Best anchorages and harbours in France

Plage Ile Renote

Anchorage off Île Renote at Trégastel, on the Côte de Granit Rose in northern Brittany. Sand bottom, sheltered from W to SE winds.

• Sheltered W, E, SW, S, SE

Port de l'Éoube

Small cove on the east side of Île Ratonneau in the Frioul archipelago, off Marseille.

• Sheltered SW, S, SE

Port Dielette

Wet-basin marina on the west coast of the Cotentin peninsula, 420 berths, max draught 4 m, one of the few refuges on this exposed shore.

Ile Cigogne

Anchorage in the archipel des Glénan, 10 NM south of Concarneau in Finistère, sheltered on the south side of Île Cigogne.

• Sheltered N, NE, NW

La halte nautique de Valence-sur-baïse

River halt on the Baïse at Valence-sur-Baïse, a bastide town in the Gers, Gascony.

Port Jean

Small cove on the north coast of Belle-Île-en-Mer, between Sauzon and the Pointe des Poulains, off the commune of Sauzon.

• Sheltered NW, W, E, SW, S, SE

Port-Blanc

Marina of 410 berths in Baden, on the northern shore of the Golfe du Morbihan, opposite the Île aux Moines which is served by a short ferry from the port slipway.

St Hilaire

Shallow quay on the Vie river at Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie in Vendée, with 6 berths and 0.4 m max draught.

Anse de Penfoulic

Shallow anchorage in the Anse de Penfoulic at Fouesnant, Finistère South, sheltered on all sides, mud bottom.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE

Anse des Sévignés

Anchorage on the Côte d'Émeraude between Cap Fréhel and Saint-Cast, Côtes-d'Armor.

• Sheltered S, SW, W

Avant Port Du Cap d'Agde

Outer anchorage off the Cap d'Agde marina, on the volcanic headland of Mont Saint-Loup in Herault, Occitanie.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, SE

Calanque de Saména

Small rocky calanque on the south coast of Marseille, between La Madrague de Montredon and Les Goudes, at the gateway to the Parc national des Calanques.

• Sheltered E, SE

Chemin de Penfret sud-ouest

Anchorage on the south-west side of Penfret, easternmost island of the Glénan archipelago off south Finistère.

• Sheltered NE, E

Cigntra

Sand anchorage on the west coast of Corsica, roughly 6 NM west of Ajaccio.

• Sheltered E, S, SE

Digue Saint-Louis

Anchorage in the Golfe de Fos, along the Saint-Louis breakwater that protects the industrial harbour west of the Rhône delta.

• Sheltered NW, N, W

Halte Fluviale Auxonne

Small river stopover on the Saône at Auxonne, in Côte-d'Or, with about 10 berths along the left bank.

île Maire

Rocky islet off the Marseille coast at the western edge of the Calanques national park, separated from Cap Croisette by the Tiboulen channel.

• Sheltered E, SE, S, SW

La Spiaggia

Anchorage off Le Brusc in the lagoon approach to the Embiez archipelago, west of Six-Fours-les-Plages in the Var.

• Sheltered NE, E, SW, S, SE

Marina Di Fiori

Private marina of 142 berths on the south side of the gulf of Porto-Vecchio, Corsica, inside the Punta di Fiori cove.

Plage de la Moune

Anchorage in the gulf of Saint-Tropez off the Moune beach, between the Marines de Cogolin to the west and the entrance of Port-Grimaud to the north.

• Sheltered W, E, SW, S, SE

Port d'Arzal-Camoël

Marina of 1250 berths on the Vilaine, immediately upstream of the Arzal dam, between the Morbihan communes of Arzal and Camoël.

Port Miou

Buoy field in the Calanque de Port-Miou, the first calanque west of Cassis, inside the Parc national des Calanques.

• Paid
• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, SW

Roche de la Cheminée

Anchorage off the Frioul archipelago west of Marseille, between Pomègues and Ratonneau.

• Sheltered N, NE, E, SW, W, NW

Ste-Marie La Mer

Open roadstead off the Roussillon coast, just north of Canet-en-Roussillon, with a sand bottom.

• Sheltered SW, W, NW

West Marina

Seine pleasure craft base in the Yvelines, between Triel-sur-Seine and Meulan-en-Yvelines, downstream of the Conflans confluence.

Anse de la Péguière

Small cove on the Estérel coast between Boulouris and Saint-Raphaël, Var.

• Sheltered N, NE, W, NW

Marina de Corre

Inland marina at the village of Corre in Haute-Saône, at the junction of the Saône river and the Canal des Vosges, marking the start of the Freycinet canal network into north-east France.

Pointe du Térénéz

Mooring field of 16 buoys off the Pointe du Térénez in the Rade de Brest, on the north shore of the Aulne estuary, mud bottom.

• Free
• Sheltered N, S, SW, W, NW

Porh Roëd

Anchorage on the south side of Île de Groix, Morbihan, with sand and rock bottom.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE

Port-Lauragais

Halt on the Canal du Midi between Toulouse and the seuil de Naurouze, near the commune of Avignonet-Lauragais in Occitanie.