Mont-Saint-Michel tourism and travel guide
Visit Mont-Saint-Michel: highlights and tourist information
Travel Guide To Visit AttractionsFrance This Way comment: No visit to Normandy would be complete without visiting the iconic Abbey and island of Mont-Saint-Michel
Important note
This page features a summary of highlights that you might like to explore near Mont-Saint-Michel. For detailed visitor information see the Mont-Saint-Michel travel guide.
Mont-Saint-Michel is situated in the Manche department and Normandy region, in the north of France at 62 kilometres from Saint-Lo, the department capital (general information: Mont-Saint-Michel is 284 kilometres from Paris).
Popular places to visit nearby include Dol-de-Bretagne at 20 km and Granville at 23 km. For more places to visit and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Mont-Saint-Michel, France: places to visit and attractions
Some of the places that we have visited and reviewed and can recommend when you are sightseeing close to Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy.
Note that all distances below are 'direct' and real driving distances will be greater!
... or see ALL recommended places to visit in Manche
Map of places to visit near Mont-Saint-Michel
Markets in and near Mont-Saint-Michel
- Pontorson: market Wednesday (9km)
- Avranches: market Saturday (12km)
- Carolles: market Thursday (13km)
- Jullouville: market Friday & Tuesday - seasonal market only (16km)
- Ducey: market Tuesday (17km)
- Saint-James: market Monday (19km)
- La Haye-Pesnel: market Wednesday (20km)
- Dol-de-Bretagne: market Saturday (20km)
- Saint-Pair-sur-Mer: market Thursday (20km)
- Granville: market Wednesday & Saturday all day (23km)
More information about Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy
Tourist attractions near Mont-Saint-Michel, France
Some places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Mont-Saint-Michel.
Grand sites of France
Heritage sites
Recommended detour towns (fr: plus beau détour)
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)
- Jardins de la Pellerine (49km)
- Parc du château de Caradeuc (49km)
Sites of natural beauty
- Couesnon (2km)
- Embouchure - Couesnon (2km)
- Réserve naturelle régionale du Marais de Sougeal (14km)
- Île des Rimains (24km)
- Île des Landes (25km)
- Pointe du Grouin (26km)
- Île du Guesclin (29km)
- Côte de Cancale à Paramé (29km)
- Chausey (31km)
- Havre de Rothéneuf (33km)
- Île Besnard (33km)
- Étangs du canal d'Ille-et-Rance (34km)
- Estuaire de la Rance (35km)
- Pointe de la Varde (36km)
- Îlots Notre-Dame et Chevret (37km)
- Forêt de Fougères (37km)
- Rance (fleuve) (39km)
- Embouchure - Rance (39km)
- Forêt de Saint-Sever (40km)
- Cézembre (41km)
- Source - Couesnon (49km)
- Étang de Châtillon-en-Vendelais (51km)
- Roches de Ham (55km)
Towns of Art and history
Villages d'etape
(recommended place to break a long journey)
- Ducey (17km)
- Dol-de-Bretagne (20km)
- Saint-Brice-en-Cogles (27km)
- Villedieu-les-Poeles (31km)
- Torigni-sur-Vire (59km)
Villages in bloom 4* (fr: ville fleurie)
- Saint-Malo (38km)
- Saint-Juvat (50km)
- Domjean (52km)
Zoo and/or wildlife park
- Parc zoologique de Champrepus (26km)
Geography and distances
Distance to Mont-Saint-Michel
from Saint-Lo (prefecture): 62 km
from Paris: 284 km
from Calais: 353 km
from Nice: 870 km
from Bordeaux: 428 km
from Strasbourg: 680 km
Getting here
Mont-Saint-Michel 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.
We have 5 other places listed as being close (less than kilometres from ): Beauvoir, Genets, Huisnes-sur-Mer, Roz-sur-Couesnon and Tanis.
This page in French: Visiter Mont-Saint-Michel
