Market report · France
Hiring a car at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport
What the headline price leaves out here, measured across 18 searches of this market, the largest returning 340 cars.
Assume you will pay it.
About 19% of the rental itself. One fee per rental, not per person.
Pre-authorised on the main driver's card, and released after you return the car.
Almost everything here. Book early, keep checking, rebook if it drops.
What this means for your booking
- The cheapest sticker is usually not the cheapest car. With 100% of suppliers charging about €145 for a second driver, two cars advertised a few euro apart can be €145 apart by the time you drive away. We put that fee into every price the moment you say you need one.
- A month is not four times a week. The median week here is €344 and the median month €1154 — better per day, but back-to-back rentals often beat one long booking on hires of 40 days or more.
- The airport is usually the cheapest place to collect. In every market we have measured, that held — town pick-ups cost more, not less, because the suppliers compete at the terminal. See every pick-up point here.
Getting to the car
If you land late. Only 4% of the suppliers we priced shut by 22:00, and the typical desk closes at 00:00 — a late arrival is less risky here than at most airports. Measured across 256 offers that publish their desk hours; a supplier that does not publish them is not counted as open.
Not every supplier here hands you the keys in the terminal. Across 18 searches, this is how collection splits:
Most suppliers here are in the terminal, so collection is usually quick.
17 suppliers appeared here across our searches, at several separate pick-up points. See which is nearest you and what each costs.
The fine print, measured
These conditions vary more between airports than most people expect. We measure each of them everywhere we sweep: deposits · debit cards · second-driver fees · desk hours.
Collect full, return full. The cleanest policy — you only pay for what you use.
Check the cap before you book a long drive — the supplier sets the excess rate and we cannot see it.
Well short of universal — filter for it if you plan to drive out of the country.
More flexible than most markets, but still check before you travel.
Deposit banding, as the suppliers classify it themselves: average deposit 76% · high deposit 16% · low deposit 12%.
What each supplier actually costs here
17 suppliers appeared in our searches. These are the ones you are most likely to be offered — chosen by how often they came up, then ordered by what they really cost, which is rarely the same order as the advertised price.
Prices are for a one-week hire. Mixing rental lengths would make the column meaningless — a fee charged once per rental is a very different share of a week than of a month — so this table is built from week-long searches only.
| Supplier | Advertised 1 week |
With 2nd driver | Deposit held | Full cover |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goldcar cheapest all-in · seen 40 times |
€195 | €291 +€97 |
€2,450 | €80 |
| Flizzr · seen 85 times |
€232 | €343 +€111 |
€504 | €87 |
| Europcar · seen 141 times |
€284 | €390 +€107 |
€500 | €119 |
| SIXT · seen 170 times |
€312 | €423 +€111 |
€574 | €105 |
| Sicily By Car · seen 12 times |
€388 | €444 +€56 |
€1,600 | €141 |
| Goldcar Zero Excess · seen 80 times |
€361 | €458 +€97 |
€200 | €84 |
| Rent A Car · seen 10 times |
€465 | €521 +€56 |
€1,700 | €150 |
| Keddy · seen 142 times |
€464 | €567 +€104 |
€800 | €177 |
Deposits vary far more than prices. Goldcar holds €2,450 on the main driver's card against Goldcar Zero Excess's €200. It is released after you return the car, but it has to fit.
"With 2nd driver" is the advertised rental plus that supplier's additional-driver fee — our definition of the total, and the only one we rank on. Full cover is quoted separately and never added in: many travellers hold annual excess insurance or rely on a card, and folding in an assumed purchase is precisely the trick this site exists to expose. Medians across 18 searches; a supplier that does not publish a fee is not counted as free. How we measure this.
Price it for your dates
Every supplier, ranked by the total you actually pay.
How these numbers were measured
We search this market on a schedule through DiscoverCars, at several rental lengths, and keep what came back. Each figure above is the median across 18 searches, not a single snapshot and not an estimate.
- Second-driver share — the percentage of priced offers whose supplier charges a fee for an additional driver. Offers that do not publish a fee are excluded from the share rather than counted as free.
- Typical fee — the median fee for the whole rental, not per day. One fee per rental, however many drivers.
- Deposit — the median amount the supplier pre-authorises on the main driver's card at the counter. It is released after you return the car.
- Cancel free — the share of offers that can be cancelled without charge.
Car hire is priced dynamically and these are typical values, not quotes. Availability and price are confirmed on DiscoverCars before you pay. We publish the aggregates; the underlying records stay ours.
Measured from 18 searches of this market between 20 September 2026 and 22 September 2026. Car hire is priced dynamically: these are typical values, not quotes, and the only way to know your price is to search your dates. Prices and availability come from DiscoverCars and are confirmed there before you pay.