Mont-Saint-Michel travel guide
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Visit Mont-Saint-Michel: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Mont-Saint-Michel is situated in the Manche department (Normandy region) in the north of France at 62 km from Saint-Lo, the department capital. (General information: Mont-Saint-Michel is 284 km from Paris and 353 km from the port at Calais).
For a detailed travel guide see Mont-Saint-Michel (page also includes a photo gallery for Mont-Saint-Michel)
Popular places to visit near Mont-Saint-Michel: these include Dol-de-Bretagne at 20 km and Granville at 23 km.
Parc du château de Bonnefontaine is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 20km and Jardin du château de La Ballue is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 22km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Photos taken within 10 km
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Mont-Saint-Michel, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Mont-Saint-Michel
See France This Way travel guides for Manche and Normandy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Mont-Saint-Michel.
Note that all distances from Mont-Saint-Michel shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Mont-Saint-Michel holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Mont-Saint-Michel (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 Normandy and Manche 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 Mont-Saint-Michel and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Parc du château de Bonnefontaine (20km) : Jardin du château de La Ballue (22km) : Parc floral de Haute-Bretagne (31km) : Jardins du château de la Bourbansais (39km) : Jardins de Montmarin (41km) : Argences (42km) : Parc du château de Caradeuc (49km) : Jardins de la Pellerine (49km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Saint-Malo (38km) : Fougeres (40km) : Dinard (40km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Dinan (44km) : Coutances (45km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Granville (23km) :
Map of places to visit near Mont-Saint-Michel & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Mont-Saint-Michel
Canton: Pontorson
Arrondissement: Avranches
Department: Manche
Region: Normandy
Postcode: 50170
Distance to Mont-Saint-Michel
from Saint-Lo: 62 km
from Paris: 284 km
from Calais: 353 km
from Nice: 870 km
from Bordeaux: 428 km
from Strasbourg: 680 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 5 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Mont-Saint-Michel): Beauvoir, Genets, Huisnes-sur-Mer, Roz-sur-Couesnon and Tanis.
Getting here
Manche is in the north of France. Most visitors arrive by car, often from the ferries at Saint-Malo, Cherbourg or Caen on the coast here which are very convenient. For driving distances to Mont-Saint-Michel from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Mont-Saint-Michel