Is Saint-Jean-de-Luz safe? France travel risk
Is Saint-Jean-de-Luz safe right now? Checked 16 October 2026
Saint-Jean-de-Luz scores 34/100 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.
Saint-Jean-de-Luz scores 34/100 (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 Saint-Jean-de-Luz: nearest emergency and transport facilities, local climate normals, 5-year natural hazard history within 100 km.
Driven by: security (44/100) and natural hazards (44/100).
A score of 34 is higher than the scores of 39% of the 241 countries we cover.
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Location & Spatial Data
Coordinates 43.3900° N, 1.6600° W place Saint-Jean-de-Luz within Nouvelle-Aquitaine at an elevation of 8 meters. Heading to Paris: 681.7 km NNE.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
43.3900° N, 1.6600° W
8 m
Europe/Paris
14,690
Transit Links & Medical Facilities
Proximate Regional Communities (France)
Climate by Month
Hottest: August (25 °C avg high); Wettest: November (153 mm).
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High °C | 11° | 11° | 14° | 16° | 18° | 21° | 23° | 25° | 23° | 19° | 14° | 11° |
| Low °C | 6° | 5° | 8° | 9° | 12° | 15° | 17° | 18° | 16° | 13° | 9° | 6° |
| Rain mm | 149 | 90 | 137 | 114 | 99 | 74 | 61 | 45 | 89 | 128 | 153 | 130 |
Normals: Biarritz (12.9 km away).
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 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 2 |
| Wildfires | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Most flood events within 100 km of Saint-Jean-de-Luz happened in December (2 of 6 in five years).
Source: GDACS, USGS; five years to October 2026.
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