With a wide range of openings and reopenings, anniversaries, foodie milestones, sporting events, transport novelties and brand new accommodation, 2025 is a dynamic year to visit France!

Rest of 2024

October-November 2024 - EASYJET LAUNCHES NEWCASTLE-PARIS AND GATWICK-STRASBOURG ROUTES

Winter 2024-25 - EUROPE’S HIGHEST WINE BAR OPENS IN VAL THORENS, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

4 December 2024 - UNVEILING OF THE LOUVRE-LENS’ GALLERY OF TIME, Lens, Hauts-de-France

7 & 8 December 2024 - REOPENING OF NOTRE-DAME CATHEDRAL, Paris, Île-de-France

End of 2024 - MAISON ALBAR LE VICTORIA OPENS, Nice, PACA

End of 2024 - L’AIGLE DES NEIGES IS NOW EXPERIMENTAL CHALET VAL D’ISÈRE, Val d’Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

2024-2025 - MINOR HOTELS’ DEBUT IN PARIS WITH THREE HOTELS, Paris, Île-de-France

2024-2025 - MARRIOTT STRENGTHENING FRENCH FOOTPRINT WITH 10 NEW HOTELS, across France

2025

Until 28 September 2025 - THE MET AT THE LOUVRE, Paris, Île-de-France

2 January 2025 - SINGLE €2.50 TICKET TO BE INTRODUCED FOR METRO AND RER, Paris, Île-de-France

31 January 2025 - SIX NATIONS OPENING MATCH TO BE FRANCE V WALES, Paris, Île-de-France

January 2025 - EASYJET LAUNCHES NEW YEAR-ROUND NEWCASTLE-LYON ROUTE

7 March 2025 - 150 YEARS OF MAURICE RAVEL

March 2025 - SELF-CONTAINED COLIVING SPACE TO OPEN IN MONTPELLIER, Montpellier, Occitanie

6 April 2025 - 300 YEARS OF PASQUALE PAOLI, CORSICA’S PATRIOTIC LEADER, Corsica

12 April 2025 - 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF JOSEPHINE BAKER

14-19 April 2025 - THE NEW MEGA BELL COURSE, La Plagne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

8 May 2025 - 80TH VE DAY (VICTORY IN EUROPE DAY)

11 May 2025 - 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ‘SAINT-NAZAIRE POCKET’ LIBERATION, Saint-Nazaire, Pays de la Loire

Spring 2025 - REOPENING OF CÉZANNE’S FORMER HOME AND STUDIO, Aix-en-Provence, PACA

Spring 2025 - BRITTANY FERRIES LAUNCHES TWO NEW HYBRID SHIPS, Brittany & Normandy

June 2025 - OPENING OF HOTEL ‘A MANDRIA’, Domaine de Murtoli, Corsica

1 July 2025 - 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF ERIK SATIE

4-13 July 2025 - TALL SHIPS RACES 2025, Le Havre, Normandy & Dunkirk, Hauts-de-France

5 July 2025 - THE TOUR DE FRANCE 2025 GRAND DÉPART, Lille and across Hauts-de-France

26 July 2025 - THE TOUR DE FRANCE FEMMES 2025 GRAND DÉPART, Vannes and across Brittany

25-31 August 2025 - BWF BADMINTON WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2025, Paris, Île-de-France

Summer 2025 - OPENING OF MISS FRANCE MUSEUM, Saint-Raphaël, PACA

Summer 2025 - HIGH-ALTITUDE GREENHOUSE AT AN ECO RESTAURANT, Val d’Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

6 November 2025 - 200 YEARS OF CHARLES GARNIER

Second half of 2025 - 97%-RECYCLABLE TGV M TO ENTER SERVICE

End of 2025 - REOPENING OF TOULOUSE’S FINE ARTS MUSEUM, Toulouse, Occitanie

2025 - THE CAEN MILLENNIUM, Caen, Normandy

2025 - CARTIER FOUNDATION TO OPEN NEW MUSEUM IN LOUVRE SAINT-HONORÉ, Paris, Île-de-France

2025 - OPENING OF NEWLY RESTORED PORTE SAINT-JACQUES, Cognac, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

2025 - WORLD’S FIRST UBISOFT ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE TO OPEN, Béziers, Occitanie

2025 - 20 YEARS OF THE LOIRE À VÉLO, Centre-Val de Loire & Pays de la Loire

2025 - 1,000 YEARS OF THE CHATEAU DE MONTREUIL-BELLAY, near Saumur, Pays de la Loire

2025 - 10TH UNESCO BIRTHDAY FOR CHAMPAGNE’S SPARKLING HERITAGE, Champagne, Grand Est

2025 - 15TH UNESCO BIRTHDAY OF THE ‘REPAS GASTRONOMIQUE DES FRANÇAIS’, across France

2025 - OKKO HOTELS TO OPEN ENVIRONMENTALLY CERTIFIED HOTEL, Troyes, Grand Est

2025 - ALFRED HOTELS EXPANDING IN FRANCE WITH FOUR NEW ADDRESSES, across France

2025 - OPENING OF FRANCE’S FIRST HOTEL KEMPINSKI, Cap d’Ail, PACA

2025 - OETKER COLLECTION’S MASTERPIECE HOTELS OPENS VILLA LA GUETTIÈRE, Cap d’Antibes, PACA

 

2026

2026 - GIACOMETTI INSTITUTE TO BE REHOMED IN FORMER GARE DES INVALIDES

2026 - OPENING OF GRAND-SIÈCLE MUSEUM IN FORMER SULLY BARRACKS IN SAINT-CLOUD

2026 - WORLD’S LARGEST VIDEO GAME MUSEUM, ‘ODYSSÉE’, TO OPEN IN SEINE-ET-MARNE

2026 - EUROPEAN AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS TO BE HELD IN PARIS-ST DENIS AS LEGACY OF OLYMPIC GAMES

2026 - FIRST LOUIS VUITTON HOTEL TO OPEN ON PARIS’ CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES

2026 - RADISSON BLU JOINS TRIANGLE PROJECT, PARIS’ NEW MIXED-USE DESTINATION