How Much Is a Flight to Paris (2026 Data)

So, how much is a flight to Paris? A round trip from the United States costs $926¹ on average over the past 12 months, counting every US departure airport. The month you travel moves that number more than anything else: the median round trip runs from $655¹ in February to $1,167¹ in June, 1.78² times as much for the same seat across the Atlantic.

2025 was a record year. 9.25 million³ passengers flew nonstop between the US and France, and Paris's two main airports handled almost 107 million travelers of every nationality.⁴ 2026 has been softer: in the first half of the year nonstop traffic between the two countries was 3.9%² lower than a year earlier,³ and from January to September North American traffic at the Paris airports fell 1.5%⁵. Below: fares by US city, month, weekday, time of day and booking window, the taxes built into every ticket, 36 years of official traffic data, the airlines and airports that carry the load, and, at the end, how Paris compares with other French cities and other destinations.

The average price of a flight to Paris in 2026

The $926¹ average covers round trips seen in fare searches over the past 12 months, cabin mix not stated; it is a guide to the going rate, not a quote. Fares booked within two weeks of departure run about 8%¹ above it. And how much is a flight to France as a whole? Round trips to any French airport currently average $907⁶, about 11%⁶ more than around the same time last year, and most of them fall between $721⁶ and $1,295⁶ over a 12-month span.⁶ The France figure covers a shorter recent period than the Paris average, so the gap between the two says little; each stands on its own.

Which US city is cheapest for Paris?

Among the six US departure cities with a Paris average on the fare page, New York is cheapest at $748¹. Boston averages $865¹ and Miami $911¹. Seattle is the priciest of the six at $975¹, $227² above New York.¹ New York also has far more direct flights to Paris than any other US city, as the airline section below shows.

Florida sits near the top of the range. So how much is a flight from Florida to France? A Paris round trip costs $911¹ from Miami and $974¹ from Tampa on average. And how much is a flight from Chicago to Paris?

A round trip averages $893¹, $27² more than from Boston. Seattle, the only West Coast city in the list, is about $49² above the national average.¹

A second yardstick is the good-deal line: the price at or below which a quarter of travelers found their round trip to Paris. Across the most searched departure cities that line is $702¹.¹ For New York it sits at $593¹; for Chicago it is $690¹, for Miami $691¹ and for Denver $698¹.¹ A round trip under those levels is worth booking.

New York is lowest on both measures¹. Denver is not among the six cities with a Paris average on the page, but it has the highest good-deal line of the four.¹

Fares from New York, Los Angeles and Atlanta

So how much is a flight from New York to Paris on that route alone? Round trips average $748⁷ over the past 12 months, and most fall between $593⁷ and $935⁷. January is the cheapest month, at $522⁷.⁷ One-off lows show up too: Kennedy airport (JFK) is the most popular connection, with round-trip deals from $611¹ found in the past five days, while Chicago O'Hare had the cheapest route at $583¹.¹

How much is a flight from LAX to Paris? Round trips from Los Angeles average $1,036⁸, $288² more than from New York, and run from about $792⁸ to $1,315⁸.⁸ Los Angeles is also the second-busiest US gateway for nonstop traffic, with 1,043,408³ passengers to and from France in 2025.

And how much is a flight from Atlanta to Paris? The route averages $1,079⁹, the highest of the three, with February the cheapest month at $806⁹.⁹

When to fly to Paris for the best price

Looking at average flight prices to Paris by month, the calendar splits in two. Late winter is cheap: February ($655¹) and January ($657¹) have the lowest medians. Prices climb through spring to a June peak of $1,167¹, stay high in July ($1,083¹) and through October ($955¹) before November eases to $846¹ and December jumps to $1,079¹ for the holidays.¹ August, a favorite month for European vacations, costs $933¹.

For a family of four the season is worth real money: four tickets at the June median come to $4,668², four at the February median to $2,620², a difference of $2,048².¹ The same pattern holds for France as a whole, where February averages $665⁶ and June $1,214⁶.⁶

The day of the week matters less. Monday is the cheapest day to depart at $965¹ on average, and Friday the priciest at $1,038¹, a gap of $73²; Saturday, at $1,035¹, is almost as expensive.¹

Time of day is a bigger lever. Night departures average $891¹, the cheapest slot, and afternoon flights $1,046¹, the dearest, $155² more; morning and evening sit in between.¹ Few direct flights leave in the morning anyway: 3%¹ do, against 50%¹ in the evening.

How far ahead to book

Fares drift down as departure approaches, then turn sharply up in the last weeks. Booking 26 weeks out averaged $1,023¹; the low point came 11 weeks before departure at $926¹, with five weeks out almost as cheap at $928¹. In the final week the average jumps to $1,041¹, 11.0%² more than at 11 weeks.¹

Between about 12 and four weeks out the averages stay between $926¹ and $947¹, so there is no single magic day, only a window.¹ Route by route the best week differs: 19 weeks⁷ ahead on New York to Paris, 4 weeks⁸ on Los Angeles to Paris and 11 weeks⁹ on Atlanta to Paris.

Airlines, nonstop flights and flight time to Paris

Air France dominates the route. It flew 17,915¹⁰ of the 37,252¹⁰ passenger flights operated between the US and Paris in 2025, counting both directions, 2.22² times as many as Delta Air Lines (8,069¹⁰), with United Airlines (3,868¹⁰), American Airlines (2,771¹⁰), French bee (1,507¹⁰) and JetBlue (1,447¹⁰) behind.¹⁰ Air France alone flew 48.1%² of the flights, and 9¹⁰ airlines had scheduled nonstops to Paris.

That is about 102² flights a day in both directions, or 714² a week.¹⁰ Fare-search listings spread flight numbers evenly over the week: Saturday has 15%¹, Tuesday 13%¹ and every other day 14%¹ (scheduled flight numbers listed on a fare-search site, including codeshares, not flights operated).¹ New York's JFK and Newark airports had 10,670² flights, 28.6%² of the total, and 32¹⁰ US airports had a scheduled flight to Paris.¹⁰

The six airports in the table account for 22,549² of the 37,252¹⁰ flights; the other 27² US airports with a passenger flight to or from Paris, scheduled or charter, share the rest.¹⁰

Price and punctuality also differ by airline. Over the past 12 months the cheapest airlines to France were Icelandair at $694⁶ and French Bee at $751⁶ on average; Icelandair flies via Reykjavik, so its fares are for connecting trips.⁶

On time, the five most punctual airlines to France sit within a few points of each other: JetBlue arrived on time on 89%⁶ of its flights, Air France on 88%⁶, Air Tahiti Nui on 87%⁶, Norse Atlantic Airways on 86%⁶ and American Airlines on 85%⁶ (period not stated).⁶ On the busiest single route, New York to Paris, Air France reached 91%⁷ and the route as a whole 89%⁷.⁷

How long is the flight?

On nonstop flights, the average flight time from New York to Paris is 7 hours 22 minutes⁷, over 3,622 miles⁷. Boston is quicker, at 6 hours 45 minutes¹, and Philadelphia takes 7 hours 20 minutes¹; Orlando takes 8 hours 25 minutes¹ and New Orleans 8 hours 55 minutes¹.¹ From the West Coast it is much longer: Los Angeles to Paris takes 10 hours 48 minutes⁸. Across all US routes, an average nonstop to France takes 8 hours 23 minutes⁶.

Delays are about as common as on any US flight. Over the last three months, 15%¹ of flights to Paris were delayed by a quarter of an hour or more, the same as the US national average. The worst months are December (23%¹) and July (21%¹); March is the most punctual at 9%¹.¹ Route figures can be better: 11%⁷ of New York-Paris flights and 8%⁸ of Los Angeles-Paris flights were delayed in the past three months.

Taxes and fees on a flight to Paris

Every ticket carries government charges that no sale removes. On the US side, a round trip to Paris pays $70.99² in federal taxes and fees. The international departure tax and the arrival tax are $23.40¹¹ each in 2026 and rise to $24.10¹² each in 2027. The September 11 Security Fee is $5.60¹³ per one-way trip that starts at a US airport, so it is charged once, on the way out.¹³ On arrival back in the US come a customs fee of $7.61¹⁴, in force since October 1, 2026, an immigration fee of $7.00¹⁵ and an agricultural inspection fee of $3.98¹⁶ for tickets bought since that date.

The US departure airport also charges a passenger facility charge of up to $4.50¹⁷, one US boarding on a nonstop round trip since the return starts abroad,¹⁸ so US charges come to $75.49², and $76.89² in 2027.

France adds its solidarity tax on airline tickets, charged once, on the flight leaving France. Since March 1, 2025 a flight to the continental US falls in the long-distance tier and pays €40¹⁹ in economy, about $44.65² at the October 30, 2026 exchange rate, or €120¹⁹ (about $133.96²) with extra services such as business class.²⁰ Together, US and French charges come to $120.14² per economy round trip, 13.0%² of the average fare, and $121.54² (13.1%²) in 2027. The dollar amount of the French tax moves with the exchange rate.

The French tax depends on distance and cabin. Flights to Europe pay €7.40¹⁹ in economy, flights to intermediate destinations €15¹⁹, and long-distance flights such as those to the US €40¹⁹.¹⁹ Business jets pay far more: up to €2,100¹⁹ per passenger on a long-distance turbojet flight, 52.5² times the economy rate.

For four travelers in economy, taxes and fees alone add up to $480.56² per trip ($486.16² in 2027). That fixed part does not change with the season, so it weighs more on a cheap ticket: it is 18.3%² of the February median and 10.3%² of the June median.

How many people fly between the US and France

A record 9,250,567³ passengers flew on nonstop flights between US and French airports in 2025, 4.9%² more than in 2019 and 2.64² times the 3.50 million³ of 1990. The count covers both directions and all nationalities, so it measures the route, not only Americans heading to Paris.³ Growth had already slowed: 2025 was up only 0.2%² on 2024.

The long climb had three breaks. Traffic slipped after 2001, from 6.36 million³ in 2000, and again in the 2009 recession, to 5.98 million³. The pandemic cut 2020 to 1.53 million³, 17.3%² of the 2019 level, before a rebound that passed 2019 in 2024.³ A straight line fitted to 1990-2025 without the pandemic years points to about 12.9 million² passengers a year by 2050; that is our calculation, not a forecast.

2026 has started lower. From January to June, 4,172,629³ passengers flew nonstop between the two countries, 3.9%² fewer than in the first half of 2025. Five of the six months were down; June fell the most, by 8.8%², and May was the only month slightly up.³

France's own count agrees closely. The French civil aviation authority recorded 9,256,892²¹ passengers between mainland France and the US in 2025, within 0.1%² of the US figure for the same year. Flights between the US and France's overseas territories in the Caribbean and the Pacific are a separate, much smaller market of 510,876²¹ passengers.²¹

On the US side, New York JFK handles the most France traffic by far, 1,833,137³ passengers in 2025, followed by Los Angeles and Atlanta (875,070³). Newark adds 783,949³, so the New York area's two big airports carried more than 2.6 million².³

Paris's airports

Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Orly handled 106,958,316⁴ passengers together in 2025, 3.4%⁴ more than in 2024 and 99.0%⁴ of the 2019 total. Charles de Gaulle, the long-haul hub where most US flights land, carried 72.03 million⁴, 2.06² times Orly's 34.93 million⁴, but it is still below 2019 while Orly is above it.⁴

North American traffic is one of the strongest segments. It made up 11.8%⁴ of all passengers at the Paris airports in 2025 and stood at 106.7%⁴ of its own 2019 level.⁴ Europe as a whole accounts for 45.1%², most of it inside the Schengen area, and Africa for 13.8%⁴.

In 2025, about one passenger in five, 20.3%⁴, was connecting between flights, and planes were 84.4%⁴ full on average. That year the Paris airports made up 28.2%² of the 378.98 million⁴ passengers at all airports run by their operator worldwide.⁴

2026 is flatter. In September 2026, 9.08 million⁵ passengers used the Paris airports, 1.6%⁵ fewer than in September 2025 and 96.2%⁵ of September 2019; from January to September the total was 80.89 million⁵, down 0.4%⁵.⁵ North America bucked the September trend, up 1.7%⁵ to a 12.4%⁵ share of the month, but it is still 1.5%⁵ down for the nine months. The operator attributes the weaker trend to rising fuel prices, capacity adjustments by airlines and a less favorable demand environment, and now expects Paris traffic for 2026 to end slightly below 2025.⁵ Planes were 82.9%⁵ full in September.

The first nine months show where the slowdown comes from. Traffic to and from the Middle East fell 12.9%⁵ and Latin America 3.3%⁵, while Asia-Pacific grew 3.0%⁵ and mainland France 2.5%⁵.⁵

How Paris compares with other French cities and destinations

Measured the same way, on recent fares, a round trip to France averages $907⁶. That is close to the United Kingdom ($900²²) and above Italy ($873²³) and Spain ($802²⁴); Germany ($952²⁵) and Greece ($1,026²⁶) cost more. Mexico, at $522²⁷, costs 57.6%² of the France average.

Other French cities

Paris is also the cheapest place in France to fly to¹. Over the past 12 months its $926¹ average was below each of the 13 other French cities checked. Lyon ($986²⁹), Strasbourg ($989³⁰) and Toulouse ($1,009³¹) come next, then Marseille ($1,044³²) and Nice ($1,049³³). Brittany and the Mediterranean edges cost most: Rennes averages $1,410³⁴, $484² more than Paris, Montpellier $1,390³⁵ and Bastia in Corsica $1,388³⁶.

Paris also takes most of the demand: it accounts for 81%⁶ of fare searchers' interest in the most popular French destinations, and Charles de Gaulle (CDG) handled 88.8%² of the 39,528¹⁰ passenger flights operated between the US and mainland France in 2025, counting both directions.¹⁰

The airport you land at matters too. Orly (ORY), Paris's second airport, has the lowest average arrival fare in the country at $757⁶, below Beauvais-Tille ($849⁶) and Charles de Gaulle ($949⁶) over the past 12 months.⁶ Beauvais is not in Paris itself; it is one of the airports within 50 miles¹ of the city. Connecting itineraries are another way down: trips routed through Oslo, Porto or Helsinki average $617⁶ to $646⁶, although the period behind those averages is not stated.

Grouped by region, Ile-de-France is cheapest to reach, with Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes and Grand Est close behind; Brittany is dearest.³⁴ The map shows the lowest city average in each region; four regions without a listed city stay blank.

Conclusions

1. The month sets the price. The June median ($1,167¹) is 1.78² times February's ($655¹); weekday and time of day move it by at most $155².
2. New York is the cheapest major gateway. It averages $748¹ and has the most nonstop flights (10,670² to and from Paris in 2025); Los Angeles ($1,036⁸) and Atlanta ($1,079⁹) cost far more.
3. Book well ahead, not in the last week. The cheapest booking week ($926¹) is 11.0%² below the final week ($1,041¹).
4. About $120.14² of every economy round trip is taxes and charges. France's solidarity tax (€40¹⁹) plus US federal charges and the US passenger facility charge make up 13.0%² of the average fare ($121.54² in 2027).
5. 2025 was a record year for the route; 2026 is softer. 9.25 million³ nonstop passengers flew in 2025; the first half of 2026 was 3.9%² lower.