Saint Jean de Luz travel guide
Visit Saint Jean de Luz: Highlights and Tourist Information
IMPORTANT: this is a summary of local highlights. For detailed visitor information see Saint Jean de Luz travel guide
Location: Saint Jean de Luz is situated in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques department (Aquitaine region) in the south-west of France at 105 km from Pau, the department capital. (General information: Saint Jean de Luz is 682 km from Paris and 881 km from the port at Calais).
Market days in Saint Jean de Luz: weekly market: Tuesday & Saturday & Friday; (markets take place in the morning unless indicated)
Popular places to visit near Saint Jean de Luz: these include Ciboure at 1 km and La Rhune at 9 km. Sare is a listed most beautiful village at 11 km and Anglet is a listed ville fleurie 4* at 16 km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Photos taken within 10 km
Selected places to visit and attractions near Saint Jean de Luz, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Saint Jean de Luz
See France This Way travel guides for Pyrenees-Atlantiques and Aquitaine (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Saint Jean de Luz.
Note that all distances from Saint Jean de Luz shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Saint Jean de Luz holidays and travel
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For a longer visit popular choices include apartments and holiday rentals. For these we suggest two popular options: holiday villages in Aquitaine and Pyrenees-Atlantiques gites and villas
Markets near Saint Jean de Luz
- Saint Jean de Luz: market every Tuesday & Saturday & Friday (0km)
- Ciboure: market every Sunday (1km)
- Urrugne: market every Thursday (4km)
- Bidart: market every Saturday (8km)
- Hendaye: market every Wednesday & Thursday & Sunday & Saturday (10km)
- Anglet: market every Thursday & Sunday (16km)
- Ustaritz: market every Saturday (16km)
- Bayonne: market every Wednesday & Tuesday & Thursday & Saturday & Friday (19km)
- Boucau: market every Saturday (20km)
- Cambo-les-Bains: market every Wednesday & Friday (21km)
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 Saint Jean de Luz and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Saint Jean de Luz map below.
Heritage Site Bayonne cathédrale St Marie (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (19km); Porte St Jacques - St Jean Pied-de-Port (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (43km)
Most Beautiful Village Sare (11km); Ainhoa (16km); La Bastide-Clairence (33km)
Remarkable Garden Jardins de la villa Arnaga (21km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Bayonne (19km)
Site Of Natural Beauty Marais d'Orx (32km); Vallée des Aldudes (37km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Anglet (16km)
Map of places to visit near Saint Jean de Luz & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Saint-Jean-de-Luz
Canton: Saint-Jean-de-Luz
Arrondissement: Bayonne
Department: Pyrenees-Atlantiques
Region: Aquitaine
Postcode: 64500
Distance to Saint Jean de Luz
from Pau (local prefecture): 105 km
from Paris: 682 km
from Calais: 881 km
from Nice: 720 km
from Bordeaux: 183 km
from Strasbourg: 927 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 5 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Saint Jean de Luz): Ascain, Bidart, Ciboure, Guethary and Urrugne.
Getting here
Pyrenees-Atlantiques is in the south-west of France. Most visitors fly into Biarritz airport (Bordeaux is another option). Allow at least 8 hours for the drive from the cross-channel ferries. For driving distances to Saint Jean de Luz from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Saint Jean de Luz