Fancy an evening of gastronomy, entertainment or cocooning? See our suggestions for celebrating on 31 December 2024!
Shows, fine dining and top-class activities are all at your fingertips for a joyous, festive and upbeat New Year 2025! Here are 10 ideas for having fun and enjoying the seasonal festivities!
Fancy a gastronomic evening? Spectacular? Cocooning? Discover our suggestions for celebrating December 31, 2024! Paris has plenty to offer in the way of shows, fine dining and prestigious activities. Here are 10 ideas for how to celebrate New Year in Paris !
Rendezvous on the Champs-Elysées - the avenue is reserved for pedestrians all evening for the occasion - for an unforgettable New Year’s Eve 2025! This year, to bring in the Olympic year, the celebrations begin at 7pm with live musical performances and DJ sets - with the presence of three female DJs: Barbara Butch, Vanille Ferragu and Marine Neuilly- and a karaoke, before a show with circus artists and video light projections on the theme of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, at around 11pm. Finally, from midnight, a fireworks display lasting 10 minutes will light up the Arc de Triomphe and the Champs-Elysées, a wonderful spectacle for kids and adults. Great moments to share with family or friends!
Please note that, for security reasons :
In addition to the Champs-Élysées, the centre of Paris (the first 4 arrondissements) is reserved for pedestrians and pedestrian traffic until 00:30 on Monday 1 January 2024.
All public transport (metro, bus, RER and Transilien) is free from 5pm. 6 metro lines and 11 RER and Transilien lines run all night. The metro lines concerned are 1, 2, 4, 6, 9 and 14. Discover the detailed map of lines in operation and the stations served all night on 31 December 2024.
In the culinary capital, what better way to celebrate than with a special New Year gourmet treat! To avoid spending the day in the kitchen and make this New Year's Eve special and gastronomic, foodies can enjoy festive season menus proposed by restaurant **Palais Royal, by Drouant or the restaurants of prestigious hotels like the Nolinski, Brach, Sinner, or palaces such as George V, the Ritz, Meurice and La Réserve. Paris's finest brasseries, such as the Coupole, the Closerie des Lilas, the 110 de Taillevent and the Café de Flore will also be putting together special festive menus to help revellers see in 2024. There is something for all tastes and all budgets. Give yourself a real treat!
Celebrate New Year’s Eve with a musical night out at one of Paris’s prestigious theatres. If you haven’t seen it yet, join the 100 million people worldwide who have enjoyed the musical version of The Lion King! It’s on at the Théâtre Mogador.
From 27 December 2024 until 5 January 2025, at the Palais des Congrès, you can catch the Soldat Rose, now in its 15th year with a a new cast andnew staging. And the acclaimed and highly-anticipated musical Les Misérables will be on the bill at the Théâtre du Châtelet until 31 December 2024 !
Ring in the New Year on one of Paris’s sightseeing riverboats. The Bateaux Mouches, the Bateaux Parisiens and The Marina are offering special New Year’s Eve dinner cruises. Savour a gourmet meal as you glide past the monuments of Paris, including Notre-Dame, the City Hall, the Conciergerie, the Louvre Pyramid, the Musée d’Orsay and of course the Eiffel tower, with the reflections of the city lights scintillating on the water. Certain cruises also include live musical entertainment to add to the festive atmosphere.
Why not play at being a tourist in the city on December 31st. Stroll through ritzy districts and see the Christmas illuminations in Place Vendôme, Place de la Concorde or on the Champs-Élysées, then return to your hotel for a unique experience. A handful of charming places, from small confidential boutique hotels such as Le Collectionneur to prestigious palaces such as the Plaza Athénée, open the doors of their guest rooms to you. Enjoy room service, fluffy bathrobes, and breakfast in bed … Perfect for a special timeless evening!
Admire the City of Light while enjoying a gastronomic dinner for New Year's Eve? On board a restaurant bus, you can observe the most impressive monuments of Paris, watch the evening atmosphere roam the streets or spot the fronts of the beautiful boutiques while enjoying the most distinguished flavours. Le Bustronome, and its chef Sébastien Nicolleau, prepares a gourmet journey for the 31st with a food/wine pairing for a departure from Place Vauban (7th) at 7.45 pm, while the Bus Toqué takes you for a Paris By Night dinner with a departure at 8.30 pm from the Champs-Elysées and another at 6 PM for those who want to eat early!
Come and celebrate the New Year at Disneyland® Paris with friends, family or just the two of you by the dazzling firework display over Sleeping Beauty’s Castle and enjoy a selection of attractions open late for the occasion. Mickey and his friends are waiting to offer you a magical evening with plenty of surprises in store and some exclusive seasonal entertainment!
For amazing and spectacularNew Year’s Eve entertainment, head to the Compagnie Alexis Gruss big top in the Bois de Boulogne with Les Folies Gruss, an exciting show on horseback and in the air, at 3pm or at 9pm on 31 December 2024. And for those who want to make the most of the daytime before New Year's Eve, the circus presents a performance on the 31st at 3pm. Arbre, the cirque Bormann show, combines 2 hours of acrobatics and prowess thrilling and entertaining audiences. As for the Cirque d’Hiver Bouglione, it offers three performances at 2pm, 5.15pm and 8.30pm!
Get ready for a magical night in Paris! For New Year's Eve, the City of Light transforms itself, offering a multitude of events to suit all tastes. Between classic shows, club nights, circus shows at the Cirque Bormann, and famous cabarets like the Moulin Rouge and the Paradis Latin, there's something for everyone to celebrate in style!
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Olivier Giraud juggles with gags on the habits and customs of the capital, in the language of Shakespeare, with his show "How to become a Parisian in one hour" (7pm).
At the Grand Rex, 15 or so comics will be impersonating historical characters in History Telling directed by Kheiron.
There are one-(wo)man shows as well: François-Xavier Demaison will be at the Théâtre de l'Oeuvre with Di(x)vin(s) for the New Year and Florence Foresti will be putting on her show Boys, Boys, Boys at L’Olympia.
And for those who prefer something more surprising than funny, illusionist Klek Entos’s Oserez-vous? at the Palais des Glaces will not leave anyone indifferent.
You can be guaranteed a festive atmosphere at Paris’s legendary cabarets! Bathed in its sensuous dimmed red lighting, the Crazy Horse promises to bedazzle you with its sparkling show Totally Crazy. At the Moulin Rouge a whirlwind of feathers, sequins and rhinestones sweep you up in its colourful revue show Féérie featuring the famous Cancan. Stephen Sondheim’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is playing at Lido 2 Paris. Without forgetting the spectacular show put on by thirty or so artists on the stage of the legendary Paradis Latin.
Glamour, fairy-tale magic, the splendour of the Seine, a night out at a theatre or a romantic tête-à-tête, burlesque or classical pirouettes, dance or exquisite music – all the ingredients are there for you to choose from to create your own special New Year’s Eve.
Experience a unique New Year's Eve party at La Bellevilloise, one of Paris's top party venues. Concerts, parties, you can expect an electrifying atmosphere, an exceptional musical programme, hard-hitting DJ sets, varied entertainment and surprises all night long.
Paris is full of unusual places to enjoy an unforgettable New Year's Eve.
The fireworks for New Year's Eve 2024-2025 are fired from the Champs-Elysées. To enjoy the show to the full, it is advisable to arrive early wherever you are watching the fireworks from. The fireworks are launched after a video show has been shown on the facades of the Arc de Triomphe, so it is not advisable to go to the Place du Trocadéro or the Eiffel Tower to enjoy the show to the full!
