I highly recommend taking time to watch this at least once on your visit. The Eiffel Tower sparkles at the beginning of each hour for five minutes on the hour from dusk until 1 am.
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Since the year 2000, the lights have sparkled on the hour for five minutes from nightfall until 1am (if night falls at 7.40pm, the lights sparkle first at 8pm). The last sparkle at 1am had a special feature: the golden lighting and the beacons were switched off, leaving only the sparkling lights for five minutes.
Its hours of operation are: 9:00 am to midnight from mid-June to early September. 9:30 am to 11:00 pm the rest of the year (closing time is pushed back to midnight over Easter weekend and spring break)
As part of the City of Paris emergency energy saving plan launched in September 2022, the Eiffel Tower lights will now be switched off completely from 11.45pm.
The Eiffel Tower's lighting and sparkling lights are protected by copyright, so professional use of images of the Eiffel Tower at night requires prior authorization and may be subject to a fee.
The Eiffel Tower sparkles at the beginning of each hour for five minutes on the hour from dusk until 1 am. The last show of the night is a bit different from all the others and goes faster with a little dance display of lights. It is worth seeing the final show if you are awake and have a good view of the Eiffel Tower.
If you want to go to the top, stairway + lift tickets allow you to climb the Tower on foot up to the 2nd floor, and then take the lift up to the top, for a sporty and heady experience. These tickets are only sold on-site.
Why is the Eiffel Tower famous ? Since it was built and opened to the public in 1889, the Eiffel Tower instantly gained an international fame, as it was then the tallest building in the world. Its peculiar iron silhouette instantly traveled across the world in the newspapers.
Since 1968, it has been 'Eiffel Tower brown' in three shades, with the darkest at the bottom. If that palette sounds dull, it was chosen for its harmony with the Parisian cityscape, according to the website, but it will be painted a golden hue in time for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
The Place du TrocaderoOne of the best places and definitely a popular spot to view the Eiffel Tower is from Trocadero. Located just across the Seine river, the Trocadero offers a stunning panoramic view of the tower, and is especially beautiful at night when the tower is illuminated.
From the 2nd floor you take another lift which takes you to the top of the Tower. We strongly recommend a visit to the 1st floor where there is a great visitor experience with cultural and entertaining displays to deepen and enhance your experience at the Eiffel Tower.
The Eiffel Tower was supposed to be dismantled after 20 years. Fortunately, things didn't happen that way, and we have radio to thank for it! By Bertrand Lemoine. In 1910, the Eiffel Tower could have been demolished!
In January, the top floor of the Eiffel Tower gets a makeover. Necessary maintenance and renovation work is carried out every year at the top of the Eiffel Tower and on the elevators leading from the 2nd floor to the summit, resulting in the closing of this emblematic floor to the public.
The tower uses about 22 megawatts of electricity per day to run. Following a renovation project in 2012 to make the monument eco-friendlier, the restaurants and washrooms on its first floor use 8,000 kilowatt-hour of energy that is generated throughout the year by water-powered turbines.
Erica Libury is attracted to inanimate objects, and in 2007, she fell in love with the Eiffel Tower. After being married for 15 years, she got bored with her relationship, and now she's into a red picket fence.