What Are Some Good Shows To See In Paris In December?

What Are Some Good Shows To See In Paris In December?

The strongest December options are the Moulin Rouge Christmas Evening, a festive dinner-and-show programme running December 18 to January 5 except December 31, and the Paradis Latin Christmas Eve gala, a dinner-cabaret built around a menu from celebrated French chefs. Beyond those, two year-round dinner shows, the regular Moulin Rouge evening and a lights tour paired with the revue, run straight through December, and each can be booked for a festive night out. If you'd like a daytime plan to pair with an evening show, our guide to Versailles opening hours over the Christmas holidays covers what's running and how to fit a visit into your itinerary.

December is the month when the Paris cabaret calendar splits in two. The holiday-themed programmes appear for a few weeks only, and the year-round revues keep running underneath them, which means a visitor in early December and a visitor on the 28th are looking at genuinely different menus of options. The confirmed festive programming for the current season is concentrated at two houses: the Moulin Rouge, whose official offers page lists a "Christmas Evening" with a 7pm dinner and a 9pm Féerie show, and Paradis Latin, which has confirmed a Christmas Eve dinner-show with a menu developed with Guy Savoy and Pierre Hermé, reported at around €300 per person. If the price of those festive menus feels steep, the cheapest month to visit Paris and how to stretch your budget explains how to time the rest of your trip around the holiday premium.

Everything else that gets mentioned in roundups, the Lido's successors, Crazy Horse, other dinner shows, either has no verified Christmas programming for the season or simply runs its normal year-round show through the month. That distinction matters for planning. A year-round show is a perfectly good December night out, and in some cases a better value one, but it is not a Christmas show, and this page will not describe it as one.

For most visitors the decision comes down to three bookable evenings: the holiday dinner show at the Moulin Rouge, the Christmas Eve gala at Paradis Latin, or the year-round Moulin Rouge dinner show with champagne and hotel transport included. Here are all three side by side.

If you are still weighing whether a cabaret night fits your December itinerary at all, the broader roundup of Paris cabaret options for Christmas and New Year covers the full season, including the New Year's Eve programmes that sit just beyond this page's scope.

Which Cabaret Runs A Christmas Programme At The Moulin Rouge?

The Moulin Rouge runs a dedicated Christmas Evening for the festive season: a 7pm dinner followed by the 9pm Féerie revue, listed on the operator's own offers page as running December 18 to January 5, with no performance on December 31. The bookable version on this site's roster, the "Moulin Rouge Christmas Dinner", rates 4.8 from 24 reviews, runs about 4 hours total, and starts from $326 per person, with no free cancellation on the listing.

The Christmas Evening is the Moulin Rouge's seasonal overlay on its standard formula. Dinner is served from 7pm, the Féerie show follows at 9pm, and the evening wraps around four hours after arrival at 82 Boulevard de Clichy. The official Moulin Rouge offers page gives the run dates as December 18 through January 5, with the explicit exception of December 31, because that night belongs to a separate New Year's Eve evening with a later 10pm show. The page does not name the season's year, so it is best treated as the current programme rather than a permanent fixture.

The bookable listing on the roster, sold under the card name "Moulin Rouge Christmas Dinner", includes the meal. It carries a 4.8 rating from 24 reviews, a small pool so far, and a from price of $326 per person. One planning detail matters more than usual here: the listing states the product is not refundable, unlike several other December products on the roster that permit free cancellation. If your travel dates could shift, that is the risk to weigh before booking.

A reasonable question at this point is whether the Christmas Evening differs enough from the ordinary Moulin Rouge dinner show to justify the seasonal framing. The honest answer is that the revue itself is the same Féerie show the house runs all year; the festive element sits in the dinner service and the December-only framing of the evening. Visitors who want the Christmas version specifically should confirm the dates against their trip before booking, since the programme starts mid-month and misses December 31 entirely.

What Happens At The Paradis Latin On Christmas Eve?

Paradis Latin runs a confirmed Christmas Eve dinner-show: a festive menu developed with chefs Guy Savoy and Pierre Hermé, served before the "L'Oiseau Paradis" revue, reported at around €300 per person for December 24. The bookable listing on this roster, the "Paradis Latin, Christmas Eve Gala", rates 4.8 from 16 reviews, runs 3.5 hours, starts from $338 per person, and permits free cancellation per the listing.

Of the two confirmed festive programmes, Paradis Latin is the more explicitly Christmas-shaped one. It exists as a Christmas Eve event, December 24, at the cabaret on Rue du Cardinal Lemoine in the Latin Quarter, and its official page confirms the dinner-show format with the Savoy and Hermé menu. The reported price of around €300 per person is a euro figure from the operator's own communications and is printed here only in euros, as reported, without conversion.

The roster listing tells the practical story: from $338 per person, 3.5 hours covering dinner and the "L'Oiseau Paradis" revue, a 4.8 rating from 16 reviews, and, unlike the Moulin Rouge Christmas product, free cancellation per the listing. That cancellation term is worth noticing for anyone planning a Christmas Eve in Paris, since December 24 is also the night of the Champs-Élysées lights staying on all evening and of a dozen competing dinner options, some of which are covered in the guide to Christmas Eve dinner in Paris.

Paradis Latin also confirms a New Year's Eve dinner-show and ball, reported at upwards of €600 per person, but that is a separate product for a separate night. For a traveller whose question is specifically about December shows, the Christmas Eve gala is the one that fits.

Do Year-Round Dinner Shows Run Through December?

Yes. The year-round Moulin Rouge dinner show with champagne and transport runs every December evening, rating 4.7 from 413 reviews at from $445 per person for 4.5 hours with free cancellation. A lights tour paired with the Moulin Rouge show also runs through the month, rating 3.7 from 708 reviews at from $193 per person for about 5 hours. Neither is a Christmas product, but both deliver a full December night out.

These two products matter because December demand pushes the festive programmes toward sell-out while the year-round equivalents keep running. The "Moulin Rouge, Champagne Plus Transport" evening is the most complete package on the roster: dinner, champagne, the Féerie show, and hotel pickup and transport built in, over 4.5 hours. It rates 4.7 from a substantial pool of 413 reviews, the largest review count of any cabaret product listed here, and it carries free cancellation per the listing. It is a year-round show that runs in December, and this page describes it exactly that way.

The "Lights Tour Plus Moulin Rouge Show" pairs an illuminations drive through the decorated streets with the revue, with a cruise upgrade available, over about 5 hours from Place de Sydney in the 15th arrondissement. It rates 3.7 from 708 reviews and starts from $193 per person. The rating is notably lower than the pure dinner shows, which usually reflects the tour-transfer logistics rather than the revue itself.

The pattern in the table is consistent: the two holiday programmes are cheaper at the entry point but carry stricter terms or smaller review pools, while the year-round products cost more at the top end or less at the bottom, with larger review pools and, in both cases here, free cancellation. A traveller booking in October for a December trip may reasonably prefer the cancellable year-round evening and treat the festive atmosphere of the decorated city as the Christmas element of the night.

Are The Lido, Crazy Horse Or Other Cabarets Doing Anything For Christmas?

No verified Christmas programming has been announced for the season by the Lido's successors, Crazy Horse, or the other major Paris cabarets beyond the Moulin Rouge and Paradis Latin. Searches of official and primary sources found no confirmed Christmas or New Year schedules for these houses, so any roundup promising a "festive Crazy Horse show" is ahead of what the operators themselves have published. Treat their December offerings as their normal revues unless an official announcement appears.

This is the section where most December show roundups go wrong. The temptation is to fill the page with every famous cabaret name in Paris and imply each has a seasonal programme. The verified picture is thinner: the official Moulin Rouge offers page carries the Christmas Evening, Paradis Latin's own site carries the Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve programmes, and beyond those two houses, no other major Paris cabaret has announced a Christmas programme yet. The correct phrasing is "not announced", not "probably happening".

That leaves the confirmed festive calendar unusually concentrated. For a December visitor who wants a show with an explicit Christmas dimension, the realistic shortlist is two houses long, plus the year-round revues that keep running underneath. There is also a practical knock-on effect: because the festive programmes are few, the bookable holiday evenings sell through their limited December dates quickly, particularly December 24 and the nights between Christmas and New Year. Waiting until arrival in Paris to book a Christmas Eve cabaret is a gamble with poor odds.

For readers planning past December 31, the separate guide to New Year's Eve in Paris covers the December 31 programmes, including the Moulin Rouge New Year's Eve evening and the Paradis Latin dinner-show and ball, which sit outside this page's December scope.

How Do December Show Prices And Durations Compare?

Across the four show products with confirmed December availability, entry prices run from $193 to $445 per person and durations from 3.5 to about 5 hours. The holiday programmes start at $326 and $338, the year-round Moulin Rouge evening with transport tops the range at $445, and the lights-plus-show combination is the budget entry at $193. Every figure comes from the operators' live listings and can move with demand.

The price spread tells a clearer story than any single number. The two holiday programmes sit in the middle of the range, around $330, which surprises many readers who assume the seasonal versions carry a premium. In fact the most expensive product is the year-round Moulin Rouge evening, and the reason is the transport and champagne package rather than any festive surcharge. At the other end, the $193 lights tour plus show is the cheapest because dinner is not included in the base product.

Durations matter as much as prices when the nights are short. Sunset in Paris falls around 16:55 in early December and 17:02 on the 31st, so a 7pm dinner show starts a full two hours after dark, and a 5-hour product ends close to midnight. Anyone combining a show with an evening walk past the illuminated Champs-Élysées, where the lights stay on until midnight on weekdays and 1:00 at weekends in a typical season, should plan the show as the late anchor of the night rather than squeezing both.

When Should You Book A December Show In Paris?

Book as early as you can, ideally by late October. The confirmed holiday programmes run on a limited number of December dates, the Christmas Eve gala exists for a single night, and Paris holiday dining books up fast, with prime dates filling weeks or months ahead. Products with free cancellation can be booked early and adjusted later; the non-refundable Moulin Rouge Christmas Dinner should be booked only once your dates are locked.

The booking logic follows directly from the calendar laid out above. The Moulin Rouge Christmas Evening exists only from December 18 to January 5, and the Paradis Latin Christmas Eve gala only on December 24. That is a small number of seats across a small number of nights, in a month when the city is at its most visited. General guidance on Paris holiday reservations points to the end of October as the point where prime festive slots are already going, and nothing in the verified research contradicts it.

Cancellation terms should drive the sequencing. The Paradis Latin gala and both year-round products carry free cancellation per their listings, which makes them safe to book the moment plans start to firm up. The Moulin Rouge Christmas Dinner does not, so it belongs at the end of the booking queue, reserved for the night you are certain about. A reader comparing the two cabarets for Christmas Eve itself can weigh the menu, the review pools, 16 versus 24 reviews, and the cancellation terms side by side on the Christmas In Paris cabaret pages before committing.

One last planning note: December 31 is not covered by the Christmas Evening at the Moulin Rouge, which explicitly skips that night, and the New Year's Eve programmes at both confirmed houses are separate, pricier products. Anyone building a trip around the transition from Christmas to New Year should treat the two halves of the week as separate bookings with separate price logic.

Common Questions About December Shows In Paris

What Are Some Good Shows To See In Paris In December?

The confirmed December options are the Moulin Rouge Christmas Evening, a festive dinner and Féerie show running December 18 to January 5 except December 31, and the Paradis Latin Christmas Eve gala dinner-show. Two year-round products, the Moulin Rouge dinner show with champagne and transport and a lights tour paired with the revue, also run every December evening.

Does The Moulin Rouge Have A Christmas Show?

Yes. The official offers page lists a Christmas Evening with a 7pm dinner and 9pm Féerie show, running December 18 to January 5, with no performance on December 31 because that night is a separate New Year's Eve evening. The bookable version starts from $326 per person and is not refundable per the listing.

What Is The Paradis Latin Christmas Eve Gala?

It is a dinner-show on December 24 at the Paradis Latin cabaret, with a festive menu developed with Guy Savoy and Pierre Hermé, followed by the "L'Oiseau Paradis" revue, reported at around €300 per person. The bookable listing starts from $338 per person, runs 3.5 hours, and permits free cancellation.

Are Crazy Horse Or The Lido Doing Christmas Shows This Season?

Nothing has been announced. No verified Christmas or New Year programming has been found on primary sources for Crazy Horse, the Lido's successors or the other major cabarets, so their December offering should be treated as their normal revue until an official announcement appears.

How Much Does A December Cabaret Show In Paris Cost?

Across the four show products with confirmed December availability, prices run from $193 per person for the lights tour plus Moulin Rouge show to $445 for the year-round Moulin Rouge dinner with champagne and transport. The two holiday programmes start at $326 and $338 per person.

When Should I Book A December Show In Paris?

As early as possible, ideally by late October. The holiday programmes run on a limited set of December dates and the Christmas Eve gala exists for one night only. Products with free cancellation can be booked early and adjusted later; the non-refundable Moulin Rouge Christmas Dinner should be booked only once your dates are fixed.