Montélimar

A French city of 40,595

€2,070/m²to buy

2,304 hof sun a year

5 minto a hospital

40,595residents

Montélimar is a French city of 40,595 in Drôme. Homes go for about €2,070 a square metre. 2,304 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€2,070/m²to buy, $223 per sq ft

€11.6/m²to rent, a month

€1,260property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€23,850median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

2,304 hof sunshine a year

79rainy days a year

42°Fwinter average, 5.8°C

72°Fsummer average, 22.4°C

43days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

6 minto the nearest station

1.7 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

5 minto the nearest hospital

3pharmacies within 15 minutes

5 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

4.6break-ins per 1,000 residents

9.1assault and robbery per 1,000

20other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

40,595residents

46 km²18 square miles

3%of homes are second homes

9%of homes stand empty

97%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Drôme

Valence Romans-sur-Isère Bourg-lès-Valence Pierrelatte Portes-lès-Valence Bourg-de-Péage Livron-sur-Drôme Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux Crest Saint-Rambert-d'Albon Chabeuil Nyons

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.