CDG to Paris in 2026: Taxi Fare, Best Way to Central Paris, and Airport Pickup vs RER B vs Uber

A licensed taxi from Charles de Gaulle (CDG) to central Paris costs a fixed fare of €56 to the Right Bank and €65 to the Left Bank in 2026, plus a €7 booking fee when booked ahead through G7; the RER B costs €14 and takes about 30 minutes, but until 11 December 2026 it does not run between Châtelet-Les Halles and the airport from 22:45 on weekdays, and a meet-and-greet car from Welcome Pickups starts at €63 by day. This guide sets out every way into Paris at prices read on 29 September 2026, the fake-taxi approaches to refuse, the new terminal names due in March 2027, and the routes from Orly, Beauvais and Le Bourget.

Verified 29 September 2026 · Service-Public and DGCCRF taxi fares · G7 · Welcome Pickups · Blacklane · Uber and Bolt · RATP, Île-de-France Mobilités and maligneb.fr · CDG Express · Aérobus Beauvais · Groupe ADP · re-read at source

How much is a taxi from CDG to Paris in 2026?

A taxi from CDG to central Paris costs a flat €56 to the Right Bank and €65 to the Left Bank in 2026, and from Orly €45 to the Right Bank and €36 to the Left Bank; booking adds €4 for an immediate ride or €7 in advance, and each passenger from the fifth adds €5.50. The fares come from an arrêté of 24 December 2025, published in the Journal officiel on 31 December and applied from 1 February 2026 at the latest, as Service-Public reported on 16 January 2026. The flat fare replaces the meter's pick-up charge and its distance and time rates, so traffic and the route taken do not change it. The DGCCRF, France's consumer-protection authority, states that no luggage supplement can be charged in Paris, airport fares included, that the driver must accept a card whatever the fare, and that a printed receipt is compulsory above €25.

Right Bank means the part of Paris north of the Seine and Left Bank the part south of it; the Orly fares run the other way because Orly lies south of the city. The fares are ceilings, and G7, the Paris taxi company, lists the same €56 or €65 from CDG and €36 or €45 from Orly, plus its €4 or €7 booking fee.

What is the best way to get from CDG to central Paris?

For most arrivals the best way from CDG to central Paris is a licensed taxi from the official rank at the fixed €56 or €65, or the same taxi booked ahead through G7 for €63 or €72; the RER B at €14 is the value choice for light luggage before 22:45, and a meet-and-greet car suits families, groups and late arrivals. Six options were priced on 29 September 2026. Welcome Pickups, a private transfer company, puts the drive at about 30 minutes in usual traffic, and RATP gives about 30 minutes for the RER B between central Paris and the airport, which it serves at two stations: Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 1, for Terminals 1 and 3, and Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 2, for Terminal 2 and the TGV station.

Two cautions apply to the cheaper options. Until 11 December 2026, RER B trains stop running between Châtelet-Les Halles and the airport from 22:45 on weekdays and some weekends, so a late-evening landing needs a taxi, a booked car, or Metro line 4 to Gare du Nord and the replacement bus B4. And the Paris Region–Airports ticket is not valid on buses or on the Aérobus, so bus routes need ordinary Bus-Tram tickets. Our luxury airport transfers comparison sets the private transfer companies side by side.

Is Uber cheaper than a taxi from Charles de Gaulle airport?

Uber can be cheaper than a taxi from CDG, but not reliably: Uber's own CDG page lists average fares for rides from Paris to CDG of €40 for UberX, €52 for Comfort, €70 for UberXL and €87 for a Van, and calls them illustrations rather than fixed or guaranteed prices, while a licensed taxi costs a fixed €56 to the Right Bank or €65 to the Left Bank. Those averages cover journeys to the airport, and app prices move with demand. Bolt's CDG page publishes no prices, tells riders to check the fare in the app, and says its pickup points at the airport may change. A private-hire car (a VTC in French) booked through an app is legal; one offered in the terminal without a booking is not, because picking up a passenger on the public road without a prior booking is an offence, as the government confirmed in a written answer to the Senate on 17 July 2025.

When is a pre-booked meet-and-greet car worth it at CDG?

A pre-booked meet-and-greet car is worth it at CDG for families who need child seats, groups of five or more and late arrivals while the RER B is shut after 22:45, and on price it comes closest to a taxi on the Left Bank: Welcome Pickups' sedan costs €69 by day and €78 at night, against €72 for a G7 taxi booked ahead and €65 at the rank. To the Right Bank, Welcome Pickups charges €63 by day and €73 at night, against €63 for a G7 taxi booked ahead and €56 at the rank, so by day the two pre-booked options cost the same and at night G7 is €10 cheaper. What the meet-and-greet car adds is a driver at arrivals holding a sign with your name, a price fixed before you fly, flight tracking and a child seat on request.

Child seats are the deciding detail for families. Service-Public sets the rule that children under 10 travel in an approved child restraint and lists taxis and public transport as exemptions; private-hire cars are not on that list, and a rank taxi need not carry a seat. G7 offers baby seats and boosters through its G7 Famille service, Welcome Pickups takes booster and baby-seat requests at booking, and Blacklane asks for its Business Van/SUV class with the seat noted for the chauffeur, adding that it will do its best to provide one. Earlier versions of this page said French law requires a booster in every car; for taxis that was wrong.

For groups, Welcome Pickups' minivan for up to eight costs €108 by day and €124 at night to the Right Bank (€116 and €133 to the Left Bank), against €112 for two rank taxis to the Right Bank; its minibus for up to 12 costs €250 by day to the Right Bank. A taxi carries four passengers at the flat fare, with €5.50 for each passenger from the fifth. Welcome Pickups advises booking the pickup for 20 to 30 minutes after the scheduled landing; its help centre gives 60 minutes of free waiting from the booked pickup time, counted from the actual landing when the pickup was set for the arrival time and the flight is late. On 29 September 2026 Welcome Pickups held 4.8 out of 5 on Trustpilot from 50,588 reviews, and its help centre offered an 80% cash refund or a 100% coupon for cancellations made 24 hours or more before pickup, and nothing later.

How do you avoid fake taxis at CDG?

Avoid fake taxis at CDG by refusing any ride offered inside the terminal and taking only a taxi from the official rank, a car you booked, or an Uber or Bolt assigned in the app: the fare to central Paris is fixed at €56 or €65, and a private-hire car may only carry a passenger who booked. The problem is current: on 3 August 2026 The Local reported a Le Parisien undercover test in which a fake driver at CDG charged €190, citing new pricing rules and the length of the journey; the report describes drivers approaching tourists in the arrivals halls, which licensed drivers are forbidden to do, and leading them to cars in the car parks. On 3 June 2025 Europe 1 followed a police control at the airport where an undeclared private-hire driver had charged €120 for a ride the officer put at about €50. In a written question published on 19 June 2025, Senator Édouard Courtial said such offences rose 65% at Roissy-CDG between 2023 and 2024; the government's answer of 17 July 2025 said on-the-spot criminal fines for illegal taxi work, unregistered private-hire operation and picking up passengers without a booking had applied nationwide since 1 July 2025. The Local puts the penalty for running an illegal taxi at up to three years in prison, a €45,000 fine and confiscation of the vehicle.

The Local's advice follows the rules: use the official taxi lane, where cars carry an illuminated roof sign; confirm the fixed fare before getting in; and look for a visible licence number and a working meter. The DGCCRF adds that the card terminal must be visible and working. The same report says similar schemes operate at Orly and at the Gare du Nord and Gare de l'Est. The travel blogger Melissa of Girl Eat World described a June 2018 ride in which a man wearing a CDG lanyard redirected her from the taxi queue to “Gate 16”; at her hotel the driver showed €360 on a phone app, and she paid €80 to end the dispute after the hotel manager stepped in. Earlier versions of this page dated that ride to 2023, the year the post was published.

Where does your driver meet you at CDG, and what are the new terminal names?

A pre-booked driver meets you at arrivals in your terminal holding a sign with your name, and from March 2027 CDG's terminals will carry the numbers 1 to 7: Terminal 1 keeps its name, Terminal 3 becomes Terminal 2, 2A and 2C become Terminal 3, 2B and 2D become Terminal 4, 2E becomes Terminal 5, 2F becomes Terminal 6 and 2G becomes Terminal 7. Groupe ADP announced the change on 8 December 2025: each terminal will have a number and no letter, following the order in which passengers arrive by road and RER; departure lounges will be identified by letters; and the new signs go up between September and December 2026, so both systems will be on show this autumn. ADP's release lists the new numbers and lounge letters; the match between old and new names is as reported by One Mile at a Time on the day of the announcement.

Groupe ADP counted 72,029,407 passengers at CDG in 2025, up 2.5% on 2024, in figures published on 15 January 2026. Earlier versions of this page gave 67 million and called CDG second in Europe only to Heathrow; ADP's release gives no ranking, so the ranking has been dropped. The terminal-by-terminal meeting spots and the taxi-rank door number given here before could not be confirmed at source and have been removed: follow the Taxi signs to the rank, and for a booked car use the meeting point in your confirmation.

How much is the RER B from CDG to Paris, and when is it closed?

The RER B from CDG to Paris costs €14 on the Paris Region–Airports ticket (€7 reduced) and takes about 30 minutes, with trains every 6 to 15 minutes from 04:50 to about midnight, but until 11 December 2026 there are no trains between Châtelet-Les Halles and the airport from 22:45 on weekdays and some weekends. The ticket is valid for two hours on the metro, RER, suburban trains and Orlyval, connections included, and loads onto a Navigo Easy pass, a phone or a smartwatch; the pass itself costs €2. It cannot go on a pass that already holds a t+ or Metro-Train-RER ticket, and the reduced fare covers children aged 4 to 9, among others. The frequency and hours are from Île-de-France Mobilités.

Only tickets valid on the RER B are accepted on the replacement buses, which for the airport means the Paris Region–Airports ticket, and the line's notice warns that the buses take much longer than the train. The December closure is set out in a separate notice, the maligneb.fr works calendar marks the evenings when trains run normally, and RATP's live RER B page shows the day's service. The 25 July to 16 August closure listed on earlier versions of this page has ended.

From 28 March 2027 the CDG Express is due to run non-stop between Gare de l'Est and the airport in 20 minutes, every 15 minutes from 05:00 to midnight, with one-way tickets from €25.

What replaced the RoissyBus, and what is the cheapest way from CDG to Paris?

RoissyBus was withdrawn on 1 March 2026, and the cheapest ways from CDG into Paris are now buses 350 and 351 on a €2.05 Bus-Tram ticket, taking 60 to 90 minutes, or express bus 9517 to Saint-Denis Pleyel in 30 minutes and Metro 14 onward, €4.60 in all on a Bus-Tram ticket and a €2.55 Metro-Train-RER ticket. Île-de-France Mobilités runs the 9517 daily from 05:20 to 00:30 between Saint-Denis Pleyel and the RoissyPôle station, which it describes as a few minutes' walk from the airport, every 15 minutes at weekday peaks, every 30 minutes off-peak and every 20 to 30 minutes at weekends. Two tickets are needed because the Metro-Train-RER ticket allows no connections with buses; the fares are from RATP's 2026 fare list.

Saint-Denis Pleyel is also served by Metro 13 and the RER D, and Metro line 17 is due to link it to the airport by 2030, according to Île-de-France Mobilités. For a late-evening arrival with luggage, the fixed taxi fare of €56 or €65 remains the simpler choice.

How do you get to Paris from Orly, Beauvais and Le Bourget?

From Orly, a taxi costs €45 to the Right Bank and €36 to the Left Bank and Metro 14 reaches Châtelet in about 25 minutes on the €14 airport ticket; from Beauvais, the Aérobus to Porte Maillot costs €17.90 one way online and takes from 1 hour 15 minutes; and for a private flight, Paris–Le Bourget is the main business-aviation airport for Paris. Metro 14 replaced the Orlybus, which ended on 3 March 2025, and the Paris Region–Airports ticket also covers Orlyval. The Local's report says similar fake-taxi schemes operate at Orly, so the same rules apply there.

The Aérobus runs from Paris-Beauvais to 22-24 boulevard Pershing at Porte Maillot, in the 17th arrondissement; children aged 4 to 11 pay €9.90 online, and from Paris the bus is timed to leave 3 hours 30 minutes before your flight. Arriving by private aircraft, see our guide to Europe's best private jet airports and FBOs and what makes a great FBO.

Three planning rules for arriving at CDG

1 · Choose the ride before you land, not in the arrivals hall. Book a G7 taxi (€63 or €72) or a meet-and-greet car if you land after 22:45 on a weekday before 11 December 2026, travel with children under 10 and want seats fitted, or number five or more; otherwise the rank at €56 or €65 needs no booking. Land with mobile data so a driver can reach you; our eSIM guide for Europe covers the options.

2 · Know the fixed fare and say it before the door closes. It is €56 to the Right Bank or €65 to the Left Bank from CDG and €45 or €36 from Orly, with a card accepted whatever the amount and a printed receipt compulsory above €25. A driver who asks for more is charging above the legal ceiling; take the next taxi in the rank.

3 · Carry both terminal names until March 2027. New signs go up from September to December 2026 and the new names apply from March 2027, when Terminal 2E becomes Terminal 5 and 2F becomes Terminal 6. Give a driver both names, and check your airline's terminal on the day.

What changed for CDG transfers in 2026

1 January 2026. New Île-de-France fares took effect: the Paris Region–Airports ticket costs €14 (€7 reduced), the Metro-Train-RER ticket €2.55 and the Bus-Tram ticket €2.05, according to RATP's 2026 fare list.

1 February 2026. The taxi fares set by the arrêté of 24 December 2025 applied by this date at the latest: €56 and €65 from CDG, €45 and €36 from Orly, with booking supplements of €4 and €7.

1 March 2026. RoissyBus was withdrawn. Île-de-France Mobilités directs passengers to express bus 9517 and Metro 14 via Saint-Denis Pleyel, to the RER B, and to buses 350 and 351.

September to December 2026. New terminal signs go up at CDG ahead of the renaming in March 2027, and the RER B runs no trains between Châtelet-Les Halles and the airport from 22:45 on weekdays until 11 December, then none between Aulnay-sous-Bois and CDG 2 from 14 to 18 December. The CDG Express is due to open on 28 March 2027.