What to do in Paris in November Despite the cold and gloom that are slowly settling in, staying in bed is out of the question. The Paris Secret editorial team has put together a host of activities and cultural outings for the more hyperactive among you. Exhibitions, immersive experiences, a festival of lights… Follow our schedule, you won’t be bored!
Live From Earth at the CENTQUATRE-PARIS
On Saturday November 22, Paris is set to follow the Berlin time zone. After setting Europe’s most iconic clubs on fire, Berlin collective Live From Earth arrives for a unique French date at CENTQUATRE-PARIS. Heirs to the raw energy of Boiler Rooma, who rocked the venue in 2023 and 2024, they transform 104 into a hybrid playground for rave, trance, hardcore and hyperpop. On the program: a raging Nave from 6pm to midnight with Mall Grab, TDJ and MCR-T, and a tense Stables from 3pm with Two Shell, Bauernfeind, ATRIP, Canelle, Frost Children and Clara Kimera & Notinbed. A feverish and clearly unmissable plan for Parisian night owls in search of a racy electro evening!
Location: CENTQUATRE-PARIS
Date: November 22, 2025
Visit this unique Japanese garden
Do you dream of getting away from it all? Of discovering unknown and exotic places? What if we told you that a magnificent estate 1 hour from Paris hides one of the most beautiful Japanese gardens in France? Visit the Château de Courances in Essonne. Open to visitors only on weekends until November 2, the estate and its Japanese-inspired garden offer a complete change of scenery to the Land of the Rising Sun… without leaving France.
Location: 15, rue du Château 91490
Opening hours : Open Saturday, Sunday and public holidays from 2pm to 6pm until November 2, 2025.
Price for access to the gardens: €11 full price
Price for gardens + guided tour of the château: €14 full price
Take a tour of the oldest toy store in Paris
With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve found you a pretty, charming store: Pain d’Épices. A place that has been delighting young and old alike for 170 years! Here you’ll find wooden toys, teddy bears to cuddle and souvenirs to create with your little ones.
Location: 29 Pass. Jouffroy, 75009 Paris
Book a weekend at this magnificent estate just outside Paris
If you really want to get away from it all, we highly recommend Maison du Val.It’s a former hunting lodge belonging to Louis XIV, located in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, about 40 minutes from Paris. In this charming residence, come and recharge your batteries in the midst of nature: cycle along the estate, take part in creative workshops, practice a sporting activity, and enjoy a soothing setting with your family or as a couple for a weekend. The magnificent building is equipped with a small, comfortable cinema offering sessions suitable for the whole family, as well as outdoor Nordic baths perfect for revitalizing. At lunchtime and dinnertime, a generous and exceptional buffet awaits you: extra-tender beef cheeks in sauce, melting hake with vegetables, salmon gravlax, not to mention a farandole of desserts, each more delicious than the last. A place full of character not to be missed.
Location: Rte Forestière des Brancas, 78100 Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Admire the oldest cabinet of curiosities in Paris
This almost 200-year-old institution is a unique and eclectic store that is the oldest cabinet of curiosities in Paris. With its antique teaching boards, stuffed animals and works of art, this wonderful place is sure to enchant you!
Location: 46 rue du bac 75007 Paris
Stroll the Lumières en Seine light trail!
For aesthetes and lovers of light festivals. A brilliant experience promises to brighten up your long autumn (and winter) evenings. The Domaine National de Saint-Cloud will be transformed by a nocturnal stroll of light and music. Following the resounding success of previous editions (over 250,000 visitors), Lumières en Seine intends to fill visitors with wonder and plunge them into the magic of the festive season with an all-new illuminated trail. Sophisticated scenography, light shows, sound effects, lasers, projections and pyrotechnics… You’re in for a real treat!
📍Location: 1 Av. de la Grille d’Honneur, 92210 Saint-Cloud
📅 Date: multiple dates
The Swiss Christmas Village at La Villette
Until December 28, La Villette is transformed into a Christmas village inspired by Swiss markets. Artisanal chalets, culinary specialities, gift ideas and entertainment for young and old immerse you in a festive and convivial atmosphere. Admission is free, with the possibility of reserving attraction packages including skating rink, Ferris wheel, carousel and drinks. The Zurich Fondue Chalet, in the heart of the village, offers fondues and traditional dishes, while the Guinguette de Noël offers a warm atmosphere.
An ideal place to stroll, share and enjoy the magic of Christmas in Paris!
📍Location: La Villette, Paris 19
📅Date: multiple dates until December 28, 2025
Embark on a lunar exhibition at Atelier des Lumières
It’s absolutely lunar, and it’s happening at the Atelier des Lumières, a mecca for culture and entertainment: an immersive exhibition on the conquest of space narrated by the French voice of Tom Hanks. Rare NASA archives, exclusive interviews with astronauts from the Artemis program, an interstellar bar… All projected 360 degrees onto the walls and floor of a former foundry in the vibrant 11th arrondissement. We’re coming straight aboard this new art UFO!
Location: Atelier des Lumières, 38 rue Saint-Maur, 75011
Date: multiple dates until December 4
Try out an ultra-fun multiscience trail!
Science Expériences (Bercy Village, 12ᵉ), is an 850 m² immersive museum where virtual reality, video mapping and sensory workshops take you on a journey from the farthest reaches of the universe to the depths of the abyss, via the center of the Earth in a whirlwind of experiments. You’ll test gravity, calculate your weight on the Moon, feel the power of static electricity… In short, you’ll learn while you have fun!
Location: Science Expériences, Bercy Village (Paris 12)
Date: Any date
Visit the Musée Guimet exhibition: “Manga. Tout un art!”
Until March 9, 2026, a pop wave from Japan worthy of the famous Hokusai wave is sweeping through the Musée Guimet with the exhibition event “Manga. Tout un art! For the first time, the museum’s three floors are transformed into an immersive graphic universe where original plates, vintage magazines, objets d’art and masterpieces of Japanese culture rub shoulders. Whether you’re a team shōnen, shōjo or seinen fan, get ready to embark on an XXL voyage into the manga galaxy: from ancestral prints to the cult heroes of your childhood, via the influence of manga on fashion and pop culture, it’s all here!
📍Address: Musée Guimet
📆 Date: Until March 9, 2026
🎟️ Admission: €13 / Concession: 10 €
Dive into holiday magic at La Villette with the Light Cycles light trail
This winter, get ready to feast your eyes on Light Cycles, Moment Factory’ s immersive light trail, illuminating the Parc de la Villette for the first time. Already acclaimed the world over – from Japan to the USA – this poetic experience transforms the Parisian night into a dazzling spectacle through the night. Featuring open-air installations, striking light effects, enveloping soundscapes and hypnotic digital art, Light Cycles invites visitors to rediscover nature through the prism of light.
📍Address: Parc de la Villette
📆 Date : Multiple dates
Let yourself be fooled by the Paradox Museum’s illusions
In this unusual museum, you’ll have to pinch yourself to make sure you’re not dreaming. Here, nothing makes sense, and all your senses are challenged. As you push open the doors of this illusory paradise, even your most ingrained certainties will be challenged. On this tour for all ages, young and old alike can take part in a number of challenges, such as the upside-down room, the camouflage décor that makes visitors disappear, the paradox sofa that dislocates those who sit on it, the head-turning paradox tunnel, the kaleidoscope that gives your reality another dimension… This museum of all paradoxes promises to make you lose your head!
📍Address: Paradox Museum, 38 Boulevard des Italiens, Paris, 75009
📆 Date : multiple dates
Let yourself be dazzled by November’s Candlelight concerts!
You’re already familiar with Candlelight‘s innovative concept of candlelit concerts that dust off the classical repertoire and bring it up to date, like Vivaldi’s timeless 4 Seasons. The greatest classical composers are brought to light, but not only! The most beautiful soundtracks by Ludovico Einaudi, Hans Zimmer, Joe Hisaishi… And – new – from the hit series Bridgerton! But also real stars like Coldplay, Adèle or Beyonce, are reinterpreted, always lit by thousands of candles and in the most iconic locations in Paris. In short, there’ s bound to be a Candlelight concert for you!
📍Location: multiple venues
📅 Date : multiple dates
Put your logic to the test with The Jury Experience
Beware, this judicial investigation promises to get your grey matter firing! The Théâtre de l’Alliance Française in Paris invites you to enjoy a unique immersive experience in the heart of a courtroom: The Jury Experience. For 1 hour, you’ll follow a live mock trial where every testimony, every clue, every opinion counts. Yours too, since you’ll be asked to take part. The case? A love triangle, a multimillion-dollar divorce and a mysterious homicide. Who’s telling the truth? Who’s lying? It’s up to YOU to decide. In the end, your vote will decide the fate of the accused. An interactive theatrical experience that blurs the boundaries between fiction and reality.
📍Location: Théâtre de l’Alliance Française, 101 Bd Raspail, 75006 Paris
📆 Date : multiple dates
Fall back into childhood with La Cité Immersive des Fables
The poetic world of La Fontaine’s fables comes to life in this scripted version. The concept: 360-degree digital projections, immersive scenography with light effects, 3D and even olfactory elements… And sensational actors. Arielle Dombasle, Marie S’Inflitre, Alexandre Astier: a 5-star cast playing the animals of the famous fables, and Laurent Stocker of the Comédie-Française as Jean de La Fontaine. Bonus: the soundtrack is by Bon Entendeur!
📍Location: 5 rue de Berri, 75008 Paris
🗓️ Date: multiple dates until April 2026
Embark on an incredible VR experience aboard the Titanic
With Titanic VR Experience, you’ll travel back in time to 1912 to literally walk the deck, explore the various rooms and the luxurious Grand Staircase in breathtaking virtual immersion. This journey combines life-size reconstructions, high-flying virtual reality and authentic historical artifacts to plunge you into the heart of the crossing, from Southampton to the bottom of the Atlantic. In short: for 45 minutes, you’re on board history’s most legendary ocean liner, without leaving Paris.
📍Location: 10 Place de la République, 75011 Paris
📆 Date: multiple dates
Let yourself be hypnotized by the illusions of M.C. Escher
La Monnaie de Paris is transformed into a hypnotic playground where Escher, magician of impossible perspectives, leads us in a breathtaking graphic ballet. This major retrospective , already successfully presented in Toulouse (130,000 visitors), unveils over 150 works by the Dutch genius of optical illusions and impossible constructions for the first time in Paris. Immersive rooms, videos, didactic experiments… A joyful visual chaos not to be missed!
📍 Location: La Monnaie de Paris – 11 quai de Conti, 75006 Paris
📆 Dates: multiple dates
Get your feet under the table at the capital’s best bistros
The bistro is a true art of living, an institution celebrated each year by an award, the Trophées Pudlo des Bistrots. In its latest edition, the competition rewarded several establishments: “bistro of the year” for La Grille Montorgeuil, “conviviality” prize for Sancerre Rive Gauche… In all, seven fine restaurants were honored!
📍Location: Paris
Go over to the dark side with The Empire Strips Back
Temperatures are dropping, but there seems to be a tropical micro-climate around the Théâtre du Gymnase, where the hottest show of the season is taking place. Let’s head for the planet Tatooine and the torrid creatures that inhabit it.The Empire Strips Back is a burlesque parody like you’ve never seen before. The concept: a show that mixes humor and eroticism, and twists the codes of the Star Wars universe to the delight of fans (but not just fans). Between an army of sexy Stormtroopers, a Luke Skywalker who’s changed sides (and not to the dark side of the Force) and a Boba Fett on fire, there’s plenty to heat up the atmosphere in Paris!
📍Address: Théâtre du Gymnase, 38 Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, 75010
📆 Date: multiple dates
Take part in the craziest evening of the season
Uniting the love of cheese and electro music, Mad Jacques and Jacques Fromage have done it! Jacques Fromage is the electro-cheese festival that had to be invented. What is it? A 12-hour party with DJ sets, cheese bars, regional stands and festive entertainment! On the program: 18 hot-headed artists and 3 explosive stages for an avalanche of kiff!
📍 Address: Hippodrome d’Enghien
Place André Foulon, 95230 Soisy-sous-Montmorency
📆 Date: November 22, 2025
🎟️ Admission: 40 euros for 3rd release
Stroll through the most beautiful Christmas markets in Paris
In November, the Christmas markets are already opening! This is your chance to buy unique gifts, and why not treat yourself to local delicacies from local producers!
In November, enjoy a pumpkin spice latte!
It’s THE comfort drink of autumn! Pumpkin spice latte can be enjoyed hot or cold, but above all, it’s best prepared well! And that’s just as well, because in Paris, there are some unmissable places to enjoy it!
Treat yourself to a cosy tea time!
It’s a well-known fact that when it’s cold, our whole body craves comfort! For November, we’re inviting you to try out one of Paris’s tea rooms… Our current favorite? Kodama! Kodama prepares Taiwanese-style tea like no other.
📍 Location: 30 rue Tiquetonne, 75002 Paris
Meet in a hidden bar!
“How about a drink tonight? There’s no shortage of bars in Paris. But it’s true that speakeasies (or hidden bars) have something extra! The decor is often immersive and elaborate, and the atmosphere is very hushed. Perfect for a date!
📍Location: multiple venues
Discover a free exhibition!
Photos, paintings, sculptures, fashion… Who says free exhibitions are boring? Every month, a variety of free exhibitions are organized in Paris. And there’s something for everyone.
📍Location: multiple venues
Visit the most beautiful châteaux around Paris
The historic capital of France for centuries, Paris and the wider Île-de-France region boast a unique cultural wealth. Museums, cultural centers, political edifices past and present… A whole region to explore, to discover its secrets. Paris Secret invites you to discover the region’s most beautiful châteaux! Former royal residences, different architectural eras, treasures of elegance and refinement… Places that ensure the international influence of the region, within easy reach of the Navigo pass.
📍Location: multiple sites
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