Challans travel guide
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Visit Challans: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Challans is situated in the Vendee department (Pays-de-la-Loire region) in the west of France at 39 km from La Roche-sur-Yon, the department capital. (General information: Challans is 387 km from Paris and 532 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Saint Gilles Croix de Vie at 17 km from Challans
Popular places to visit near Challans: these include Saint Gilles Croix de Vie at 17 km and Noirmoutier at 33 km.
Saint-Jean-de-Monts is a listed 'ville fleurie 4*' at 15km and Marais de Machecoul is a listed 'site of natural beauty' at 17km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Tourist classifications for Challans: Village in bloom (ville fleurie) 3*;
Photos taken within 10 km
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Challans, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Challans
See France This Way travel guides for Vendee and Pays-de-la-Loire (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Challans.
Note that all distances from Challans shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Challans holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Challans (from booking.com and with a great selection of hotels and a best price promise).
For a longer visit popular choices include apartments and holiday rentals. For these we suggest two popular options: holiday villages in France and Vendee gites and villas
Tourist attractions nearby
Below we show places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Challans and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardin des plantes (49km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Saint-Jean-de-Monts (15km) : Notre-Dame-de-Monts (19km) : Nantes (45km) :
Map of places to visit near Challans & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Challans
Canton: Challans
Arrondissement: Sables-d'Olonne
Department: Vendee
Region: Pays-de-la-Loire
Postcode: 85300
Distance to Challans
from La Roche-sur-Yon: 39 km
from Paris: 387 km
from Calais: 532 km
from Nice: 796 km
from Bordeaux: 245 km
from Strasbourg: 745 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 3 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Challans): La Garnache, Sallertaine and Soullans.
Getting here
Vendee is in the west of France. Most visitors arrive by car from a cross-channel ferry port - Saint Malo is convenient at around 3 hours drive. For driving distances to Challans from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Challans