Saint-Claude tourism and travel guide
Visit Saint-Claude: highlights and tourist information
To Visit AttractionsSaint-Claude is situated in the Jura department and Franche-Comte region (now part of the Burgundy-Franche-Comté region), in the east of France at 40 kilometres from Lons-le-Saunier, the department capital (general information: Saint-Claude is 381 kilometres from Paris).
Popular places to visit nearby include Divonne-les-Bains at 22 km and Yvoire at 36 km. For more places to visit and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Saint-Claude, 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 Saint-Claude in Burgundy-Franche-Comté.
Note that all distances below are 'direct' and real driving distances will be greater!
... or see ALL recommended places to visit in Jura
Map of places to visit near Saint-Claude
Markets in and near Saint-Claude
Market days in Saint-Claude: weekly market: Saturday;
- Saint-Claude: market Saturday (0km)
- Gex: market Saturday (16km)
- Thoiry: market Sunday (19km)
- Morez: market Saturday all day (20km)
- Oyonnax: market Thursday & Saturday & Monday (21km)
- Divonne-les-Bains: market Sunday & Friday (21km)
- Clairvaux-les-Lacs: market Wednesday (23km)
- Ferney-Voltaire: market Saturday (24km)
- Bellegarde-sur-Valserine: market Thursday all day (30km)
- Saint-Julien-en-Genevois: market Friday (32km)
More information about Saint-Claude, Franche-Comte
Tourist attractions near Saint-Claude, France
Some places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Saint-Claude.
Most beautiful villages in France
(see also beautiful French villages)
- Yvoire (36km)
- Baume-les-Messieurs (40km)
- Chateau-Chalon (45km)
National Monuments
- Voltaire Chateau (24km)
Recommended detour towns (fr: plus beau détour)
- La Roche-sur-Foron (49km)
Regional Natural Parcs
- Haut-Jura (7km)
Remarkable gardens
- Le Labyrinthe - Jardin des Cinq Sens (36km)
- Jardin des jeux du château d'Arlay (49km)
Sites of natural beauty
- Cascade de la queue de cheval (3km)
- Lac de Lamoura (9km)
- Col de la Faucille (12km)
- Lacs d'Étival (14km)
- Lac de l'Abbaye (17km)
- Lac des Rousses (22km)
- Lac de Bonlieu (23km)
- Source - Le Hérisson (23km)
- Lac d'Ilay (27km)
- Lac du Val (27km)
- Lacs de Maclu (28km)
- Lac de Narlay (29km)
- Lac de Chambly (29km)
- Lac du Vernois (29km)
- Confluence - Le Hérisson (31km)
- Lac du Fioget (31km)
- Gorges de la Lemme (32km)
- Lac de Chalain (32km)
- Cascade de la Billaude (34km)
- Source - la Seille (44km)
Geography and distances
Geographical Information
Commune: Saint-Claude
Canton: Saint-Claude
Arrondissement: Saint-Claude
Department: Jura
Region: Franche-Comte
New region: Burgundy-Franche-Comté
Postcode: 39200
Distance to Saint-Claude
from Lons-le-Saunier (prefecture): 40 km
from Paris: 381 km
from Calais: 587 km
from Nice: 318 km
from Bordeaux: 529 km
from Strasbourg: 283 km
Getting here
Saint-Claude is in the east of France. Most visitors drive via Paris (from the north and west) or via Lyon (from the south), or fly into Geneva to the south For driving distances to Saint-Claude from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
We have 12 other places listed as being close (less than kilometres from ): Avignon-les-Saint-Claude, Chassal, Coiserette, Coyriere, Cuttura, Larrivoire, Les Molunes, Ponthoux, Ravilloles, Saint-Lupicin, Septmoncel and Villard-Saint-Sauveur.
This page in French: Visiter Saint-Claude
