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FRANCE

Stories from travellers who have explored FRANCE: real experiences, with photographs from people who have been there.

494travel diaries
6.911traveller photographs
1979–2026years of stories

How people live in France

quality of life 74/100

Quality of life

74out of 100 · #33 of 95
Out of 100: higher is better
Healthcare95
Safety43
Infrastructure92
Climate and lifestyle65

The best on the continent

Malta93
Ireland91
Switzerland91
Portugal90
France74

What it costs to live there

2.192 €per month · third-party estimate
official figure: 73,7 (2024) — it costs 74% of what it costs in the United States.
How expensive it is, item by item — short and green = cheap, long and red = expensive
Groceries64
Rent58
Utilities58
Transport77

The price basket

What everyday life costs, item by item. Where an official source exists we publish it ourselves, the rest is told by travellers.

⛽Petrol · 1 litre2,212 €European Commission bulletin · 5 Oct 2026
🥛Milk · 1 litreto collectnobody has told it yet
🍞Bread · 1 kgto collectnobody has told it yet
☕Coffee at the barto collectnobody has told it yet
🍺Draught beer · 0.5 lto collectnobody has told it yet
🚕Taxi · 1 kmto collectnobody has told it yet
🍽Simple lunchto collectnobody has told it yet
💧Water · 1.5 litresto collectnobody has told it yet
Tell us the prices you found

Petrol: weekly bulletin from the European Commission, 5 October 2026 — data public and reusable. The other items will come from travellers’ stories, with name and date.

Curiosity · petrol in Europe

EUR per litre, to see where fuel costs most.

Denmark2,605 €
Netherlands2,432 €
France2,212 €
Greece2,203 €
Germany2,137 €
Portugal2,081 €
Italy2,073 €
Spain1,849 €
Austria1,837 €
Croatia1,827 €
Bulgaria1,663 €
Poland1,520 €

Cost, third-party estimate: WhereNext (getwherenext.com), licence CC BY 4.0, dataset 2026. Cost, official figure: World Bank — PPP factor ÷ official exchange rate × 100; the year is shown next to the figure (100 = United States). Note: the four item categories come from an index of affordability by WhereNext (higher = cheaper): here we show them inverted, so higher = more expensive, like the rest of the column. Healthcare: WHO · Safety: Global Peace Index · Climate and lifestyle: Open-Meteo · Infrastructure: Eurostat/OECD — collected by WhereNext, CC BY 4.0, 10 July 2026.
Exchange rate: amounts converted from USD to EUR at the ECB reference rate of 7 October 2026 (1 USD = 0.8947 EUR).

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