Car rental at Gare du Nord

134 cars are available for car rental at Gare du Nord in Paris, from €29 to €1,300 per day, and we deliver the car to you — the meeting point and time are agreed with a manager when you book. Weekly bookings start at €174 and monthly at €609, with the same daily rates applied across all 134 vehicles.

How car rental at Gare du Nord works with delivery

We deliver the car to you at Gare du Nord, and every booking is agreed with a manager before you travel. That is the whole model: you tell us the train, the arrival time and the class you want; a manager confirms the car, the meeting point and the return, and the vehicle is waiting where we agreed. On this page 134 cars are available, from €29 to €1,300 per day.

Where you collect your car at Gare du Nord

We deliver the vehicle to you at Gare du Nord — the exact point is agreed with a manager when you book. Give the manager your train number and expected arrival, and the hand-over is arranged around that. If your train runs late, the booking moves with it — that is what agreeing the details in advance buys you. The class you choose decides the car: Economy from €29 per day, Crossover from €75, SUV & 4x4 from €79, Electric from €55.

Booking your car at Gare du Nord with a manager

Every booking is agreed with a manager, so the car, the time and the hand-over are confirmed before you travel.

• Class and model: you name the class or the exact model, and the manager confirms what is free for your dates from the 134 cars on this page.
• Time and place: the arrival time, the meeting point and the return time are fixed in the same conversation.
• Rental agreement: the deposit, the excess and any delivery fee are set out in the rental agreement, not quoted over the phone.
• Changes: if the train moves, you tell the manager and the hand-over is re-timed rather than lost.

A manager confirms the class and the return time, which matters if your train back is fixed.

One-way returns and the rental agreement

The deposit, excess and delivery fees are set out in the rental agreement. That document is where the money side lives — we do not put figures on this page, because the amount depends on the class, the length of the booking and the protection level you choose. One-way returns are arranged the same way as everything else: you say where the trip ends, the manager confirms whether the return works and what it costs, and it goes into the agreement. Returns to Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Orly are the common requests from this station, and both are agreed at booking rather than assumed. Read the agreement before the hand-over, not at the return.

Classes and models for car rental at Gare du Nord

Our 134 cars on this page sit in 13 classes, from Economy at €29 a day to Luxury at €195, with Sports, Minivans and Commercial vans in between. The class you pick decides the boot, the seat count and the gearbox, so match it to the trip rather than to the cheapest line on the list. Below is the full spread, then the named models behind it.

Car rental at Gare du Nord by class and price

Named models in our car rental at Gare du Nord fleet

• Citroen Ami: a two-seat microcar, electric, automatic, 8 hp, at €29 a day — the smallest thing we hand over and the easiest to park.
• Renault Twingo: four seats, 1.0 L petrol, manual, rear-wheel drive, 65 hp, €35 a day.
• Fiat Panda Hybrid: five seats, 1.0 L hybrid, manual, 70 hp, €39 a day, one of 18 electric and hybrid cars on this page.
• Dacia Duster: a five-seat all-wheel-drive SUV, 1.3 L, 130 hp, €79 a day — our pick for a weekend outside the city.
• Renault Zoe: five seats, 52 kWh battery, 136 hp, automatic, €55 a day, and the cheapest way into an electric car here.
• Volkswagen Caddy Cargo: a two-seat diesel panel van, 2.0 L, 102 hp, €47 a day, for luggage or a market run.

Seats, fuel and transmission across the fleet

Our fleet covers 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9 seats, with automatic and manual transmissions and Diesel, Electric, Gasoline and Hybrid fuel. Seat count is the fastest filter: the two-seaters (Citroen Ami, Volkswagen Caddy Cargo, Ford Transit Connect) suit one or two people with bags, the five-seaters cover most city and motorway trips, and the seven-, eight- and nine-seat minivans and passenger vans carry a group with luggage. Automatic is the smaller share in France, so book it early if you cannot drive manual. For Paris, the class also decides where you can leave the car — a 5.5 m van and a 2-seat microcar are not the same problem on a zone 1 street. In our practice, travellers arriving at Gare du Nord with two large cases and a pushchair do better with a Crossover than an Economy hatchback, whatever the daily difference.

What car rental at Gare du Nord costs per day, week and month

Daily rates on this page run from €29 to €1,300, weekly bookings start from €174 and monthly bookings from €609. The class you choose moves the price more than anything else, and the same car costs less per day the longer you keep it.

Daily rates for car rental at Gare du Nord

Daily rates start at €29 for the Economy class and reach €1,300 at the top of the range. Economy is the largest single block on this page at 15 cars, and the Citroen Ami at €29 a day sits at the very bottom of it, with the Renault Twingo at €35 and the Fiat Panda Hybrid at €39 just above. Commercial vehicles start at €47 for the Volkswagen Caddy Cargo, while the Sports class opens at €450 and Luxury at €195. On a one-day booking the class is the only lever you have, because the rate is fixed per day. Compare the boot and the seat count before you compare the price: the cheapest car on the page seats two and carries a weekend bag, not four people and a suitcase each. The daily rate is also the base for every longer booking, so the class you pick on day one is the class you pay for on day thirty.

Weekly and monthly car rental at Gare du Nord

Weekly rates start from €174 and monthly rates from €609. Weekly is calculated as the daily rate multiplied by six, and monthly as the daily rate multiplied by twenty-one, so a longer booking lowers the cost of each individual day without changing the class you booked. A Citroen Ami at €29 a day comes to €174 for a week and €609 for a month; the same arithmetic applies up the range, which means a Premium car at €105 a day lands at €630 for a week and €2,205 for a month. Travellers arriving at Gare du Nord on a fixed return date get the most out of this: the weekly and monthly figures are agreed with a manager when you book, so the total is agreed when booking rather than calculated at the counter.

What the price does not include

• Deposit and excess: the deposit and the insurance excess are set out in the rental agreement, and the level of protection you choose decides the excess.
• Delivery: the car is delivered to you, and the delivery arrangement is agreed with a manager when you book rather than priced from a list.
• Fuel: the fuel policy is set out in the rental agreement, so check it before the hand-over.
• Extras: an additional driver and one-way returns are agreed when you book, and both are set out in the rental agreement.

Automatic, electric and family options for car rental at Gare du Nord

Automatic gearboxes, electric cars and seven- to nine-seat vehicles are the three things travellers ask us about most at Gare du Nord. All three exist in our fleet, but each sits in a different part of the price list and a different part of the booking calendar.

Automatic cars in our Gare du Nord fleet

Automatic transmission is available across our fleet, from the Renault Zoe and the Fiat 500e in the Electric class up to Premium and Luxury models. The Renault Clio E-Tech Hybrid pairs a 1.6 L 145 hp engine with an automatic box at €75 a day, the Citroen C4 offers 1.2 L and 130 hp at €82, and the Nissan Juke brings a 1.6 L 143 hp hybrid with automatic at €85. In France, manual gearboxes dominate the market, so automatics are a smaller share of every fleet — ours included. If you cannot drive a manual, book the automatic early: class availability at a given hand-over time is confirmed by a manager when you book, not on the day.

Electric cars and charging on a Paris trip

• Renault Zoe: 52 kWh, 136 hp, 5 seats, automatic, from €55 a day — the cheapest electric in our Gare du Nord line-up.
• Fiat 500e: 42 kWh, 118 hp, 4 seats, automatic, from €59 a day, the shortest body in the electric range.
• Renault 5 E-Tech: 52 kWh, 150 hp, 5 seats, automatic, from €69 a day, the quickest of the three.
• Opel Mokka Electric: 54 kWh, 156 hp, 5 seats, automatic, from €75 a day, a crossover body with the largest battery here.
• Charging: the ZFE de la Métropole du Grand Paris (Zone à Faibles Émissions) covers the area inside the A86 motorway, boulevard périphérique included, and the windscreen Crit'Air sticker is what the rule is enforced by.

Family and group cars in our Gare du Nord fleet

Seven-, eight- and nine-seat vehicles sit in the Minivans and Passenger vans classes, from €119 and €155 a day, and the fleet also covers 2, 3, 4 and 5 seats in the smaller classes. Child seats are not a preference in France: a child under 10 or shorter than 135 cm must travel in one, and both conditions have to be met before the seat becomes unnecessary. Ski racks and extra luggage room are not part of the standard hand-over — tell the manager what you are carrying when you book, and the class is matched to the load rather than to the seat count alone.

Documents and rules for car rental at Gare du Nord

Under French law a rental car may be driven on a valid licence issued in an EU or EEA country for as long as that licence stays valid, and no exchange for a French one is needed. Drivers from outside the EU and EEA who are visiting may use their national licence; if it is printed in a non-Latin script, an official translation or an International Driving Permit has to travel with it. The IDP is only a translation — it never replaces the licence itself, so both are shown together.

What you need to show when you book with a manager

• Licence held over a year: the licence must have been issued more than 1 year ago, and digital licences are not accepted by companies in France.
• IDP age limit: an International Driving Permit used for a booking must be less than 3 years old.
• Minimum age and young-driver fee: French operators set their own conditions here — we agree yours when booking.
• Card and passport: the same is true for the card and passport rules, so a manager confirms them with you before the car is released.
• Rental agreement: the deposit, the excess, delivery fees and any discount are set out in the agreement, not quoted in advance.

The agreement is the document that decides what you actually pay if something goes wrong. Base French cover bundles responsabilité civile, which is compulsory by law and pays for injury and property damage to third parties within the country's legal limits, though it does not cover the driver's own injuries. CDW and theft protection sit alongside it and cap your liability at the franchise — a fixed, non-refundable amount that depends on the level of protection you choose. Tyres damaged by misuse, glass outside a collision, the sunroof and panoramic roof, the underside, wrong fuel and lost keys stay outside that protection.

Two practical points we see trip up arrivals at Gare du Nord. First, the franchise: you can lower it with a Medium package or remove it with Premium, and some Visa Premier or Gold Mastercard cards cover the excess if the booking was paid with that card and the holder is the main driver on the agreement — worth checking with your bank before you travel, because it is not something we can confirm for you. Second, the agreement itself: read it before the hand-over, not at the return, when a dispute over a scratch or a fuel level is much harder to settle.

Crit'Air, the ZFE and driving rules in Paris

A Crit'Air sticker on the windscreen is the document that decides whether you may enter the low-emission zone, the ZFE de la Métropole du Grand Paris — everything inside the A86 motorway, which itself is excluded, including the boulevard périphérique and the Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes. Crit'Air 5, 4, 3 and unclassified vehicles are barred, and without a sticker entry is formally prohibited.

Speed limits are worth knowing before you leave the station area: 50 km/h in built-up areas under Code de la route, art. R413-3, 80 km/h on ordinary roads outside them under art. R413-2, 110 km/h on dual carriageways and 130 km/h on motorways. In rain those fall to 80, 100 and 110 km/h, and with visibility under 50 m every road drops to 50 km/h under art. R413-4. Drivers with a permis probatoire — less than 3 years since passing — are capped at 110, 100 and 80 km/h under art. R413-5, and the alcohol limit for them is 0.2 g/l of blood against 0.5 g/l for everyone else. On the boulevard périphérique the limit has been 50 km/h since 1 October 2024, phased in from porte des Lilas to porte d'Orléans and across the whole ring by 10 October.

Child seats are compulsory for children under 10 or shorter than 135 cm — both conditions have to be met before a seat becomes unnecessary — with a fine of up to €750 for going without. Winter tyres are required from 1 November to 31 March in roughly 34 mountain departments, with over 4,000 communes covered by prefectural decisions, but Paris and Île-de-France are not among them: the rule matters only if your trip heads for the Alps.

Driving in Paris with your car rental at Gare du Nord

Paris is a low-emission zone city with a 50 km/h limit inside the walls, so the way you drive here matters more than the car you pick. The facts below are the ones we hand to every client who collects a car at the Gare du Nord, and they apply whether you are heading two streets away or out to the A86.

Crit'Air, the ZFE and the périphérique

• Crit'Air sticker: the ZFE de la Métropole du Grand Paris runs inside the A86 motorway, which is itself excluded, and takes in the boulevard périphérique, the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes. Crit'Air 5, 4, 3 and « Non classé » vehicles are banned, and without the windscreen sticker entry is formally prohibited.
• boulevard périphérique: 50 km/h since 1 October 2024 by decision of the city hall, though the Code de la route still allows up to 70 km/h there. The change was phased in from 1 October 2024 on the inner ring between porte des Lilas and porte d'Orléans, and covered the whole ring by 10 October.
• Carpool lane: the left lane between the Issy embankment and porte de Bercy, both directions, is reserved Monday to Friday 7:00–10:30 and 16:00–20:00 for cars with 2+ occupants. The fine is 135 € (contravention 4th class) and has been issued since 2 May 2025, under an experiment that began 3 March 2025.

Alcohol, children and mountain rules

• Alcohol: 0.5 g/l of blood (0.25 mg/l of breath) under the Code de la route. On a permis probatoire — less than 3 years of licence — the limit is 0.2 g/l of blood (0.10 mg/l of breath) since 1 July 2015.
• Child seats: mandatory for children under 10 OR shorter than 135 cm. Both conditions must be met before a seat becomes unnecessary, under Code de la route R412-1 and following. The fine for not having one runs up to 750 € (contravention 4th class).
• Winter tyres: required from 1 November to 31 March in around 34 mountain departments — the Alps, Pyrenees, Massif Central, Jura, Vosges and Corsica — across more than 4,000 communes by prefectural decision. The Île-de-France is not covered, so the rule does not apply to a car collected here, but it does apply the moment you drive to the Alps; the fine is 135 € plus immobilisation of the vehicle.

In our experience, the two things that catch visitors out are the Crit'Air sticker and the périphérique limit — the first is checked at the boundary, the second is easy to miss because the road still looks like a motorway.

Trips from Gare du Nord by rental car

Gare du Nord sits on the northern edge of central Paris, which makes it a practical starting point for day trips — you leave the city before the worst of the traffic builds, and you are already on the right side of town for the A1 north and the A13 west. What follows are the routes we see booked most often, with the driving time and the reason each one works from this station in particular.

Day trips we arrange most often from Gare du Nord

• Disneyland Paris: 40 minutes east on the A4, and the easiest family run on the list — leave after 09:30 to miss the commuter flow.
• Versailles: 45 minutes south-west via the A13 and A86, with the palace car parks filling by mid-morning in summer.
• Giverny: 1 hour 15 minutes west through the A13 and the Seine valley, best paired with a stop in Vernon on the way back.
• Reims and Champagne: 1 hour 45 minutes on the A4, with the vineyard routes around Verzenay worth the extra loop.
• Deauville and the Normandy coast: 2 hours 30 minutes on the A13, which is a péage road for most of its length.
• Loire Valley châteaux: 2 hours 30 minutes to Blois, or closer to 3 hours if you aim for Chenonceau first.

Routes that suit an overnight rather than a day

Mont-Saint-Michel is 4 hours 15 minutes west on the A13 and A84, and it is the one trip on this list we would not recommend as a same-day return — the last stretch through Brittany is slow in the afternoon and you would be driving back in the dark. Two days works far better, with a night in Rennes or Caen. If your booking runs across a weekend, a weekly rate applies: weekly is daily x 6, so a seven-day hire on an Economy car from €29 a day starts at €174, and that covers the longer Normandy run without a separate decision. For anything beyond a week, monthly is daily x 21, from €609.

Motorway tolls, fuel and the ZFE on the way out

Almost every route above uses a tolled motorway, and the A13 and A14 now run in péage en flux libre — no barrier, and payment falls due within 72 hours of the journey, which is easy to forget when you are back at the station. Fuel is the other number to watch: Gazole sits at €2.414 a litre across France and €2.44 in the département of Paris, while SP95-E10 is €2.183. Fill up outside the city before you join the motorway. And if your day trip takes you back through the boulevard périphérique or inside the A86, the ZFE de la Métropole du Grand Paris applies — the Crit'Air sticker goes on the windscreen, and Crit'Air 5, 4, 3 and «Non classé» vehicles are barred from the zone. We hand the car over with the sticker already in place, so the only thing left to plan is where you stop for lunch.

What to decide before booking car rental at Gare du Nord

Booking a car here is a short conversation, not a form. You tell us the dates, the class and the return point, and a manager confirms the car, the hand-over time and the agreement. The decisions below are the ones that actually change the trip — everything else we settle when you book.

• Class: Economy from €29 a day covers two people and hand luggage; an SUV from €79 or a Minivan from €119 is the honest choice for four adults with suitcases.
• Transmission: automatic is the smaller share of the French fleet, so if you cannot drive manual, say so at the first message rather than at the counter.
• Fuel: Diesel, Electric, Gasoline and Hybrid are all in the fleet; the fuel policy — full-to-full or paid on return — is set out in the rental agreement.
• Dates: weekly is daily x 6 and monthly is daily x 21, so a seven-day booking is priced as six days and a 30-day booking as twenty-one.
• Return point: one-way returns are agreed when booking, and the delivery and return details sit in the rental agreement.
• Documents: a licence held for more than a year, plus a passport and a card in the main driver's name; conditions for young drivers are agreed when booking.

Two things catch travellers out. The first is the ZFE de la Métropole du Grand Paris — the low-emission zone inside the A86, which includes the boulevard périphérique and the Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes. Crit'Air 5, 4, 3 and «Non classé» vehicles are banned there, and the Crit'Air sticker goes on the windscreen. If your route crosses the city rather than skirting it, check the sticker before you drive, not after a camera does it for you. The second is parking: street parking in zones 1–11 runs on a progressive tariff — €6 for the first hour, €12 for two, €24 for three — with a maximum of 6 consecutive hours in one place, and the visiteur rate is split into 15-minute steps. A car park booked for the day often costs less than a morning of feeding a horodateur.

On the road itself, the numbers are worth memorising before you leave the station. The boulevard périphérique is 50 km/h since 1 October 2024, town limits are 50 km/h, ordinary roads outside town are 80 km/h, dual carriageways 110 km/h and motorways 130 km/h — all lower in rain, and drivers with less than three years on their licence (permis probatoire) are capped at 110, 100 and 80 km/h. The left lane of the périphérique between Issy and porte de Bercy is reserved for cars with two or more occupants on weekdays, 7:00–10:30 and 16:00–20:00, with a €135 fine. Children under 10 or under 135 cm need a child seat, and driving after any alcohol is a poor idea at 0.5 g/l, or 0.2 g/l on a probationary licence.

Book by date and class, not by model name. Our 134 cars are grouped into 13 classes from €29 to €1,300 a day, and the exact model for your class is agreed when booking — that is the difference between a confirmed Dacia Duster and a hopeful one.