Paris Center Pedestrian, the first 4 arrondissements without cars this Sunday, December 1, 2024

Every first Sunday of the month the news takes place day without a car in Paris. An initiative appreciated by many Parisians, who have fallen under the spell of the capital without motorized vehicles and without noise pollution.

THE first four districts of the capital are closed to vehicle traffic and Sunday per month. Since October 7, 2018, an area “Paris Breathe” is being implemented in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th arrondissements of Paris, one Sunday per month, allowing pedestrians to fully enjoy the center of the City of Lights. Moreover, this is also the case for the Avenue des Champs-Elysées.

The next meetings await us on December 1, 2024 and the February 2, 2024. The center of Paris will therefore not be pedestrianized in January.

Note that the majority of streets in these districts are affected. However, the main axes like “Sébastopol Boulevard and the high quays” are spared and “rare open to automobile traffic“, had specified Christophe NajdovskiDeputy Mayor of Paris in charge of the revegetation of public spaces, green spaces, biodiversity and animal welfare.

The circulation of motorized vehicles is prohibited on the first Sunday of each month, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., in the area within the perimeter below:

• Place du Chatelet, 1st arrondissement

• Quai de la Mégisserie, 1st arrondissement

• Quai du Louvre, 1st arrondissement

• Quai des Tuileries, 1st arrondissement

• Quai François Mitterrand, 1st arrondissement

• Place du Carrousel, 1st arrondissement

• rue de Rohan, 1st arrondissement

• avenue de l'Opéra, 1st and 2nd arrondissements

• Place de l'Opéra, 2nd and 9th arrondissements

• boulevard des Capucines, 2nd and 9th arrondissements, in its part between Place de l'Opéra and Boulevard desItaliens

• boulevard des Italians, 2nd and 9th arrondissements

• boulevard Montmartre, 2nd and 9th arrondissements

• boulevard Poissonnière, 2nd and 9th arrondissements

• boulevard de Bonne Nouvelle, 2nd and 10th arrondissements

• boulevard Saint-Denis, 2nd, 3rd and 10th arrondissements

• boulevard Saint-Martin, 3rd and 10th arrondissements

• Place de la République, 3rd, 10th and 11th arrondissements

• boulevard du Temple, 3rd and 11th arrondissements

• boulevard des Filles du Calvaire, 3rd and 11th arrondissements

• boulevard Beaumarchais, 3rd, 4th and 11th arrondissements

• Place de la Bastille, 4th, 11th and 12th arrondissements

• boulevard Henri IV, 4th arrondissement

• Sully bridge, 4th and 5th arrondissements

• quai de la Tournelle, 5th arrondissement

• quai de Montebello, 5th arrondissement

• Petit Pont (Cardinal Lustiger), 4th and 5th arrondissements

• rue de la Cité, 4th arrondissement

• Notre-Dame bridge, 4th arrondissement

• rue Saint-Martin, 4th arrondissement, in its part between Quai de Gesvres and Avenue Victoria

• avenue Victoria, 4th arrondissement, in its part between rue Saint-Martin and boulevard de Sébastopol

• boulevard de Sébastopol, 1st and 4th arrondissements, in its part between avenue Victoria and rue de Rivoli

The above roads forming the limits of the perimeter are excluded.

The following roads are also excluded from the perimeter:

• boulevard de Sébastopol, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th arrondissements
• Place de l’Hôtel de Ville, 4th arrondissement
• quai de Gesvres, 4th arrondissement, in its part between the Notre-Dame bridge and the Arcole bridge
• quai de l’Hôtel de Ville, 4th arrondissement quai des Célestins, 4th arrondissement
• rue de la Tacherie, 4th arrondissement, in its part between Quai de Gesvres and Avenue Victoria
• avenue Victoria, 4th arrondissement, in its part between Place de l’Hôtel de Ville and rue Saint-Martin
• quai Henri IV, 4th arrondissement, in its part between quai des Célestins and boulevard Henri IV
• Port de la Tournelle, 5th arrondissement
• port of Montebello, 5th arrondissement

Until now the device “Paris breathes“, created in 2003, concerns 20 neighborhoods of the capital spread across the different districts. In these neighborhoods, on weekends and public holidays, the streets are closed to car traffic.