What a trip to Lyon costs, worked out for your days and your party, with every price traced to where it comes from. And then the part most budgets skip: how to actually pay once you are there.
Food, getting around and sights in Lyon come to €74 – €89 per person per day. Accommodation, flights and the airport transfer are on top.Prices reviewed: November 2026.
Days, people and how you like to travel decide almost everything. Flights are left out: they depend on where you start.
You still need, flights aside
€1,100 – €1,300
≈ $1,200 – $1,500 · rate of October 16, 2026
€78 – €94 per person per day · 7 days and 2 people
Expected
€1,100 – €1,300
Most trips land in here
Set aside
€1,300
With this you are unlikely to run short
Cushion, kept apart
€120
10% of the trip
Food€650 – €850
Getting around€120 – €180
Airport, both ways€65 – €70
Sights and activities€110 – €170
Nights out€30 – €78
Lodging tax and odds and ends€44 – €60
Of that, in cash: €13 – €140
The cash share is our reading of how each kind of place takes payment, not a measurement. Your own bank may charge on top; this page cannot know that.
Accommodation is not in this figure. Add your price per night to include it.
Flights are not included.
You probably will not spend the cushion. Having it to hand covers a night you had not planned, a taxi, or a changed ticket.
Styles
What a day in Lyon costs, by how you travel
Per person per day, two travelling, without accommodation, flights or the airport transfer. A style is not a figure: it is a way of eating, getting around and seeing things, and each one is spelled out below.
Budget
€59 – €73 per person per day
Local food, public transport, the odd paid sight.
FoodLocal and cheap
€41 – €54
Getting aroundPublic transport
€8.40 – €13.00
Sights and activitiesThe odd paid sight
€4 – €6
Sundries: luggage storage, laundry, water
€2.70 – €3.60
Mid-range
€74 – €89 per person per day
Set meals and the odd sit-down dinner, and one paid sight a day.
FoodMixed: set meals and one sit-down dinner
€46 – €60
Getting aroundPublic transport
€8.40 – €13.00
Sights and activitiesOne paid sight a day
€8 – €12
Nights outNow and then
€2.20 – €5.50
Sundries: luggage storage, laundry, water
€3.10 – €4.30
Comfort
€100 – €140 per person per day
The best food level we can price, a taxi when it helps, two paid sights a day.
FoodRestaurants most of the time
€63 – €96
Getting aroundPublic transport, and a taxi now and then
€10 – €15
Sights and activitiesTwo paid sights a day
€16 – €24
Nights outNow and then
€2.20 – €5.50
Sundries: luggage storage, laundry, water
€4.50 – €6.70
A style's total is not the sum of the extremes of its lines: nobody has a trip where everything comes out cheap, or everything dear. “Sundries” is an assumption of ours, 5% of food, transport and sights, not a measurement.
By length of trip
How much money for 3, 5, 7, 10 and 14 days in Lyon
Per person, two travelling together, without accommodation or flights. It is not the daily figure times the days: airport transfers are paid once, so they weigh less the longer you stay.
Days
Budget
Mid-range
Comfort
3
€210 – €250 €70 – €85 a day
€260 – €300 €85 – €100 a day
€350 – €450 €120 – €150 a day
5
€330 – €400 €66 – €80 a day
€400 – €470 €79 – €95 a day
€550 – €720 €110 – €140 a day
7
€450 – €550 €64 – €78 a day
€550 – €660 €78 – €94 a day
€760 – €1,000 €110 – €140 a day
10
€630 – €770 €63 – €77 a day
€770 – €930 €77 – €93 a day
€1,100 – €1,400 €110 – €140 a day
14
€860 – €1,100 €62 – €76 a day
€1,100 – €1,300 €76 – €92 a day
€1,500 – €2,000 €110 – €140 a day
Add your accommodation in the calculator above: it is the largest line and the one we cannot source yet.
Prices
What things cost in Lyon
Eating and drinking: no official statistic measures what eating out costs here, so these are prices from the menu each place publishes on its own website, and each row says where it comes from. It is a sample, not an average: there are cheaper and dearer places, and tourist areas cost more.
What
Price
Source
Eating and drinking
Espresso, Brasserie Georges
€2.40
From the sourceNov 2026
Espresso, Brasserie Le Nord
€2.80
From the sourceNov 2026
Café crème, Brasserie Georges
€2.90
From the sourceNov 2026
Vittel or San Pellegrino water, 50 cl, Brasserie Georges
€3.90
From the sourceNov 2026
Dish of the week, Monday to Friday, Brasserie Georges
€19.50
From the sourceNov 2026
Pistachio sausage, Brasserie Georges
€19.00
From the sourceNov 2026
Pike quenelle, Brasserie Georges
€20.00
From the sourceNov 2026
Andouillette (pork tripe sausage), Brasserie Georges
€20.50
From the sourceNov 2026
Pike quenelle, Brasserie Le Nord
€27.00
From the sourceNov 2026
Andouillette (pork tripe sausage), Brasserie Le Nord
€26.50
From the sourceNov 2026
Lunch menu, Monday to Friday (risotto, waffle and coffee), Brasserie Le Nord
€25.00
From the sourceNov 2026
Three-course Lyonnais menu, Brasserie Georges
€25.00
From the sourceNov 2026
Three-course menu of the day, Brasserie Le Nord
€35.50
From the sourceNov 2026
Lyonnais menu, Brasserie Le Nord
€46.00
From the sourceNov 2026
House beer, 25 cl, Brasserie Georges
€3.80
From the sourceNov 2026
Draught Stella, 25 cl, Brasserie Le Nord
€5.00
From the sourceNov 2026
Glass of wine from a Lyonnais “pot” (Chénas, Mâcon or Côtes du Rhône), 12 cl, Brasserie Georges
€6.00
From the sourceNov 2026
Glass of Côtes du Rhône, 12 cl, Brasserie Le Nord
€7.20
From the sourceNov 2026
Getting around
Single ticket (1 hour, zones 1–2)
€2.10
From the sourceNov 2026
24-hour pass, zones 1–2
€7.10
From the sourceNov 2026
48-hour pass, zones 1–2
€13.20
From the sourceNov 2026
72-hour pass, zones 1–2
€18.50
From the sourceNov 2026
Taxi, 4 km by day, not counting waiting time (the minimum fare)
€8.00
From the sourceNov 2026
Rhônexpress, airport to city, one way (online – at the machine)
€16.30 – €17.40
From the sourceNov 2026
Sights
Musée des Confluences
€12.00
From the sourceNov 2026
Musée des Beaux-Arts, collections
€8.00
From the sourceNov 2026
From the source means we read it where it is set: the operator, the bank, the city or the statistics office. Reported means a guide or the press says so and we have not seen the original. Where sources disagree we show both figures and leave the price out of every sum.
What each food level is made of
A food level is not a number we chose. It is two lists of dishes from the table above, a cheap day and a dear one, and the price is the sum.
Local and cheap
From Espresso, Brasserie Georges + Dish of the week, Monday to Friday, Brasserie Georges + Pistachio sausage, Brasserie Georges (€40.90) to Café crème, Brasserie Georges + Andouillette (pork tripe sausage), Brasserie Georges + Pike quenelle, Brasserie Le Nord + Vittel or San Pellegrino water, 50 cl, Brasserie Georges (€54.30).
Mixed: set meals and one sit-down dinner
From Espresso, Brasserie Georges + Lunch menu, Monday to Friday (risotto, waffle and coffee), Brasserie Le Nord + Pistachio sausage, Brasserie Georges (€46.40) to Café crème, Brasserie Georges + Three-course Lyonnais menu, Brasserie Georges + Andouillette (pork tripe sausage), Brasserie Le Nord + Glass of wine from a Lyonnais “pot” (Chénas, Mâcon or Côtes du Rhône), 12 cl, Brasserie Georges (€60.40).
Restaurants most of the time
From Espresso, Brasserie Georges + Three-course Lyonnais menu, Brasserie Georges + Three-course menu of the day, Brasserie Le Nord (€62.90) to Café crème, Brasserie Georges + Three-course menu of the day, Brasserie Le Nord + Lyonnais menu, Brasserie Le Nord + Glass of Côtes du Rhône, 12 cl, Brasserie Le Nord + Vittel or San Pellegrino water, 50 cl, Brasserie Georges (€95.50).
Getting around
Which ticket pays off
A pass is only cheaper past a certain number of rides. This is that number, worked out from the published fares.
1-day pass at €7.10: it pays off from 4 rides a day at €2.10 each.
2-day pass at €13.20: it pays off from 4 rides a day at €2.10 each.
3-day pass at €18.50: it pays off from 3 rides a day at €2.10 each.
A pass only counts on the lines it covers. Check which ones before you buy.
Accommodation
What the night costs, and the tax on top
There is no open source of hotel prices, and we have not sampled this city yet. So the calculator asks you for the price you have seen instead of printing one that looks plausible.
Lodging tax
Palace (above five stars): €5.39 per person per night
Each line is a subtraction done with the prices on this page. No tricks: just the sum.
What saves
Eating “Mixed: set meals and one sit-down dinner” instead of “Restaurants most of the time”: €17 – €35 less per person per day.
Eating “Local and cheap” instead of “Mixed: set meals and one sit-down dinner”: €5.50 – €6.10 less per person per day.
“Espresso, Brasserie Georges” (€2.40) instead of “Espresso, Brasserie Le Nord” (€2.80): €0.40 less each time.
“Pike quenelle, Brasserie Georges” (€20.00) instead of “Pike quenelle, Brasserie Le Nord” (€27.00): €7.00 less each time.
What does not
The 1-day pass (€7.10) on fewer than 4 rides of €2.10 a day: it costs more than paying for each ticket.
Paying
Payments and tipping in France
What holds for the whole country: where a card is enough, whether to tip, and the taxes.
Where a card is enough
Only the places a source speaks about. Where it says nothing, neither do we.
Where
How you pay
Small shops
Card or cash, it depends From the source
Taxis
Card From the source
From the source means we read it where it is set: the operator, the bank, the city or the statistics office. Reported means a guide or the press says so and we have not seen the original. Where sources disagree we show both figures and leave the price out of every sum.
Tipping
Restaurants
Optional
Taxis
Optional
Taxes and charges
Consumption tax: 20%, and 10% in restaurants and hotels.
If something goes wrong
The numbers and where to go, as the official source publishes them.
For seven days, €550 – €660 per person on the “Mid-range” style with two travelling. Accommodation and flights are not included. The airport transfer, there and back, is included.
How much money do you need for 3 days in Lyon?
For 3 days, €260 – €300 per person on the “Mid-range” style with two travelling. Accommodation and flights are not included. The airport transfer, there and back, is included.
What is a realistic daily budget in Lyon?
Per person per day, without accommodation or flights: €59 – €73 on the “Budget” style, €74 – €89 on the “Mid-range” style, and €100 – €140 on the “Comfort” style.
Can you travel to Lyon on a budget?
The cheapest style we work out is “Budget”: €59 – €73 per person per day, without accommodation or flights. Local food, public transport, the odd paid sight.
How much does food cost in Lyon?
From €41 per person per day (“Local and cheap”) to €96 (“Restaurants most of the time”). The price table has what each dish costs.
How much does transport cost in Lyon?
A ride on public transport costs €2.10. “Taxi, 4 km by day, not counting waiting time (the minimum fare)”: €8.00. The 1-day pass costs €7.10 and pays off from 4 rides a day at €2.10 each.
Is there a lodging tax in Lyon?
Yes: €0.88 – €5.39 per person per night, depending on the category of the accommodation. Under-18s don't pay.
How much cash should you carry in Lyon?
For a week on the “Mid-range” style, about €6.50 – €71.00 per person, two travelling. It is our reading of how each kind of place takes payment, not a measurement.
Is it better to use cash or card in Lyon?
By card: taxis. Card or cash, depending on the place: small shops.
Do you tip in Lyon?
Restaurants: optional. Taxis: optional.
Sources
Where every figure comes from
Each price on this page carries its source. These are all of them. Prices reviewed: November 2026.
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