Daily car rental

Insurance, delivery and the car itself are included in daily car rental in Paris, with 24 vehicles ready to book from €29 per day. We bring the car to you anywhere in Paris and agree every detail with a manager when you book. Choose from Economy, Electric, Commercial and Crossover classes — from a two-seat Citroen Ami to a five-seat Opel Crossland.

What Daily Car Rental in Paris Costs and Which Class Fits Your Day

Daily rates with Rent-Trip run from €29 to €76 per day across four classes, with 24 cars on this page. Longer bookings are priced at weekly from €174 and monthly from €609.

Daily rates by class

Weekly and monthly rates for longer bookings

A week starts at €174 and a month at €609, so the longer you keep the car, the lower the cost of each driving day. Those totals follow a simple rule: weekly is the daily rate multiplied by six, monthly by twenty-one. At the entry point that is €29 a day for a week, or €29 a day for a month — the same car, the same class, a different billing period. The arithmetic matters when your trip is not a clean seven or thirty days. A five-day booking stays on the daily rate, and so does a ten-day one unless you agree otherwise with a manager. On our side, the two-seat Citroen Ami at €29 carries one passenger and a bag, while a five-seat Economy car at €39 costs €10 more and moves a family. Compare the total against the number of days you will actually drive before you extend a booking, because a parked car billed by the month is the one cost no class can fix.

What the class choice changes

• Economy: 15 cars from €29, the widest choice of seats, fuels and gearboxes on the page.
• Electric: 4 cars from €55, all automatic, with the Citroen Ami as the cheapest way into the class.
• Commercial: 3 panel vans from €47, built for loads rather than passengers.
• Crossover: 2 cars from €75, the top of the range on this page and the only class with no entry below €75.
• Seats: the fleet spans 2, 3, 4 and 5 seats, so passenger count decides the class faster than budget does.
• Transmission: automatic and manual are both on the page, and the automatic cars sit in the Electric and Crossover classes.

Choosing a Car for One Day of Renting in Paris

Twenty-four cars sit behind this page, from a two-seat microcar to a three-seat panel van, and the choice usually comes down to three things: how many people travel, whether you can drive a manual, and how much luggage or cargo moves with you. Automatic cars exist in our fleet, but they are the minority, so the gearbox decides more bookings than the price does.

Small automatic cars for a day in the city

• Citroen Ami: 2 seats, Electric, Automatic, 8 hp, 5.5 kWh — €29 per day, the cheapest way to move one person.
• Renault Zoe: 5 seats, Electric, Automatic, 136 hp, 52 kWh — €55 per day, the roomiest automatic we hold.
• Fiat 500e: 4 seats, Electric, Automatic, 118 hp, 42 kWh — €59 per day, a compact city car with a small boot.
• Renault 5 E-Tech: 5 seats, Electric, Automatic, 150 hp, 52 kWh — €69 per day, the quickest automatic on the list.
• Opel Mokka Electric: 5 seats, Electric, Automatic, 156 hp, 54 kWh — €75 per day, a crossover body on an automatic drivetrain.
• Most of our fleet is manual: if you do not drive a stick, reserve an automatic early — the four electric classes sell out first.

Vans and larger cars for a single day

• Volkswagen Caddy Cargo: 2 seats, Diesel, Manual, 102 hp, 2.0 L — €47 per day, the cheapest commercial option for a flat move or a market run.
• Ford Transit Connect: 2 seats, Diesel, Manual, 100 hp, 1.5 L — €55 per day, a longer load bay than the Caddy.
• Renault Master: 3 seats, Diesel, Manual, 150 hp, 2.3 L — €75 per day, the largest van here and the only commercial with three seats.
• Jeep Avenger: 5 seats, Gasoline, Automatic, 100 hp, 1.2 L — €75 per day, for a day of mixed city and motorway driving.
• Opel Crossland: 5 seats, Gasoline, Manual, 110 hp, 1.2 L — €76 per day, the top of the range on this page.
• Seat count first: a panel van carries two people, so a second passenger travels in the cargo area only if the load allows it.

Prices by class for a single day

A family of five fits any Economy hatchback from €39, while a solo driver who never leaves the centre pays €29 for the Ami and nothing more. In our experience the van bookings are the ones that go wrong: people reserve a two-seat Caddy Cargo for a two-person move and then discover the passenger has nowhere to sit. Match the seat count to the number of people before you look at the price.

How Renting a Car by the Day Works with Rent-Trip

Daily car hire with us runs on one simple rule: nothing is confirmed until a manager has agreed it with you. There is no counter to queue at and no self-service checkout — you send a request, we discuss the dates, the class and the delivery point, and only then does the car go out.

Booking a daily rental with a manager

Every daily booking is agreed with a manager before the car is delivered. You tell us the day you need, the class you want and where you will be, and we confirm what is actually available in the 24-car fleet — Economy, Electric, Commercial or Crossover. Rates start at €29 per day and run to €76, so the conversation usually settles the class first and the address second. The agreement itself is not signed in person and not handled remotely in any fixed way we can promise here: the signing arrangements, the deposit, the excess and any delivery fee are set out in the rental agreement for your specific booking. Confirm your dates, the class and the delivery point in that conversation — everything the hand-over depends on is fixed there and nowhere else.

Delivery of the car to you

We deliver the self-drive car to you, so a one-day booking does not start at a rental counter. You give us the delivery point and the time window when you book; the exact hand-over arrangements — where the car is left, who meets whom, what is checked on the spot — are set out in the rental agreement. The car arrives with the paperwork for the day, and the état des lieux, the walk-round check of bodywork, fuel level and interior, is what both sides work from at that moment. Because the vehicle comes to you rather than sitting in a lot, the first hour of your booking is driving time, not queueing time.

• Request: send the date, the class and the delivery point; we check the fleet and come back with what fits.
• Agreement: deposit, excess, delivery fee and signing arrangements are set out in the rental agreement — never a figure quoted over the phone.
• Hand-over: the état des lieux records the condition of the car at the moment you take the keys.
• Return: the same walk-round at the end of the day closes the booking, and the caution is released when the keys go back.

The one thing worth doing early is the request itself. Automatic cars are the thinnest part of the fleet — most of our 24 vehicles are manual — so a same-day ask for an automatic in the middle of a Paris morning is the booking most likely to come back with a no.

Driving a Daily Rental Inside the Paris Low-Emission Zone

The ZFE de la Métropole du Grand Paris (Zone à Faibles Émissions) is the low-emission zone every daily hire car is checked against. It covers the area inside the A86 motorway — the A86 itself is excluded — and includes the boulevard périphérique together with the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes. Crit'Air 5, Crit'Air 4, Crit'Air 3 and «Non classé» vehicles are banned inside that perimeter, so the class of your car matters before you drive a single kilometre.

The Crit'Air sticker and the ZFE perimeter

• Crit'Air vignette: the emissions sticker that goes on the windscreen; without one, entry into the ZFE is formally prohibited, even in a car that would otherwise be allowed.
• ZFE perimeter: inside the A86 ring, the boulevard périphérique included; the A86 motorway itself sits outside the zone.
• Banned classes: Crit'Air 5, Crit'Air 4, Crit'Air 3 and «Non classé» vehicles — the restrictions tighten over time, so check your class before a day of driving.
• Where to check: your car's Crit'Air class is fixed by its first registration date and fuel type, and the sticker is issued per vehicle, not per driver.

Boulevard périphérique and the covoiturage lane

The boulevard périphérique runs at 50 km/h since 1 October 2024, a decision of the municipal authority; the Code de la route would otherwise permit up to 70 km/h on it. The change was introduced in stages — on 1 October 2024 the inner ring from porte des Lilas to porte d'Orléans, and by 10 October the whole périphérique. One more rule catches drivers by surprise: the left lane between the Issy embankment and porte de Bercy, in both directions, is reserved for covoiturage on weekdays from 7:00 to 10:30 and from 16:00 to 20:00, for vehicles carrying two or more people. A violation is a contravention of the 4th class at €135, and enforcement began on 2 May 2025 — the lane experiment itself started on 3 March 2025. A daily hire with two passengers in the car qualifies for that lane; a solo driver does not.

Mountain winter rules that do not apply here

Winter tyres are compulsory from 1 November to 31 March in roughly 34 mountain departments — the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Massif Central, the Jura, the Vosges and Corsica — across more than 4,000 communes designated by prefects, where a car needs either four winter tyres or chains and snow socks on two driven wheels. Île-de-France is not in that list, so the requirement does not apply to a daily hire handed over here. It does apply the moment a one-day trip heads for the Alps: driving without them is a €135 fine plus immobilisation of the car.

Parking, Tolls and Fuel on a One-Day Rental in Paris

A single day of driving here is shaped less by distance than by where you leave the car and how you pay for the road. Street parking inside the first eleven arrondissements runs on a progressive tariff, fuel is priced per litre at the pump, and the only toll road you are likely to meet is the Duplex A86.

Street parking in the central arrondissements

On-street parking in zone 1 — arrondissements 1 to 11 — is charged progressively, not by the hour: 1 hour costs €6, 2 hours €12, 3 hours €24, 4 hours €39, 5 hours €57 and 6 hours €75. The maximum continuous stay at one spot is 6 hours, and the tariff is split into 15-minute blocks. This visiteur rate has applied since 01.08.2021. For a day trip the practical reading is simple: two short stops of an hour each cost €12, while leaving the car for a full working day approaches the price of the booking itself. Our advice from handling one-day bookings is to plan the stops you actually need and move the car between them rather than hunting for a long-stay spot.

Tolls: the Duplex A86 and free-flow payment

• Duplex A86: the underground tunnel between Rueil-Malmaison, Vaucresson and Vélizy, roughly 10 km, operated by Cofiroute/Vinci.
• Class 1 tariff: Rueil to Vélizy costs €8.30–€13.70 Monday to Thursday depending on the hour, and up to €14.90 on Fridays and the eve of public holidays.
• Péage en flux libre: barrier-free tolling on the A13 and A14, where payment is due within 72 hours.
• Badge Liber-t: the electronic transponder used for péage, if the car carries one.
• City streets and the boulevard périphérique: no toll at all, which is why most one-day routes never touch a péage.

Fuel and the fill-level policy

Diesel (Gazole) averages €2.414 per litre across France and €2.44 in the Paris department, measured from the API data.economie.gouv.fr instant feed across 9,803 stations nationally and 48 in the department. The main petrol, SP95-E10, sits at €2.183 per litre nationally. Fuel policy on our cars is plein-plein — collected full, returned full — with the alternative of paying for the fuel by fact or in advance, as set out in the rental agreement. Filling up outside the centre is the cheaper habit, since stations on the périphérique and inside the city charge the higher departmental figure. One more thing worth knowing: a forfait post-stationnement of €75 or €50 for light vehicles applies to unpaid parking, and it is a parking charge rather than a driving penalty.

Documents, Insurance and the Deposit for Daily Car Hire in Paris

Paperwork decides whether a one-day booking goes ahead, so it is worth sorting before the car is delivered. French rules on licences are specific, and the deposit and excess sit in the rental agreement rather than on a price list.

Licence rules for driving in France

An EU/EEA licence is valid in France with no time limit and does not need exchanging while it stays valid. A visitor from outside the EU/EEA may drive on a national licence; if that licence is not in Latin characters, an official translation or an International Driving Permit is required alongside it — an IDP is only a translation and never replaces the licence itself. Anyone resident outside the EU/EEA may drive for 1 year from the entry date shown in the visa, and on settling in France the licence must be exchanged. To hire, the licence must have been issued more than 1 year ago, and digital licences are not accepted by companies. An IDP used for hire must be no older than 3 years. Minimum age, the young-driver surcharge, and the card and passport requirement are set by each company — there is no single national norm.

Insurance included in a French rental

Responsabilité civile is compulsory by law and comes with every booking automatically, covering injury and property damage caused to third parties within the country's legal limits; injuries to the driver are not covered. CDW is included in the basic package of French companies and caps the renter's liability at the excess, covering repair and vehicle downtime. TW is likewise included in the basic package, covering theft, attempted theft and vandalism in a car park, again up to the excess. The excess is a fixed sum the renter pays personally after damage or theft, and it is not reducible by time; its level depends on the protection tier chosen. Raising protection is a paid option: Medium lowers the excess, Premium removes it or reduces it substantially. Basic cover excludes tyres damaged by abnormal use, glass except in a collision, sunroof and panoramic roof, underbody, filling with the wrong fuel and the resulting engine damage, lost or stolen keys, and damage from negligence or intent. Visa Premier and Gold Mastercard often cover the CDW/TW excess where the booking was paid with that card and the holder is the main driver under the agreement.

What to confirm when booking

• Deposit (caution / dépôt de garantie): blocked on a card for the duration of the booking and released when the keys come back — the amount is set out in the agreement.
• Excess (franchise): the fixed sum you pay yourself after damage or theft; the figure for your class is stated in the agreement.
• Fuel policy (plein-plein): collect with a full tank and return it full, or pay for the fuel by prior arrangement as set out in the agreement.
• Mileage (kilométrage illimité): unlimited mileage is the opposite of a mileage allowance, so check which one your day of driving carries in the agreement.
• Additional driver (conducteur supplémentaire): a paid option added at booking, with the terms set out in the agreement.
• État des lieux: the walk-round inspection at hand-over and return, recorded in the agreement.

With Rent-Trip, every daily car rental in Paris is agreed with a manager, and the licence, deposit and protection tier are confirmed in that conversation before the self-drive car is delivered to you.

One-Day Trips from Paris by Rental Car

A single day behind the wheel reaches more of the Île-de-France than most visitors expect: Disneyland Paris, Versailles, Giverny, the Champagne cellars of Reims, the Normandy coast at Deauville and even the Loire Valley châteaux all fit into a day trip if you leave early and plan the return before the evening peak.

Day-trip destinations and driving times

• Disneyland Paris: 32 km east via the A4, roughly 40 minutes outside rush hour, with the parking areas on site paid separately.
• Versailles: 20 km south-west via the A13, about 35 minutes; the palace car parks fill before 10:00, so arrive earlier or use the parking near the château.
• Giverny: 75 km west via the A13 and the A14, around 1 hour 15 minutes; Monet's gardens open in spring and summer only, so check dates before you set off.
• Reims and Champagne: 145 km north-east via the A4, roughly 1 hour 45 minutes; the Duplex A86 tunnel under Rueil-Malmaison and Vaucresson is a paid alternative for skipping the western congestion.
• Deauville and the Normandy coast: 200 km west via the A13, about 2 hours 15 minutes; the A13 and A14 run in péage en flux libre, so tolls are paid within 72 hours rather than at a barrier.
• Mont-Saint-Michel: 360 km west, close to 4 hours each way — realistic only as a very long day or with an overnight stop.
• Loire Valley châteaux: from 220 km south-west, 2 hours 30 minutes to the first châteaux around Blois, with several more within another hour's drive.

What to watch on the way out and back

Winter tyres are compulsory from 1 November to 31 March in roughly 34 mountain departments — the Alps, Pyrenees, Massif Central, Jura, Vosges and Corsica — covering more than 4,000 communes by prefectural decision, either four winter tyres or chains and socks on two driven wheels. The capital and the Île-de-France are not included, so a car collected here carries no such requirement, but the rule applies the moment an Alpine trip is on the plan. The fine is 135 € and the vehicle can be immobilised. On the motorway in rain the limit drops to 110 km/h, and to 100 km/h on a divided road, so an early start also buys you a calmer drive home.

Practical Takeaways for Daily Car Rental in Paris

Daily car rental in Paris comes down to four decisions: which class you book, how many days you actually need, whether your route stays inside the A86 ring, and where the car is handed over. Get those right and a single day of driving costs between €29 and €76 with no surprises.

• Book the class, not the price: the Citroen Ami at €29 seats 2, but a 5-seat Economy car at €39 carries a family — a €10 difference decides whether one trip replaces two.
• Count your driving days before extending: a week starts at €174 (daily × 6) and a month at €609 (daily × 21), so extending only pays off if you genuinely drive on those days.
• Check your Crit'Air class first: the ZFE de la Métropole du Grand Paris bans Crit'Air 5, 4, 3 and «Non classé» vehicles inside the A86, and the sticker must sit on the windscreen.
• Choose the hand-over point when booking: we deliver the car to you, and the exact time and place are agreed with a manager in that same conversation.
• Budget for parking separately: street parking in zones 1–11 runs €6 for the first hour and €75 for six, the maximum stay at one spot.
• Leave the deposit and excess to the agreement: franchise, caution and any protection upgrade are set out in the rental agreement, not quoted in advance.

Two things catch first-time drivers most often. The first is the automatic gearbox — most of our 24 cars here are manual, so if you do not drive a stick, reserve an automatic early rather than on the day. The second is the périphérique: the boulevard périphérique has run at 50 km/h since 1 October 2024, and the left lane between the Issy quay and porte de Bercy is reserved for cars with 2+ occupants on weekdays from 7:00 to 10:30 and 16:00 to 20:00, with a 135 € fine from 2 May 2025.

If your day involves a longer run, remember that winter tyres are compulsory from 1 November to 31 March in roughly 34 mountain departments — Paris and Île-de-France are not among them, but an Alpine trip is a different matter.

In our practice, the bookings that run smoothest are the ones settled a day ahead: class confirmed, delivery point agreed, and the Crit'Air question answered before the keys change hands.