Is Château-d’Olonne safe? France travel risk
Is Château-d’Olonne safe right now? Checked 16 October 2026
Château-d’Olonne scores 36/100 on our travel risk index (Moderate). The US State Department rates France Level 2 (Exercise Increased Caution, updated 28 May 2025); the UK has no advice against travel; Canada says: exercise a high degree of caution. No GDACS or USGS hazard events within 100 km in the last 14 days. No change in government advice in the last 7 days.
Château-d’Olonne scores 36/100 (Moderate). The score combines security, crime and scams, health and medical access, natural hazards and current alerts measured for this location and France (how it is calculated). The sections below are specific to Château-d’Olonne: nearest emergency and transport facilities, 5-year natural hazard history within 100 km.
Driven by: security (44/100) and health and medical access (43/100).
A score of 36 is higher than the scores of 44% of the 241 countries we cover.
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Geographic & Regional Coordinates
Situated in Pays de la Loire at 46.5050° N, 1.7361° W (elevation 25 m), Château-d’Olonne lies 402.5 km NE of Paris. Time zone: Europe/Paris.
Pays de la Loire
46.5050° N, 1.7361° W
25 m
Europe/Paris
14,411
Emergency & Aviation Access
Nearby Towns & Settlements in France
Natural Hazard Calendar & History
5-Year Hazard Calendar (100 km Radius)
| Hazard | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floods | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
Most flood events within 100 km of Château-d’Olonne happened in December (1 of 1 in five years).
Source: GDACS, USGS; five years to October 2026.
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