Bus and Noctilien Stops

With its 12 million passengers each day, the RATP network is one of the largest in the world. Among its public transportation options, there are 350 regular bus lines in Île-de-France, including around sixty within the city of Paris, and 48 Noctilien bus lines. There are over 5500 bus stops in Paris, and approximately 1000 Noctilien stops, which operate between 12:30 am and 5:30 am as the night bus system.

Getting around by bus in Paris

Conveniently, the bus is a perfect complement to the metro and tramway, facilitating travel in many neighborhoods of Paris and the surrounding suburbs. These lines are numbered from 20 to 599, and the bus stops are located throughout Paris and the surrounding suburbs.

Finding a bus stop in Paris

Want to take a bus? It's very simple! Bus stops in Paris are available on the Bonjour app and are indicated in the city by signs displaying the bus number, its direction, and the route map. To make it even easier for you to find your way, know that the majority of bus stops are named after nearby points of interest, squares, and streets. Correspondences with metro stations often have the same name as well.

The history of the Parisian bus

And what if we told you that the idea of a bus network was invented by a well-known philosopher? Yes, it was Blaise Pascal who imagined carriages passing through Paris at regular hours as early as 1662! Then horse-drawn omnibuses arrived in Paris in 1828, before being replaced by motorized buses at the end of the 19th century.