****Motorcoach traffic and parking are strictly regulated in Paris.
Details of rules and formalities, useful links, and list of Parisian coach operators.
Article updated on 22 april 2025
Since 1 January 2025, all vehicles travelling in the Paris metropolitan area (within the perimeter of the A86 motorway) must carry a Crit'Air 1 or 2 sticker.
Diesel coaches registered before 1 January 2014, meeting Euro 0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 standards, and petrol coaches registered before 1 October 2009, meeting Euro 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 standards, will be banned from driving 7 days a week from 8am to 8pm.
Subsequently, all diesel coaches and Euro 5 standard petrol coaches registered between 2009 and 2013 will be banned, followed by all petrol coaches and Euro 6 standard gas and hybrid coaches registered from 1 January 2014. The exact dates on which these bans will come into force have yet to be decided.
In order to improve quality of life - reduce noise and air pollution, and encourage environmentally friendly modes of travel - and after consultation with tourism, commerce, culture, events and transport professionals, the City of Paris is introducing new traffic rules.
A Limited Traffic Zone (LTZ) comes into effect on November 4 2024.
Perimeter: the first four arrondissements, excluding the islands and upper quays.
Motorized vehicles must be able to justify their presence in the area in the event of a spot check (hotel, restaurant, car park reservations, etc.).
However, the City of Paris has provided for exceptions that may transit:
Stopping to drop off and pick up passengers
Coaches are allowed to stop in Paris. This is free and requires no authorization, providing coaches stop only for the time strictly necessary to drop off or pick up passengers, with or without the loading/unloading of luggage. The engine must be switched off.
There are 56 on-street designated places for coaches to pick up/drop off passengers. In addition, there are delivery areas as well as places within the immediate vicinity of hotels and sports and cultural venues to pick up/drop off passengers.
Parking
Parking charges apply to all coaches in Paris 24/24 and 7/7 and the coach parking pass 'PASS Autocar' is obligatory.
Paris is divided into 2 fare zones:
The duration of the parking time depends on the zone:
Parking is prohibited outside the 468 parking spaces made available to professionals, of which 236 are in the Central zone.
The biggest coach parks are:
The Pass Autocar online service has been suspended since 30 April 2025 following the receivership of the operator. A new service provider is currently being put in place. During this period, conditions of access to coach parks remain unchanged: Passes purchased before the interruption remain valid, and Units valid on 30 April 2025 will be valid when the PASS Autocar site reopens. They will be debited according to the amount of parking done during the period of interruption.
Passes can be purchased on site from staff:
On-street (9am-7pm, 7 days a week):
The reopening of the Pass Autocar website will be the subject of a new press release on Paris.fr. It is not expected before June 2025.
The PASS Autocar is a coach parking pass that must be used by all coaches parking in Paris. It allows coaches to park in coach parks and in designated parking spaces.
During the authorized period, coaches can move from one authorized parking area to another on in the zone chosen.
The charge depends on the type of PASS, the duration, the parking zone, and (for subscribers) the motorisation of the vehicle - from Euro 4 to Euro 6 and clean vehicles (electric, NGV, LNG).
*Example of charges:
2 hours parking in the Central zone, or 4 hours in the Peripheral zone: from 15 units (clean vehicles) to 90 units (Euro 4 coaches) for subscribers, from €112 (online purchase) to €124.50 (payment onsite) for occasional users.
A municipal decree of 8 January 2019 regulates the travelling, stopping and parking of vehicles in tourist zones.
It gives details of: streets in Paris in which tourist coaches are banned from travelling, places where the dropping-off and picking-up of passengers are authorized and parking spaces.
Read the decree [in French]
