Cagnes-sur-Mer Population and Area (Alpes-Maritimes)

Cagnes-sur-Mer: Population and Area

With 53,819 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Cagnes-sur-Mer is the 120^th most populous town in France in 2026 and the 4^th most populous in the Alpes-Maritimes department, out of 163 communes. It covers 18 km² (9,493^rd largest area in France, 80^th largest in the department), with a population density of 2,998 inhabitants per km², or 27 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 288^th in France for density.

Cagnes-sur-Mer is located in the Alpes-Maritimes department (06), in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, where it ranks 11^th 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), Antibes (pop. 78,612), Cannes (pop. 75,105), Grasse (pop. 51,830), Le Cannet (pop. 42,297), Saint-Laurent-du-Var (pop. 32,366).

Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 06027. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.