What to do in Paris in March? The best activities and ideas for outings

And a new month begins! To get things off to a flying start, here’s an anthology of good ideas. New exhibitions, new immersive experiences, concerts, trade fairs, unusual activities… March is shaping up to be a colorful month. Follow the guide!

Spin, dance and move to the sound of disco

The best soups are made from old pots, and the best parties are made from old hits! In this little-known club, one of the coolest in Paris, we bring out the unstoppable disco hits once a month! Welcome to Dancing queen, the Supersonic’s disco night, where Abba, the Bee Gees and Gloria Gaynor are all the rage!

📍 Location: 9 rue Biscornet, 75012 Paris
📆 Date: once a month – 11pm to 6am
🎟️ Price: €6 from 11pm to 1am, then €10

Let’s try our hand at the new Quiz Room game, somewhere between Maillon Faible and Loup-Garou.

Do you love the delirious atmosphere of “Burger Quiz”, the tension of “Maillon Faible” or “Qui veut gagner des millions?”, the buzzers of “Questions pour un champion” and the roles of “Loup-garou”? The Mole, Quiz Room’s new game, combines all these games in one for a mega dose of fun. Pop culture, bluffing, strategy… all the ingredients of the most iconic games of recent generations are brought together here to create an explosive cocktail. In teams, each player takes on a role and takes great pleasure in keeping it secret. Beware, the Mole is hiding among you and has all the right answers– it’s up to you to unmask this impostor! For more info and reservations, click here!

📍 Locations : Odéon (75006) – La Villette (75019) – Opéra (75009) – Bonne Nouvelle (75008)

📆 Date : multiple dates

Shiver with terror at the Serial Killer exhibition

Are you a True Crime and detective series fan? This exhibition is chilling! At Galeries Montparnasse, Serial Killer immerses visitors in the lives of the world ‘s greatest serial killers. On site, visitors will have privileged access to the largest original collection of objects that once belonged to them! Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson… Embark on an unforgettable journey into the minds of history’s most twisted minds!

📍Location: Galeries Montparnasse
📆 Date: multiple dates
🎟️ Price: from €20

Bubble Planet, the immersive bubble experience

Have you been dreaming of spending a little more time in your own bubble? Now’s your chance. With Bubble Planet, a wild new immersive experience at La Villette, you’re in for a real treat. Wander through themed rooms featuring virtual reality, a ball pool, an LED light tunnel, lava lamps, giant bubbles, a selfie room in a bathtub… Immortalize the moment to enrich your Instagram or TikTok feed, but above all, fall back into childhood for a day!

📍Location: Espace Chapiteaux, La Villette – 211 Av. Jean Jaurès, Paris 19
📆 Date: multiple dates until August 2025

Put a little sunshine on your plate

Looking for a change of scenery for your taste buds? Head for Greece, land of the Olympian gods, with its unrivalled Mediterranean cuisine. On the menu: tsatsiki, tarama, fava, spanakopita, souvlaki, loukoumades… So many delicacies with exotic names just waiting to be tasted. Ready for a modern Greek epic in Paris? Here we go! The editors of Paris Secret have spotted for you all the sunny addresses that delight curious taste buds and fans of Nikos Aliagas!

📍Location: multiple places
📆 Date: multiple dates

China at France’s biggest flea market

Collectors, lovers of objects from the past, your time has come! The country’s largest antiques fair, the Foire de Chatou, takes up residence for ten days on a charming island in the 78th arrondissement (15 minutes from Paris). 340 stands and who knows how many wonders await you!

📍 Location: l’Île des Impressionnistes, 78400 Chatou
📆 Date: March 7 to 16, 2025
🎟️ Price: €10 full price, €7 for students, free for under-15s

Turn up the heat with the AirOtic Soirée concept

Spring promises to be hotter than ever with the AirOtic Soirée show and its hybrid concept of circus and burlesque. In March, turn up the heat until the thermometer explodes. Breathtaking aerial acts, daring sensual choreography, an electric atmosphere… It’s the new concept between Cirque du Soleil and Crazy Horse that will delight aesthetes and lovers of the performing arts, on stage at the Théâtre du Gymnase Marie-Bell in the 10th arrondissement.

📍Location: Théâtre du Gymnase Marie-Bell, 38 Boulevard de Bonne Nouvelle, Paris, 75010
📆 Date: multiple dates until mid-April

TOPCOAT, the Ruby On The Nail show

The script: caught up in an interminable day in a deserted nail salon, the employees come face-to-face with their emotions, fears and desires. Uninhibited and true to herself, because she’ll never apologize for existing (and for that we thank her), Ruby On The Nail, an emblematic figure on the Parisian drag scene and finalist in season 3 of Drag Race France, returns to center stage with a show that’s a hybrid of musical, theater and drag show. The diva opens up about her quest for self, where poetry and absurdity merge for an explosive cocktail of emotions on stage at the Théâtre du Gymnase Marie-Bell.

📍 Location: Théâtre du Gymnase Marie-Bell, 38 Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, 75010
📆 Date: until March 19, 2025
🎟️ Price: from €7.50 in reduced view to €29.25

Go back to the origins of disco

Having explored the planet metal, the Philharmonie is now inspecting the disco galaxy! With its major exhibition dedicated to the flagship genre of the 70s, the venue aims to break down certain clichés about the musical movement and present it, in part, from a different angle, one that is more historical, social and even militant! And best of all, sometimes it’s DJ Breakbot himself who takes you on a tour!

📍 Location: 221 avenue Jean-Jaurès, 75019 Paris
📆 Date: February 14 to August 17, 2025
🎟️ Price: full price €15 / concessions €9/11

Admire the work of Chiharu Shiota

Immersive exhibition, painting, sculpture… Right now, discover the best exhibitions in the capital. Our favorite? Japanese contemporary artist Chiharu Shiota at the Grand Palais. You’ll be immersed in a simply majestic dreamlike journey, where thousands of red threads intertwine to form beautiful structures.

The immersive museum at the heart of science in Bercy Village

Science Expériences has been imagined, thought out and designed with a scientific committee: an astrophysicist, a marine life specialist, a vulcanologist, a PhD in molecular biology, a PhD in biology and a researcher in quantum optics. That’s how professional they are! In this immersive museum, visitors are invited to plunge right into the heart of science with a fun-filled interactive tour: virtual reality, video-mapping to admire the aurora borealis, rooms dedicated to the abyss and volcanoes, the human body, nature, space and electrostatics… It’s an experience that will appeal to curious young and old alike!

📍Location: Science Expériences, 16 Cour Saint-Emilion, Paris, 75012
📅Date: multiple dates
🎟️ Price: from €14 to €22

Defy the laws of gravity (and lots more besides) at the Paradox Museum

A sudden urge to leave terra firma behind? The Paradox Museum, temple of illusion, awaits you on boulevard des Italiens. Through a series of immersive experiences, dare to defy the laws of gravity, notably in the Zero Gravity Room, where you can literally walk with your feet on the ceiling. And to top it all off, take a gourmet break at Hans & Gretel, a veritable sweet heaven, ideal for recharging your batteries!

Enjoy the new Disneyland Paris night show

Taste the world’s best coffee in Paris

The “World’s 100 best coffee shops” recently compiled its list of the world’s best cafés. And surprise, surprise, a Parisian café made it into the top 10! At Kawa, coffee is roasted with passion and love in Paris. You’ll taste different beans from the four corners of the world: Colombia, Etihopie, Peru, Kenya… Enough to take your senses on a journey!

📍Location
46 rue Tiquetonne 75002 Paris
22 avenue Victoria 75001 Paris
96 rue des Archives 75004 Paris

Attend concerts in unusual Parisian venues

A concert in a museum dedicated to architecture, another in the apartment of a 20th-century cult author or in the studio of musician Pierre Henry? This month, the Paris Music Festival takes you away from the usual concert halls and into new venues, in the company of jazz artists, Emily Loizeau, JP Nataf and David Bowie, to whom a party will be dedicated!

📍 Location: several Paris venues
📆 Date: March 20-23, 2025
🎟️ Price: paying

Buy or sell second-hand fashion

The warm weather is almost here, and the change of season is often the perfect time to sort out your wardrobe! If you need to make room in your closet, or find new clothes that are better suited to the coming spring, head to the Violette Sauvage fashion sale. Whether you’re buying or selling, it’s the perfect way to give your clothes a new lease on life!

📍 Location: 5/9 rue Bailly, 75003 Paris
📆 Date: March 15 and 16, 2025
🎟️ Price: €2

Enjoy the cherry blossoms at Parc de Sceaux

Every year, the sublime Parc de Sceaux opens the gates to its grounds. From March 29 to April 27, 2025 , enjoy the magnificent cherry blossoms in an absolutely magical setting.

📍 Location: Domaine départemental de Sceaux
📆 Date: March 29 to April 27

Take your time at Café Kitsuné – Palais Royal

March is the perfect month to warm up with a hot drink. This month, the fine weather seems to be on the cards. Why not enjoy a latte to go and soak up the sunshine while strolling around the neighborhood and discovering hidden nuggets? If this is how you like the end of winter too, head to Café Kitsuné – Palais Royal for a coffee,matcha or latte , accompanied by a fox-shaped sablé or a matcha financier, the secret of which can only be found here.

📍 Location: Café Kitsuné – Palais Royal, 51 Galerie de Montpensier 75001 Paris

Cross the screen and enter the world of Wes Anderson

The Cinémathèque française has made it happen! Wes Anderson, his wildly identifiable, colorful, graphic and retro aesthetic, and his gallery of zany characters are coming to Paris. The exhibition, which will run until this summer, will take visitors on a stroll through the director’s whimsical world, featuring costumes, sets and other objects!

📍 Location: 51, rue de Bercy 75012 Paris
📆 Date: March 19 to July 27, 2025
🎟️ Price: full price €14 / concessions €11

Hunt for luxury pieces

For one weekend, slip into the shoes of a vintage treasure hunter! The Salon du Vintage, a popular meeting place for lovers of fashion from the 50s to the 2000s, is back with a very special edition, dedicated to the world of luxury. Fashion, bags, jewelry and watches sold by some sixty experts await you at the former Musée Pierre Cardin.

📍 Location: 5, rue Saint-Merri, 75004 Paris
📆 Date: March 15 and 16, 2025
🎟️ Price: €10 (€8.5 for purchases before February 15)

Fill up on film screenings for just €5

We bet you’ll be hitting the cinemas this March? Le Printemps du cinéma is back, and if you haven’t heard of it, it’s the best deal for movie fans! For three days, take advantage of reduced prices on your cinema tickets! 5 € a ticket, you can’t refuse!

📍 Location: in participating cinemas
📆 Date: March 23-25, 2025
🎟️ Price: €5 per screening

Run to the best spots in Paris

With the arrival of spring, are your legs feeling a little itchy? March could be the perfect time to come out of hibernation and get back into the swing of things! Are you motivated to go running? We’ve got the playgrounds for you! From the quays to the parks, we’ve got the best places to run in Paris for you.

The Shelby family on stage

As we await the release of a new season of the hit series Peaky Blinders, the Shelby family invites itself to La Seine Musicale. In March, the Boulogne-Billancourt venue will be staging several performances of this captivating show, which combines theater, live music and dance!

📍 Location: 1 Ile Seguin, 92100 Boulogne Billancourt
📆 Date: March 12-30, 2025
🎟️ Price: from €39

Let yourself be carried away by the (latest) hits from Polo & Pan

The star duo of the new “French touch“, Polo & Pan, will be raising the temperature in Paris during two concerts at the Olympia! Treat yourself to a shot of luminous, cosmic electro this chilly March!

📍 Location: 28 Boulvard des Capucines, 75009 Paris
📆 Date: March 30 and 31, 2025
🎟️ Price: from €41

Marvel at tapestries inspired by Tolkien’s universe

This is the exhibition you weren’t expecting, and it will surprise and fascinate you in equal measure! The Collège des Bernardins, home to one of Paris’s most charming hidden cafés, is hosting a series of tapestries with 100% Tolkienite decor! Aubusson tisse Tolkien will present several major creations from the Aubusson workshops, based on original drawings by the author of The Lord of the Rings.

📍 Location: 20, rue de Poissy, 75005 Paris
📆 Date: March 21 to May 18, 2025
🎟️ Price: free

Adopt a vintage piece of furniture

Vintage again, but on the home and decor side! Somewhere between a design fair and a flea market, there’s the Undesignable Market, an open-air market that brings together the very best in vintage furniture! Designer chairs, enfilades, large wooden tables, industrial pieces or lighting fixtures from the 70s… Shop with exhibitors from all over Europe!

📍 Location: Rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard, 75005 Paris
📆 Date: Sunday March 23, 2025
🎟️ Admission: free

Back to Tati

The Tati stores in Barbès closed four years ago, but the main building, topped by the emblematic blue and pink sign, is reopening its doors to the public! Since the end of January, the building has been home to a cultural center! With exhibitions, a library, a bookshop, conferences, a fashion corner and a café, discover the ephemeral department store.

📍 Location: 2 boulevard Marguerite de Rochechouart, 75018Paris
📆 Date: January 23 to June 29, 2025
🎟️ Price: free admission

Let yourself be hypnotized by the Cherqui Foundation

Have you heard of kinetic art, that absolutely hypnotizing art of movement? The Cherqui Foundation invites you to discover it through a series of 5,000 works of optical art that promises to leave you breathless. Geometric, symmetrical, kinetic… Across 1,000 m², in a fascinating space worthy of the most beautiful Instagram feeds, let yourself go in contemplation!

📍Location: Fondation Cherqui, 61 Rue Lécuyer, 93300 Aubervilliers
📆 Date: multiple dates
🎟️ Price: from €10

Discover the new generation of laughter

When was the last time you had a good laugh? One thing’s for sure, whether it was the day before or last month: far too long. Especially when you know that laughter is the best way to escape the worries of everyday life… Good news: if you’d like to escape for an evening in the company of the crème de la crème of the French-speaking stand-up scene, Paris Secret has put together a list of the best comedy clubs in Paris!

📍Location: multiple venues
📆 Date: multiple dates

Discover the Candlelight concert concept

Jean-Jacques Goldman, Hans Zimmer, Ludovico Einaudi, Joe Hisaishi, Queen, Beyoncé, Adèle, Charles Aznavour, ABBA, Bruno Mars, The Beatles, Chopin & Mozart… The best contemporary and classical artists are brought to life in sublime candlelit concerts at such exceptional venues as the INJA, the Maison de l’Océan and the Cirque Bormann-Moreno. This is the magical concept behind the Candlelight evenings, the scouts of the Parisian night who surprise as much as they enchant!

📍Location: multiple venues
📆 Date: multiple dates