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Events in Le Mans

One event a year moves hotel prices in Le Mans, and this is what it does to them. Where to stay, how long each district is from the venue, and how to get here.

Illustration: endurance racing at night, prototype headlights streaking past floodlit grandstands, rain-damp tarmac, long exposure
Le Mans 24h · Illustration — a generated image of the kind of scene, not a photograph of the venue.

What is on

DatesEventTypeBooking
9–13 Jun 202724 Hours of Le MansMotorsportClosing

The weeks the city fills

Against what the same hotel costs four weeks earlier — our estimate, not a live rate. Outside these weeks Le Mans prices like any other month.

Getting here

AirportCodeTo the city
Nantes AtlantiqueNTE135 min
Paris Charles de GaulleCDG165 min

Trains: Le Mans (TGV).

Where to stay

Circuit de la Sarthe
DistrictTo the venuePriceWhat it is
Le Mans centre25 min tram$$$The station, the restaurants and tram line 1 south to the circuit
Vieux Mans35 min tram$$$The walled medieval town above the river; small hotels, books out first
South Le Mans & Arnage15 min drive$$Roadside chains either side of the Mulsanne straight; you need a car
Tours90 min drive$$A city an hour away that never sells out, with its own reason to be there
Paris120 min train$$$$TGV from Montparnasse in 55 minutes; the fallback that always has rooms

More on Le Mans 24h: which days to go and when to book. See also motorsport.