Destinations

Paris in February gains ninety minutes of daylight, keeps January prices and empties the museums. Chinese New Year on 6 February 2027, the first usable free Louvre evening of the year, and the Salon de l Agriculture.

Paris in September gives you late-summer weather, a city fully reopened after August and thinning crowds – plus the European Heritage Days on 18-19 September 2027. The cost is daylight, and the river swimming has ended.

Paris in June is the best month on the numbers: the longest days of the year, 23C warmth, nothing closed yet and the Fete de la Musique on 21 June. What it costs is peak pricing, and no river swimming until July.

Paris in August swaps populations: the residents leave and the visitors arrive. What really closes, what stays open, free Seine swimming and open-air cinema, and why 15 August 2027 costs you nothing.

Paris in July is the hottest and busiest month of the year: 26C days, sixteen hours of daylight, free swimming in the Seine, the summer sales, Bastille Day fireworks and, in 2027, the Tour de France finish.

Paris in January is the cheapest and quietest month of the Parisian year: 7C days, eight hours of daylight and no museum queues. The winter sales, what closes on 1 January, and the ten days in late January to book around.

Paris in November is the year’s best value: quiet museums, low room rates and, in the last ten days, the Christmas lights and markets before December pricing starts.

Paris in December is two months in one: a quiet, cheap, fully decorated first half, then the most expensive week of the winter. Weather, markets, lights, closures and what to book.