Pau: facts

At a glance

• Country: France
• Region: New Aquitaine
• Administrative status: seat of a second-order administrative division (GeoNames code PPLA2)
• Population: approximately 82,697
• Coordinates: 43.3112° N, 0.3558° W
• Time zone: Europe/Paris (UTC+01:00 standard, UTC+02:00 daylight saving time)
• Currency: Euro (EUR)
• Distance to the capital, Paris: 651 km (404 mi), straight line

Getting there

• Pau Pyrénées Airport (PUF): 9.2 km (5.7 mi), straight line
• Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées Airport (LDE): 32 km (20 mi), straight line
• Biarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ): 96 km (60 mi), straight line

Nearby

• Baudreix: 14 km (9 mi)
• Oloron-Sainte-Marie: 24 km (15 mi)
• Lourdes: 35 km (22 mi)
• Tarbes: 36 km (22 mi)
• Argeles-Gazost: 40 km (25 mi)
• Nearest place with over 100,000 inhabitants: Pamplona, 118 km (73 mi)

Things to see

• Jeanne d'Arc (memorial)
• Funiculaire de Pau (attraction)
• Chapelle Saint-Maur (church)
• Monument au maréchal Foch (memorial)
• Monument aux morts de 1914-1918 (memorial)
• Monument aux morts départemental (memorial)