France Lotto Results: Latest France Loto Draws

The latest France Lotto results are in the block below, newest draw first, with earlier draws underneath. The French Loto is run by FDJ (La Française des Jeux) and drawn every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 20:20 French time, which is 21:20 in South Africa from late October to late March. Each result has five numbers from 1 to 49 and a Chance number from 1 to 10.

The results come from FDJ's published draws and refresh after each draw. If the block is missing, the data is more than three days old and has been hidden rather than shown as current; the official result is always on fdj.fr.

How the France Loto draw works

France Lotto is the name South Africans use for Loto, the French national lottery draw run by FDJ. FDJ's rules page describes a Loto grid as 49 "normal" numbers from 1 to 49 and ten Chance numbers from 1 to 10. A player in France picks five numbers from the first grid and one Chance number from the second; in each draw, five numbers and one Chance number are drawn.

Because the Chance number comes from its own small pool, it is not one of the five main numbers and can repeat a main number's value. Our results show it after the plus sign. In France, entries close at 20:15 on draw days, five minutes before the draw, according to FDJ. Prize amounts and the prize tiers are published by FDJ for each draw; we do not repeat them, because they change every time.

France Lotto draw days and time in SAST

France changes its clocks on the last Sunday of March and the last Sunday of October, while South Africa stays on SAST all year. In the French summer, France is on the same time as South Africa; in the French winter, it is one hour behind.

Draws are on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, so on the other four days the top row of the block is the most recent of those three. A result usually appears here a little after the draw, once FDJ has published it.

Reading and checking France Loto results

The block shows each draw's five main numbers in ascending order, then the Chance number. The top row is the newest draw; the table below lists the earlier ones by date.

The checker does the comparing in your browser. Type the numbers from one line and it shows the main matches and any Chance match for each France Loto draw in the feed.

France Loto compared with UK49s and Irish Lotto

People who follow lucky numbers often switch between draws, and the formats are easy to confuse. France Loto stands apart in two ways: it draws five main numbers rather than six, and its extra number comes from a separate small pool instead of the main one.

The practical lesson: a line of six numbers kept for UK49s cannot be checked against France Loto as it is, and a Chance number of 8 is not the same thing as a main number 8. The UK49s results page explains the British draw in detail.

France Lotto Plus and bookmaker variants

South African bookmakers sometimes list their own variants under names such as France Lotto Plus. Those variants follow the bookmaker's own rules, which are not part of FDJ's draw. If you are checking a slip, read the settlement rules in that bookmaker's terms and compare against the official French result.

France Loto results history

Older results, including draws from 2019 to 2022 that many readers look up, are archived by FDJ. Our block covers only the latest draw and up to ten before it, roughly the last three and a half weeks at three draws a week. For a long history, use the official archive.

Why France Lotto predictions do not work

Sites offering a France Lotto prediction for today or an "advanced" prediction for the next draw all use the same raw material: past results. A hot number is one drawn often lately; a cold number is one that has not appeared for a while. Neither tells you anything about the next draw, which is random and independent of every draw before it. Our hot and cold numbers page for UK49s shows what such statistics look like and why the same caution applies to every draw.

France Lotto and South African law

FDJ's Loto is sold in France, not in South Africa. Local interest comes from bookmakers' lucky numbers menus, which are fixed-odds bets on the outcome of the French draw. The Lotteries Act, section 57(2)(g), makes betting on the outcome of any lottery an offence unless another law authorises it, and whether provincial bookmaker licences provide that authorisation for foreign draws is contested and undecided. This page publishes results and explains the draw only; read more on our lucky numbers page.

Gambling is for adults aged 18 and over. Anything spent on numbers should be money you can afford to lose; for support, see our responsible gambling page.