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Mediterranean · May to September

Côte d’Azur

Saint-Tropez to Menton, plus the Îles d’Hyères and the calanques. The Monaco Yacht Show in September, Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez in October, and the deepest concentration of superyacht berths anywhere on earth.

40 places on the chart: 18 harbour towns and ports, 5 marinas, yards and clubs, 11 islands, 5 anchorages and bays and 1 beach.

Open Côte d’Azur on the chart

Why the fleet comes here

Monaco
The Monaco Yacht Show every September — the show the industry is built around
Monte Carlo
The quarter above Port Hercule
Nice
Port Lympia, and the airport that half the fleet’s guests arrive through
Saint-Tropez
Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez every October, and the most photographed quay in the Mediterranean
Cannes
The Cannes Yachting Festival every September, the largest in-water show in Europe
Antibes
Port Vauban and its Quai des Milliardaires, the largest superyacht berths in Europe
Menton
The last French harbour before the Italian border
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat
Port de Saint-Jean, under the most expensive residential cape in Europe
Villefranche-sur-Mer
One of the deepest natural roadsteads on the coast, and the anchorage every cruise ship and half the fleet uses
Cassis
The harbour at the eastern end of the Calanques
Beaulieu-sur-Mer
Port de Plaisance, between Cap Ferrat and Èze
Hyères
Olympic sailing water, and the gateway to the Îles d’Hyères
Saint-Raphaël
The harbour under the red rock of the Estérel
La Ciotat
La Ciotat Shipyards, one of the two great refit yards of the western Mediterranean
Porquerolles
The largest of the Îles d’Hyères, and its most used anchorage
Juan-les-Pins
The bay on the west side of the cape
Ramatuelle
The village above Pampelonne
Sainte-Maxime
The quiet side of the Gulf of Saint-Tropez
Bormes-les-Mimosas
Port de Bormes, at the foot of the Massif des Maures
Île Sainte-Marguerite
The sheltered anchorage a mile off Cannes
Le Lavandou
The mainland ferry port for the Îles d’Hyères
Port Grimaud
The lagoon village across the gulf from Saint-Tropez, every house with its own berth
Cap d’Antibes
Anse de la Garoupe and the anchorage under the Hôtel du Cap
Port-Cros
A national park island — anchoring is regulated and the water shows it
Pampelonne
The beach clubs of Ramatuelle, tendered to from the anchorage off it
Île Saint-Honorat
The monastery island of the Lérins
En-Vau
The most photographed of the Calanques, and a day anchorage in settled weather
Yacht Club de Monaco
The Foster-designed clubhouse on Port Hercule, and the Monaco Classic Week
Port Vauban
The Quai des Milliardaires — the berths the largest yachts in the Mediterranean come back to

Every place in Côte d’Azur