What to do in Paris tonight

The Métro stops around 01:15 on weeknights and runs until 02:15 on Friday, Saturday, and the eve of public holidays. That is when the last train leaves the end of the line, so the final service through any given station is often 30 to 45 minutes earlier. Noctilien night buses then cover 00:30 to 05:30, every 15 to 30 minutes on inner-city lines, and Navigo passes and standard tickets are valid on them at no extra cost.

Rue des Lombards in the 1st holds three clubs within a hundred metres of each other: Sunside with its downstairs room Sunset, Le Baiser Salé, and Duc des Lombards. 38Riv in the Marais runs nightly sets and late jam sessions in a vaulted cellar. Most of these rooms play two sets an evening rather than one headline slot.

La Sainte-Chapelle on the Île de la Cité stages concerts in the upper chapel, performed beneath its 13th-century stained glass. Several churches, Saint-Germain-des-Prés and La Madeleine among them, run their own concert programmes in the same seated format.