Overview and Journey Planner
The Métro de Paris is the rapid transit system for Paris, run by the state-owned RATP.
RATP has a Journey Planner application that works out the fastest way to get from A to B.
It is the third busiest metro system in Europe and its icon is a blue letter "M" in a blue circle. It first opened in July 1900 during the "Exposition Universelle" of the same year.
The first trains leave the terminus at 5.30 in the morning. Some of the trains are driverless, for example on Line 14.
In total there are three hundred stations, compared to two hundred and seventy on the London Underground, and sixteen lines.
Line 1 (Yellow, West-East)
Line 1 runs East-West across Paris and is 16.5km long. Its major interchange is Châtelet. From Châtelet it travels to the Louvre Museum and Champs Elysee to the West, en route to Grande Arche.
Line 4 (Purple, North-South)
Line 4 runs North-South. It goes from Porte de Clignancourt (the location of a famous flea market in Montmartre) in the North to Mairie de Montrouge in the south. In the middle it connects St Michel on the left bank of the Seine to the interchange at Châtelet.
Line 6 (Green- Smile Shape)
Goes from Charles de Gaulle Etoile (site of the Arc de Triomphe), south to Passy, a wealthy area, across the Seine to Bir Hakeim (home of the Eiffel Tower, and named after a battle found in Libya, where the French fought Germany and Italy) and then eastwards and northwards to Nation, which takes its name from Place de la Nation.
The Métro de Paris is the rapid transit system for Paris, run by the state-owned RATP.
RATP has a Journey Planner application that works out the fastest way to get from A to B.
It is the third busiest metro system in Europe and its icon is a blue letter "M" in a blue circle. It first opened in July 1900 during the "Exposition Universelle" of the same year.
The first trains leave the terminus at 5.30 in the morning. Some of the trains are driverless, for example on Line 14.
In total there are three hundred stations, compared to two hundred and seventy on the London Underground, and sixteen lines.
Line 1 (Yellow, West-East)
Line 1 runs East-West across Paris and is 16.5km long. Its major interchange is Châtelet. From Châtelet it travels to the Louvre Museum and Champs Elysee to the West, en route to Grande Arche.
Line 4 (Purple, North-South)
Line 4 runs North-South. It goes from Porte de Clignancourt (the location of a famous flea market in Montmartre) in the North to Mairie de Montrouge in the south. In the middle it connects St Michel on the left bank of the Seine to the interchange at Châtelet.
Line 6 (Green- Smile Shape)
Goes from Charles de Gaulle Etoile (site of the Arc de Triomphe), south to Passy, a wealthy area, across the Seine to Bir Hakeim (home of the Eiffel Tower, and named after a battle found in Libya, where the French fought Germany and Italy) and then eastwards and northwards to Nation, which takes its name from Place de la Nation.
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