An hour on the Seine lines up the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre-Dame and the finest bridges in Paris. This guide compares every Seine river cruise (Bateaux-Mouches, Bateaux Parisiens, electric boat with a live guide, Batobus, Canal Saint-Martin, dinner), where they leave from, what they cost, and hour-by-hour weather with wind.
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Weather at 12:00 PM. Boat trips start from 10:00.
| Tour | From | Duration | What you see | Languages | Cancellation | Departure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Our pickPanoramic bateau-moucheTiqets | €17 | 1 h 10 | Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Notre-Dame, Musée d’Orsay | Audio in 10 languages | Free until 23:59 the day before | Port de la Conférence, Pont de l’Alma |
| Panoramic boatTiqets | €18 | 1 h | Eiffel Tower, Musée d’Orsay, Conciergerie, Louvre | Audio in 14 languages | Free until 23:59 the day before | Port de la Bourdonnais, Eiffel Tower |
| Electric boatTiqets | €18 | 1 h | Eiffel Tower and the central sights | Live guide in English; app audio in 9 languages | Free until 23:59 the day before | Port de Suffren, by the Eiffel Tower |
| Glass-walled shuttle boatTiqets | €23 | 24 or 48 h, as you like | The whole centre, hopping off at the stops | No commentary | Free until 23:59 the day before | 9 stops (Eiffel Tower, Musée d’Orsay, Notre-Dame, Louvre…) |
| Canal boatTiqets | €25 | 2 h 30 | Seine, locks and Canal Saint-Martin | Not listed | Free on some options | Musée d’Orsay or Parc de la Villette |
| Electric boat, eveningTiqets | €25 | 1 h | The Eiffel Tower and monuments lit up | App audio in 9 languages | As per ticket conditions | Port de Suffren, by the Eiffel Tower |
| Restaurant boatTiqets | €55 | 1 h 45 – 2 h 40 | Paris by night | Not listed | Free on some options | Depends on the option |
Our pick: the €17 Bateaux-Mouches cruise. It’s the cheapest of the big companies, has audio commentary in English and nine other languages, needs no fixed time slot and can be cancelled free until the evening before. On Tiqets it costs the same as online on the official site; at the ticket office it’s €20.
Departs from Pont de l’Alma · 4.4 from 10,170 Tiqets reviews
Same price as the online ticket on the Bateaux-Mouches website (€17); at the ticket office it’s €20.
Departs at the foot of the Eiffel Tower · 4.3 from 10,037 Tiqets reviews
4.4 from 1,098 Tiqets reviews
No sightseeing commentary · 4.4 from 1,128 Tiqets reviews
4.5 from 883 Tiqets reviews
4.3 from 2,577 Tiqets reviews
4.2 from 1,195 Tiqets reviews
Indicative prices, checked on October 31, 2026: they may change: the final price is the one shown by the seller.
Paris has no public river boat covered by metro and bus tickets, so the cheapest way onto the Seine is the Bateaux-Mouches cruise itself.
The best months are May, June and September: long days and pleasant temperatures, without the heat of July and August.
| Month | Average high | Rainy days |
|---|---|---|
| Jan | 8° | 10.9 |
| Feb | 10° | 9.6 |
| Mar | 14° | 9.5 |
| Apr | 18° | 8.6 |
| MayBest | 21° | 9.4 |
| JunBest | 24° | 8.5 |
| Jul | 27° | 7.1 |
| Aug | 27° | 8.1 |
| SepBest | 23° | 7.7 |
| Oct | 18° | 9.9 |
| Nov | 12° | 10.8 |
| Dec | 9° | 11.7 |
1991–2020 averages for Paris – Jardin du Luxembourg: mean daily high and days with at least 1 mm of rain. Source: Meteociel, table published on Wikipedia (“Climate of Paris”).
Not ideal
Not ideal: heavy rain, 11 to 12 °C, 5.4 mm, wind up to 12 km/h.
| Time | Sky | Temperature | Rain | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 | Cloudy | 11° | – | 12 km/h |
| 13:00 | Rain | 11° | 0.5 mm | 9 km/h |
| 14:00 | Cloudy | 11° | – | 9 km/h |
| 15:00 | Light rain | 12° | 0.1 mm | 9 km/h |
| 16:00 | Cloudy | 12° | – | 10 km/h |
| 17:00 | Rain | 12° | 0.5 mm | 9 km/h |
| 18:00 | Heavy rain | 12° | 1.1 mm | 10 km/h |
| 19:00 | Heavy rain | 12° | 2.6 mm | 12 km/h |
| 20:00 | Rain | 12° | 0.6 mm | 10 km/h |
| 21:00 | Partly cloudy | 12° | – | 9 km/h |
Perfect day
Perfect day: cloudy, 12 to 14 °C, no rain, wind up to 11 km/h.
| Time | Sky | Temperature | Rain | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 | Cloudy | 13° | – | 11 km/h |
| 11:00 | Cloudy | 13° | – | 10 km/h |
| 12:00 | Cloudy | 14° | – | 10 km/h |
| 13:00 | Cloudy | 14° | – | 10 km/h |
| 14:00 | Cloudy | 14° | – | 9 km/h |
| 15:00 | Cloudy | 14° | – | 8 km/h |
| 16:00 | Cloudy | 14° | – | 6 km/h |
| 17:00 | Cloudy | 14° | – | 3 km/h |
| 18:00 | Cloudy | 13° | – | 5 km/h |
| 19:00 | Cloudy | 12° | – | 5 km/h |
| 20:00 | Cloudy | 12° | – | 4 km/h |
| 21:00 | Cloudy | 12° | – | 3 km/h |
The best days for a boat trip are Wednesday, November 11. The rating only looks at rain and wind during tour hours.
Today and tomorrow are accurate hour by hour; up to day seven the trend is reliable; the last days give a rough idea. Above 30 km/h the water gets choppy and small boats may postpone departures. Updated every hour.
Cruises run in the rain: the boats have a covered, glass-walled deck, and the Batobus is heated in winter. The open top deck empties out, though.
Bateaux-Mouches: metro Alma-Marceau (line 9) or RER C Pont de l’Alma, then a few minutes on foot.
Bateaux Parisiens and Vedettes de Paris: metro Bir-Hakeim (line 6) or RER C Champ de Mars – Tour Eiffel.
From the airports: from Charles de Gaulle and Orly, RER and metro reach the centre in under an hour.
A classic one-hour cruise costs from €17 with Bateaux-Mouches (online) and from €18 with Bateaux Parisiens or Vedettes de Paris. Dinner cruises start at €55.
Bateaux-Mouches is slightly cheaper, has no fixed time slot and leaves from Pont de l’Alma. Bateaux Parisiens leaves from the foot of the Eiffel Tower with an audio guide in 14 languages. The route is very similar.
Sightseeing cruises last about an hour (1 h 10 with Bateaux-Mouches). The Canal Saint-Martin cruise takes 2 h 30, and dinner cruises from about 2 to almost 3 hours.
Yes: Bateaux-Mouches runs until 10:30 pm in high season, and there are evening cruises with music or dinner. At night you see the Eiffel Tower lit up.
Not with Bateaux-Mouches: the ticket is valid for any departure on your chosen day. Dinner cruises and fixed-time cruises do need a time slot.
There’s no public river boat in Paris covered by metro tickets. The cheapest option is the Bateaux-Mouches cruise: €17 online for adults, €8 for children aged 4 to 12, free under 4.
Not ideal: heavy rain, 11 to 12 °C, 5.4 mm, wind up to 12 km/h.
Saturday, November 14: Good: cloudy, 5 to 8 °C, no rain, wind up to 8 km/h. Sunday, November 15: Good: cloudy, 9 to 10 °C, 0.4 mm, wind up to 11 km/h.
Reliable forecasts go about 10 days ahead: here you get the next 10, hour by hour (with wind) for today and tomorrow and as a trend after that. To choose the month, see the climate month by month.
Forecasts come from MET Norway, the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, calculated for the tour area’s coordinates and updated every hour during the day and every 3 hours at night. Tour prices and conditions are checked on the sellers’ pages, with the date.
Bateaux-Mouches sightseeing cruise · from €17
Forecast by MET Norway, the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, calculated for the tour area’s coordinates. Forecast: MET Norway (CC BY 4.0), updated every hour. Updated: October 31, 2026.