Tignes, Savoie
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France / Savoie

Tignes

A French city of 1,919, in the mountains

€9,100/m²to buy
1,955 hof sun a year
33 minto a hospital
1,919residents

Tignes is a French city of 1,919 in Savoie. Homes go for about €9,100 a square metre. 1,955 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE
€9,100/m²to buy, $981 per sq ft
€14.2/m²to rent, a month
€1,320property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill
€28,380median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals
1,955 hof sunshine a year
112rainy days a year
23°Fwinter average, -5.1°C
51°Fsummer average, 10.3°C
0days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances
28 minto the nearest station
2.6 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES
33 minto the nearest hospital
nonepharmacies within 15 minutes
32 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior
0.4break-ins per 1,000 residents
4.9assault and robbery per 1,000
15other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep
1,919residents
91 km²35 square miles
86%of homes are second homes
1%of homes stand empty
96%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in 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.