Skip to content
Pamiers

File:Pamiers-vue_générale.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons

EntityQ209834· pop 58· linked from 472 articles

Also known as Pàmias

Pamiers (; ) is a commune and largest city in the Ariège department in the Occitanie region in southwestern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. It is the most populous commune in the Ariège department, although it is not the capital which is the smaller town of Foix. The seat of the Bishop of Pamiers is at the Pamiers Cathedral. The current mayor of the town is Frédérique Thiennot, who succeeded André Trigano in 2020 after he had held the post for 25 years.

OverviewAI-generated

Pamiers is a commune in France, situated in the Ariège department within the Occitanie region. It serves as the capital of the arrondissement of Pamiers and the cantons of Pamiers-Est and Pamiers-Ouest. The town has a population of 16,576, comprising 7,805 males and 7,870 females. Its area is 45.85 square kilometers, and it lies at an elevation of 289 meters.

The municipality shares borders with Benagues, Bézac, Bonnac, and Le Carlaret. It is twinned with Crailsheim and Terrassa. Pamiers uses the postal code 09100 and operates in the Europe/Paris time zone.

Synthesized by Vinony from 53 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Meteo, Openweathermap, OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Vinony graph, Geo. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Weather now

cached 4h ago
15°clear sky
77% 4.2 m/s OpenWeatherMap

7-day forecast

via Open-Meteo

Place details

Locality
Pamiers
Region
Occitanie
Country
France
Population
16,997
Timezone
Europe/Paris

via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames

Air quality

31US AQIGood
PM2.5
3.6 µg/m³
PM10
6.7 µg/m³
As of 2026-09-17 02:00 · Open-Meteo

Key facts

French commune.name
Pamiers
French commune.commune status
Subprefecture and commune
French commune.image coat of arms
Blason Pamiers 09.svg
French commune.image
Pamiers-vue générale.jpg
French commune.caption
A general view of Pamiers
French commune.arrondissement
Pamiers
French commune.canton
2 Cantons (Pamiers-1 and 2)
French commune.INSEE
09225
French commune.postal code
09100
French commune.party
DVC
French commune.mayor
Frédérique Thiennot
French commune.term
2020–2026
French commune.intercommunality
Portes d'Ariège Pyrénées
French commune.elevation m
298
French commune.elevation min m
256
French commune.elevation max m
473
French commune.area km2
45.85

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Official name
Pamiers
Country
France
Population
16473
Area
45.85
Elevation
307
Time zone
UTC+02:00
Shares border with
Bézac
Official website
www.ville-pamiers.fr
Image
Bannière Pamiers.jpg
Show 15 more facts
topic's main category
Category:Pamiers
postal code
09100
twinned administrative body
Terrassa
category for people born here
Category:Births in Pamiers
category of associated people
Category:People from Pamiers
native label
Pamiers
Commons category
Pamiers
male population
7805
female population
7870
email address
mailto:[email protected]
phone number
+33-5-61-60-95-00
fax number
+33-5-61-60-10-16
Sources (4)

via Wikidata · CC0

~4 min read

Encyclopedic overview

8 sections
Contents
  • Geography
  • Personalities
  • Transportation
  • Population
  • Climate
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Pamiers (; ) is a commune and largest city in the Ariège department in the Occitanie region in southwestern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. It is the most populous commune in the Ariège department, although it is not the capital which is the smaller town of Foix. The seat of the Bishop of Pamiers is at the Pamiers Cathedral. The current mayor of the town is Frédérique Thiennot, who succeeded André Trigano in 2020 after he had held the post for 25 years.

==Geography== Pamiers is located on the river Ariège.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pamiers” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Gallery (8)

On the map

3 mapped locations