That is only a small number of among the occasions taking place in Paris this month, up to date weekly.
Occasions in Paris This Month
Out of doors Summer time Enjoyable
Via August 5
Competition Paris l’été returns for its thirty fifth version, reworking areas all through Paris into phases for modern theater, dance, music, circus, efficiency, and cabaret. This 12 months’s lineup options greater than 30 occasions in sudden venues—rooftops, chapels, colleges, and gardens—with each free and ticketed reveals. Highlights embrace All World Waacking by Josépha Madoki, Kiddy Smile’s After Get together, Lia Rodrigues’ Encantado, and the immersive circus piece Rouge Merveille. Tickets vary from €10–€38.
Via August 24
The annual Fête des Tuileries is again on the Tuileries Gardens this summer season. You’ll discover the Ferris wheel, stomach-emptying rides, barbe-à-papa (cotton sweet) and ice cream, the log journey, enjoyable home, and loads of video games to win prizes. Open every day 11am-11:45pm (free entry, tickets might be bought for particular person rides).
Via August 31: Paris Plages 2025!
The unique city seashores are again this summer season with three websites throughout Paris — alongside the Seine, Canal Saint-Martin, and Bassin de la Villette. There are free swimming spots, Brazilian cultural occasions, seaside volleyball, outside dancing, and loads of lounge chairs to benefit from the fabulous climate. New this 12 months: sandy seashores return to the Seine, and open-air swimming is formally allowed within the river for the primary time in a century. Get the totally up to date lowdown within the Secrets and techniques of Paris article: “Every little thing You Must Know About Paris Plages 2025”
Via September 13
The Affiliation Française d’Astronomie hosts free stargazing evenings in 21 totally different parks and gardens throughout Paris this summer season. Occasions start at 9pm and run till 1am. The schedule consists of: June 28 – Jardin Federico García Lorca (4th arrondissement), July 4 – Sq. Séverine (Twentieth arrondissement), July 5 – Jardin des Grands Explorateurs (sixth arrondissement), July 11 – Jardin Villemin-Mahsa Jîna Amini (tenth arrondissement), July 12 – Parc André Citroën (fifteenth arrondissement), July 13 – Sq. Louis XIII (4th arrondissement), July 18 – Parc Martin Luther King (seventeenth arrondissement), July 19 – Parc de Choisy (thirteenth arrondissement), July 25 – Bois de Charonne (Twentieth arrondissement), July 26 – Jardin du Ranelagh (sixteenth arrondissement), August 1 – Parc Montsouris (14th arrondissement), August 2 – Jardin d’Éole (18th arrondissement), August 3 – Sq. Louise Michel (18th arrondissement), August 14 – Parc de la Butte Chapeau Rouge (Nineteenth arrondissement), August 15 – Parc Monceau (eighth arrondissement), August 16 – Parc des Buttes-Chaumont (Nineteenth arrondissement), August 22 – Jardin de Reuilly-Paul Pernin (twelfth arrondissement), August 23 – Parc de Belleville (Twentieth), August 27 – Jardin Shakespeare (sixteenth arrondissement), August 29 – Sq. Léon Serpollet (18th arrondissement), August 30 – Sq. des Arènes de Lutèce (fifth arrondissement), and September 13 – Parc Montsouris (14th arrondissement).
Via September 14
The enduring Olympic Cauldron returns to Paris’s Jardin des Tuileries from June 21 to September 14, rising at sundown till 2am nightly, climate allowing.
Exterior Paris
August 24
The annual Harvest Competition within the medieval city of Provins is a conventional family-friendly fête celebrating the top of the harvest in Nineteenth-century fashion. This 12 months’s 52nd version, themed “Alongside the water,” includes a tribute to Brittany, full with bagpipes, bombards, and the Bagad des Anciens de Sonerien Lann-Bihoué. Get pleasure from floats embellished with wheat sheaves, a procession of classic tractors and basic vehicles, threshing demonstrations, dwell music (from brass bands to people and jazz), classic toy shows, and hands-on youngsters’s actions like large wood video games. There’s additionally a market of artisans and regional producers. Tickets: €12 on the day, or €11 prematurely. Free for kids underneath 12. Competition + monuments cross: €20 on-site, €18 prematurely. Provins is about 85 minutes from Paris by prepare direct from Gare de l’Est. The occasion is from 10am to 6pm all through the higher city streets and village squares. Grand parade at 3pm.
Saturdays by way of September 27 (+ August 15)
Les Soirées aux Chandelles return to Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (an hour southeast of Paris), providing magical evenings lit by 2,000 candles throughout the château and formal gardens. From 5:30pm to midnight, get pleasure from illuminated strolls, baroque music, refined eating choices, carriage rides (additional charge), a particular Le Brun gentle projection, and a blinding fireworks present at 11pm. Don’t miss themed nights on June 21 (Fête de la Musique), July 13 (Fête Nationale, gown code: crimson & gold), and August 15 (white & gold). Advance reserving required. Tickets: €22 full, €17.50 lowered, €16 backyard solely. Free for kids underneath 4.
Dwell Music
Summertime is music pageant time. Time Out Paris is a superb place to start out if you wish to see the schedule of festivals in and round Paris this summer season, in French solely (use Google translate): Les Festivals de Musique à Paris
And for the schedule of free live shows within the park kiosks throughout Paris, obtain the summer season schedule right here.
Via August 16
Les Arènes Lyriques are again in Montmartre, with 16 dwell live shows carried out by conductor Ivan Velikanov, accompanied by the Arènes Lyriques Orchestra and 4 soloists (soprano, mezzo-soprano, violinist, and pianist). The musical program for 2025 is each Baroque and Romantic, excellent for the open-air backyard setting with views over Paris. Purchase your tickets (€25-€45 for adults) on-line to make sure you get a spot! https://areneslyriques.com/en/2025-edition/
Via September 7
The annual open-air summer season live shows within the Bois de Vincennes’s Parc Floral embrace the free Paris Jazz Competition (with French and worldwide jazz live shows) and the free Classique au Vert that includes up-and-coming classical music ensembles and orchestras. Even when live shows are free; entry to the park is €2.70 (free for youths underneath 7). Sensible data on the right way to get there right here.
Open-Air Cinema & Particular Screenings
August 1, 8
Ciné Quartier 13 returns with free outside screenings on the theme of nature and local weather change in Paris’s thirteenth arrondissement. Screenings (all in French, however kid-freindly, so fairly simple to grasp) happen in Parc de Choisy, Sq. Paul-Grimault, and Stade Georges-Carpentier, beginning at nightfall. Movies embrace La Marche de l’Empereur (July 18), Improbable Mr. Fox (July 25), Mon chat & Moi, la grande aventure de Rroû (August 1), Règne animal (August 8), providing cinematic evenings surrounded by greenery and contemporary air.
Via August 17
The Parc de la Villette is as soon as once more internet hosting its widespread Cinéma en Plein Air open-air screenings each Wednesday by way of Sunday nights. Completely free (however they could restrict the variety of individuals if it will get too crowded on the garden (Prairie du Triangle, behind the Grande Halle de La Villette, metro Porte de Pantin), so get there from 7pm when the location opens to assert your spot — picnics allowed (however no glass, sharp objects like cutlery or corkscrew bottle openers, knives, and so on). The movies begin after sundown, so someday between 9:30pm and 10:30pm. All movies are proven of their unique language with French subtitles. The 2025 theme “Corps et accords” brings collectively musicals, dance movies, and animated favorites together with Ballerina, La La Land, Kirikou, Barbie, Chantons sous la pluie, Grease, Rocketman, Les Misérables, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and Mamma Mia! Non-compulsory chair/blanket rental €7.
Via August 31
Need to get pleasure from French movies with English subtitles on the massive display? Misplaced in Frenchlation Summer time Camp is bringing you three screenings per week all through July and August—a particular number of French movie favorites from cult classics to current hits, all with English subtitles, at three iconic Parisian impartial cinemas: Tuesdays at L’Épée de Bois (Latin Quarter), Thursdays at L’Arlequin (Saint-Germain-des-Prés) and Sundays on the Luminor (Le Marais). Get the complete schedule and guide your tickets right here: https://lostinfrenchlation.com/occasions
Road Artwork, Museums & Momentary Expositions
Via August 2
Les Murs Ouverts #71 returns to Le Lavo//Matik (20 boulevard du Général Jean Simon, thirteenth arrondissement) with over 60 city artists exhibiting their newest works throughout a variety of types, codecs, and costs. Opening receptions are Friday, June 27 from 5–9pm and Saturday, June 28 till 7pm. Free entry.
First Sunday – August 3
For this primary Sunday of the month, many Paris museums and monuments are open free to the general public, together with the Musée du Quai Branly, Musée d’Orsay, Musée Gustave Moreau, Cité de la Céramique de Sèvres, Musée des Arts-et-Métiers, l’Orangerie, La Cité de l’Structure, Musée Delacroix, Musée Guimet, Musée Picasso, Musée Cluny, and Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature. However be forewarned: reservations are a should.
Via August 10
I’m all the time a bit averse to paying to take a look at road artwork (as a result of the entire level is that it’s accessible to everybody). However in the event you’re simply visiting and need to see a variety of artists in a single place (and indoors), you’ll be able to take a look at the Zoo Artwork Present Paris La Défense, an immersive city artwork set up that includes works by over 500 worldwide artists throughout 4,000m² and 4 themed flooring within the enterprise district simply outdoors Paris (the top of metro line 1, La Défense, exit 5 Calder–Miró, then search for at 4 place de la Défense). Open Wednesdays, weekends, holidays from 10am–5:30pm. Tickets €18 on-line (no gross sales on website). Anticipate huge murals, 3D illusions, digital installations, and works by icons like M. Chat, Okuda, and Banksy, plus dwell reveals, workshops, and meals.
Via September 4
Each Thursday night, get pleasure from free Summer time Nocturnes on the Palais de Tokyo (13 avenue du Président Wilson, sixteenth arrondissement) from 7pm to midnight. Entry all exhibitions free of charge, together with immersive reveals by Vivian Suter, RAMMELLZEE, Thao Nguyen Phan, and Chalisée Naamani.
Via September 7
The Bibliothèque Nationale de France (5 Rue Vivienne, 2nd) presents Le monde pour horizon, a year-long, three-part exhibition showcasing uncommon maps, prints, manuscripts, images, costumes, and stage jewellery. Highlights embrace Hokusai’s The Nice Wave and Toulouse-Lautrec’s Divan Japonais poster. With rotating displays each 4 months, guests can return for brand new discoveries all year long. Open Tuesday 10am-8pm, Wednesday to Sunday 10am-6pm. Tickets €10, lowered €8.
Via September 21
Musée d’Artwork et d’Histoire Louis-Senlecq (31 Grande Rue, L’Isle-Adam) presents Trois siècles à L’Isle-Adam, an exhibition showcasing the city’s historical past by way of work, sculptures, watercolors, engravings, classic posters, postcards, and historic pictures. Guests will discover L’Isle-Adam’s evolution from the 18th century to the mid-Twentieth century. Highlights embrace works by artists like Jules Dupré, depictions of the Oise River landscapes, and a spotlight in town’s industrial and leisure historical past. Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am-6pm. €6.
Via October 12
“Instants Données” is the newest exhibition on the Musée Maillol that includes 400 fastidiously chosen pictures by the legendary French photographer, Robert Doisneau. Though greatest recognized for his post-card images of Paris taken from the Thirties by way of the Eighties, the lovers kissing in entrance of the Hôtel de Ville, the “curved” Eiffel Tower, and even Picasso with “palms” made from petits pains. However he additionally documented the lives of Parisians we don’t usually see on digital camera: manufacturing facility staff, poor youngsters enjoying on the street, the homeless, prostitutes, miners, labor unionists on strike, humble café homeowners…. I beloved him photographs of the suburbs of Paris, each the pre-war shanty cities and the post-war housing initiatives, “every ugly, however in several methods”, and the images he took of artist and author buddies and their ateliers. Permit a minimum of an hour to totally get pleasure from! Open every day 10:30am-6:30pm (Wednesdays till 10pm). Reserve on-line prematurely, tickets €16.50 (€12.50 for ages 6-25).
Via December 13
De Paris à Belém: 10 ans d’actions mondiales pour le climat is a brand new free exhibition on the l’Hôtel de Ville (5 rue Lobau, 4th arrondissement) marking the tenth anniversary of the Paris Settlement (COP21) and waiting for COP30 in Belém. It options highly effective visuals like a monumental work by Shepard Fairey (Obey) on the façade and hanging pictures by Sebastião Salgado, alongside interactive installations for all ages. The exhibit additionally highlights the position of cities in world local weather motion (learn this interview with the Canadian Cities Guru Brent Toderian in regards to the exhibit). A baby-friendly customer path features a booklet and works created by Paris youth. Open Tuesday by way of Saturday. Free admission, however on-line reservation required.
Via January 11, 2026
Paul Poiret, Trend is a Get together expo is on on the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (107 rue de Rivoli, 1st arrondissement), open Tuesday to Sunday, 11am–6pm (late opening Thursday till 9pm). Closed Mondays. Admission €15 (€11 lowered). This main retrospective traces the artistic universe of Paul Poiret, the early Twentieth-century designer recognized for liberating ladies from corsets and revolutionizing style. That includes 550 works—from clothes and equipment to ornamental arts and archival photographs—the present highlights his affect throughout style, interiors, perfume, and excessive society festivities, from the Belle Époque to the Roaring Twenties.
