The fare buys a guide and nothing else. On a hill where the streets, the view and the basilica are all free, that is exactly the right thing to be buying. Thirteen guided walks, from $23.
About an hour and twenty-five minutes on the Butte, then the rest of central Paris on foot and by metro. An orientation to the city rather than to this hill.
From $75 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Ninety minutes and a cap of twenty-five, from Rue des Abbesses to Place du Tertre. The shortest guided format here, and the only one described as wheelchair accessible.
From $37 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Two hours twenty from Place Saint-Pierre, with five timed stops rather than a route of pass-bys. Groups of sixteen, and the easiest meeting point on the hill to find.
From $27 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Two hours from Place Blanche to the basilica terrace, taking the hill in one continuous line rather than a loop. Small group, no food, no tickets.
From $30 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Two kilometres of back stairways and viewpoints, with a croissant from an award-winning bakery in the fare. Capped at fourteen, deliberately off the main route, and the guide finishes you with recommendations for the rest of your stay.
From $41 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Twelve stops in two and a half hours, finishing at Abbesses beside the lift. The fullest list of named places on any walk in this group.
From $29 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
The cheapest guided walk here, starting at the cemetery gate, whose entry is inside the fare. Trivia and a sketching session break up the climb.
From $23 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Two and a half hours with a guide who is yours alone, in any of six languages. The fullest private route on the hill, and it runs in all weather.
From $65 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
The classic line from Blanche through Pigalle to Place du Tertre, ending inside the basilica. A loudspeaker keeps the back of a group of fifteen in the conversation.
From $46 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
The full Babylon route from Blanche to Place des Abbesses, capped at twelve and priced per seat rather than per party. Six languages are bookable, and two guests are needed before it runs.
From $65 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Two hours and a quarter of walls, led by a working street artist. The only walk here about what went up last month rather than what happened last century.
From $49 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Two hours with forty-five minutes of it at the basilica, which is longer than any other walk gives it. Bread from a local bakery is in the fare.
From $111 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
A dawn start from Anvers with a sit-down breakfast at the end. The one way to have Place du Tertre to yourself between April and September.
From $68 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Every walk here refunds in full up to 24 hours before it starts, so choosing a date costs you nothing.
Check availabilityTwo hours on foot behind someone who knows which door is which. You meet at a metro exit or a square, you climb, and you are handed the hill in an order that makes sense. That matters more than it sounds, because Montmartre has no route markers and no obvious start. Nothing is unlocked for you, because nothing on this hill is locked. What you are buying is editing and explanation, and on a village of three hundred lanes that is worth more than an entry ticket would be.
Prices start at $23 a head and most of the shared walks sit between $27 and $46. That is the price of two coffees on Place du Tertre, and it buys you two hours of somebody who can tell you which of the pink houses Utrillo actually painted.
Ninety minutes to two and a half hours, against three hours or more for a food tour and five and a half for the Orsay day. If Montmartre is your morning rather than your day, a walk is the format that fits.
Nothing is included, so you eat where and when you like. Several of these walks finish at Place du Tertre or on the parvis with the afternoon still in front of you.
Caps run from fourteen to twenty-five. That is what keeps the price down, and one operator solves it with a loudspeaker. If you want a group of twelve or fewer, you are looking at the food tours or the private options.
This is the real decision on this hill, and it is a decision about lunch as much as about walking. Here is what separates them on the captured data.
| Walking tours | Food tours | Best for | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price band | $23–$75 | $68–$154 | Anyone counting the cost of a morning | From $23 |
| Length | 1h30–2h30 | 2h–3h30 | Fitting the hill round something else | From $23 |
| Group cap | 14–25 | 10–12 | Hearing the guide without straining | From $68 |
| What the fare covers | The guide | The guide, the tastings, often the wine | Replacing a meal rather than adding one | From $68 |
| Do you still need lunch? | Yes | No | Anyone with a dinner reservation to keep | From $23 |
Check availability from from $23
Put simply: a walk costs less and leaves your day open; a food tour costs more and replaces a meal. If you were going to eat lunch in Montmartre anyway, the gap is smaller than the sticker price suggests. The arithmetic is worked through in full here.
You get: a licensed local guide, an edited route, the stories behind
the doorways, and someone to ask. Most walks finish at or near the basilica, so you are
left at the top with the view.
You don't get: a meal, a drink, transport, or entry to anything. The two
things worth entering here, the basilica and the church beside it, are free anyway. Gratuities are excluded on every listing that mentions them.
Watch for: the dome. No guided walk includes the €8 dome ticket
or the 280 steps to it; that is bought separately at the basilica.
Price band: $23 to $75, with most between $27 and $46.
Duration: 1h30 to 2h30 for the walks that stay on the hill.
Booking window: three to five days ahead in summer, a day or two off
season. Four listings mark themselves as likely to sell out.
Meeting points: Place Blanche, Anvers, Place Saint-Pierre, Rue des
Abbesses and the cemetery gate. Check which one is yours the night before —
the map page lists all nine.
What to bring: shoes for cobbles, a layer more than the forecast suggests
in winter, and cash for the bakeries.
If you want to eat, book a Montmartre food tour instead. These walks include no food at all, and paying $29 for a walk and then $68 for lunch is the same money spent worse.
If the gradient is a genuine problem, only one of these walks is described as wheelchair accessible and the rest run on cobbles and stairs. Consider a private Montmartre tour, where the pace and the route are yours, or read the step-free routes onto the hill and do it under your own steam.
And if you want the hill to yourself, none of these will give you that in July. The dawn departure is the honest answer, and it is the only one in this group.
Thirteen guided walks, from $23, all of them refundable in full up to 24 hours ahead.
Check availabilityMontmartre food and wine tours are listed separately, and every departure on the hill is on Montmartre Paris Tours.