villefranche to Menton: Cap Ferrat, Monaco and Menton, The Estérel: Théoule to Agay, anchorages of the red rocks, Stopover harbours of the Riviera, Saint-Raphaël to Menton, The most beautiful anchorages in Corsica, Bonifacio, Lavezzi and the far south, Agriates and Cap Corse: Saint-Florent to Macinaggio, West coast: Calvi, Scandola, Girolata and Ajaccio, Porto-Vecchio, Pinarello and the east coast, Gulf of Ajaccio: Sanguinaires islands to Capo di Muro, Gulf of Valinco: Propriano, Campomoro and the coast to Roccapina, Balagne: L'Île-Rousse to Calvi and Galéria, Round Corsica in twelve harbours, South Martinique: Le Marin, Sainte-Anne and Les Salines, Fort-de-France bay, Trois-Îlets and the Anses d'Arlet, Saint-Pierre and Martinique's north Caribbean coast, Martinique's Atlantic coast: islets and white sand shallows, Guadeloupe's leeward coast: Deshaies, Pigeon and Bouillante, Les Saintes and Marie-Galante anchorages, Grande-Terre, Petite-Terre and La Désirade: Pointe-à-Pitre to Saint-François, Grand Cul-de-Sac Marin: the lagoon islets, Saint-Martin and St. Barts: anchorages and marine reserves, The Seine from Paris to Rouen: halts and locks, Upper Seine and the Loing: Paris to Moret-sur-Loing, The Saône and the Seille, Saint-Jean-de-Losne to Mâcon, Canal du Midi stops, Toulouse to Béziers, Marne-Rhine canal: across the Vosges to Strasbourg, Lake Geneva, French shore: Yvoire to Meillerie, Lakes Annecy and Bourget: the harbours.