Summer in Paris: The Coolest Places to Beat the Heat

Find a shaded spot in the Tuileries to help beat the Paris summer heat.

If you follow the Paris Perfect Instagram account, you know that summer in Paris can get pretty hot. This translates well for warm summer evenings spent outside on restaurant terraces, with glasses of chilled rosé. However, during the day, it can be a challenge to find a way to keep cool. Fortunately, you’re in luck; we’ve rounded up the coolest places to beat the heat during summer in Paris!

Summer in Paris

Piscine Molitor is a beautiful Art Deco pool.

Jump into an Art Deco Pool

There are numerous pools around Paris accessible to anyone, but a few are still in the Art Deco style and are worth seeing even if you’re not a swimmer. The most famous is the Piscine Molitor, which was entirely renovated and reopened in 2014, but there are two other Art Deco pools you can visit as well: Piscine Pailleron in the 19th arrondissement and Piscine Pontoise in the 5th. The latter has evening hours during which they turn on colored lights for a fun night-swimming experience.

See Monet’s art in air conditioning at Musée de l’Orangerie.

Head to a Museum

Not all of the museums in Paris are air-conditioned, but the ones that are are the perfect spots to get a little culture while cooling off. Musée d’Orsay, Musée de l’Orangerie, Musée Picasso and Musée Marmottan Monet all have some air conditioning (the Marmottan is air conditioned in the basement), though it’s best to avoid the more popular museums or those housed in hôtels particuliers (former nobles’ houses located around the city), as those don’t have air con.

Sleep in cool comfort at the Maubert apartment.

Stay in an Air Conditioned Apartment

If you’re looking for the perfect place to stay, many of our Paris Perfect apartments are air conditioned: the Jurançon in the Marais, the Alicante in the Latin Quarter and the Merlot, with its incredible Eiffel Tower view, are all equipped with central air conditioning. Our other apartments have the option for mobile AC, allowing you to stay cool during your summer in Paris.

Café Central on rue Cler is one of our favorites to enjoy a cool drink.

Go for a Cool Drink

Any of the restaurants on our roundup of the best places to eat outside in Paris would qualify, though there are a few we love that do have indoor air conditioning. Some of our favorites include Ô Chateau, La Maison Blanche and Café Central, which are located near many of our Paris Perfect apartments.

Let Paris Perfect help make your summer in Paris the coolest trip ever. Email reservations@parisperfect.com for our apartment reservation team.