How Much Is a Taxi from CDG or Orly to Paris? Official 2026 Flat Rates vs Private Transfer

Paris is unusual among European capitals in regulating the airport taxi fare by decree. Since 1 February 2026 there are four numbers to remember, they are printed on a sticker inside every licensed taxi, and they are not negotiable. Knowing them protects you from the touts in the arrivals hall — and knowing their limits protects you from a surprise at the other end.

The official 2026 flat rates

Note the inversion: CDG is north of the city, so the Left Bank is the longer trip and costs more. Orly is south, so the Right Bank is the longer trip. Travellers who memorise one pattern and apply it to the other airport get it backwards.

Which bank is your hotel on?

The Seine divides Paris, and the flat rate depends on which side your destination falls.

• Right Bank (Rive Droite): arrondissements 1, 2, 3, 4 and 8 through 20. That covers the Louvre, the Marais, Opéra, Champs-Élysées, Montmartre, Bastille, Belleville and Bercy.
• Left Bank (Rive Gauche): arrondissements 5, 6, 7, 13, 14 and 15. That covers the Latin Quarter, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the Eiffel Tower and Invalides, Montparnasse and the Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand district.

The postcode on your booking confirmation tells you everything: 75004 is the 4th arrondissement and therefore Right Bank; 75006 is the 6th and therefore Left Bank.

What the flat rate includes

This is where the regulation is genuinely generous by international standards.

• Luggage is included. There is no per-bag supplement on a flat-rate airport run.
• Tolls are included. The driver absorbs any motorway charge.
• Time of day makes no difference. The same fare applies at 3 am on a Sunday as at 9 am on a Tuesday.
• Traffic makes no difference. A ninety-minute crawl costs the same as a forty-minute run. The meter is not involved.

Where the flat rate does not apply

The decree covers journeys between the two airports and Paris intra-muros — inside the boulevard périphérique. Everything else is metered:

• Disneyland Paris. The resort is in Seine-et-Marne, outside Paris. A metered ride from CDG typically comes to €75 to €95 or more. Our CDG to Disneyland comparison goes through the alternatives.
• La Défense, Versailles, Saint-Denis, Boulogne and the rest of the inner suburbs. All outside the ring road, all metered.
• Airport to airport. CDG to Orly has no flat rate.
• Beauvais. Not a regulated Paris airport at all — see our Beauvais to Paris guide.

Worked examples

The abstractions become obvious once you put real addresses against them.

• Hotel in the 4th, near Saint-Paul, arriving at CDG. 75004 is Right Bank, so the flat rate is €56 regardless of whether you land at 7 am or midnight.
• Apartment in the 6th, near Odéon, arriving at CDG. 75006 is Left Bank: €65.
• Hotel in the 15th, arriving at Orly. 75015 is Left Bank and Orly is south, so this is the cheapest of the four combinations at €37.
• Hotel in the 18th, Montmartre, arriving at Orly. 75018 is Right Bank: €44, and it is a long way across the city, which the flat rate absorbs entirely.
• Hotel in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Just outside the ring road, so no flat rate applies even though it feels like Paris. The meter runs.

How the fare is enforced

Every licensed Paris taxi carries a sticker on a rear side window setting out the four airport flat rates, and the vehicle must display an illuminated roof sign and a visible licence number. The rates are set by prefectoral decree, which is why they are identical across every company and every driver.

If a driver at an official rank tries to run the meter instead on a qualifying airport-to-Paris journey, or asks for a supplement for suitcases, they are in breach. Take the receipt, which shows the licence number, and the complaint can be pursued afterwards. In practice this is uncommon at the marked ranks; the genuine risk is the unlicensed tout who intercepts you inside the terminal before you ever reach one, and quotes a figure with no regulation behind it at all.

What about Uber, Bolt and the other apps?

Ride-hailing vehicles operate at both airports but are not taxis in French law, so no flat rate binds them. Their price is whatever the app quotes at that moment, which means surge pricing during strikes, bad weather, big arrival waves and public holidays — exactly the moments when you most want a predictable number. Pickup also happens at a designated zone that can be a long walk from the arrivals door, particularly at CDG, and those zones change from time to time.

The honest summary: apps are sometimes cheaper than the flat rate off-peak, frequently more expensive at peak, and never guaranteed in advance.

How the public transport options compare

From CDG, the RER B costs about €13 and reaches Gare du Nord in roughly 35 minutes, though it is a commuter line with stairs, crowds and a reputation for pickpocketing. The Roissybus runs to Opéra for €16.60. From Orly, the usual combinations are Orlyval to Antony and then RER B, or the extended metro line 14, which now runs to the airport directly.

For a solo traveller with a cabin bag, these are excellent value. For two people the arithmetic already tightens against a €37 Orly flat rate; for a family of four it is not close.

Flat rate or pre-booked transfer?

Both have a fixed price, so the honest comparison is not purely about money.

Our own airport fares are published on the pricing page, with route detail on the CDG to Paris and Orly to Paris pages.

Common misunderstandings

"The night rate will be higher"

It will not. The flat rate is a single figure that applies around the clock, and that is one of its real advantages over a metered fare or an app quote. A 2 am landing from a long-haul flight costs the same as a midday one.

"Four passengers cost more than two"

The flat rate is for the journey, not per person. A licensed Paris taxi will normally carry up to four passengers; a fifth, where the vehicle allows it, may attract a supplement. If you are a party of five or more you need a larger vehicle, which is a booking decision rather than a rank decision.

"The driver took a longer route so it will cost more"

On a flat-rate airport run the route makes no difference to what you pay. Drivers choose between the A1, the A3 and the A104 from CDG based on traffic, and you are unaffected either way. This is precisely the case where a fixed fare works in the passenger's favour.

"I can negotiate"

You cannot, and you should not want to. A driver offering you a "better deal" than the regulated fare at an airport rank is offering something that is not a regulated taxi journey.

Practical advice

1. Know your arrondissement before you land, so you know which number to expect.
2. Ask the driver to confirm the flat rate at the start of the journey, not at the end.
3. Card payment is accepted in every licensed Paris taxi; a driver refusing it is out of order.
4. A receipt is your right — take it, especially if you intend to complain.
5. If your destination is outside the ring road, agree a price in advance or pre-book. The meter has no ceiling.

For a full walk-through of each airport's arrivals process, see the CDG airport transfer page and the Orly airport taxi page, or request a fixed quote through the booking form.