1,028 road sensors · 77 bike counters
Quiet hours
When is a street in Paris calm? The city counts every car and bike past its permanent sensors, hour by hour. Here is a typical week at each one — the median for every weekday and hour over the 8 weeks to 17 Oct 2026 (road sensors) and 19 Oct 2026 (bike counters) — so you can pick the hour a street is at its quietest.
Read it as a proxy, not a headcount: these are vehicles and bikes, not pedestrians, and the sensors sit on main roads. A Sunday-morning boulevard and a crowded market street can read the same. Every place and walk page shows its nearest sensor, with the distance.
Stronger dot = more vehicles in a typical hour, on one scale for every hour, so the city visibly empties at night. Tap a dot for its week.
Quietest at 18:00
Busiest at 18:00
Source and licence
Contains information from the Ville de Paris datasets Comptage routier — capteurs permanents and Comptage vélo — données compteurs (Direction de la Voirie et des Déplacements), made available under the Open Database License (ODbL). Our derived weekly profiles are offered under the same licence: quiet-hours.json.
Method: hourly medians per weekday over 8 weeks, both directions of a road summed. Ring-road, slip-road and tunnel sensors are left out, as are sensors with gaps in their week and days a bike counter was dark. Refreshed weekly.