France travel tips

Internet speed in France

Median speeds from Ookla's Speedtest Global Index, June 2026 — what a rental's line and your phone actually get, not what the listing says.

Home broadband366 Mbpsmedian download in Lyon0world median 130300+Fast — Several people on calls at once, large uploads, 4K276 Mbps upload · 5 ms latency
Mobile data184 Mbpsmedian download in Lyon0world median 109300+12 Mbps upload · 22 ms latency

By city

under 30 basic · fair · 100+ good · 150+ fast — the tick is the world median.

PlaceHome broadbandMobile dataWork from it?
Lyonmeasured in Lyon366 MbpsFast · 276 up · 5 ms184 MbpsFast · 12 up · 22 ms Yes
Parismeasured in Paris216 MbpsFast · 99 up · 7 ms211 MbpsFast · 20 up · 18 ms Yes
France as a wholeOokla publishes no separate figure for Nice, Provence, Bordeaux, Marseille, Strasbourg, Corsica; the national median stands for them.332 MbpsFast · 259 up · 8 ms133 MbpsGood · 10 up · 27 ms Yes

A median is the middle of every test run in the place that quarter: half the lines are faster, half slower. Cities usually beat the national number; islands and hill towns usually do not. "Work from it" is this site's own line — 150 Mbps down, 50 up, under 30 ms — for a household on calls all day; one person needs far less.

The guides in France

bridge during night timeParisFranceThe city of light, love, and croissantsan aerial view of a city next to the oceanNiceFranceThe French Riviera at its most liveableRows of lavender in flower on the Valensole plateau in Provence at first lightProvenceFranceLavender, limestone villages and a light that brought half the painters of Europe here and kept themlow angle photo of white concrete buildingBordeauxFranceAn eighteenth-century city of pale stone, with the world’s most famous vineyards half an hour outbrown concrete building near river during daytimeLyonFranceTwo rivers, Roman ruins on the hill, secret passages through the buildings, and the food capital of Francea harbor filled with lots of boats next to a cityMarseilleFranceFrance’s oldest city, a Mediterranean port with limestone fjords on its southern edgeHistoric buildings reflected in a calm canal waterwayStrasbourgFranceHalf-timbered houses over canals, a cathedral that was the tallest building on earth for two centuries, and Germany across the riverwhite and black rock formation on blue sea under blue and white cloudy sky during daytimeCorsicaFranceA mountain range in the sea, with the GR20 down its spine and water the colour of a swimming pool around itsnow covered mountain under blue sky during daytimeChamonixFranceThe town at the foot of Mont Blanc, where alpinism was invented and where the Aiguille du Midi cable car puts you at 3,842 metres in twenty minutesgreen lake surrounded by mountains under white clouds and blue sky during daytimeAnnecyFranceA canal town on the clearest lake in Europe, an hour from Geneva and forty minutes from the nearest ski lift — the base people use when the whole family does not skiman in orange jacket and black pants riding ski blades on snow covered mountain during daytimeVal d’IsèreFranceA high resort that links with Tignes into the Espace Killy, holds snow into May, and has a village underneath the ski area rather than a car parka snow covered mountain with a ski lift in the distanceCourchevelFranceFour villages stacked up one mountainside, from a working valley town to the most expensive address in the Alps, all of them on the Trois Vallées lift passMéribel at dusk, the village lights under a pink skyMéribelFranceThe middle valley of the Trois Vallées, built in wood and stone by a Scotsman who thought concrete resorts were a mistake, and still the only one that looks like a villagea couple of people walking across a snow covered fieldTignesFranceA resort built high and ugly on purpose, with a glacier that skis in summer, a lake that freezes hard enough to walk on, and the snow record to justify all of itaerial view of snow covered mountainsAlpe d’HuezFranceA sunny plateau above Grenoble with the longest black run in the Alps dropping off the back of it, and twenty-one hairpins of Tour de France road climbing up to it

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