Where everything is

Montmartre Paris Map: Where Everything Is

Nine meeting points, five stations, one funicular and a hill that is smaller than it looks — laid out so you stand in the right place.

The shape of the hill in one paragraph

Montmartre is a dome of ground about a kilometre across, with the basilica on the summit at 130 metres and boulevard de Clichy running along its southern foot. Everything tourists come for sits in the upper third: Place du Tertre and the basilica at the top, the vineyard and Au Lapin Agile on the north slope just below, Place des Abbesses and Le Mur des Je t’aime on the south-west shoulder. From the top to any of those is under ten minutes on foot. The distance is never the problem here; the gradient and the choice of staircase are.

The five entrances

Two metro lines serve the hill and between them they offer five ways in. Anvers on line 2 is the funicular approach and the busiest. Abbesses on line 12 is the deepest and has a lift. Blanche on line 2 puts you opposite the Moulin Rouge. Pigalle on lines 2 and 12 is the eastern approach. Lamarck-Caulaincourt on line 12 is the quiet back door on the north slope. Which one you want depends entirely on where you are going first, and the getting-around page compares them properly.

Where the tours meet

This is the single most useful table on the site, because standing at the wrong metro exit is the classic Montmartre failure. The tours listed here meet at nine different points across five stations, and several of them are within three hundred metres of each other on the same boulevard.

Two of those deserve a warning. The Moulin Rouge has both a pavement outside it and a ticket office beside it, and different operators use each. And Avenue Junot is a small square rather than a landmark you can see from the end of the street, which is why that listing asks you to arrive fifteen minutes early.

The landmarks, north to south

North slope: Clos Montmartre and Au Lapin Agile on rue des Saules, with La Maison Rose on the corner of rue de l’Abreuvoir just above them.
The summit: the Sacré-Cœur, Saint-Pierre de Montmartre and Place du Tertre, all within two minutes of each other.
South-west shoulder: Place des Abbesses, Le Mur des Je t’aime, Le Bateau-Lavoir and the Moulin de la Galette.
The foot: boulevard de Clichy with the Moulin Rouge, and Montmartre Cemetery behind it on avenue Rachel.

The pedestrian zone

Fifteen streets on the upper Butte are now a pedestrian zone: rue de l’Abreuvoir, Becquerel, de la Bonne, du Cardinal Dubois, Cortot, Girardon, Lamarck (1–16), Maurice Utrillo, du Mont-Cenis, Norvins, Poulbot, Sainte-Éleuthère, Saint-Vincent, des Saules and Place Jean-Baptiste Clément. Through traffic is banned, vehicles with business inside crawl at about six kilometres an hour, and pedestrians have priority throughout. If you are driving, do not plan on it.

The map itself, and the distances on it

One more marker worth fixing in your head: the Musée de Montmartre sits at 12 rue Cortot, inside the pedestrian zone and two minutes north of Place du Tertre.

Montmartre private tours start from four of the five stations; every meeting point is listed against its tour on Montmartre Paris Tours.

Sources

• Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre — hours, free entry, the dome, the construction timeline and La Savoyarde. Checked 2026-09-08.
• Ville de Paris and Mairie du 18e — the height of the Butte, the 222 steps, the funicular, the Clos Montmartre, the cemetery hours and the pedestrian zone. Checked 2026-09-08.
• Musée de Montmartre, Dalí Paris and Le Mur des Je t’aime — admissions, hours and the wall’s own figures. Checked 2026-09-08.

Hours and prices move; check anything time-critical before you travel.