Montesson

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Montesson

Total population

14,511

Air quality index

23Good

Elevation23 m

Land area7.36 km²

Coordinates48.91°, 2.15°

Demographic figures from INSEE. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Montesson is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Air quality

Current readings from Open-Meteo Air Quality API (Copernicus CAMS European reanalysis).

Wildlife & biodiversity

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Earthquake history

Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).

Notable people from here

Ludivine Sagnier

French actress

Hilaire Belloc

French-English writer (1870–1953)

A

André Lafosse

French musician and music teacher (1890-1975)

André Theuriet

French poet and novelist (1833–1907)

Alain Baraton

French gardener

Louis d'Aubusson de La Feuillade

French military officer and a Marshal of France

N

Nicolas Gustave Hubbard

French economist (1828–1888)

J

Jacques Sautereau

French croquet player (1860-1936)

A

Alain Gournac

French politician

Charles Faure

priest and writer (1594-1644)

C

Christian Stengel

French screenwriter (1902-1986)

Criquette Head-Maarek

French racehorse trainer

Cyrille Diabaté

French martial artist

E

Eugène Yvert

French journalist and printer

G

Geneviève Guitel

French mathematician (1895–1982)

Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro

painter (1871-1961)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Île-de-France

• Carrières-sous-Bois
  1.8 mi away
• Houilles
  2 mi away · pop. 33,449
• Bougival
  3 mi away · pop. 9,031
• Suresnes
  4.3 mi away · pop. 49,104
• Vaucresson
  4.7 mi away · pop. 8,566
• Courbevoie
  4.9 mi away · pop. 81,516
• Bois-Colombes
  5.4 mi away · pop. 29,765
• Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt
  5.5 mi away · pop. 31,057
• Bailly
  5.7 mi away · pop. 3,650
• Carrières-sous-Poissy
  5.8 mi away · pop. 18,316
• Aigremont
  5.9 mi away · pop. 1,083
• Villennes-sur-Seine
  7.2 mi away · pop. 5,628

Browse all places in Île-de-France →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

Southern Green Stink Bug

Nezara viridula

Seen 2026-09-27

Common Wood-Pigeon

Columba palumbus

Seen 2026-09-27

Black-headed Gull

Chroicocephalus ridibundus

Seen 2026-09-27

Mallard

Anas platyrhynchos

Seen 2026-09-27

Common Buzzard

Buteo buteo

Seen 2026-09-27

Wels Catfish

Silurus glanis

Seen 2026-09-27

Eurasian Moorhen

Gallinula chloropus

Seen 2026-09-27

Carrhotus xanthogramma

Carrhotus xanthogramma

Seen 2026-09-27

Grey Heron

Ardea cinerea

Seen 2026-09-27

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers