Rochefort: facts

At a glance

• Country: France
• Region: New Aquitaine
• Administrative status: seat of a third-order administrative division (GeoNames code PPLA3)
• Population: approximately 29,427
• Coordinates: 45.9430° N, 0.9677° W
• Time zone: Europe/Paris (UTC+01:00 standard, UTC+02:00 daylight saving time)
• Currency: Euro (EUR)
• Distance to the capital, Paris: 409 km (254 mi), straight line

Getting there

• La Rochelle Île de Ré Airport (LRH): 32 km (20 mi), straight line
• Poitiers-Biard Airport (PIS): 121 km (75 mi), straight line
• Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD): 125 km (78 mi), straight line

Nearby

• La Rochelle: 28 km (18 mi)
• Saintes: 34 km (21 mi)
• Saint-Jean-d'Angely: 35 km (21 mi)
• Royan: 35 km (22 mi)
• Cognac: 57 km (35 mi)
• Nearest place with over 100,000 inhabitants: Bordeaux, 126 km (78 mi)