Central Paris is made up of twenty arrondissements, arranged in a clockwise spiral starting with the smallest and oldest arrondissement, written as the “1st” arrondissement, which contains the Louvre Museum and the Tuileries Gardens.
Below is a map showing the Arrondissements of Paris, with indications of what’s inside, including neighborhoods you might know by name.
If it’s your first trip to Paris, you’ll probably want to hang around the Seine in the low-numbered arrondissements. They’re marked in bold. the first is the most popular.
Once you’ve got your Paris chops, you may wish to stay and explore the Arrondissements whose numbers are in italics.
Paris Arrondissements by Name
The chart below shows the numbers of the arrondissements, followed by the location indicated by which bank of the river it’s found on (R, for “right bank” is north) followed by the name and links to user-rated hotels in that Paris neighborhood.
1 R Louvre
2 R Bourse
3 R Temple – Maraise
4 R Hôtel-de-Ville – Notre Dame – Marais Hotels, Paris
5 L Panthéon
6 L Luxembourg – Saint-Germain – Odéon Hotels
7 L Palais-Bourbon – Eiffel Tower – Invalides Hotels, Paris
8 R Avenue des Champs-Elysées, Grand Palais and the Arc de Triomphe
9 R Opéra
10 R Enclos-St-Laurent: Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est Hotels, Paris
11 R Popincourt – République Hotels, Paris
12 R Reuilly
13 L Gobelins—Place d’Itailie
14 L Observatoire
15 L Vaugirard
16 R Passy
17 R Batignolles-Monceau
18 R Butte—Montmartre
19 R Buttes-Chaumont
20 R Menilmontant