Carte de Lay · Loire, France
Commune: Lay · Département: Loire (42) · Région: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Explore Lay in Loire, France with this interactive street and satellite map. Drag the map to move it, switch views with the small square in the bottom left-hand corner, and zoom to street level with the buttons on the right. Below the map, Search Maps opens France's official mapping — Plan IGN, IGN aerial photographs, contour lines and relief shading — with a UTM grid, a distance and bearing tool and a GPS position readout in Lambert-93.
Découvrez Lay (Loire, France) sur cette carte interactive, plan et vue satellite. Sous la carte, Search Maps ouvre le Plan IGN, les photographies aériennes, les courbes de niveau et le relief, avec quadrillage UTM, outil de mesure et position GPS en Lambert-93.
Use the Map and Satellite buttons to switch between the street map and aerial imagery, and the + and − buttons to zoom. Click ⛶ Fullscreen for a larger view; press Escape or tap ✕ Exit Fullscreen to return.
OFFICIAL FRENCH MAPS. The green 🔍 Search Maps button opens a second map with three base layers: OSM (OpenStreetMap), Plan IGN — France's official national map from the Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière — and Photos, the IGN's aerial photography. Two overlays go over any of them: Contours, the IGN's contour lines, and Relief, hillshading from the RGE ALTI one-metre terrain model. The search box finds any place in France or beyond by name.
Click Grid to overlay the UTM grid — one-kilometre squares at normal zoom. Click Measure and tap two points for the distance plus the grid, true and magnetic bearing.
📍 My position takes a single GPS reading and shows it as an MGRS reference, as plain UTM, as Lambert-93 (the French national grid, EPSG:2154) and as latitude and longitude, with a Copy position button. Map tiles need mobile coverage; a GPS reading does not.
Mode d'emploi. Les boutons Map et Satellite basculent entre le plan et la vue aérienne ; + et − zooment. Le bouton vert 🔍 Search Maps ouvre une seconde carte avec OSM, le Plan IGN (la carte officielle de l'IGN) et les Photos aériennes de l'IGN, ainsi que deux calques : Contours (courbes de niveau) et Relief (ombrage RGE ALTI).
Grid affiche le quadrillage UTM, Measure mesure distance et direction, et 📍 My position indique votre position en MGRS, en UTM et en Lambert-93 — même sans réseau pour les tuiles de la carte.
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| Place / Lieu | Lay |
| Commune | Lay |
| Department / Département | Loire (42) |
| Region / Région | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |
| Country / Pays | France |
| Latitude | 45.966936 |
| Longitude | 4.242843 |
| Place type / Type | Commune |
| Population / Habitants | 777 |
| Stream / Cours d'eau | l'Écoron (0.8 km) |
| Main river / Cours d'eau principal | la Loire (14.5 km) |
| Lake / Lac | Lac des Sapins (10.1 km) |
| Nearest summit / Sommet | Mont des Salles (11.0 km) |
| Pass / Col | Col du Pilon (11.9 km) |
| Woodland / Forêt | Bois Châtain (2.1 km) |
| UNESCO Global Geopark / Géoparc mondial UNESCO | Geopark Beaujolais (1.9 km) |
Nestled in the Loire department, Lay emerges from a landscape where the gentle rhythm of the Écoron river shapes the valley floor. Nearby, the dense canopy of the Bois Châtain offers a quiet sanctuary, grounding the commune in the wider countryside of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. The atmosphere is one of soft light and rolling hills, echoing the industrious heritage of the surrounding valleys. A short walk away, the Château de Sarron stands as a silent witness to time, while the Pesselet estate keeps watch over the fields. Further out, the Geopark Beaujolais reveals the ancient, storied geological heartbeat of this quiet corner of France.
Blotti dans le département de la Loire, Lay s'inscrit dans un paysage où le cours paisible de l'Écoron sculpte le fond de la vallée. À proximité, le couvert végétal du Bois Châtain offre un refuge silencieux, ancrant la commune dans l'écrin rural de la région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. L'atmosphère y est faite de lumières douces et de collines onduleuses, rappelant l'héritage laborieux des vallées environnantes. Tout près, le Château de Sarron se dresse comme un témoin silencieux du temps, tandis que le domaine de Pesselet veille sur les champs. Plus loin, le Geopark Beaujolais révèle le cœur géologique ancien et tourmenté de ce discret coin de France.
Distances are straight-line from the map centre. / Distances à vol d'oiseau. Linked names open Wikipedia.
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This page shows Lay in Loire, France on an embedded Google street and satellite map at 45.966936, 4.242843, with live weather and local and world news. Search Maps adds the official Plan IGN, IGN aerial photographs, contour lines and relief shading, a labelled UTM grid, distance with grid, true and magnetic bearings, and a one-shot GPS fix given in MGRS, UTM and Lambert-93.
Cette page présente Lay (Loire, France) sur une carte interactive — plan et vue satellite — à 45.966936, 4.242843, avec la météo et l'actualité. Via Search Maps : Plan IGN, photographies aériennes, courbes de niveau, relief, quadrillage UTM, outil de mesure et position GPS en Lambert-93.
Place names and locations from the IGN: BD TOPO® and ADMIN EXPRESS COG.
| Page built | September 2026 |
| Place data | IGN BD TOPO® and ADMIN EXPRESS COG © IGN / Géoplateforme (2026) Licence Ouverte 2.0. Data modified / Données modifiées: coordinates converted from Lambert-93 (and the overseas UTM zones) to WGS84; page addresses use unaccented names. |
| Population | INSEE municipal population, via IGN ADMIN EXPRESS COG. |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; Plan IGN, IGN aerial photographs, contour lines and hillshade © IGN / Géoplateforme (2026) Licence Ouverte 2.0; magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Nearby places | © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); landmarks, heritage, protected areas and landscape from IGN BD TOPO® and ADMIN EXPRESS (2026) Licence Ouverte 2.0; sea names from Marine Regions IHO Sea Areas v3 CC BY 4.0 |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees converted from RGF93 / Lambert-93 (EPSG:2154) or the matching overseas UTM zone |