Antibes Population and Area (Alpes-Maritimes)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Antibes (Alpes-Maritimes)
Antibes: Population and Area
With 78,612 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Antibes is the 65th most populous town in France in 2026 and the 2nd most populous in the Alpes-Maritimes department, out of 163 communes. It covers 26 km² (4,962nd largest area in France, 52nd largest in the department), with a population density of 2,969 inhabitants per km², or 27 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 293rd in France for density.
Antibes is located in the Alpes-Maritimes department (06), in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, where it ranks 6th by population out of 946 communes. The most populous town in the Alpes-Maritimes department is Nice (360,710 inhabitants); the department is home to 1,142,503 people over 4,299 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Alpes-Maritimes department and the regional ranking: largest city in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Towns of similar size in the Alpes-Maritimes department: Nice (pop. 360,710), Cannes (pop. 75,105), Cagnes-sur-Mer (pop. 53,819), Grasse (pop. 51,830).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 06004. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.
Antibes, the second-largest city in the Alpes-Maritimes
Neither a prefecture nor a subprefecture, Antibes is nonetheless the second most populous town in the Alpes-Maritimes, ahead of Cannes and behind Nice. Founded by the Greeks as Antipolis and fortified by Vauban against the County of Nice, it brings together within a single territory the old town, Cap d'Antibes and the seaside resort of Juan-les-Pins.
A large city between the sea and a technology park
The size of Antibes stems from its coastline, its Port Vauban, one of the great marinas of the Mediterranean, and above all from Sophia Antipolis, Europe's leading technology park, created in 1969 and located partly within the commune: thousands of engineers and researchers work there. Tourism, with the Picasso Museum housed in the Château Grimaldi and the Juan-les-Pins jazz festival, rounds out an economy that attracts both working people and retirees. Its population swells considerably every summer with the influx of visitors.