Like every year, the festivities to celebrate the transition to 2025 will take place on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. A musical show paying tribute to the Olympic and Paralympic Games is planned before the traditional fireworks display.
The capital is preparing to celebrate the transition to 2025. Festivities are planned in Paris for New Year's Eve on the night of December 31. Fireworks, musical evening: BFMTV.com takes stock of everything you need to know about the show planned for New Year's Eve.
· An evening to celebrate the Games
As usual, the city of Paris welcomes Parisians and tourists present for the occasion on the Champs-Élysées from 7 p.m. On the program: “technical and artistic feats specially imagined for the occasion”, promises the city on its website.
Eddy de Pretto, Lio, Jean-Louis Aubert, Cerrone, Franglish and even David Hallyday: many celebrities will be present for a musical show which will also see performances by dancers from the Moulin Rouge, Folies Gruss and Paradis Latin.
And the theme of the evening is obvious: the Olympic and Paralympic Games. “This great evening will be an opportunity to relive the best moments of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, to bring the French together once again and above all to party together!”, assures the city.
At 11:50 p.m., a 3D video-mapping will be projected on the Arc de Triomphe to evoke a “Paris with many faces”, before the traditional fireworks at midnight, for 10 minutes and with an “all-female playlist”.
Screens will be placed all along the Avenue des Champs-Élysées.
• Access points to the Fields
To attend the show on the Champs-Élysées, you will have to pass through access and screening points, open from 6 p.m. and listed on the police headquarters map below.
The authorities remind that it is forbidden to come there with weapons, sharp or sharp objects but also glass bottles or pyrotechnic devices and call for “to show good citizenship, to prevent any risk linked to crowd movements”. The prefecture advises against coming to attend the show with young children, “due to the density of people present on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées”.
The police headquarters also calls on spectators to anticipate and plan their trips, particularly the return journey.
· Public transport open all night
Like every year, many metro, RER and Transilien lines will be open all night and their access will be completely free, except for access to airports.
Six metro lines will continue to operate after 2:15 a.m.: lines 1, 2, 4, 6, 9 and 14. Please note, however, not all the stations on these lines will be served, the stations which will remain open can be found on the map below.
On the RER and Transilien side, after the end of the usual service, several lines will continue to run. All RERs will run as well as lines H, J, L, N, P and R. For trams, only line T4 will run.
Some stations will nevertheless be closed for security reasons, as announced by the police headquarters. Charles de Gaulle – Étoile will be closed from midnight for lines 1, 2 and 6 and from 3 p.m. on the RER A.
On line 1, the Tuileries, Concorde, Champs-Élysées Clémenceau, Franklin D Roosevelt, Georges X and Argentine stations will not be served from 3 p.m. on Tuesday.
On line 6, Passy station will be closed at 7 p.m., Dupleix at 9 p.m. and Boissière from 11 p.m. On line 9, it will not be possible to stop at Iéna and Saint-Philippe du Roule from 7 p.m. and on line 2, at Ternes from 12:10 a.m.
· 10,000 members of the police mobilized
10,000 police officers and gendarmes will be mobilized in Paris and the inner suburbs on the occasion of New Year's Eve, according to a press release from the police headquarters. The system aims to “guarantee the security of people and property, and to prevent disturbances to public order, in a context of still high terrorist threat”.
Traffic restrictions have already been put in place on Sunday December 29, 48 hours before the festivities.
The prefecture indicates that “the plateau de l'Etoile and the top of the Champs-Elysées between Étoile and Tilsitt/Presbourg are inaccessible due to the assembly operations necessary for the organization of the festivities”. Traffic is also prohibited in portions of the 8th, 16th and 17th arrondissements (see maps below).
From Tuesday, parking will also be prohibited from 7 a.m. and motorized traffic prohibited on Avenue des Champs-Elysées from 3 p.m. A security perimeter and screening points will be set up.
In addition, the sale and consumption of alcohol are prohibited on public roads from 4 p.m., as well as the carrying and use of fireworks within a wider area around the Champs-Élysées.
