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Is the Latin Quarter a good place to stay in Paris?
A data-based answer on staying in the Latin Quarter: stations, hotel sizes, star categories, access and the areas within it, drawn from 110 hotels. Checked October 2026.
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Whether a district is a good place to stay depends on what a traveller needs from it. The Latin Quarter can be measured against several: how close the transport is, how many hotels there are and of what kind, how much a visitor with limited mobility or a family can expect. This page answers from the data we hold on its 110 hotels, checked on 4 October 2026, and says where the data stops.
What the numbers say in its favour
Transport. Ninety-seven of the 110 hotels are five minutes or less on foot from a metro or RER station; the median is three minutes and the longest eight. Seventy-six have line 10 within five minutes, 48 have line 4, 48 the RER B and 36 the RER C, which meet at Saint-Michel Notre-Dame. Line 7 serves 19, mostly in the south, around Place Monge and Censier-Daubenton. These are walking times estimated from the coordinates.
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Landmarks on foot. Measured in a straight line, 69 hotels lie within 500 metres of the Musée de Cluny, 58 of the Sorbonne, 49 of the Panthéon and 32 of the Notre-Dame forecourt. Few of the 110 are more than 500 metres from at least one of these four landmarks.
Equipment. According to the hotels’ own sites, 89 mention air conditioning, 87 offer a family room, 47 describe an adapted room, 30 accept pets, and 22 have a bar. Six have a pool and seventeen a spa, hammam or sauna.
What to weigh against it
Small hotels. The median hotel has 35 rooms and 70 of the 110 have 40 or fewer. Only the Trianon Rive Gauche (110) and the Dame des Arts (109) exceed 100. A group that needs one large block of rooms will find few options.
Older buildings. Many hotels occupy old houses and say so: lifts that stop at mid-floor, rooms reached by stairs, no air conditioning in some. Of the 110, 21 do not mention air conditioning at all. Only 8 have parking tied to the hotel, so a car is a burden here.
Star categories. The register classes most of the quarter at three and four stars: 53 three-star and 41 four-star hotels, three five-stars, and only 12 at one or two stars (one hotel has no classification in the register). A traveller seeking the lowest category will find few options, which we list in budget hotels in the Latin Quarter.
The six areas
| Area | Hotels | Typical category | Stations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Odéon – Luxembourg | 28 | 3 and 4 stars, two 5-stars | Odéon (lines 4, 10), Luxembourg (RER B) |
| Sorbonne – Panthéon | 25 | 4 and 3 stars | Cluny-La Sorbonne (10), Luxembourg (RER B) |
| Maubert – Notre-Dame | 24 | 3 and 4 stars, one 5-star | Maubert-Mutualité (10), Saint-Michel |
| Mouffetard | 20 | mostly 3 stars | Place Monge, Censier-Daubenton (7) |
| Saint-Michel | 8 | 3 and 4 stars | Saint-Michel Notre-Dame (4, RER B and C) |
| Jardin des Plantes | 5 | 3 stars, one 1-star | Gare d’Austerlitz, Les Gobelins |
For the fountain and the RER, see our list of hotels near Saint-Michel. For the cathedral, hotels near Notre-Dame. For the university and Panthéon, hotels near the Sorbonne. For food shops and the south, hotels near rue Mouffetard. For the theatre side, hotels near Odéon.
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How we counted
Every figure on this page comes from the same 110 records, all marked open and verified on 4 October 2026. Stars are those of the Atout France register, rooms the registered number of rooms, and equipment what a hotel’s own site mentions. Distances are straight-line from the coordinates of each hotel and each landmark, and walking times follow the site’s method: the direct distance multiplied by 1.3, at 80 metres a minute. A hotel that does not mention a feature on its site is counted as not mentioning it, which is not the same as not having it.
Before you decide
Tourist tax. Paris adds a tax per adult and per night, collected by the hotel: €3.25 in a two-star, €5.53 in a three-star and €8.45 in a four-star, regional surcharge included (City of Paris, 1 January 2026). Under-18s are exempt.
What the page cannot tell you. Noise, crowds and cleanliness are not in our data, and we publish no guest scores. For the exact boundaries of the district, see our page on which arrondissement the Latin Quarter is; for the whole of the 5th, hotels of the 5th arrondissement.
How large the choice is
The 110 hotels hold 4,070 rooms in all, and the median hotel has 35. The median grows only slightly with the category: 33 rooms for two-star hotels, 35 for three-star and 38 for four-star. Thirteen hotels have 20 rooms or fewer, and only five have 60 or more. By the brand field of our records, 60 of the 110 are independent and 50 belong to a group, a chain or a collection. The result is a district of small, individually run houses rather than blocks of identical rooms, which suits a traveller who wants to compare hotels one by one and less a group that needs a single contract.
The six areas, by size
The areas do not hold the same number of rooms or the same kind of hotel.
- Odéon – Luxembourg. 28 hotels and 1,008 rooms, the most of the six; the median is 31 rooms, and it contains the largest hotel of the quarter, with 110. 22 of its 28 hotels mention air conditioning and 23 a family room.
- Sorbonne – Panthéon. 25 hotels and 961 rooms; median 35; the only area where four-star hotels (12) outnumber three-star (10). 20 mention air conditioning and 23 a family room.
- Maubert – Notre-Dame. 24 hotels and 865 rooms; median 38. Three- and four-star hotels are level at 10 each, and the single five-star hotel of this area is here. 18 mention air conditioning.
- Mouffetard. 20 hotels and 746 rooms; median 35.5; 13 are three-star and only 5 four-star. 17 mention air conditioning and 14 a family room.
- Saint-Michel. 8 hotels and 296 rooms; median 40.5, the highest of the six after the Jardin des Plantes. All 8 mention air conditioning.
- Jardin des Plantes. 5 hotels and 194 rooms; median 43, with four three-star hotels and one one-star. Four mention air conditioning.
How close the landmarks are
Counting in a straight line from the landmark points in our data, the hotels crowd around the Sorbonne and the Cluny Museum. Within 300 metres there are 29 hotels near the Sorbonne and 27 near the Cluny Museum, and within 500 metres 58 and 69. Rue de la Huchette has 20 hotels within 300 metres and 44 within 500, and the place Maubert 22 and 46. The Collège de France has 25 within 300 metres and 61 within 500.
The ends of the district are thinner. The Luxembourg Gardens have 24 hotels within 500 metres and none within 300, and the Jardin des Plantes has only 3 within 500 metres and 25 within a kilometre. A traveller who wants to sleep next to the botanical garden has the choice of five hotels in that area, against 28 around Odéon and Luxembourg.
The stations closest to the hotels
Of the 110 hotels, the stations that serve the most of them within a five-minute walk are Cluny – La Sorbonne (38 hotels), Saint-Michel Notre-Dame (35), Odéon (34), Maubert-Mutualité (21), Cardinal Lemoine (13), Jussieu (12), Luxembourg (11) and Place Monge (9). Line 4 does not stop at Saint-Michel until 19 December 2026, so for that station the RER B and C platforms are the ones in use. The metro and RER lines are covered in more detail in our Latin Quarter guide.
What the seasons mean for a room
The climate normals of Météo-France for 1991–2020, measured at Paris-Montsouris nearly 3 km south of the Panthéon, give a mean of 5.4 °C in January and 20.9 °C in July, with a mean July maximum of 25.7 °C, and 634 mm of rain a year over about 109 days with at least 1 mm. The highest temperature on record there is 42.6 °C, reached on 25 July 2019. In a district of old houses, that is the reason to read the air-conditioning line: 89 of the 110 hotels mention it on their own sites and 21 do not, so a July booking is the one where the question is worth asking before you pay.
What the equipment counts say for different travellers
The equipment counts come from the hotels’ own sites. For a family, 87 hotels mention a family room; for a traveller who needs an adapted room, 47 describe one; for a visitor with a pet, 30 accept pets; for a driver, 8 have parking tied to the hotel. Garden or patio: 16. Spa, hammam or sauna: 17. Fitness room: 8. Restaurant: 7. Rooftop terrace: 3. A mention on a hotel site is not a guarantee for every room, so the count tells you where to look, not what is available on your dates.