Entertainment, concert, video show and fireworks on the Champs Élysées this Tuesday, December 31, 2024 from 7 p.m. You can party on the most beautiful avenue in the world – musical and artistic entertainment – countdown – final fireworks for the stroke of midnight on the Champs Elysées.
Light show and fireworks for New Year 2025!
Since 2014, Paris City Hall has been organizing this event on the Champs-Élysées to mark the start of the new year. A long-awaited event: the Champs Élysées being a traditional gathering place for New Year's revelers. Despite the cold, a million people are expected.
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Each year a common theme for the show is chosen. In 2024, it was the Olympics! Easy… This year the organizers promise to “relive the best moments of the Olympics and Paralympics”. And to “party together”. France Télévisions, partner of the festivities which will broadcast the evening, and the City of Paris promise “grandiose” December 31 celebrations.
From 7 p.m.: a pre-show!
From 7 p.m., on the evening of the transition to the year 2025, the celebrations will begin on the best-known Parisian thoroughfare, which is expecting more than a million people. A “pre-show” will launch the hostilities of this evening called “Paris on its 31st!” “, in order to “allow each spectator to settle into the festive atmosphere from 7 to 9 p.m.”. A generative work of art accompanied by classics of our musical culture will be revisited by DJ Daauliac to gently raise the mood.
From 9 p.m.: concerts and shows
From 9:10 p.m., the “Grande Soirée du 31 de Paris” will be broadcast live on France 2 and presented by Stéphane Bern. “A host of artists will perform and offer unique performances.” For example: David Hallyday, Chimène Badi accompanied by 100 singers, the Totalement 80 troupe, Collectif Métissé, Lio, Cerrone, Dany Brillant, Titouan from Junior Eurovision, the Republican Guard and Imagination are on the program.
As for shows and performances; the dancers of the Moulin Rouge and the Paradis Latin will also participate in the New Year's Eve on the 31st on the Champs, as well as the famous companies of the Phénix circus and the Folies Gruss.
Video mapping and fireworks of the 31st in Paris
A few minutes before midnight, a “mapping” will be projected on the Arc de Triomphe. An “epic” 3D video mapping show on the Arc de Triomphe will begin at 11:50 p.m. and will evoke Paris with its many faces: “capital city, City of Light, city of culture, romantic city, creative city, innovative city, people’s city, festive city” . The original soundtrack will this time be provided by composer Ena Eno and musician French 79.
At midnight, the now traditional Paris fireworks display will close this New Year's celebration. A choreographed fireworks display by Fêtes & Feux. The same DJ as at the start of the evening will return to accompany this fire “with a mix concocted for the occasion”, an entirely female playlist.
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“During this evening of the 31st, we want to show a festive, friendly and caring Paris. A Paris that celebrates despite events that are not always easy,” enthuses Frédéric Hocquard, assistant to Anne Hidalgo in charge of the night.
A spectacle maintained despite the Town Hall's energy sobriety efforts. The New Year's fireworks display “is part of these specifications, it is not a sound and light show, we are careful”, underlined Frédéric Hocquard.
The schedule / program for the evening of the 31st on the Champs
What time should I arrive on the Champs Élysées? There will be a lot of you and to be sure to be in the axis of the Arc de Triomphe to enjoy the show: arrive early!
New Year's Eve 2025 times on the Champs:
10:00 a.m.: Closure of traffic in the Champs Elysées district and the entire center of Paris / No cars in a vast area which includes the Place du Châtelet, the quays of the Mégisserie, the Louvre, the Tuileries, the Place du Carrousel, the avenue and Place de l’Opéra (Ist).
19h00-23h40 : Artistic activities combining live shows, participatory performances and DJ sets
23h50-00h00 : Projection on the Arc de Triomphe of the countdown (video mapping)
00h00-00h09 : Fireworks show
Reopening of traffic from 4 a.m.
Broadcast on TV: The show will be broadcast on the France 2 channel which will broadcast the festivities live as part of “La Grande Soirée du 31 de Paris” from 9:10 p.m.
The avenue will be pedestrianized from 10:00 a.m. Attention ! Lots of people there!
Attention ! It is forbidden to enter the site with glass bottles and flasks. A bag check and a security pat-down will be carried out and any person refusing one of these checks will be prohibited from access.
Attention. Several metro and RER stations will be closed to the public (access and exit – but connections ok):
– from 3 p.m.: Charles de Gaulle – Etoile RER A,
– from 4 p.m.: the stations between Concorde and Argentina – i.e. Champs-Elysées Clémenceau, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Georges V and always Charles de Gaulle Etoile
– the Tuileries (L1), Iéna (L9), Boissière (L6) and La Motte-Picquet (L6, L8, L10) stations will also be closed according to the Paris Police Prefecture.
Six metro lines and 11 RER and Transilien lines will be accessible, free of charge, all night.
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