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Terminal railway station in Paris, France · Île-de-France

# Gare

Gare Montparnasse, officially Paris Montparnasse and formerly Gare de l'Ouest, is one of the seven large Paris railway termini, and is located in the 14th and 15th arrondissements.

![Gare](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Gare_Montparnasse%2C_Paris_6_April_2014_008.jpg/3840px-Gare_Montparnasse%2C_Paris_6_April_2014_008.jpg)

Gare · Wikimedia Commons

The place

Gare Montparnasse, officially Paris Montparnasse and formerly Gare de l'Ouest, is one of the seven large Paris railway termini, and is located in the 14th and 15th arrondissements.

Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gare_Montparnasse), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

## Getting to Gare

**Airports:** Paris-Orly (ORY), 13 km · Charles de Gaulle (CDG), 25 km · Beauvais-Tillé airport (BVA), 70 km\

- Beauvais → Gare 70 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · €10–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/beauvais-to-gare) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Beauvais&to=Gare)
- Lesquin → Gare 202 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · €22–31 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/lesquin-to-gare) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Lesquin&to=Gare)
- Clermont-Ferrand → Gare 344 km · quickest by road, 4h 39m · €42–60 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/clermont-ferrand-to-gare) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Clermont-Ferrand&to=Gare)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Gare)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

## No local-transport research exists yet for Gare

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Gare. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around

- Get in Companies like Air Charter Advisors and Priority Jet offer access to a variety of aircraft rentals.

From [Wikivoyage: Paris](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Paris), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done

1. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 331 km
2. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 515 km
3. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 527 km
4. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 563 km
5. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 771 km

If you know how people move in Gare – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cgare&title=Gare&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fgare), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Gare

Gare is 3 km from [Paris](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/paris), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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