New Year's Eve 2026 in Paris: Traffic and Parking Restrictions

What are your plans for New Year's Eve 2026 in Paris? A romantic dinner at a cozy restaurant? Or perhaps a lively night out with friends to dance the night away? Or maybe you're dreaming of watching the video-mapping show followed by the traditional fireworks display from the most beautiful avenue in the world? On wednesday, December 31, 2025, as every year, the Champs-Élysées is bound to be packed with revelers celebrating the arrival of the new year.

To "ensure the safety of people and property" during the New Year celebrations for 2026, the Police Prefecture has issued a decree temporarily modifying parking and traffic regulations in several streets across the 8th, 16th, and 17th districts of Paris. Please note that some of these restrictions will be in effect from December 30, 2025, to January 1, 2026.

Regarding vehicle parking, it will be prohibited from December 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM until January 1, 2026 at 4:00 AM in the following streets and sections, located in the 8th, 16th, and 17th districts:

• Place Charles de Gaulle;
• Rue de Tilsitt;
• Rue de Presbourg;
• Avenue Marceau, between Place Charles de Gaulle and Rue Newton;
• Avenue d’Iéna, between the same points;
• Avenue Kléber, connecting Place Charles de Gaulle to Avenue des Portugais;
• Avenue Victor Hugo, from Place Charles de Gaulle to Rue de Presbourg;
• Avenue Foch, linking Place Charles de Gaulle with Rue de Presbourg;
• Avenue de la Grande Armée, from Place Charles de Gaulle to Tilsitt and Presbourg Streets;
• Avenue Carnot, extending from Place Charles de Gaulle to Tilsitt Street;
• Avenue Mac-Mahon, between the same landmarks;
• Avenue de Wagram, connecting Place Charles de Gaulle and Tilsitt Street.
• Avenue Hoche, from Place Charles de Gaulle to Rue Beaujon;
• Avenue de Friedland, between Place Charles de Gaulle and Lord Byron Street;
• Avenue des Champs-Élysées, from Place Charles de Gaulle to Place de la Concorde;
• Rue Arsène Houssaye, linking Avenue des Champs-Élysées to Lord Byron Street;
• Rue Lord Byron, between Arsène Houssaye and Balzac Streets;
• Rue Balzac, from Avenue des Champs-Élysées to Rue de Chateaubriand;
• Rue Washington, also connecting Avenue des Champs-Élysées to Rue Chateaubriand;
• Rue de Berri, from Avenue des Champs-Élysées to Rue Ponthieu;
• Rue La Boëtie, extending between the same streets;
• Rue du Colisée, also connecting Avenue des Champs-Élysées to Rue Ponthieu;
• Champs Elysées – Marcel Dassault roundabout;
• Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt from the Champs Elysées-Marcel Dassault roundabout to Rue Ponthieu;
• Rue Jean Mermoz, between Rue Ponthieu and the same roundabout;
• Avenue Matignon, from Rue Ponthieu to the Champs Elysées-Marcel Dassault roundabout;
• Avenue Dutuit;
• Avenue Edward Tuck;
• Avenue Winston Churchill;
• Avenue Charles Girault;
• Clemenceau Square;
• Avenue du Général Eisenhower;
• Avenue de Selves;
• Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, from the same roundabout to Rue Jean Goujon;
• Avenue Montaigne, between Avenue des Champs-Élysées and Rue François 1er;
• Rue de Marignan;
• Rue Marbeuf, linking Avenue des Champs-Élysées with Rue François 1er;
• Rue Pierre Charron, between the same avenues;
• Rue Lincoln;
• Rue Quentin Bauchart, from Avenue des Champs-Élysées to Place Paul-Emile Victor;
• Avenue Georges V, connecting the same point to the same square;
• Rue de Bassano, between Avenue des Champs-Élysées and Rue Magellan;
• Rue Galilée, linking Avenue des Champs-Élysées to Avenue Marceau;
• Rue Vernet;
• Rue Dumont d'Urville, between Avenue d’Iéna and Rue Jean Giraudoux;
• Rue La Pérouse, from Avenue d’Iéna to Rue Jean Giraudoux.

• To be read
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• New Year's Eve 2026 on the Champs-Élysées: fireworks and video mapping at the Arc de Triomphe

The vehicle movement ban will be in effect from 2:00 PM on December 31, 2025, to 4:00 AM on January 1, 2026. Within the area bounded by the roads and sections of roads in Paris's 8th, 16th, and 17th arrondissements, which will remain accessible to traffic unless otherwise specified,

• Place de la Porte Maillot;
• Boulevard Pereire, from Place de la Porte Maillot to Avenue des Ternes;
• Avenue des Ternes;
• Place des Ternes;
• Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, between Place des Ternes and Place du Révérend Père Carré;
• Place du Révérend Père Carré;
• Rue Berryer;
• Avenue de Friedland, between Rue Berryer and Rue Washington;
• Place Maurice Couve de Murville;
• Rue Washington, closed to traffic from 3:00 PM;
• Avenue des Champs Élysées between Rue Washington and Avenue Georges V, closed to traffic from 3:00 PM;
• Avenue Georges V, between Avenue des Champs Élysées and Place Paul Emile-Victor, closed from 3:00 PM;
• Place Paul-Emile Victor, closed from 3:00 PM;
• Avenue Georges V between Place Paul-Emile Victor and Avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie, closed from 3:00 PM;
• Avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie, between Avenue Georges V and Place de Beyrouth, closed from 3:00 PM;
• Place de Beyrouth;
• Avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie, between Place de Beyrouth and Rue Georges V;
• Rue Georges Bizet, between Avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie and Avenue d’Iéna;
• Avenue d’Iéna, between Rue Georges Bizet and Place des Etats-Unis;
• Rue de Belloy;
• Rue Copernic;
• Place Victor Hugo;
• Avenue Raymond Poincaré, between Place Victor Hugo and Avenue Foch;
• Avenue Foch, between Avenue Raymond Poincaré and Avenue de Malakoff;
• Avenue de Malakoff.

Finally, vehicles are prohibited from driving from 3:00 PM on December 31, 2025, to 4:00 AM on January 1, with an exception for "the area within the boundaries of the following roads and sections of roads in Paris's 8th, 16th, and 17th districts, which will remain accessible to traffic":

• Place de la Porte Maillot;
• Pereire Boulevard, from Place de la Porte Maillot to Avenue des Ternes;
• Avenue des Ternes;
• Place des Ternes;
• Faubourg Saint-Honoré Street, between Place des Ternes and Place du Révérend Père Carré;
• Place du Révérend Père Carré;
• Berryer Street;
• Friedland Avenue, between Berryer Street and Faubourg Saint-Honoré Street;
• Faubourg Saint-Honoré Street, between Friedland Avenue and Matignon Avenue;
• Matignon Avenue, between Faubourg Saint-Honoré Street and Penthièvre Street;
• Penthièvre Street, between Matignon Avenue and Cambacérès Street;
• Cambacérès Street, between Penthièvre Street and Saussaies Square;
• Saussaies Square;
• Surène Street, between Saussaies Square and Anjou Street;
• Anjou Street, between Surène Street and Faubourg Saint-Honoré Street;
• Faubourg Saint-Honoré Street, between Anjou Street and Boissy d’Anglas Street;
• Boissy d’Anglas Street, between Faubourg Saint-Honoré Street and Place de la Concorde;
• Place de la Concorde, West Block, between Boissy d’Anglas Street and Cours la Reine;
• Cours la Reine;
• Canada Square;
• Albert 1er Cours;
• Alma Square;
• Wilson President Avenue, between Alma Square and Marceau Avenue;
• Marceau Avenue, between Wilson President Avenue and Beirut Square;
• Beirut Square;
• Peter I of Serbia Avenue, between Beirut Square and Georges V Street;
• Bizet Street, between Peter I of Serbia Avenue and Iéna Avenue;
• Iéna Avenue, between Bizet Street and United States Square;
• Belloy Street;
• Copernic Street;
• Victor Hugo Square;
• Poincaré Raymond Avenue, between Victor Hugo Square and Foch Avenue;
• Foch Avenue, between Poincaré Raymond Avenue and Malakoff Avenue;
• Malakoff Avenue.

Find the full list of areas affected by these restrictions in the attached document.