4 days in Paris

A complete 4-day Paris itinerary with 24 places, arranged so each stop is open when you arrive and the walking between them stays sensible.

Days
4
Places
24
Time in transit
469 min
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Why the stops are in this order

Most itineraries you find online are a list of places worth seeing, left in whatever order the writer thought of them. That is the part that falls apart on the day: you arrive somewhere at 17:40 and it closed at 17:00, or you cross the city twice because two neighbouring sights sat on different days.

This plan is sequenced instead of listed. Every stop below is checked against the opening hours of the place itself, and the gaps between them are real door-to-door travel times, not straight-line distance on a map. The visiting windows shown are what is actually achievable in a day.

Across all 4 days this route spends 469 minutes in transit — that number is the point. Reordering the same 24 places carelessly can easily double it, and that time comes straight out of your trip.

Day 1

09:00–21:30 · 5 places · 114 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 21 min by public transport

    Louvre Museum

    09:21–12:51 3 hr 30 min

  3. 8 min walk

    Le Tout-Paris

    12:59–13:29 30 min

  4. 12 min walk

    Musée d'Orsay

    13:41–16:11 2 hr 30 min

  5. 19 min by public transport

    Eiffel Tower

    16:30–18:30 2 hr

  6. 54 min by public transport

    Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre

    19:24–20:54 1 hr 30 min

Day 2

09:00–21:30 · 6 places · 103 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 30 min by public transport

    Musée National Picasso-Paris

    09:30–11:00 1 hr 30 min

  3. 9 min walk

    Le Ju'

    12:09–12:39 30 min

  4. 9 min walk

    Notre-Dame Cathedral of Paris

    12:48–14:18 1 hr 30 min

  5. 26 min by public transport

    Arc de Triomphe

    14:44–15:59 1 hr 15 min

  6. 16 min by public transport

    Louvre Pyramid

    16:15–17:15 1 hr

  7. 13 min by public transport

    Grand Palais

    17:28–18:58 1 hr 30 min

Day 3

09:00–21:30 · 6 places · 106 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 22 min by public transport

    Sainte-Chapelle

    09:22–10:22 1 hr

  3. 17 min by public transport

    Panthéon

    10:39–11:54 1 hr 15 min

  4. 10 min walk

    Le Saint-Regis - Paris

    12:10–12:40 30 min

  5. 17 min walk

    Tuileries Garden

    12:57–14:27 1 hr 30 min

  6. 14 min walk

    Domaine National du Palais-Royal

    14:41–15:56 1 hr 15 min

  7. 26 min by public transport

    Moulin Rouge

    16:22–18:52 2 hr 30 min

Day 4

09:00–21:30 · 7 places · 146 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 18 min by public transport

    Place des Vosges

    09:18–10:18 1 hr

  3. 35 min by public transport

    Overlook of Paris

    10:53–11:38 45 min

  4. 14 min walk

    La Brigade - Opéra - Restaurant Paris centre

    12:14–12:44 30 min

  5. 22 min walk

    Champ de Mars

    13:06–14:36 1 hr 30 min

  6. 31 min by public transport

    Square de l'Île-de-France

    15:07–15:37 30 min

  7. 16 min by public transport

    Republic Square Paris

    15:53–16:53 1 hr

  8. 10 min by public transport

    Oasis d'Aboukir

    17:03–17:33 30 min

Make it your trip

The schedule above is built for a generic 4-day visit. Open it in the planner to set your own dates — the timings recalculate against the opening hours for those specific days, which matters more than it sounds when a museum closes on Mondays. You can drag stops between days, swap anything you are not interested in, and the rest of the day re-sequences around the change.

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