BMW car rental in Paris

BMW car rental in Paris with Rent-Trip puts 11 BMW models on the road, from €125 per day for a BMW 1 Series to €235 per day for a BMW iX. We deliver the car to you anywhere in Paris, and the booking is agreed with a manager. Weekly and monthly rates drop to €750 and €2,625 on the cheapest model in the line-up.

Book the BMW car rental in Paris fleet

Eleven BMW models sit on this page, spread across five classes — Premium, Electric, SUV & 4x4, Convertibles and Luxury. Every one is automatic, and every one is delivered to you rather than collected from a lot. Prices run from €125 to €235 a day.

Which BMW models are available for hire

Premium and Luxury BMWs for city driving

The BMW 1 Series at €125 a day and the BMW 3 Series at €129 a day are the two Premium cars on this page. The 1 Series is a 1.5 L hatchback with 156 hp and front-wheel drive; the 3 Series is a 2.0 L diesel sedan, 190 hp, rear-wheel drive — the one most of our city bookings land on. Both are automatics with five seats. The Luxury slot is a single car, the BMW 5 Series: a 2.0 L diesel sedan at 197 hp, rear-wheel drive, €205 a day. In our experience the body shape matters more than the badge here — a hatchback slips into the tight underground garages under the centre and the western districts where a 5 Series has to be parked with care. If your hotel sits behind a narrow ramp, ask about the 1 Series before you ask about the flagship.

Convertibles and SUVs in the BMW line-up

• BMW 2 Series Convertible: €155 a day, 2.0 L gasoline, 184 hp, rear-wheel drive, four seats — the cheaper of the two open cars.
• BMW 4 Series Convertible: €175 a day, same 184 hp engine, four seats, a larger body and a higher trim level.
• BMW X1: €135 a day, 2.0 L gasoline SUV, 170 hp, front-wheel drive, five seats — the cheapest way into a raised driving position.
• BMW X2: €135 a day, same engine and power as the X1, styled as a crossover rather than a boxy SUV.
• BMW iX: €235 a day, 77 kWh electric SUV, 326 hp, all-wheel drive — the most expensive car on the page.

A convertible's four seats rule out a family of five, so count passengers before you count classes: the open BMWs and the five-seat SUVs sit in the same price band but carry different groups.

What BMW car rental in Paris costs, by class and by week

BMW hire sits between €125 and €235 a day across the 11 models on this page, and every class is automatic. Longer bookings are charged at daily x 6 for a week and daily x 21 for a month, so the rate you see per day is the rate the whole booking is built from.

Daily rates by class

The floor price is set by class, not by model: Premium opens at €125 with the 1 Series, and the only Luxury car on the page, the 5 Series, sits at €205. Electric is the largest group we hold here — four cars between €145 and €235, with the iX2 crossover at €145 and the iX SUV at the top of the range. Because Luxury runs to a single car, that one is worth reserving as early as your dates allow; the same applies to the two Convertibles at €155 and €175, which go first in warm months.

Weekly and monthly BMW hire in Paris

A week of BMW hire is charged at the daily rate x 6, which puts the cheapest week at €750 and the dearest at €1,410. A month follows the same logic at daily x 21: from €2,625 on the 1 Series and up to €4,935 on the iX.

For a stay of two or three weeks, compare the weekly total against the monthly one before you commit. At €125 a day, three separate weeks come to €2,250, while a single month is €2,625 — so if your trip runs past roughly four weeks, the monthly rate is the one to take. If it runs shorter, weekly is the cheaper shape, and it leaves you free to change the model between bookings.

Our fleet on this page is 11 cars, so the class you pick decides both the price band and how much choice is left when you book.

Documents and licence rules for BMW car rental in Paris

Every booking is agreed with a manager, and the licence check is part of that conversation — so bring up your documents before you choose a car, not on the morning of collection.

Which licence you need

• EU/EEA licences: valid in France with no exchange and no time limit, as long as the licence itself is valid.
• Non-EU/EEA tourist: you may drive on your national licence; if it is not in Latin characters, an official translation or an International Driving Permit is required alongside it.
• Non-EU/EEA resident: driving is allowed for 1 year from the date of entry shown in your visa — after that, a move to permanent residence means exchanging the licence.
• IDP: it is a translation, not a licence — it is shown together with your national licence, never instead of it, and it must be no older than 3 years.
• Driving experience: the licence must have been issued more than 1 year ago, and digital licences are not accepted by rental companies.

Age, experience and what to bring

Beyond that, minimum age, the young-driver surcharge, the card and the passport are a measured gap: there is no single state norm in France, each company sets its own condition. With us it is agreed when booking, together with the rest of the paperwork.

Two things catch people out. A permis probatoire — a licence held less than 3 years — carries lower speed limits and a lower alcohol threshold, so the rules you drive under are not the same as the ones on the signs. And an IDP is not a substitute for anything: turn up with only that and you have no licence at all.

What we settle with you

Tell us which licence you hold and when it was issued, and we will confirm what applies to your booking — including the age condition, which is not fixed by French law and therefore genuinely depends on the booking. If your licence is not in Latin characters, sort the translation or IDP before you travel; it cannot be arranged afterwards.

Driving on a rented BMW in Paris

The city adds one document you will not need in most of France: a Crit'Air vignette on the windscreen. The ZFE de la Métropole du Grand Paris covers the area inside the A86 motorway — the A86 itself is excluded — including the boulevard périphérique and the Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes, and it bars Crit'Air 5, 4, 3 and «Non classé» vehicles. A BMW from our fleet is not the problem here; the sticker is. Sort it before you drive into the zone, not after.

Insurance, deposit and excess on a BMW rental in Paris

Responsabilité civile is compulsory by French law and comes automatically with any booking; on top of it, the French market's base package adds CDW and TW, both capped by an excess. Our BMW hire follows that structure, and the exact figures sit in the agreement rather than in an advert.

What the base cover includes

• Responsabilité civile: third-party cover for injury and property damage within the country's legal limits; it does not cover the driver's own injuries.
• CDW (collision damage protection): limits your liability to the excess and covers repair plus the car's off-road time.
• TW (theft protection): covers theft, attempted theft and vandalism in a car park, also up to the excess.
• Excess (franchise): a fixed sum you pay yourself after damage or theft; it is not written off and depends on the protection level you choose.
• Base cover exclusions: tyres under abnormal use, glass (unless from a collision), sunroof and panoramic roof, underbody, wrong fuel and the engine damage that follows, lost or stolen keys, negligence and deliberate damage.

Raising the protection level

The paid option is rachat de franchise — buying the excess down. Medium reduces it, Premium removes it or cuts it substantially, and the figures are set out in the agreement. A frequent-industry note, not a French rule: Visa Premier and Gold Mastercard cards often cover the CDW and TW excess when the booking is paid with that card and the holder is the main driver on the agreement. In our experience, that is worth checking before you pay for an upgrade you may already hold. If something is unclear, ask — the booking is agreed with a manager, and the terms are confirmed there.

Deposit, fuel and mileage

• Deposit (caution / dépôt de garantie): blocked on a card for the rental period and released when the keys come back; the amount is set out in the agreement.
• Fuel policy (plein-plein): collect full, return full — or pay for the fuel by actual use, whichever the agreement states.
• Mileage: kilométrage illimité means unlimited mileage; a franchise kilométrique is a capped allowance instead.
• État des lieux: the walk-round at hand-over and return; this is what the excess decision rests on.
• Additional driver (conducteur supplémentaire): a paid option arranged at booking.
• One way (location aller simple): returning the car to a different city is arranged at booking.

A convertible's glass and roof sit outside base cover, so on a 2 Series or 4 Series Convertible the walk-round matters more than on a 3 Series sedan.

ZFE, Crit'Air and périphérique for a rented BMW in Paris

ZFE de la Métropole du Grand Paris and the Crit'Air sticker

• ZFE de la Métropole du Grand Paris (Zone à Faibles Émissions): the low-emission perimeter runs inside the A86 motorway, which itself is excluded, and takes in the boulevard périphérique, the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes.
• Crit'Air sticker: the vignette Crit'Air goes on the windscreen; without it, entry into the ZFE is formally prohibited.
• Banned classes: Crit'Air 5, 4, 3 and «Non classé» are barred from the zone, with Crit'Air 3 restricted from 1 January 2025.
• What that means for our fleet: all 11 BMW models on this page are automatic, and the Electric class — iX2, i4 and i5 — carries no exhaust class at all, so the sticker question disappears with the fuel.
• Check before you book: confirm your BMW's class against the perimeter when the booking is agreed with a manager, because the zone applies to the car, not to the driver.

Speed limits and the périphérique

R413-4. R413-5, which is worth knowing before you hand the keys to a younger companion. The left lane of the périphérique between the Issy embankment and porte de Bercy is reserved for cars with 2+ occupants, Monday to Friday 7:00–10:30 and 16:00–20:00; the fine is €135, a contravention 4th class, enforced since 2 May 2025 under an experiment that began 3 March 2025.

Alcohol, children and the one rule that does not apply here

A child seat is compulsory for anyone under 10 years old or shorter than 135 cm, and both conditions must be met before it stops being needed, under Code de la route, R412-1 onwards; driving without one costs up to €750. Winter tyres are compulsory from 1 November to 31 March in roughly 34 mountain départements — the Alps, Pyrenees, Massif Central, Jura, Vosges and Corsica, over 4,000 communes named by prefects — with either four winter tyres or chains on two driven wheels, on pain of €135 and the car being immobilised under loi Montagne II. Paris and Île-de-France are not in that list, so a BMW hired here needs no winter set-up — but the requirement does bite if the trip heads for the Alps.

Electric BMW rental in Paris and charging

Four BMW electric models are on the page — the iX2 at €145 a day, the i4 at €159, the i5 at €199 and the iX at €235 — all automatic, all with five seats. Charging is the part of going electric that decides whether the car suits your week, so it is worth settling before you book.

What each electric model gives you

• BMW iX2: a 65 kWh crossover with all-wheel drive and 313 hp, the cheapest way into the electric line-up at €145 a day.
• BMW i4: an 84 kWh sedan, rear-wheel drive, 340 hp, €159 a day — the longest-legged of the four on paper.
• BMW i5: the same 84 kWh and 340 hp as the i4 in a larger sedan body, at €199 a day.
• BMW iX: a 77 kWh SUV with all-wheel drive and 326 hp, the top of the page at €235 a day.

Charging in and around the city

Public charging in France is run by a patchwork of networks, and each one has its own app, its own account and its own tariff — there is no single card that opens every poste. A BMW i4 or i5 charges on the same AC and DC posts as any other electric car, so the practical question is not the car but the account you arrive with. In our experience the drivers who have the easiest week are the ones who set up one or two network accounts on their phone before the car is handed over, rather than at the first poste with a queue behind them. Charging tariffs, connector types and which networks accept which card are not something we quote — that is agreed when booking, together with the rest of the rental terms.

Range, the ZFE and what to check

An electric BMW is the one class on this page that never has to think about the Crit'Air sticker: the ZFE de la Métropole du Grand Paris bans Crit'Air 5, 4, 3 and «Non classé» inside the A86, and a battery-electric car sits outside those classes. That matters if your plans include the boulevard périphérique or the Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes, which fall inside the perimeter. The trade-off is the long run out of town — a day trip to Versailles is comfortable in any of the four, while a longer loop needs a charging stop built into the plan. Check the boot against your luggage before you pick the iX2 over the iX.

Delivery, pick-up and BMW hire for trips out of town

Pick-up and hand-back points, times and the practical details are settled when you book, so nothing is left to a queue at arrivals.

What we agree with you before the keys change hands

• Delivery point: the address, hotel or meeting spot is fixed with the manager when you book, not chosen on the day.
• Timing: the hand-over slot is confirmed in the same conversation, so it matches your flight, train or first morning in the city.
• Car condition: the état des lieux — the joint walk-round of the bodywork, wheels and interior — happens at delivery and again at return.
• Fuel policy: plein à plein applies — the car arrives full and comes back full, with the alternative settled in writing at booking.
• Mileage: kilométrage illimité on the cars on this page, so a run to Versailles or Reims adds nothing to the bill.
• Extra driver: conducteur supplémentaire is a paid option arranged in advance, not added at the roadside.

Out of town: which BMW suits which trip

A convertible is wasted on the A13 but perfect for the run to Giverny, and the two 4-seat Convertibles — the 2 Series at €155 a day and the 4 Series at €175 — hold two adults and luggage comfortably. For Versailles or Disneyland Paris with children, the X1 or X2 at €135 a day gives five seats, a 2.0 L 170 hp petrol engine and a boot that swallows a folded pushchair. The iX at €235 a day covers the same ground on electric power with all-wheel drive and 326 hp.

Driving out of town on a Monday

Leaving before 7:00 or after 10:30 keeps you out of both the covoiturage lane and the worst of the ring road. If your trip heads for the Alps between 1 November and 31 March, winter tyres or chains are compulsory in roughly 34 mountain départements — Île-de-France is not covered, but the car you take there must be. We flag this at booking when the route calls for it.

Before booking your BMW car rental in Paris

You can hold a BMW for €125–€235 a day on this page, but the details that decide how the booking runs are settled with a manager before anything is confirmed. Below is what we ask travellers to have ready, and what to check in the agreement itself.

The five points to agree before you confirm

• Dates and hand-over time: tell us your arrival window and where you want the car brought — the exact place is agreed when booking, not assumed.
• Licence and driving experience: the licence must have been issued more than 1 year ago; digital licences are not accepted.
• Deposit and excess: the caution and the franchise are set out in the rental agreement — we do not quote a figure here.
• Fuel and mileage policy: whether the tank is plein-plein and whether kilométrage illimité applies is confirmed with the booking.
• Additional driver: conducteur supplémentaire is a paid option arranged at booking, not added at the kerb.

What we need from you, and what stays in the agreement

For an EU/EEA licence there is nothing extra to arrange — it is valid in France for the whole hire period. Drivers on a non-EU/EEA licence bring the national licence plus an IDP no older than 3 years, and the two are shown together; the IDP is a translation and never replaces the national document.

We agree the booking with a manager, and that conversation is where the deposit, the excess level and any rachat de franchise are settled. The base package in France includes responsabilité civile, CDW and TW, but tyres, glass, the roof and the underside sit outside it — worth knowing before you decide whether to reduce the franchise.

One practical note from our side: a BMW 5 Series at €205 a day and an iX at €235 sit in the two smallest classes on this page, so if either is the point of the trip, fix the dates early rather than the model.