Paris’ airports are 15–97 km from Notre-Dame
A ticket names the city, not the airport. Which of the 3 it means is the difference between Orly, 15 km out, and Beauvais-Tillé at 97 km — 6.5× the distance, on the ground, in your own time.
Two tickets to Paris, two different afternoons
- By car, clear roads
- 28 min
- On public transport
- 39 min
- By car, clear roads
- 1h 28m
- On public transport
- 1h 50m
82 km of difference — outside the fare, on your time and at your expense, and again on the way home. Cheap tickets are more often the second one. Check which three-letter code is printed next to Paris on yours.
Every airport, measured
from Notre-Dame- OrlyORYclosest15km from Notre-Dame
28 min by car, clear roads · 39 min on public transport · metro 14 · €14.00
- Charles de GaulleCDG27km from Notre-Dame
44 min by car, clear roads · 37 min on public transport · train B · €14.00
- Beauvais-TilléBVAfurthest97km from Notre-Dame
1h 28m by car, clear roads · 1h 50m on public transport · metro 1 → bus Aerobus Paris-Beauvais · 1 change
What the measurements show
The drive from Beauvais-Tillé takes 1h 28m
Driving time on the shortest route with clear roads, which is a floor and not a typical journey. At that length the transfer has stopped being an arrival procedure and become a second leg of the trip:
- Beauvais-TilléBVA1h 28m · 1h 50m by transit
The published run to Charles de Gaulle beats the car by 7 min
Measured against a drive on empty roads, which is the most generous version of the car. The gap in ordinary traffic is wider than this:
- Charles de GaulleCDG37 min vs 44 min · train B
Getting to Beauvais-Tillé by public transport costs 22 min over the drive
Both figures are measured, and the slower one is the only published answer. What the difference costs to buy back is not on this page: we do not estimate a taxi fare we were not quoted.
- Beauvais-TilléBVA1h 50m vs 1h 28m · metro 1 → bus Aerobus Paris-Beauvais
Google publishes a fare for 2 airports here
A price Google itself returned, per person, each way. The others carry none, and we do not estimate one.
- OrlyORY€14.00 · 39 min
- Charles de GaulleCDG€14.00 · 37 min
Price the whole journey, not the flight into Paris
This page measures distances that do not change. Prices and departure times change hourly, so they are not here — Pathioo fetches those live, adds the journey to and from the airport at both ends, and gives you one total from address to address.
Where these numbers come from
Every kilometre is a Google Directions API response, measured on 2026-09-16 from Notre-Dame to the terminal — to the airport's own address, not to a point on a map. Those are two different things and they can differ by a factor of two.
We measure the shortest route at four in the morning, because a road chosen around traffic describes the traffic and not the distance: asked of Gatwick and central London it returned 83 km at rush hour and 45 km overnight. That is why driving times are given as "clear roads" — a floor, not a promise.
Transit is the fastest published run with no departure time attached, and where two runs finish within five minutes of each other the one with fewer changes is the one shown. Every leg is measured into the airport, never back: a timetable is not symmetric, and the direction with a deadline is the one worth printing.
You will not find a ticket price, a departure time or an airline here. Those live shorter than this page does, and appear only in the search itself, straight from the airline's API.