🇫🇷 Same-country drive · France
Driving from Angers to Ceret
- Drive time
- 8h 46m
- Distance
- 865 km
- Same day?
- Long day
- under 12 h
- Fuel cost
- ≈ €134
- petrol · diesel ≈ €115
- Tolls
- ≈ €87
- per-km
- EV charging
- Plenty fast
- 18 of 71 ≥50 kW
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Route map
Route options
Other paths OSRM found between the two cities — handy when traffic, tolls, or scenery matter more than raw speed.
Avoids motorways
+3h 47m- Distance:
- 791 km (−74 km)
- Duration:
- 12h 33m
Via: N 10 · D 347 · D 939 · D 710
How else can you make this trip?
Driving is the focus of this guide; here's how cycling, coach, and (soon) train and plane stack up for the same pair.
8h 46m
865 km · €134 fuel
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Not realistic
865 km is far beyond a typical multi-day cycle tour. Try a shorter pair like a day or weekend stage.
No direct service
Our coach data (FlixBus + BlaBlaCar) doesn't list a direct service for this pair. National operators (e.g., National Express in the UK, Eurolines feeders) may still cover it — check their site directly.
13h 52m
SNCF VOYAGEURS · TER BreizhGo
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Trip plan
How to think about the drive: one day, split, or overnight.
Consider splitting over two days
Technically a one-day drive, but it is a slog. Splitting overnight halfway makes it a much better trip and lets you see the middle, not just the endpoints.
A natural overnight stop near the halfway point: Ambarès-et-Lagrave (fr).
- Distance:
- 865 km
- Duration:
- 8h 46m (free-flow, no traffic)
Where to stop
Places along the route that make natural breaks for coffee, lunch, or a night.
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Chantonnay 🇫🇷 fr
≈124 km≈ 12 km detour from the main route
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Saint-Jean-d'Angély 🇫🇷 fr
≈247 km≈ 10.6 km detour from the main route
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Saint-Loubès 🇫🇷 fr
≈371 km≈ 9.3 km detour from the main route
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Tonneins 🇫🇷 fr
≈495 km≈ 13.7 km detour from the main route
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Saint-Alban 🇫🇷 fr
≈618 km≈ 3.5 km detour from the main route
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Trèbes 🇫🇷 fr
≈742 km≈ 12.7 km detour from the main route
Key moves
Things to know before you set off — borders, sides of the road, tolls.
Tolls on motorways in FR
Budget for motorway tolls — France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal charge per-km, Croatia and Greece by section. Contactless cards work almost everywhere; have one loaded.
Long rural stretch on N 230 Rocade Intérieure
Plan for about 13 km of two-lane country roads. Slower than motorway, but often the pretty part — fewer overtakes after dark.
Must-know before you go
The things a driver from another country wouldn't think to ask about — fines, stickers, payment cards, opening hours.
City access & emission zones
Order your Crit'Air sticker before the trip
Must knowParis, Lyon, Strasbourg, Marseille, Toulouse and a growing list of cities require a Crit'Air air-quality sticker visible on your windscreen — even for a single drive-through. It's €4.51 from the official site and ships by post (allow 2–6 weeks abroad). Without it, expect on-the-spot fines from €68. Your registration document tells the issuer your emission class.
Tolls, vignettes & road payment
Contactless works at every autoroute booth
UsefulFrench autoroutes use a ticket system: take a card on entry, pay on exit. Every barrier accepts contactless tap-to-pay — pull into the "CB / bank card" lane (orange "t" logo means Liber-T transponder only, avoid those). For frequent EU travellers a Bip&Go transponder pays itself off in two trips by skipping the queue.
What your car must carry
Hi-vis vest in the cabin, triangle in the boot
Must knowA reflective vest must be reachable without leaving the vehicle (in the door pocket or under your seat — boot is too late). One warning triangle is also mandatory. The 2012 breathalyzer rule was scrapped in 2020 but is still nice to keep. No spare-bulb requirement.
Driving rules & habits
Priorité à droite still applies in towns
UsefulOn urban streets without signs, traffic from your right has priority — even from a side street that looks subordinate. Outside cities the rule is mostly retired, but in residential French villages it survives. Slow at every right-hand junction unless a yellow diamond on your road tells you you're on the priority road.
Plan your stops, not just your finish time
UsefulOSRM gives you free-flow drive time. Realistic add: 10% on motorway-heavy routes, 25% if you're crossing two cities. Eat at off-peak hours (11:30 lunch, 18:00 dinner) — service-area queues at noon kill 20 minutes. EU fatigue research is consistent: 15-minute break every 2 hours, full 45-minute break before 6 hours. The drive between hours 7 and 9 is where avoidable accidents cluster.
Fuel stations
Contactless cards work at virtually every motorway pump
TipMajor brand stations (Shell, Total, BP, Repsol, Cepsa, OMV, Eni, Esso) take Visa and Mastercard contactless without an issue. American Express and Diners are spotty south of the Alps. A €100 pre-authorisation hold is normal — it releases within 5 days. Carry €50 cash for the rare independent station.
Smaller stations close on Sundays
TipMotorway service areas (aires) run 24/7 with a fuel-price premium of about €0.15/L. Off-motorway stations in towns under 20k people often close Sunday afternoons and overnight Mon–Sat. If you're fuelling on a Sunday route, plan around motorway stops — supermarket pumps (Carrefour, E.Leclerc) are your cheapest option but typically 9:00–12:30 / 14:30–19:00 on a Sunday, where open at all.
Money & connectivity
EU roaming covers calls, texts and data at no extra cost
TipYour home EU SIM works at home rates across every EU member, plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. The "fair use" cap on data only applies if you're abroad more than four months. For a 2-week road trip, just use your phone normally — but switch off "data roaming" if you're leaving the EU into UK / CH for any segment.
Emergency & breakdown
112 works everywhere in the EU and continental neighbours
TipSingle number for police, ambulance, fire — works from any phone, any network, any country. On motorways, the orange SOS pillars every 2km connect direct to the regional traffic control centre and pinpoint your location. Use them over your phone if you can — it speeds the response.
Rules, fees, and thresholds change. Always verify against the official source the day before you drive — this page is a checklist, not a legal reference.
Main roads
The highways this route spends the most kilometres on.
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A 62 Autoroute des Deux Mers238 km
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A 10 L'Aquitaine179 km
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A 61 Autoroute des Deux Mers138 km
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A 83 —101 km
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A 87N —101 km
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A 9 La Languedocienne77 km
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N 230 Rocade Intérieure13 km
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D 115 —3 km
Route character
How much of the drive is motorway vs. secondary vs. rural.
Motorway drive — fast, predictable, uneventful.
- Motorway
- 97%
- Secondary
- 3%
- Other / rural
- 0%
Drive difficulty
At-a-glance feel: how demanding is this drive for one driver?
Overall
Moderate
Manageable but pay attention — long enough that a second driver or a planned lunch break is smart.
- Long drive: 8h 46m behind the wheel at free-flow speeds.
Elevation profile
Highs, lows, and the total climb / descent along the route.
- Lowest point
- 14 m
- Highest point
- 184 m
- Total ascent
- ↑ 519 m
- Total descent
- ↓ 386 m
Fuel & tolls
Rough cost expectation for a typical EU passenger car. Treat as an estimate — pump prices change weekly.
Petrol (RON 95)
≈ €134
64.9 L × €2.07 / L · 7.5 L/100 km
Diesel
≈ €115
51.9 L × €2.22 / L · 6 L/100 km
Electric (DC fast)
≈ €83
151 kWh × €0.55 / kWh · 17.5 kWh/100 km
Public DC fast charging — slower AC charging at home or hotels typically costs about half.
Motorway tolls & vignettes
≈ €87
- FR — €0.10/km on the motorway network (≈ 865 km in-country ≈ €87)
Prices last refreshed 2026-08-03.
Fuel and EV charging along the route
Stations within a few kilometres of the road, sampled at evenly-spaced waypoints.
EV charging
18 at 50 kW or above (fast / ultra-fast).
Fastest first
- Electra - A10 - Aire de la Benâte (direction Paris) — Essouvert 400 kW
- Electra - A10 - Aire de Cézac (direction Paris) — Cézac 400 kW
- Ionity Corbières Nord — Capendu 350 kW
- Ionity Corbières Sud — Capendu 350 kW
- Atlante - A10 - Aire de service de Meillac (direction Saintes) — Cubzac-les-Ponts 300 kW
- Allego - Auchan Fenouillet — Fenouillet 300 kW
- Electra - Le Boulou - Hôtel Le Neoulous — Le Boulou 300 kW
- Tesla Supercharger Saint-André-de-Cubzac — Saint-André-de-Cubzac 250 kW
- PowerDot - Super U - Fonbeauzard — Fonbeauzard 200 kW
- TotalEnergies - Relais de l'Estalot — Saint-André-de-Cubzac 175 kW
- Atlante - Gauriaguet - L' Ange Bleu — Gauriaguet 150 kW
- Tesla Supercharger Toulouse - Castelnau-d'Estrétefonds — Castelnau-d'Estrétefonds 150 kW
Weather by month
Average daytime high / overnight low and typical monthly rainfall, over the past five years.
🇫🇷 Angers
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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9°
3°
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11°
4°
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13°
5°
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16°
8°
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20°
11°
|
25°
15°
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25°
15°
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26°
16°
|
22°
13°
|
18°
11°
|
13°
7°
|
10°
5°
|
| 105mm | 64mm | 78mm | 60mm | 77mm | 48mm | 60mm | 45mm | 60mm | 101mm | 81mm | 51mm |
hot mild cold
🇫🇷 Ceret
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
14°
5°
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16°
6°
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17°
8°
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20°
10°
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23°
13°
|
29°
18°
|
32°
20°
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33°
20°
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27°
16°
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23°
14°
|
17°
9°
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14°
6°
|
| 18mm | 61mm | 115mm | 58mm | 81mm | 51mm | 30mm | 28mm | 60mm | 56mm | 34mm | 117mm |
hot mild cold
Directions
Turn-by-turn summary of the main manoeuvres, generated by OSRM.
Show all 24 manoeuvres
- Rue Saint-Maurille
- Avenue Montaigne
- Avenue Montaigne
- (A 87N) 101 km
- — 1 km
- (A 83) 101 km
- L'Aquitaine (A 10) 179 km
- Rocade Intérieure (N 230) 13 km
- Autoroute des Deux Mers (A 62) 41 km
- Autoroute des Deux Mers (A 62) 184 km
- Périphérique Intérieur - Autoroute des Deux Mers (A 62) 13 km
- Autoroute des Deux Mers (A 61) 138 km
- La Languedocienne (A 9) 34 km
- La Catalane (A 9) 43 km
- (D 900)
- (D 115)
- (D 115)
- (D 115) 3 km
- Avenue des Aspres (D 115)
- Avenue des Aspres (D 115)
- Rue du Pont Neuf
- Avenue de la Gare
- Rue Saint-Ferréol
- Rue Anton de Siboune
By train from Angers to Ceret
Fastest cross-border rail itinerary from the public Transitous planner. Times reflect a typical Monday-morning departure on the next available service-day.
- Fastest journey
- 13h 52m
- 5 changes
- Lead operator
- SNCF VOYAGEURS
- + 2 more
- Alternatives
- 4
- Itineraries returned by the planner.
Trains on the fastest itinerary
- TGV INOUI 8926
- TGV INOUI 6633
All operators across alternatives
- SNCF VOYAGEURS
- TER BreizhGo
- Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français
Includes a high-speed rail leg (TGV, ICE, AVE, Frecciarossa-class).
Show route on map
Routing via the public Transitous OTP planner (community-run MOTIS instance). Cached 24 hours; verify on the operator's site before booking.
How this page is built
Compiled by COD Solutions Oy from open European data — OSRM over OpenStreetMap for the route geometry, Open-Meteo for monthly climate normals, OpenTopoData SRTM 30m for elevation, and Open Charge Map for EV charging stations. See our methodology for refresh cadence and limitations.