Contamine-sur-Arve

A French city of 2,403

€4,170/m²to buy

1,918 hof sun a year

5 minto a hospital

2,403residents

Contamine-sur-Arve is a French city of 2,403 in Haute-Savoie. Homes go for about €4,170 a square metre. 1,918 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€4,170/m²to buy, $449 per sq ft

€18.4/m²to rent, a month

€1,010property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€40,830median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,918 hof sunshine a year

122rainy days a year

36°Fwinter average, 2.4°C

67°Fsummer average, 19.7°C

26days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

14 minto the nearest station

3.6 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

5 minto the nearest hospital

3pharmacies within 15 minutes

14 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

3.6break-ins per 1,000 residents

3.1assault and robbery per 1,000

5other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

2,403residents

7 km²3 square miles

6%of homes are second homes

7%of homes stand empty

99%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Haute-Savoie

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Figures from the DVF land registry, INSEE, Météo-France, Arcep, the SSMSI, FINESS and the DREES, rebuilt four times a year. Travel times are road approximations, and prices in the smallest communes are estimated from neighbouring ones. Photograph from Wikimedia Commons.