Arrival of the Tour de France in Paris: watch out for traffic restrictions (this Friday)

• The 2025 Tour de France will end Sunday July 27 in Paris, at the end of an event in the heart of Montmartre.
• But beware, for security reasons, many metro stations will be closed.
• The traffic of cars, bikes and pedestrians will also be limited.

After an arrival in Nice in 2024, the Tour de France will find its historic arrival city this Sunday, July 27, Paris. After three weeks of racing, cyclists will compete one last time throughout an already legendary course. The finish line will certainly be on the Champs-Élysées but Tadej Pogacar and its competitors will first have to climb the Butte Montmartre three times … which promises beautiful images, but also some difficulties to Parisians to move.

Many closed metro stations

By security measures, RATP (new window) has already warned that metro stations should remain closed on Sunday, mainly on line 1. Here is the list of stops, all lines combined, which will not be served, all day:

– Tuileries (ligne 1) ;

– Concorde (lines 1, 8 and 12);

– Champs-Élysées Clemenceau (lines 1 and 13);

– Franklin D. Roosevelt (lines 1 and 9);

– George V (line 1);

– Charles de Gaulle-Etoile (lines 1, 2 and 6, RER A);

– Argentina (line 1);

– Madeleine (lines 8, 12 and 14).

Other stations will remain open in the morning, then close from 1 p.m.:

– Villiers (lines 2 and 3);

– Rome (line 2);

– Antwerp (line 2);

– White (line 2)

– Place de Clichy (lines 2 and 13);

– Abbesses (line 12).

“Trains will not mark the stop and correspondence will not be ensured”explains the RATP, and the reopening “Will be on authorization from the police headquarters”. Note that the Montmartre funicular, which allows access to the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, will also be arrested from 1 p.m.

Streets closed to traffic

Motorists will also have to anticipate their trips. Many axes will be closed to traffic but not all at the same times. Some will be From Sunday at midnight to Monday at 6 a.m.. Here is the full list, available on the Paris Town Hall website (new window) :

– avenue Winston Churchill ;

– Cours la Reine (between avenue Winston Churchill and Place de la Concorde);

– Boulevard des Invalides (between rue de Grenelle and avenue de Tourville);

– avenue de Friedland ;

– Place Georges Guillaumin;

– rue Berryer ;

– Rue Balzac (between the avenue de Friedland and rue Beaujon).

The avenue des Champs-Élysées, between Place de la Concorde and the Champs-Élysées-Marcel-Dassault roundabout, will be inaccessible Sunday, from 6 a.m. to 11:59 p.m..

Some streets will only closeFrom 9 a.m. on Sundayfor a reopening scheduled the same day at 11:59 p.m.:

– Place Charles de Gaulle;

– avenue des Champs-Élysées;

-Champs-Élysées-Marcel-Dassault roundabout;

-Avenue Matignon (between the Champs-Élysées-Marcel-Dassault roundabout and rue de Penthièvre);

– rue de Penthièvre (between avenue Matignon and rue Cambacérès);

– rue Cambacérès (between rue de Penthièvre and rue de la Ville-l’Évêque);

– rue de la Ville-l’Évêque (between rue Cambacérès and Boulevard Malesherbes);

– Boulevard Malesherbes (between rue de la Ville-l’Évêque and Place de la Madeleine);

– Place from Madeleine;

– Rue Royale;

– Place de la Concorde (between rue Royale and rue de Rivoli);

– Rue de Rivoli (between Place de la Concorde and rue de Rohan);

– Place du Carrousel;

– Quai François Mitterrand (between the Carrousel bridge and the Royal Bridge);

– Pont Royal;

– Quai des Tuileries (between the Royal Pont and Pont de la Concorde);

– Concorde bridge;

– Cours la Reine (between the Concorde bridge and the Alexander III bridge);

– Georges Pompidou route (between Place de l’Alma and Place de la Concorde);

– Pont Alexandre III;

– Cours la Reine (between the Alexandre III bridge and avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt);

-avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt (between the Cours la Reine and the Champs-Élysées-Marcel-Dassault roundabout).

Safety still reinforced on Sunday afternoon

Finally, at the height of the security system, Sunday Between 1 p.m. and 8 p.m.the list of cut roads will still be growing. Here is the list communicated by the authorities:

-Quai d’Issy-les-Moulineaux;

– Ascident and corn cite;

– Quai de Grenelle;

– quai Branly ;

– Place of the Resistance;

– Quai d’Orsay;

– Quai François Mitterrand (between the Carrousel bridge and the rue de l’Amiral de Coligny);

– rue de l’Amiral de Coligny;

– Access to the square courtyard of the Louvre;

– square courtyard of the Louvre;

– Issy quay exchanger (ramp n ° 1, side boulevard inner peripheral);

– Issy quai interchange (straps n ° 2 and 4, side boulevard outdoor peripheral);

– Issy quai interchange (junction of suspenders n ° 3 and 4, side boulevard peripheral external);

– Boulevard Malesherbes (between Place de la Madeleine and Boulevard de Courcelles);

– Boulevard de Courcelles (between boulevard Malesherbes and boulevard des Batignolles);

– Boulevard des Batignolles;

– Place de Clichy;

– Boulevard de Clichy (between Place de Clichy and Place Blanche);

– place Blanche ;

– rue Puget ;

– Rue Coustou, between rue Puget and rue Lepic;

– Rue Lepic;

– Place Jean-Baptiste Clément;

– rue Norvins ;

– rue Saint-Éleuthère;

– rue du Cardinal-Dubois;

– rue Lamarck.

Parking limitations from 6 p.m. Friday

If your vehicle is parked on a closed track on Sunday, “It will be systematically put in impoundes”warns the city of Paris.

But the parking of motorized vehicles will also be prohibited in certain sectors From this Friday 6 p.m. to Sunday at 11:59 p.m.. Here are the main axes concerned:

-Quai d’Issy-les-Moulineaux;

– Ascident and corn cite;

– Quai de Grenelle;

– Quai d’Orsay;

– Quai des Tuileries;

– Quai François Mitterrand;

– Place de la Concorde;

– Place from Madeleine;

– Boulevard des Batignolles;

– Place de Clichy;

The exhaustive list is available in Paris.fr (new window).

Also pay attention to the tracks where parking will not become possible until after 2 p.m. Monday, such as Boulevard Pershing or part of the Grenelle quay, in particular.

And for pedestrians?

“Pedestrians and cyclists can circulate freely”ensures the town hall, “Except in the Silt spaces”. These anti-terrorist vigilance areas will be set up on Sunday “From 7 am on the Champs-Élysées, then at 9 am” Around the Madeleine. People by bicycle will not be able to enter and excavations will be organized.

Three streets of Montmartre, in the 18ᵉ arrondissement of Paris, are prohibited in pedestrian traffic during the race: the Norvins, Puget and Coustou streets.

If they are not affected by the circulation restrictions of motorized vehicles, the bikes must respect the parking restrictions. “They can be removed and stored in a Parisian police station”still specifies the police headquarters.