Hyères Population and Area (Var)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Hyères (Var)
Hyères: Population and Area
With 56,763 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Hyères is the 111th most populous town in France in 2026 and the 4th most populous in the Var department, out of 153 communes. It covers 132 km² (127th largest area in France, 2nd largest in the department), with a population density of 429 inhabitants per km², or 3.9 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 2,140th in France for density.
Hyères is located in the Var department (83), in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, where it ranks 10th by population out of 946 communes. The most populous town in the Var department is Toulon (180,774 inhabitants); the department is home to 1,135,585 people over 5,973 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Var department and the regional ranking: largest city in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Towns of similar size in the Var department: Toulon (pop. 180,774), La Seyne-sur-Mer (pop. 64,430), Fréjus (pop. 60,503), Draguignan (pop. 41,617), Saint-Raphaël (pop. 37,704), Six-Fours-les-Plages (pop. 37,643).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 83069. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.