# Paris airport transfers

Land at Charles de Gaulle and fly from Orly, or the other way? See if the transfer fits your layover: the train, the fare, the last service and when to leave.

- Web page: https://parislayover.com/
- Paris Layover times transfers between Paris’s airports (Charles de Gaulle CDG, Orly ORY), part of City Layover
- Updated 11 November 2026; facts checked 9 November 2026

## Changing airports

Example, on a weekday: landing at Charles de Gaulle at 09:00 and flying out of Orly 10 hours later.

**TIME TO SPARE**. Charles de Gaulle to Orly fits, with about 5h to spare. The 10:20 reaches Orly at 11:40. Time to spare, about: 5h; Leave Charles de Gaulle by: 15:20; At Orly by: 17:00.

You must be allowed into France at Charles de Gaulle. Changing airports means going through French border control first. [Charles de Gaulle visa and transit rules](https://cdglayover.com/visa-and-transit/)

## How the planner works it out

- **Ready to travel**: landing plus the time to collect your bags and go through French border control, to the coach or train: Charles de Gaulle 1h, Orly 1h.
- **At the departure airport by**: departure less its return buffer (90 minutes) and 30 minutes to drop your bags, since a self-transfer means checking in again.
- **The next service**: a coach waits for the next listed departure, with that trip’s own ride; a train allows a full wait between trains.
- **TIME TO SPARE**: 2h or more to spare. **GO STRAIGHT THERE**: 30 min to 2h. **POSSIBLE BUT TIGHT**: under 30 min.
- **TAKE A TAXI**: only the any-hour ride gets you there in time. **NOT ENOUGH TIME**: even the taxi misses.
- **GET SOME SLEEP**: at night (21:00 to 05:00), or once the service has stopped for the night, when a service leaving 4h or more after you’re through still reaches the departure airport with 1h to spare: rest near the arrival airport, then the latest such service leaving before noon (or, when none does, the first after the rest), with a taxi tonight beside it. Otherwise, once the service has stopped and the taxi fits, TAKE A TAXI, with the next service as the wait-it-out choice when it fits too.
- **NO TRANSFER NEEDED**: landing and flying out of the same airport, that airport’s guide plans the layover.
- A transfer between two airports always means being allowed into France at the first one, so the planner never offers staying airside.

## Every transfer (Mondays to Fridays)

Charles de Gaulle to Orly and back: the train, the ride, the fare, the last train of the evening and the shortest layover it fits, with a taxi for any hour.

Timetables for Mondays to Fridays (Tuesday 17 November 2026), read 9 November 2026. Until 11 December, works stop the RER B between Paris and Charles de Gaulle from 10:45pm on weekday evenings and some weekends, so no train after 10pm is counted on any day. At weekends trains run more often than shown.

| Transfer | Public route | Ride | Fare | Last service | Any hour | Shortest layover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles de Gaulle → Orly | RER B and metro line 14 (RER B to Châtelet–Les Halles, then line 14; every 10 to 20 minutes) | about 1h 20 | €14 | 22:00 (arrives 23:20; next 04:50) | Taxi from the rank, about 1h (our estimate), metered | 5h |
| Orly → Charles de Gaulle | RER B and metro line 14 (Line 14 to Châtelet–Les Halles, then RER B; every 10 to 20 minutes) | about 1h 30 | €14 | 22:00 (arrives 23:30; next 05:30) | Taxi from the rank, about 1h (our estimate), metered | 5h |

- Shortest layover: from landing to take-off, in the daytime, the longest it takes: the time from landing to the coach or train, the longest wait and ride between 06:00 and 20:00, 30 minutes for bag drop, and the departure airport’s return buffer (90 minutes), rounded up to the half hour.
- **The way across.** From Charles de Gaulle, take any RER B train into Paris: from the station in Terminal 2, or from the Charles de Gaulle 1 station by Terminal 3, which the free CDGVAL shuttle train links to Terminal 1. Every train stops at Châtelet–Les Halles, about 40 minutes on. There, follow the signs for metro line 14 towards Aéroport d’Orly, about 10 minutes’ walk inside the station; line 14 runs every few minutes and takes 26 minutes to the station by Orly 3, with Orly 4 a few minutes further by covered walkway or free shuttle. From Orly it’s the same in reverse: line 14 to Châtelet–Les Halles, then an RER B train for Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 2 TGV, not one for Mitry–Claye; get off one stop early, at Charles de Gaulle 1, for Terminals 1 and 3. With the waits and the walk at Châtelet, allow about 1h 20 from Charles de Gaulle and 1h 30 from Orly.
- **Without the change in Paris.** With heavy bags, you can stay on the RER B to Antony instead, on a train for Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse or Massy–Palaiseau (Robinson trains don’t stop there), and take the Orlyval shuttle train into Orly’s terminals. It runs every 5 to 7 minutes from 6am to 11:35pm, takes about as long and costs the same.
- **The ticket.** One €14 airport ticket (Ticket Paris Région <> Aéroports) covers the whole trip, RER B and line 14 or the Orlyval. Buy it before the gates, in the Île-de-France Mobilités app or loaded onto a Navigo Easy card (€2.05) at the station’s machines; a contactless bank card on its own won’t open the gates on the RER B.
- **Your bags.** On separate tickets, you collect your bags at the first airport, take them with you and check in again at the second. The planner has you at the departure airport 90 minutes before your flight, plus 30 minutes for the bag drop, but the deadline that matters is your airline’s: Air France sets one for each flight and shows it in your booking, and at Orly easyJet closes bag drop 40 minutes before departure and Transavia its counters 30 minutes before. Check yours before you set off.
- **Evening works.** Until 11 December, RER B trains stop between Châtelet–Les Halles and Charles de Gaulle at about 10:45pm on weekday evenings and some weekends, with replacement buses that take longer. From 14 to 18 December, the break moves to between Aulnay-sous-Bois and the airport, from the same time. So the planner counts no train after 10pm, in either direction, on any day. On nights without works trains run until about midnight, but don’t count on it: if you’re setting off after 10pm, take a taxi.
- **The taxi.** Official taxis wait at the ranks outside every terminal, day and night, and you can book one ahead. Paris’s fixed taxi fares only cover rides between an airport and the city, so between the two airports the meter runs. Nobody publishes the ride, so these are our estimates: about an hour for the 45 km, longer in the rush hour, and very roughly €70 to €100. It’s the way across late in the evening, or when the train would leave you short.
- **The coach.** FlixBus runs one to two coaches a day each way between the airports, with no change and two bags included, from €8.98, taking about 1h 25 from Charles de Gaulle and 1h 20 from Orly. Its times change from day to day, so check them on flixbus.com for your date; the planner doesn’t time your transfer by the coach. At Charles de Gaulle it leaves from the Roissypôle bus station by Terminal 3, a stop on the CDGVAL from Terminals 1 and 2; at Orly, from the coach car park by Orly 4. With so few, it suits a long layover; if it’s full or late, the train is the way.
- **Overnight.** Allowing an hour for the border and your bags, a landing after about 9pm misses the last train counted. Take a taxi, or rest and go in the morning: RER B trains leave Charles de Gaulle from 4:50am and reach Orly by about 6:10am, and line 14 leaves Orly from about 5:30am, reaching Charles de Gaulle by about 7am. At Charles de Gaulle, the Sheraton is at the Terminal 2 station, and more hotels are at Roissypôle on the CDGVAL. Orly’s hotels are all before security, two by Orly 4. No flights leave Orly between about 11:20pm and 6am.
- **Christmas and New Year.** RATP hasn’t published its holiday times for the RER B or line 14 yet, so from Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day the planner uses the usual ones and says so for the day you pick.

## Same airport

Landing and flying out of the same airport, there’s no transfer: each airport’s guide plans the layover.

- [CDG Layover](https://cdglayover.com/): layovers at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport
- [Orly Layover](https://orlylayover.com/): layovers at Paris Orly Airport

## Sources (checked 9 November 2026)

- [Paris Aéroport: from Paris-Orly to Paris-CDG](https://www.parisaeroport.fr/en/passengers/transport-parking/public-transport-paris/transfer-paris-airports/ory)
- [Paris Aéroport: from Paris-CDG to Paris-Orly](https://www.parisaeroport.fr/en/passengers/transport-parking/public-transport-paris/transfer-paris-airports/cdg)
- [Paris Aéroport: RER B at Paris-CDG](https://www.parisaeroport.fr/en/passengers/transport-parking/public-transport-paris/rer-b/cdg)
- [Paris Aéroport: RER B works](https://www.parisaeroport.fr/en/passengers/transport-parking/public-transport-paris/live-traffic-conditions-rer-b/cdg)
- [Paris Aéroport: metro line 14 at Paris-Orly](https://www.parisaeroport.fr/en/passengers/transport-parking/public-transport-paris/metro-line-14/ory)
- [Paris Aéroport: RER B and Orlyval at Paris-Orly](https://www.parisaeroport.fr/en/passengers/transport-parking/public-transport-paris/rer-b-orlyval/ory)
- [Paris Aéroport: taxis at Paris-CDG](https://www.parisaeroport.fr/fr/passagers/transports-parking/taxi/cdg)
- [Paris Aéroport: taxis at Paris-Orly](https://www.parisaeroport.fr/en/passengers/transport-parking/taxi/ory)
- [Paris Aéroport: connecting flights](https://www.parisaeroport.fr/en/passengers/flights/connecting-flights)
- [Paris Aéroport: connecting flights at Paris-Orly](https://www.parisaeroport.fr/en/passengers/flights/connecting-flights/ory)
- [Paris Aéroport: checking in](https://www.parisaeroport.fr/en/passengers/flight-preparation/check-in)
- [Paris Aéroport: hotels at Paris-CDG](https://www.parisaeroport.fr/en/passengers/at-the-airport/hotels/cdg)
- [Paris Aéroport: hotels at Paris-Orly](https://www.parisaeroport.fr/en/passengers/at-the-airport/hotels/ory)
- [RER B (RATP and SNCF): daily timetables](https://maligneb.fr/horaires/)
- [RATP: transport operating hours and airport links](https://www.ratp.fr/en/visiting-paris/transport-operating-hours-airport-links)
- [Bonjour RATP: RER B works, November and December 2026](https://www.bonjour-ratp.fr/actualites/articles/ligne-rerb-dates-et-horaires-des-fermetures-2/)
- [Île-de-France Mobilités: Paris Region Airports ticket](https://www.iledefrance-mobilites.fr/en/titres-et-tarifs/detail/ticket-paris-region-aeroports)
- [Île-de-France Mobilités: 2026 fares](https://www.iledefrance-mobilites.fr/en/tarifs-titre-de-transport-en-commun-2026)
- [FlixBus: Paris-CDG to Paris-Orly](https://www.flixbus.fr/voyages-car/aeroport-de-paris-charles-de-gaulle-aeroport-de-paris-orly)
- [FlixBus: Paris-Orly to Paris-CDG](https://www.flixbus.fr/voyages-car/aeroport-de-paris-orly-aeroport-de-paris-charles-de-gaulle)
- [Préfecture de police: Paris taxis, fares and airport flat fares](https://www.prefecturedepolice.interieur.gouv.fr/demarches/taxis-parisiens-client)
- [Service-Public.fr: taxi flat fares in 2026](https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/actualites/A15396)
- [Service-Public.fr: taxi fare table](https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F22127)
- [Service-Public.fr: public holidays](https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2405)
- [France-Visas: short-stay visa](https://france-visas.gouv.fr/en/visa-de-court-sejour)
- [Air France: when to arrive at the airport](https://www.airfrance.com/XX/en/common/guidevoyageur/aeroport/enregistrement_hle.htm)
- [Transavia: Paris-Orly airport information](https://partner.transavia.com/en-EU/service/airport-information/paris-orly-airport/)
- [easyJet: check-in](https://www.easyjet.com/en/help/booking-and-check-in/check-in)