“I love Paris in the winter, when it drizzles …” you can almost hear the strains of Ella Fitzgerald now, as the chill descends and that drizzle is just the color of the gray zinc rooftops of the capital. Sometimes it’s hard to love the freezing rain and general grisaille, but in this blog post, we’ve got you covered, from as soon as the season makes its grand entry in and around December 21st till as long as the cold will last, well into March.

Weather

Expect rain. 

Temperatures are not often cold enough for a winter wonderland, but if it does snow, try to get to a garden. We suggest the Palais-Royal where the surrounded courtyard gives flurries a fighting chance to stick.

What To Wear in Paris in Winter

With fewer visitors lines will be shorter, but the wait could well leave your fingertips blue. For in Paris, winter descends damp and humid. Thermometers swear to you that the temps are mild but your bones swear otherwise. Yet as our northerly neighbors say, there’s no such thing as bad weather only unsuitable clothing. The tricky part is the striking difference between indoors and outdoors – the answer to that trick? Layers. Think something warm and dry as a bottom layer, then a light long-sleeved shirt, a knit perhaps, and then a sweater or cardigan. Top if off with a rain-proof trench and you’ll be both chic and “au chaud,” that is, nice and toasty.  Focus on your neutral shades (hint; blacks, grays and good old navy will hide wear and tear better). A pop or two of color in the form of a scarf will mix things up and keep up morale.

As for shoes, waterproof them, both for your shoes’ sake, as well as your cold feet’s. And make them comfy with good support. Even if you only go from heated building to heated building, you’ll still be doing a lot of walking. Some swear by bringing two pair that you can change in the day, so that the stressor points of the shoes change, keeping you kicking it up. You might want to make one of those pairs restaurant friendly, if you’re sensitive to fitting in. And don’t forget warm socks, in fact stock up, since as insulators, they wick away the body’s moisture and thus the cold. 

To finish, a messenger bag or purse outfitted with a small collapsible umbrella will do you huge favors, especially if you can stash your scarf or sweater in there as well, once you’re in a heated space.

The Best things to do in Paris in the Winter

Explore the Covered Passages

We love to shelter from inclement weather in one of the gorgeous Covered Passages, built in the early 19th century for that very reason, there were once 150 dotted around the city, now only about 20 remain. We particularly like the Passage du Grand Cerf for it's tiny bijou boutiques and amazing 12 metre high glass roof, Passage des Panoramas (built in 1800 it's the oldest of the passages in Paris) for some wonderful restaurants where you can sit outside and still be warm and sheltered, and Galerie Vivienne which is recently renovated and probably the most elegant of them all.

A full blog post is coming soon on the Passages Couverts!

Take a Guided Tour

With the recent reopening of Notre Dame, we suggest our tour of the island she stands on, a tour that will also take you inside the notorious prison of Marie-Antoinette and the breathtaking Sainte-Chapelle, with its walls of stained glass. And while you might think that grim weather is not the time to go admiring this Gothic art, here is a total insider’s secret from one who worked there for ten years. It’s true that on a sunny summer’s day the walls seem to vanish in the bright light, but on winter days the color is a thick, rich reflection, almost a haze of color that you could swim through. I much preferred the light the original stained glass makers of Northern France knew so well how to work to their glory.

Although groups are not allowed into Notre Dame until June 2025, after your tour your guide will explain to you the best way to visit the interior of Notre Dame Cathedral.

Go Ice Skating

While Paris is a basin with no slopes for skiing (although if we are lucky enough to get a snow day you may well see people skiing down the hill in Montmartre) you do, however have some wonderful choices for ice skating. Our 2 favorites? 

• The spectacular ice rink at the Grand Palais is the biggest indoor ice rink in the world, and is even open on New Year’s Eve. As night falls, sparkling light shows and DJ sets mean you can party under the glorious glass roof.
• For a smaller and more relaxed venue, you might instead prefer to skate among the sculpted evergreens of the formal gardens of the Tuileries.

Visit a Museum

The Big Ones

If you’re averse to the cold, you might want to stay inside at a museum, and take advantage of the thinner crowds. You’ll get closer to the headliners than you otherwise would . While you might not be alone with Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, at the Orsay, the yellow reminder of summer will do you good, and if you are unlikely to enjoy a tête à tête with the Mona Lisa at the Louvre you’ll still catch a better view of her. And if you head off to the Vermeers and the Rembrandts that one-on-one face-time might actually come true.

While there are still lines to combat, moreover in the cold, our tours let you skip those lines and get the most out of the Louvre and the Orsay. Our hand picked guides know the art of couching their expertise in brilliant story-telling talent. You avoid the freezing rain, go directly in and fully understand just what the Impressionists at Orsay were up against and what they created, or the headliners that make the Louvre famous and why.

House Museums

“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”  Jane Austen

To really stay snug and cosy, Paris boasts a number of museums that were residences of the great and sometimes even the good, artists or collectors who bequeathed their domicile to the city, some of which even have free entry to the permanent collections.

Some of those are : 

• Maison de Victor Hugo, 6 place de Vosges, 75004, France’s literary giant, who created his hunchback to save Notre Dame from ruin, the man who wrote Les Misérables, lived looking out on this exquisite square from 1832 to the Revolution of 1848. Explore the different moments of his life and creative efforts among the walls that saw him penning his masterpieces, just a few years before he had to exile himself to Guernesey. In a wink to his host, one of his guests, one Alexandre Dumas, gave this address to Milady in The Three Musketeers.

• Maison de Balzac, 47 rue Raynouard, 75016, friend to Victor Hugo, another of France’s literary luminaries, author of Père Goriot and Cousine Bette,  wrote the Human Comedy, chronicling the adventures of provinicials coming up to the big city to make their fame and fortune. All in all he wrote some 90 volumes, generally from midnight to six in the evening, fueled entirely by black coffee. He lived here in Passy from 1840-1847, which at the time was outside of the Paris city limits where he could more easily hide from his creditors. The house also had two doors for a quick getaway.

• Maison de Gustave Moreau, 14,  rue Catherine-de-La-Rochefoucauld , 75009, If you tend more to the visual arts, come enjoy the workshop home of the symbolist painter Gustave Moreau  from 1852 to his 1898 death. The winding wrought iron staircase is alone worth the detour where you wander among the strange beauty of some 14000 different works by the artist. Don’t miss his late work Jupiter and Semele, or Degas’s portrait of the artist. 

• Musée Jacquemart-André, 158 boulevard Haussmann, 75008, The fabulously wealthy Edouard André and his wife Néli Jacquemart --  a painter in her own right-- lived a stone’s throw from the glitzy and ritzy Champs Elysées. When they weren’t spending their fortune on the construction of this their grand residence, starting in Haussmann’s Paris of 1869, the were collecting art. When Néli died in 1912 their home and its considerable collection were bequeathed to the state and you couldn’t imagine a more luxurious space for works of the old  masters, mostly of the Italian Reniassance, such as Giovanni Bellini, Paolo Uccello, Andrea Mantegna, Botticelli and many others, with some breathing room for Neoclassical and Rococo painters like Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and François Boucher.

Food and Drink

Hot Chocolate and More!

Whether you want to warm up after a bracing walk in the brisk weather, or simply scurry from heater to heater, now is the time to treat yourself to one of the season’s great pleasures: hot chocolate!

• Having taken the internet by storm, there is no denying that the classic French hot chocolate in the rich Belle Epoque setting of Angelina 226 rue de Rivoli, 75001, is worth the hype. Unbelievably indulgent owing to its thick and creamy nature, you definitely don’t want to miss this one, but get there early to avoid the queue. Even Coco Chanel was a big fan! Across from the Tuileries, you can go after ice-skating when you’ve built up an appetite and need to warm up again. And if it's not too chilly and the line is too long, go straight in to their patisserie on the side and get a hot chocolate to go.

• If you’re searching for something a bit more unusual, go for the Praliné Chocolat at Buddy Buddy 15 rue de Marseilles 75010. This café specializes in nut butters, and the hot chocolate really is something special, made with their very own hazelnut butter (if you really love it, you can buy a jar to take home with you). In the trendy area by the Canal Saint Martin, we recommend Buddy Buddy even if you opt for a different one of their nutty creations!

• For a real luxury, it has to be the hot chocolate at Ritz Paris Le Comptoir, 38 rue Cambon 75001, winner of the Best Pâtisserie in the World 2024. Here you’ll find a traditional Belgian hot chocolate prepared the old-fashioned way with two deliciously high-quality chocolates.

• Café Nuances 25 rue Danielle Casanova 75001, 22 rue du Vieux Colombier 75006, 10 rue de la Tremoille 75008 provides an Instagram-worthy backdrop with its signature bright orange interior, and there’s no doubt it attracts a fashionable crowd. However, it’s the drinks we’re here to talk about, because this café has some pretty delicious flavors, such as their signature rose matcha or their honey cinnamon latte.

• The Hotel Lutetia, 45 boulevard Raspail, 75006, is a grand old address, which welcomed the illustrious of The Lost Generation, including Hemingway and Fitzgerald, whose wife Zelda, the original flapper, did cartwheels in the lobby. Josephine Baker, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse were also regulars. When you go to their tea room today, order the Boule de Noël, flavored with with green cardamom, presented in the form of a Christmas tree ornament of chocolate that melts as you pour the hot milk over it.

• Les Deux Magots, 6  place Saint Germain-des-Prés, another historic rendez-vous of the existentialist greats, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, who used to come here to warm up when coal to heat their rooms was scarce and dear. Although our situation today is not nearly so dire, enjoy the whole ceremony of this institution’s hot chocolate at its most traditional, literally the sliver platter treatment.

• The venerable Carette was founded in 1927. Now in the unforgettable Place des Vosges, you could happily go here after the Victor Hugo house museum, and savor one of their famous hot chocolates, with its hand whipped Chantilly cream melting into the cup for a “ballet of textures,” as the house puts it, then meander the medieval streets and chic boutiques of the Marais.

• At Le Petit Valentin, 30 Passage Jouffroy, 75009, you can enjoy the time capsule feel of one of Paris’s famous covered passages and soak in its retro feel, with a particularly unctuous concoction of cocoa bean, then wander around away from wind and rain and windowshop in this quaint old shopping center.

• Or warm your fingers by wrapping them round a cup of hot chocolate in a proper heritage monument of an award-winning bakery, Le Petit Versailles du Marais, 27 rue François Miron, 75004, for a drink as sumptuous as its surroundings.

• More coffee than cocoa, The Beans on Fire 61 rue des Trois Frères, 75018, or 7 rue Général Blaise, 75011 is a collaborative torrefacteur, roasting beans on site, with something velvety and bracing for any moment of the day.

• Blondie, 40 Rue Saint Georges, 75009 and 27 rue du Chateau d'Eau, 75010 is also an alternative space offering ethical, sustainable brews in a neighborhood atmosphere.

• If you’re in need of a reliable chain with locations all around Paris, The Coffee is a great choice; similarly, Terres de Café was actually crowned winner of the Best Coffee Shop in France 2024. 

Cat Cafés

For a particular charm, nothing like a feline cuddle to warm one’s heart cockles, little walking heating pad covered in fur, the aristocracy of the pet world. Colette, author of Gigi and Chéri, provincial Parisian par excellence, wrote that time with cats is never wasted (it was indeed her and not Einstein, though the quote is indeed genius).

• Le Café des Chats  9 rue Sedaine, 75011, A haven for rescued street cats, part of the profits are given back to the care and protection of feline welfare. Lots of good vegetarian options, as you might expect, and many sweet treats enjoy. The fifteen or so cats that roam as masters of the place are especially selected for cuddlesomeness.

• Chat Mallows Café, 30, rue des Volontaires, 75015. With a ten euro cover charge on weekdays, (weekend and holidays is 10€ an hour), sweet and savory snacks are there to purchase for a pick-me-up, but the real stars of the show are its feline residents. Scratching posts and low tables easy to hop up to, here everything is made for cat comfort, as the fifteen handpicked kitties welcome you into their kingdom.

Just like Versailles, for pet royalty there is etiquette to observe. While gentle petting is welcome, do not, on any condition, pick them up, no matter how cute. Keep voices low for their sensitive little ears. Pictures are fine but without flash that hurts those beautiful eyes. Help keep them healthy by resisting temptation to share your in-house food and drink. For both places, children (over six for Chat Mallows) must be kept close to their accompanying adult.

Brunch

There's nothing like a good brunch to get us ready for a chilly day exploring Paris. Here are a few we particularly like.

HolyBelly 5 rue Lucien Sampaix 75010. This family-owned café offers all-day brunch (what’s not to love!), with a menu that’s going to warm you up even on the coldest winter’s day. Possibly the fluffiest pancakes Paris has to offer, we would suggest their famous Savoury Stack!

Immersion has 3 locations in Paris, all serving a superb range of sweet and savoury brunches in Instagram worthy settings.

Season has 2 locations, one in the Marais and the other in the trendy 11th arrondissement. If you're a pancake lover then this is the place for you, and why not add a rose or lavender latte?

Cafe Mericourt on the rue de la Folie Mericourt in the 11th is much loved by locals, make sure you reserve!

Coffee lovers should check out La Compagnie du Café on the rue Notre Dame de Lorette in the 9th, they do a great brunch to go with your latte.

Although all the good brunches nowadays seem to be on the Right Bank, if you're over on the Left Bank check out Jozi, another great brunch spot that we love hanging out at.

Dinner

When suppertime rolls around, you’ll be wanting comfort food, like flammekuchen and tartiflette, to stave off the chill.

• We do love the Parisian institution of the Poule au Pot, 9 rue Vauvilliers 75001, with it’s signature dishes of of French onion soup piping hot with its crust of melted cheese and how can you go wrong with a grandmotherly (but very French “grandmèresque”) chicken soup? Notice how the walls are filled with brass plaques of the names of artists that have frequented the place.

•  At l’Assiette à Fromages 25 rue Mouffetard, 75005, try the cheese fondue for a hearty meal, in a Savoyard atmosphere, a region of France where they know how to keep toasty.

• Les Marmottes 26 rue de la Grande Truanderie, for a tartiflette or raclette to keep body and soul together.

• For something a little different that will also warm you,  try the Passage Brady, one of the few unrestored covered passages, for bargains on scrumptious Pakistani or Indian food – the spices will have tummy and heart warmed up in a jiffy. If you want to bring back some of those flavors, take a peek in Velan, a Parisian refereance for all things South Asian culinary. 

Visit a Hammam

If you’d rather another option when the cold has gotten its claws in deep, think of visiting a hammam, a North African sauna treatment to steam some heat back into your bone marrow.

• Ladies can go to Hammam of the Paris Mosque 39 rue Saint-Hilaire 75005, the most traditional of Parisian Hammams, an exquisite setting to escape the reigning gray of the French sky. With a backdrop out of the Arabian Nights for pampering yourself, you’ll feel like Sheherezade. But feet still on earth: Don’t forget to bring a one-euro coin, that you’ll get back, for the locker. 

• The gentlemen can go to Blue Corner 13 Rue Réaumur, 75003, for a specifically masculine suite of treatments as well as sauna and spa.

• For a different spa experience, especially for honeymooners, try Dans le Noir, 65 rue Montmartre 75002, The name translates to “in the dark” and offers treatments such as massage (for example Ayurvedic, or even chocolate and many more) for both men and women, in mixed company or not, but also for couples. These treatments are given by qualified professionals who are legally or totally blind in a low-lit environment for maximum effect.

Seasonal Festivities 

Lights

On the Champs Elysées or in the windows of the Grands Magasins and its neighborhood, the place Vendôme and the streets surrounding, or Saint Germain des Prés, or again the Rue St. Honoré: enjoy the scintillating spectacle of Christmas lights as the dark falls so early, and let your eyes perk up at their bright and blinking delights, as though the stars had fallen out of the sky to lift our spirits.

For a full list of December holiday recommendations see our blog entry on The Best Things to do in Paris during the Winter Holiday Season.

For a less Noël-Noël effect:

• Jardin d’Acclimatation, Carrefour des Sablons, Bois de Boulogne,75116 hosts the Dinosaur’s Ball through 2 March 2025, with its Festival des Lanternes. Thousands of lamps shine down on a hundred Mesozoic creatures invading the paths and byways of this park. Your little dinosaur afficionado will be in seventh heaven

• The Parc Floral 1 Route de la Pyramide 75012 in the Bois de Vincennes might seem counter-intuitive while mother nature hibernates, but follow the Odyssée Lumineuse, the Brilliant Odyssey which, starting at at nightfall, becomes a glittering route along the lake that will take you to a dreamy Egypt and India, with whirling, twirling dansers, Asia’s dragons, Mexico’s lamas and the Dia des los muertos, not to forget the citizens of fairy land like Hansel and Gretel, gingerbread men, unicorns, fae, mermaids and more. You might even spot pirates!

New Year's Eve

Paris is an embarassment of riches when it comes to ways and places to ring in the New Year. The mayor has declared all public transportation (metro, bus, RER and Transilien) to be free from 5pm onward, and many lines (1, 2, 4, 6, 9 et 14 of the metro, for example) will be running all night long.

• One of the most frequented spots is the Champs-Elysées, which will be reserved for pedestrians and soft transport. At midnight over the Arc de Triomphe, fireworks will burst forth celebrating 2025 and all the excitement it will bring. The party begins at 7 pm on the 31st with DJs, singers and karaoke and light shows. The throng will be immense and festive.

• Enjoy the fireworks as seen over the water, in a dinner cruise on the Seine offered by the Paris boat companies, while you sail by the famous monuments that mark the Parisian skyline, such as the Eiffel Tower, and Notre Dame. Many kinds of packages are possible, easily found online.

• If you don’t have sea legs, you might prefer to dine abord the Bus Toqué departing from the Place Vauban 75007, taking you round the city’s most iconic sights and streets with a gastronomic dinner and handpicked wines to accompany your dishes. It leaves at 9:15 lasting through the midnight fireworks (although early birds can get in on the 6pm bus that ends at 8).

• Perhaps, like Marie Antoinette, you prefer a masked ball? Your wish is our command at the Pavillon Wagram, try 47 Avenue de Wagram, 75017, with its stunning view over the Arc de Triomphe – get ready to dance the night away behind your best mask (others will be offered at the entry) and glittering threads over three floors of a Parisian hôtel particulier, open till 5 in the morning. You might even want to skip the free metro home and walk it as dawn breaks over Paris.

Shopping

Come January, t’is the season to shop, a five week spree of deals and bargains galore; Les SOLDES! Whether you are more Grands Magasins (the historic Bon Marché, La Samaritaine, Galéries Lafayette, Printemps), or rather niche boutique (The Marais, for instance), no matter, because all clothes and more are all on sale at a discount, the percentage of which goes up as the weeks go on. First rate fashion and other goodies at reduced prices, take your pick of your perfect Parisian find. January 2025 begins on  the 8^th. Ready, Set, GO!!!

Feast of Fools

Back in medieval Paris, starting the day after Christmas to just before Epiphany, Notre Dame was the scene of mayhem, as the people indulged in play acting their social superiors and the wine flowed in abundance. Carnaval, close in time, has largely absorbed that kind of mischief; the Fête des Fous is no more. However, as of writing, you can gather a taste of it in the Louvre’s special exhibit on the Fool, until February 3d. For one special evening opening, towards the end of the show’s run on January 17^th , starting at 6:30 pm, the fun will begin with makeup, costume, concerts and all manner of foolishness, giving us a feel for what the Feast of Fools might have been.

Twelfth Night/Epiphany January 6^th

The last of the 12 days of Christmas in France is not marked by drummers drumming, piper’s piping, ladies dancing and a whole mess of fowl, but rather by the exquisite galette des rois: a buttery pâte feuilletée stuffed with medieval frangipani, sold with a paper crown and a secret token -- or fève-- cooked in. The custom is that the youngest member of the party hides under the table. As the treat is cut into parts, the youngster names the person that slice will go to. Once we all dive in, we eat carefully so as not to loose a tooth on the fève (often ceramic). The one who finds it is crowned and chooses a consort to rule for the day. A fine way to commemorate the Feast of the Wise Men, the Magi, the Three Kings come from the East.

You can get this galette in any Parisian bakery, but here are a few recommendations of prize winning bakers:

• Lionel Bonnamy, La Fabrique aux Gourmandises, 82 rue de l'Amiral Mouchez, 75014.
• Sébastien Mauvieux, Maison Mauvieux, 59, rue d'Orsel, 75018.
• Jean-Philippe Lardeux, Maison Lardeux, 63 rue Caulaincourt, 75018 Paris 
• Souad Idrenmouche, Boulangerie Yacine, 24 place de la Nation, 75012 Paris 

From 9 January to 26 February, 2025, Epiphanies is also the theme of a free art show under the peaceful, solemn Gothic arches of the  Collège des Bernardins 20 rue de Poissy, 75005. 19 paintings by Augustin Frison-Roche draw inspiration from the journeying Magi, but also the seven days of creation and the dove of the Holy Spirit. His eclectic style borrows from as diverse traditions as the Italian Renaissance and Art Deco. The setting of this Cistercian center of learning under the same king who had the Sainte-Chapelle built is alone worth coming in to see the rest.

Vincennes en Anciennes

12 janvier 2025, departing from the château’s square, avenue de Paris, celebrate this 25th year of a procession of over 700 vehicles from the beginning of the autmobile and the bicycle. You can even get tickets to climb abord a 1930s bus.

MOVEABLE FEASTS

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

Then how about a moveable feast within a moveable feast? February and March are filled with them

First to fall is :

Lunar New Year 

• 2025 Jan 29, 2025 -  February 2nd Year of the Snake
• 2026  February 17 for 2026  to February 21th Year of the Horse
• 2027  February 6 starts the Year of the Goat

Paris also celebrates the first day of the new lunar year as they do not only in China, but in Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Viet Nam (where its known as the Têt festival). Unlike our measly 24 hours to celebrate the newborn year, Asian countries celebrate for 16 days from the first to the fifteenth, that is the Festival of Lanterns. In and around Paris, in its Asian enclaves, you can find festivities for weeks. 

For the coming year as of writing, Sunday, 9th February 2025

• Rendez-vous around 2:30 pm  in the 13th arrondissement between the avenue de Choisy, la porte de Choisy et l'avenue d'Ivry,  for a lavish and fun-filled parade of sparklers, firecrackers and more. 

• In the same neighborhood, you’ll find different markets and shopfronts from 2-5 pm.  Under red lamps, street vendors offer everything from dumplings to bubble tea. One kind of traditional treat you can try is the Vietnamese Bánh Tiêu, a kind of sesame-flavored donut. Give one a go at the Pâtisserie Saison 65 avenue d’Ivry  75013 or at the nearby Pâtisserie de Choisy 62 avenue de Choisy, 75013 where you can try a gâteau de bonheur, cake of happiness, or luck.

• Belleville, another largely Asian neighborhood, also lives it up, and for an authentic taste of their homeland you can go to any of  the modest cantinas along the rue de Belleville (75019-75020).

• If you want to ring in the Lunar New Year in luxury, try chef Tony Xu at the Shang Palace, 10, avenue d'Iéna, Paris 75116.

• Another possibility to beat away the late winter freeze and celebrate the Asian festival is with Szechuan spice at Malaboom, 42 Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011 Szechuan spice to really heat things up

Carnaval (Mardi Gras)

• 2025 4 March
• 2026 17 February
• 2027 9 February

Dating back to the Middle Ages, Carnaval is Vale Carne, or goodbye meat, a way to kick off Lent and its privations, by using up all the sugar eggs and butter that the season did not allow.  Disguises from the Feast of Fools eventually got absorbed into it, and you may still find masked littles throwing flour here and there.

For 2025, the 2nd of March, a procession of artists and performers will leave the place Gambetta 75011 at 1 pm to arrive at the place de la République  at 8 pm. This year’s theme is Love, Peace, and Joy, so get ready for a whole.

Purim 

Purim, the fourteenth of the month of Adar, can corrrespond to a specific date anywhere from February to March. 

• 2025 14 -15 March
• 2026, March 2- 3, 
• 2027,  March 22-24. 

If you’re in Paris at this time, we suggest you take a turn about the Marais, the historic Jewish quarter, in and around the rue des Rosiers. You might spot some littles in finery, dressed up as figures out of the Book of Esther which celebrates how the beautiful queen’s bravery saved her people from certain doom. You could spot a tiny Esther, a miniature bearded Mordecai, Esther’s guardian, or the King Ahashueras in his crown traipsing about the cobbled streets of this charming neighborhood (that you can explore more in depth with one of our in-the-know guides

You can also attend festivities, maybe even a ball, at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire Juifs.  71, rue du Temple 75003 Paris 

From iceskating to retail therapy to hot chocolate and fondue, this is just a selection of the cold weather pleasures awaiting you in the City of Light, should you opt for a winter’s stay. We hope to see you there, in the Louvre, the Orsay or Notre Dame and the Sainte-Chapelle! Bundle up and you’re sure to have a joyous time of it!