Water fountains in Paris

367

free public drinking fountains, called fontaines Wallace, mapped within a 3.1 km walk of the centre. They run continuously, cost nothing, and the water is the same supply as the tap.

Tap water in Paris is safe to drink, and the fountains carry the same supply. See why

Map of every fountain in the centre

All 367 mapped fountains within 3.1 km of the centre. Tap any point for its distance from the centre.

Is it safe to drink from them?

Fountain water is the same supply as the tap, so the answer is whatever the answer is for Paris's tap water. That is a question with published figures behind it rather than an opinion.

How they work

The green cast-iron Wallace fountains run from roughly March to November and are drained over winter so the pipes do not freeze. The plainer modern posts run all year.

How far from the landmarks

Straight-line distance from each landmark to the nearest mapped fountain, measured rather than estimated. Walking takes longer than the number suggests.

FromTo the nearest fountain
avenue des Champs-Élysées 61 m Walk there
Sainte Chapelle 71 m Walk there
Bastille 86 m Walk there
Sacré-Cœur 90 m Walk there
Musée d'Orsay 90 m Walk there
Panthéon 105 m Walk there
place de la Concorde 131 m Walk there
Moulin Rouge 142 m Walk there
Tuileries Palace 146 m Walk there
Notre-Dame de Paris 159 m Walk there
Louvre Museum 225 m Walk there
Palais Garnier 296 m Walk there

Looking for the fountains at the Trocadéro instead?

That is a monument, not a drinking fountain. Paris has both, and the words for them are the same in English, which is why this page and that search collide. You cannot drink from the fountains at the Trocadéro; the ones you can drink from are the fontaines Wallace above.

The ones worth stopping at

Most of these fountains are anonymous street taps and there is nothing to say about them. A few are not: these are the ones OpenStreetMap links to a catalogued record, so the description and the photograph both come from somewhere checkable.

  • Drinking fountain

    Drinking fountain 2590 m from the centre

    type of public drinking fountain designed by Charles-Auguste Lebourg

    Photo · Martin Robson from Brighton, UK · CC BY-SA 2.0

  • Fontaine Wallace- Saint-Spire

    Fontaine Wallace- Saint-Spire 1080 m from the centre

    Photo · Mbzt · CC BY 3.0

  • Fontaine Wallace -Nathalie Lemel

    Fontaine Wallace -Nathalie Lemel 1840 m from the centre

    Photo · Mbzt · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • Fontaine Wallace Applique

    Fontaine Wallace Applique 2460 m from the centre

    Photo · Marie-Lan Nguyen · Public domain

  • Petite Fontaine Wallace

    Petite Fontaine Wallace 2890 m from the centre

    Photo · Eric Gaba ( Sting - fr:Sting ) · CC BY-SA 2.5

  • Fontaine de la place Lévis

    Fontaine de la place Lévis 2930 m from the centre

    Photo · BulletZ · CC BY-SA 3.0

Fountains with something to note

Most of the 367 are anonymous street taps and a list of them would be the same line many times over, so they stay on the map. These are the ones with a name, a bottle-filling spout, or step-free access.

  1. 160 m Bottle refill point
  2. 220 m Bottle refill point
  3. 260 m Bottle refill point
  4. 350 m Fontaine de la Croix du Trahoir
  5. 380 m Bottle refill point
  6. 520 m Bottle refill point
  7. 540 m Bottle refill point
  8. 650 m Step-free fountain
  9. 810 m Bottle refill point
  10. 810 m Step-free fountain
  11. 810 m Step-free fountain
  12. 850 m Step-free fountain
  13. 940 m Step-free fountain
  14. 950 m Bottle refill point
  15. 970 m Step-free fountain
  16. 1000 m Bottle refill point
  17. 1010 m Step-free fountain
  18. 1010 m Petite Fontaine Wallace bottle refill · step-free
  19. 1040 m Step-free fountain
  20. 1070 m Step-free fountain
  21. 1080 m Fontaine Wallace- Saint-Spire
  22. 1080 m Step-free fountain
  23. 1080 m Step-free fountain
  24. 1090 m Step-free fountain
  25. 1090 m Ancien point d'eau (à sec)
  26. 1160 m Bottle refill point
  27. 1160 m Bottle refill point
  28. 1170 m Step-free fountain
  29. 1220 m Bottle refill point
  30. 1250 m Bottle refill point
  31. 1290 m Step-free fountain
  32. 1350 m Bottle refill point
  33. 1350 m Step-free fountain
  34. 1380 m Bottle refill point
  35. 1400 m Step-free fountain
  36. 1440 m fontaine d'eau rafraîchie
  37. 1670 m Step-free fountain
  38. 1680 m Step-free fountain
  39. 1710 m Step-free fountain
  40. 1710 m Bottle refill point
  41. 1740 m Bottle refill point
  42. 1750 m Bottle refill point
  43. 1770 m Step-free fountain
  44. 1840 m Fontaine Wallace -Nathalie Lemel
  45. 1870 m Step-free fountain
  46. 1930 m Step-free fountain
  47. 1990 m Bottle refill point
  48. 2000 m Step-free fountain
  49. 2009 m Step-free fountain
  50. 2029 m Bottle refill point
  51. 2050 m Bottle refill point
  52. 2100 m Bottle refill point
  53. 2150 m Bottle refill point
  54. 2150 m Bottle refill point
  55. 2170 m Bottle refill point
  56. 2190 m Bottle refill point
  57. 2310 m Bottle refill point
  58. 2330 m Bottle refill point
  59. 2370 m Bottle refill point
  60. 2390 m Step-free fountain

Each link opens walking directions.

Fountain locations come from OpenStreetMap contributors, refreshed 1 September 2026. A fountain that is mapped is not guaranteed to be running: they are turned off for repairs, and in some cities over winter.

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