Sète (French pronunciation: [sɛt]; Occitan: Seta, [ˈsetɔ]), also historically spelled Cette (official until 1928) and Sette, is a commune in the Hérault department, in the region of Occitania, southern France.

Its inhabitants are called Sétois (male) and Sétoises (female) in French, "Setòris" and "Setòria" in Occitan.

Known as the Venice of Languedoc and the singular island (in Paul Valéry's words), it is a port and a seaside resort on the Mediterranean with its own very strong cultural identity, traditions, cuisine and dialect.

It is the hometown of such artists as Paul Valéry, Maurice Elie Sarthou, Jean Vilar, Georges Brassens, Hervé Di Rosa, Manitas de Plata, and Robert Combas.

Built upon and around Mont St Clair, Sète is situated on the south-eastern end of the Étang de Thau, an enclosed salt water lake used primarily for oyster and mussel fields.

): Σήτιον ὄρος, later in Avienius' (Ora Maritima): Setius... mons and on the maps of Aniane: fiscum..qui nuncupatur Sita During the 11th century Catharism appeared in the Languedoc region.

On 24 June 1894 Sante Geronimo Caserio, an Italian anarchist from Lombardy and apprentice baker in Sète stabbed to death president Sadi Carnot in Lyon.

In 1934, FC Sète 34 won the Ligue 1 and Coupe de France and became the first football club to win both the same year.

On 23 May 1939: the SS Sinaia left the port with Spanish Republicans seeking asylum in Lázaro Cárdenas's Mexico.

On 25 June 1944 Sète railway station, Balaruc-les-Bains's and Frontignan's oil refineries were bombarded by the American 15th Air Force.

On 11 July 1947, the packet steamship SS President Warfield leaves for Palestine with 4,530 Jews who survived the Shoah.

The port official M. Leboutet had authorised captain Ike Aronowicz to sail to Colombia and, after five days on the Atlantic Ocean, the ship took the name SS Exodus and changed direction towards Palestine.

De vrais mensonges (Beautiful Lies) is a 2010 French comedy-romance film, set in the town, starring Audrey Tautou and directed by Pierre Salvadori.