Saint-Chély-d'Apcher (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʃeli dapʃe]; Occitan: Sanch Ale dels Apchièrs) is a commune in the Lozère department in southern France.

The shield of Saint-Chély-d'Apcher is a red castle with two blue axes and the background is golden.

The Gévaudan Beast is an animal at the origin of many attacks against women and children between 1764 and 1767.

Saint-Chély-d'Apcher is located at the centre of the Gévaudan area, between Aubrac and Margeride.

The Saint-Chély-d'Apcher station is served by local and Intercités trains between Clermont-Ferrand and Béziers.

The town has a long-standing iron foundry, owned by the ArcelorMittal group.

It comprises production lines for rolling, annealing and scouring, and it also manufactures steel.

It produces 100,000 tonnes of steel per year and it is the European leader in top of the range products.

It is the only factory of Arcelor Mittal in Europe that produces pieces of sheet metal, more precisely non-oriented electrical steels.

[citation needed] There are 2 gymnasiums where there is climbing, body building, basketball, football and handball.

The town campsite is called "La Croix des Anglais".

Hiking, horse riding, biking, hunting, fishing, skiing... Saint-Chély-d'Apcher is a popular area for ornithologists, due to wide variety of both rural- and urban-dwelling birds that can be seen.

Saint-Chély-d'Apcher has a college where it is possible to take a course in BTSA management and nature conservation.

The college also proposes to offer a course in electronic and mechanical design and manufacture.