Retained scope
multi-gateway national network
France has 15 retained large/medium airport records (15 large, 0 medium) across 1 IANA zone.
Country airport index
Airports in France.
15 airportsPrimary zone: Europe/Paris
This page lists 15 retained airport records in our curated France airport catalog with IATA and ICAO codes, city names, and local timezone information. Airport records come from OurAirports and timezone rules come from the IANA database. Click any airport for coordinates, elevation, the current local time, and nearby airports.
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. This airport index is reviewed as a curated reference surface. It does not claim complete aviation coverage for France; it lists 15 retained airport records (15 large airports) across Europe/Paris.
Coverage note. This is an airport-reference index for timezone and travel planning. It focuses on retained large and medium airport records with usable codes and coordinates, not every runway, heliport, closed facility, or local landing strip. Airport service levels, terminal operations, route availability, and codes can change; verify with the airport, airline, NOTAM, or official aviation source before travel.
Country airport evidence
Why this France airport page is retained
This page is classified as a multi-gateway national network. The evidence score comes from static source coverage: codes, airport facts, official domains, city-clock handoffs, IANA zones, operational facts, and country dossiers where present.
Code and entity coverage
15 IATA, 15 ICAO
15 retained records have airport-facts rows; 15 cite official airport domains and 15 carry Wikidata entity links.
Traffic and operation facts
5 passenger rows
5 records quote passenger-volume facts; 35 runway counts are aggregated where quoted; 15 records carry scheduled-service flags.
Timezone pattern
single airport-timezone cluster
The retained airport set resolves to one dominant local-clock pattern, but each airport still stores its own IANA identifier for DST-safe calculations.
Verification boundary
61 source URLs
Visible source hosts include brest.aeroport.bzh, en.wikipedia.org, wikidata.org, ourairports.com, bordeaux.aeroport.fr, euroairport.com, aeroportparisbeauvais.com, aeroportsdeparis.fr. These support identity and static facts, not live routes, terminal assignments, NOTAMs, or airline schedules.
Editorial status
manual dossier attached
Manual dossier sources are attached for country-level aviation context; point-in-time statements still defer to the linked authorities.
Source hosts seen in retained airport facts
brest.aeroport.bzhen.wikipedia.orgwikidata.orgourairports.combordeaux.aeroport.freuroairport.comaeroportparisbeauvais.comaeroportsdeparis.fr
Traveler planning patterns
How to use France airport data without overreading it
Start with the gateway layer
Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE) is the first retained airport to check for France; then scan the 15 large and 0 medium records for regional alternates.
Keep airport-local time explicit
The retained airport set behaves like a single local-clock cluster, but the airport-specific IANA zone still matters around DST transitions and imported calendar events.
Use codes for the search, city pages for context
7 airport records link onward to vetted city-time pages, so a code lookup can become a local-clock, daylight, holiday, and meeting-time check.
Treat schedules as live elsewhere
15 retained records carry a scheduled-service flag, but route availability, airline service, terminals, and disruption notices are not live here.
Watch holidays and local operating days
France has a holiday country page on this site, so use it alongside airport time checks for closures, public-holiday pressure, and ground-service planning.
Know what the passenger data covers
5 retained airports quote passenger-volume facts. Airports without a quoted figure are not ranked by traffic on this page.
Airport coverage patterns
How the France airport index is structured
This page adds country-level context around airport counts, code coverage, timezone spread, and city-clock handoffs. It is built from the retained airport dataset rather than a live airline or aviation registry feed.
Coverage pattern
France carries 15 retained airport records spread over 15 mapped localities, split 15 large and 0 medium (15 large airports). It is built as a practical timezone and travel index, not a complete aviation registry.
Code reliability
Every retained France record carries both an IATA and an ICAO code (15 of each), so passenger-facing and aviation lookups resolve consistently across the set.
Timezone spread
Every retained airport in France resolves to Europe/Paris (15), so the country's airport clocks move together and a single offset check covers the whole set.
Major airport examples
Standout anchors here include Beauvais-Tillé airport (BVA) in Beauvais, Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD) in Bordeaux, Brest Bretagne airport (BES) in Brest, and Charles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG) in Paris (Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise). Large airports lead the list because they are the most reliable hooks for travelers, city clocks, and cross-border time checks.
City-clock handoff
Airport records here hand off to indexable city pages such as Beauvais (BVA, CDG, LBG), Colombier-Saugnieu, Rhône (LYS), Marignane, Bouches-du-Rhône (MRS), and Toulouse/Blagnac (TLS). Handoffs are restricted to vetted city pages so the airport index does not spend crawl budget on thin local URLs.
Busiest airport
Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE) in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes at 15.23 million passengers (2025) sits at the top of the curated passenger ranking for France. Curated passenger figures are attached to 5 retained records on this page. Aggregated curated annual passenger volume across those records is 30.9 million. Numbers come from the airport-facts curation file and reflect the latest year quoted there, not a live traffic feed.
International gateway count
2 retained records carry an international-gateway role label in the curated airport facts for France. Notable hub airlines in the curation file include Air France and Air France until March 2026. Role labels are derived from OurAirports type plus airport naming; verify scheduled international service with the carrier before booking.
Regional peer comparison
France has 15 retained airport records vs. Germany 15, United Kingdom 15, Russia 14 in the same continent. This is a structural comparison of retained-record counts, not an audit of national aviation policy or fleet size.
Operational depth
Across the retained France set we have 35 curated runway records, 3 curated terminal records, and 15 airports flagged with scheduled service. Operational facts come from the Wikipedia-derived airport-facts curation, which is sparse for smaller airports and not a substitute for the airport authority's own data.
Traveler boundary: use these records for timezone orientation and airport discovery. Verify live operations, route availability, terminal status, and NOTAM-sensitive details with official airport, airline, or aviation sources.
Country aviation profile
Aviation profile snapshot for France
These numbers aggregate the curated airport-facts file across this country’s retained records. Missing fields mean the curation file does not quote that figure; they are not zero-imputed.
International gateways
2
Records flagged with an international-gateway role label.
Scheduled service
15 / 15
Records with the OurAirports “scheduled service” flag set.
Runway records
35
Sum of curated runway counts where the facts file quotes a number.
Curated passenger coverage
5 / 15
Aggregated curated annual volume: 30.9 million.
Hub airline tags
Air FranceAir France until March 2026
Gateway evidence matrix
Leading retained airports and their source signals
The rows below show why the top airport records are useful beyond a country list: role labels, code identity, timezone, scheduled-service flags, passenger/runway facts where quoted, and the source hosts that back static airport identity.
Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport
Nice, Alpes-Maritimes · NCE · Europe/Paris
OurAirports classifies NCE as a large airport with scheduled service, which gives it stronger planning value than a code-only lookup.
Operations
scheduled service; 2 runways; longest runway 9,721 ft / 2,963 m; passengers 15.23 million passengers (2025)
Source signals
official site; Wikipedia summary; Wikidata entity; 4 source labels; 20 coverage signals
nice.aeroport.fren.wikipedia.orgwikidata.orgourairports.com
Toulouse-Blagnac Airport
Toulouse/Blagnac · TLS · Europe/Paris
Toulouse–Blagnac Airport is an international airport located 3.6 nautical miles west northwest of Toulouse, partially in Blagnac, both communes of the Haute-Garonne department in the Occitanie region of France.
Operations
scheduled service; 2 runways; longest runway 11,483 ft / 3,500 m; passengers 9,264,611 passengers
Source signals
official site; Wikipedia summary; Wikidata entity; 4 source labels; 19 coverage signals
toulouse.aeroport.fren.wikipedia.orgwikidata.orgourairports.com
Beauvais-Tillé airport
Beauvais · BVA · Europe/Paris
OurAirports classifies BVA as a large airport with scheduled service, which gives it stronger planning value than a code-only lookup.
Operations
scheduled service; 3 runways; longest runway 7,972 ft / 2,430 m; passengers 3,997,856 passengers
Source signals
official site; Wikipedia summary; Wikidata entity; 4 source labels; 20 coverage signals
aeroportparisbeauvais.comen.wikipedia.orgwikidata.orgourairports.com
Strasbourg Airport
Strasbourg · SXB · Europe/Paris
Strasbourg Airport is a minor international airport located in Entzheim and 10 km west-southwest of Strasbourg, both communes of the Bas-Rhin département in the Alsace région of France.
Operations
scheduled service; 1 runway; longest runway 7,874 ft / 2,400 m; passengers 1,297,177 passengers
Source signals
official site; Wikipedia summary; Wikidata entity; 4 source labels; 19 coverage signals
strasbourg.aeroport.fren.wikipedia.orgwikidata.orgourairports.com
Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne airport
Clermont-Ferrand · CFE · Europe/Paris
It is located 6.8 km east of the city, in Aulnat, both communes of the Puy-de-Dôme department in the Auvergne region of France, in the middle of France.
Operations
scheduled service; 3 runways; longest runway 9,885 ft / 3,013 m; passengers 1,090,417 passengers
Source signals
official site; Wikipedia summary; Wikidata entity; 4 source labels; 19 coverage signals
clermont-aeroport.comen.wikipedia.orgwikidata.orgourairports.com
Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport
Bordeaux · BOD · Europe/Paris
It is situated in the commune of Mérignac, 12 km (7.5 mi) west of Bordeaux, within the département of the Gironde.
Operations
scheduled service; 2 runways; longest runway 10,171 ft / 3,100 m
Source signals
official site; Wikipedia summary; Wikidata entity; 4 source labels; 19 coverage signals
bordeaux.aeroport.fren.wikipedia.orgwikidata.orgourairports.com
Brest Bretagne airport
Brest · BES · Europe/Paris
It is located in the commune of Guipavas and 10.2 km northeast of Brest, within the département of Finistère.
Operations
scheduled service; 2 runways; longest runway 10,171 ft / 3,100 m
Source signals
official site; Wikipedia summary; Wikidata entity; 4 source labels; 16 coverage signals
brest.aeroport.bzhen.wikipedia.orgwikidata.orgourairports.com
Charles de Gaulle International Airport
Paris (Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise) · CDG · Europe/Paris
The airport opened in 1974 and is located in Roissy-en-France, 23 km (14 mi) northeast of the city centre of Paris.
Operations
scheduled service; 4 runways; 3 passenger terminals terminals; longest runway 13,829 ft / 4,215 m
Source signals
official site; Wikipedia summary; Wikidata entity; 5 source labels; 25 coverage signals
aeroportsdeparis.fren.wikipedia.orgwikidata.orgourairports.com
Time-zone span
Single-zone airport clock for France
All retained airport records resolve to one IANA timezone (Europe/Paris, UTC+02:00 CEST with DST). Local-clock math is simpler here than in multi-zone countries, but the airport’s stored IANA identifier is still the authoritative reference for DST transition weekends.
Busiest curated airports
Top airports in France by curated passenger volume
These ranks reflect passenger volumes quoted in the curated airport-facts file; airports without a quoted figure are excluded from this card even if they may be locally busier.
1
Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport
Nice, Alpes-Maritimes · NCE
15.23 million passengers (2025)
2 runways
2
Toulouse-Blagnac Airport
Toulouse/Blagnac · TLS
9,264,611 passengers
2 runways
3
Beauvais-Tillé airport
Beauvais · BVA
3,997,856 passengers
3 runways
4
Strasbourg Airport
Strasbourg · SXB
1,297,177 passengers
1 runway
5
Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne airport
Clermont-Ferrand · CFE
1,090,417 passengers
3 runways
Regional peer comparison
France vs. Europe peers
Peers are picked by geographic proximity (same continent) and similarity of retained-record counts. Comparison is structural — it does not audit fleet size, national aviation policy, or passenger traffic.
| Country | Airports |
|---|---|
| France | 15 |
| Germany | 15 |
| United Kingdom | 15 |
| Russia | 14 |
Country aviation dossier
Editorial context for France aviation
French airports handled roughly 205.8 million commercial passengers in 2024 per DGAC, +3.6% over 2023 and ~4% below 2019. Paris CDG and Orly carried 103.4 million combined — about half the national total — with CDG alone at 70.3 million. Air France-KLM and Transavia lead from Paris; easyJet, Ryanair, and Volotea cover regional point-to-point. The DGAC regulates; Groupe ADP runs Paris airports. The 2025 solidarity-tax hike on departing-flight tickets is the active policy anchor.
Last verified 2026-05-09 · manually curated. Figures quoted in this paragraph are point-in-time; treat the linked sources as authoritative.
Frequently asked
France airport questions
- How many airports does France have in this index?
- This index retains 15 airport records for France (15 large and 0 medium). It is a curated reference set with usable IATA/ICAO codes and coordinates, not a complete national aviation registry.
- What is the busiest airport in France?
- Based on the curated airport-facts file, the busiest retained record for France is Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE) in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes at 15.23 million passengers (2025). Other airports in the country may carry more traffic; this reflects only retained records with quoted passenger figures.
- Which timezone is France in?
- All retained airport records in France resolve to Europe/Paris. The zone observes a seasonal DST shift, so local-clock math around transition weekends needs care.
- Does France have international airports?
- Yes. The curated airport-facts file flags 2 records with an international-gateway role label in France. The role tags are derived from OurAirports type plus airport naming; verify scheduled international service with the carrier before booking.
- How does France compare with regional peers for airport count?
- Among same-continent peers with similar retained-record counts, France has 15 records vs. Germany (15), United Kingdom (15), Russia (14). The comparison covers only retained records on this site, not full national aviation inventories.
Country overview
Airport coverage for France
The retained catalog currently includes 15 airport records in 15 airport cities or localities. Large airports are shown first because they are usually the most useful entry points for flight planning, timezone checks, and nearby-city lookup.
Retained records
15
Airport localities
15
Timezone records
1 zone
Time-zone planning
Use the airport clock for travel math
For overnight flights, connections near daylight-saving transitions, and cross-border itineraries, use the airport’s IANA timezone instead of assuming every airport follows the country’s primary zone.
Europe/Paris15 airports
Codes, clocks, and city mapping
How to read the France airport index
IATA coverage
15 codes
Useful for passenger-facing flight searches, tickets, airport boards, and quick route lookup.
ICAO coverage
15 codes
Useful for aviation references, flight tracking, weather briefings, and operational documents.
Airport mix
15 large / 0 medium
Gateway airports are prioritized first, but regional airports remain useful for local clock checks.
DST travel risk
Single-zone
Recheck local airport time around overnight arrivals, daylight-saving weekends, and cross-border connections.
Major city to airport links
These rows connect retained airport records to city-time pages, so a reader can move from a flight code to the local clock, nearby planning context, and meeting-time checks.
Beauvais
4 linked airports
BVA Beauvais-Tillé airport (Europe/Paris); CDG Charles de Gaulle International Airport (Europe/Paris); LBG Paris-Le Bourget International Airport (Europe/Paris)
Colombier-Saugnieu, Rhône
1 linked airport
LYS Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (Europe/Paris)
Marignane, Bouches-du-Rhône
1 linked airport
MRS Marseille Provence Airport (Europe/Paris)
Toulouse/Blagnac
1 linked airport
TLS Toulouse-Blagnac Airport (Europe/Paris)
Major airport list
Key airports in France
These entries are pulled from the same retained catalog as the full table below. Use them as a starting point for local time, code lookup, and nearby-city planning, then verify route and terminal details with the airport or airline.
Beauvais-Tillé airport
Beauvais
large airport · Europe/Paris
Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport
Bordeaux
large airport · Europe/Paris
Brest Bretagne airport
Brest
large airport · Europe/Paris
Charles de Gaulle International Airport
Paris (Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise)
large airport · Europe/Paris
Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne airport
Clermont-Ferrand
large airport · Europe/Paris
EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg
Bâle / Mulhouse
large airport · Europe/Paris
Route-planning cues
When this airport index is useful
Start with gateway airports
15 large airports
Use large-airport entries first for broad trip planning, then scan medium airports for regional options.
Check the local clock
1 timezone
Compare airport zones before overnight arrivals, early departures, or daylight-saving changes.
Move to city context
7 linked airports
Linked city pages help turn an airport timezone into a local clock for meetings and ground plans.
Boundary: this page supports code lookup, timezone checks, and city planning. It does not verify active routes, terminals, flight schedules, border rules, or operating notices.
City coverage
Airport cities with time pages
Illustrative airport time board
Example flight and gate labels are generated for display; local-time values use the timezone records shown on the page.
Destination
Flight
Gate
Local Time
BEAUVAIS (BVA)
SQ 776
A11
1
8
5
2
BORDEAUX (BOD)
BA 324
B12
1
8
5
2
BREST (BES)
QF 541
E18
1
8
5
2
PARIS (ROISSY-EN-FRANCE, VAL-D'OISE) (CDG)
BA 954
B12
1
8
5
2
CLERMONT-FERRAND (CFE)
EK 391
D44
1
8
5
2
BÂLE / MULHOUSE (BSL)
SQ 975
A11
1
8
5
2
LESQUIN (LIL)
QF 701
E18
1
8
5
2
COLOMBIER-SAUGNIEU, RHÔNE (LYS)
SQ 361
A11
1
8
5
2
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