Mont-de-Marsan is a commune and capital of the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.

The French Air and Space Force operates the Constantin Rozanoff Mont-de-Marsan Air Base about 2 kilometres north of the town. The base includes CEAM (the French air force military experimentation and trials organisation), an air defense radar command reporting centre and an air defence control training site. Mont-de-Marsan Air Base was formerly home to France's first operational squadron of nuclear bombers, the Dassault Mirage IVA.

Sights include:

• The Donjon Lacataye is the keep of a 14th-century castle
• Despiau-Wlérick Museum (1930s sculpture by two local artists)
• Dubalen Museum
• Marechal Foch's equestrian statue

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