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The 15 largest motorhome aires in France
From the 650-pitch Puy du Fou aire to the coastal giants: the ranking of France's 15 largest motorhome aires, based on capacities recorded in OpenStreetMap.
What does a very large motorhome aire look like? We ranked the 3,575 aires in our directory by capacity, using data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), July 2026 extract. A note on method: capacity is recorded for 2,465 of the 3,575 aires — the ranking therefore covers those documented sites, and the largest structures are precisely the ones contributors document best.
The ranking
| Rank | Aire | Pitches |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Puy du Fou Camping-cars (Vendée) | 650 |
| 2 | Le Goulet — Leucate Village (Aude) | 230 |
| 3 | Saint-Valery-sur-Somme (Somme) | 200 |
| 3 | Lac d’Aubusson d’Auvergne (Puy-de-Dôme) | 200 |
| 3 | Ramatuelle (Var) | 200 |
| 6 | Marina aire — Le Crotoy (Somme) | 190 |
| 7 | Honfleur (Calvados) | 180 |
| 7 | Camping-Car Park Mont Saint-Michel (Manche) | 180 |
| 9 | Les Ilôts — Saint-Malo (Ille-et-Vilaine) | 173 |
| 10 | Port Neuf — La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime) | 171 |
| 11 | Leucate Plage (Aude) | 170 |
| 11 | Les Quatre Vents — Gruissan Port (Aude) | 170 |
| 11 | Étang de Mateille — Gruissan (Aude) | 170 |
| 14 | Aigues-Mortes (Gard) | 150 |
| 14 | Vieux-Boucau (Landes) | 150 |
A number 1 in a league of its own
With 650 pitches, the Puy du Fou aire crushes the ranking: nearly three times the capacity of the runner-up. Its logic is unique in France — absorbing, every evening, the motorhomes of visitors to one of the country’s most popular theme parks. In pitch count, it is the equivalent of a very large campsite — on a single site.
The coast dominates everything else
Of the 15 largest aires, 13 sit on the coast — four of them in the Aude alone, between Leucate and Gruissan. Only Puy du Fou and the Lac d’Aubusson d’Auvergne break the pattern. That is no accident, and we devote a full analysis to this geography: why France’s largest aires sit by the sea.
Note the ties, too: three aires share third place at exactly 200 pitches, and three more share eleventh at 170 — suspiciously round numbers that betray capacities declared by site managers rather than counted bay by bay, a classic nuance of self-reported data worth keeping in mind when reading any ranking of this kind.
Beyond the top 15: the very-large-aire club
The ranking above is only the visible tip of a small club: of the 2,465 aires with recorded capacity, just 50 reach 100 pitches, and 16 exceed 150. More broadly, 186 aires offer 50 pitches or more — the intermediate pool that handles most big tourist stopovers. What the giants have in common is obvious at a glance: each is attached to a major tourist magnet — Mont Saint-Michel, the walled city of Saint-Malo, Honfleur and its old harbour, the Somme bay (which places two aires face to face, at Saint-Valery and Le Crotoy), the beaches of the Aude and the Var, and of course Puy du Fou. The very large French aire is not an urban phenomenon: it is the equipment of a site that attracts more motorhomes every summer than it could otherwise absorb.
A big aire is a different experience
A 150-pitch aire feels nothing like the median French aire and its 10 pitches: organised turnover, scaled-up services, and the social life of a temporary neighbourhood. That communal dimension of motorhome travel is well documented: Pearce and Wu, in a study published in 2018 in Tourist Studies (Google Scholar page), describe the mobile narrative communities formed by senior RV travellers, where shared stopovers become places to exchange itineraries and help. France’s big coastal aires are exactly that stage.
To explore aires — large or small — around your base, our geographic hubs such as aires around La Rochelle list every recorded stopover within 80 km, with its known services.
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