Saint-Gervais-les-Bains

A French city of 5,755, in the mountains

€5,380/m²to buy

2,171 hof sun a year

24 minto a hospital

5,755residents

Saint-Gervais-les-Bains is a French city of 5,755 in Haute-Savoie. Homes go for about €5,380 a square metre. 2,171 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€5,380/m²to buy, $580 per sq ft

€16.2/m²to rent, a month

€930property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€28,750median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

2,171 hof sunshine a year

129rainy days a year

32°Fwinter average, 0°C

61°Fsummer average, 16.1°C

7days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

14 minto the nearest station

3.1 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

24 minto the nearest hospital

nonepharmacies within 15 minutes

18 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

2.5break-ins per 1,000 residents

2.5assault and robbery per 1,000

5other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

5,755residents

86 km²33 square miles

68%of homes are second homes

1%of homes stand empty

0%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Haute-Savoie

Annecy Thonon-les-Bains Annemasse Cluses Sallanches Rumilly Saint-Julien-en-Genevois Bonneville Gaillard La Roche-sur-Foron Vétraz-Monthoux Passy

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.