Luggage Storage At CDG Airport: Where To Leave Your Bags

Is There Luggage Storage Inside CDG Airport?

Yes, CDG Airport has left-luggage facilities, but only one: a single Bagages du Monde desk that serves the entire airport from one counter. It is an independent operator rather than the storage network this site works with, so if you need to stash bags at Charles de Gaulle, that lone desk is your only in-terminal option. The service inside Charles de Gaulle is open 07:00 to 21:00 every day. Radical Storage, the network whose Paris points this site covers, has no storage point at CDG at all. Its airport page exists but carries zero inventory, so a reader hoping to drop a bag at Terminal 2 with a network booking will arrive to find nothing there.

That single-desk fact matters more at CDG than at most airports, because Charles de Gaulle is not one building. It is a sprawl of Terminal 1, Terminal 2 with its sub-terminals, and Terminal 3, connected by the CDGVAL shuttle train. One desk means one location, and everything else is a walk or a shuttle ride away.

The airport operator's own page places the desk in "Terminal 2, level 0, in the exchange hall at Charles de Gaulle 2 TGV Airport Station", while the operator's own page says Terminal 2, TGV Station, Level 4, opposite the Sheraton Hotel at the CDVVAL arrival point. Both descriptions are published and they disagree on the level. The practical reading: head for the TGV station end of Terminal 2 and follow signs for left luggage, and if the level 0 exchange hall does not have it, go up.

The hours deserve one honest caveat. The airport operator and the desk's own page both publish 07:00 to 21:00, but the same company's terms page claims a wider 06:00 to 22:00 window depending on terminals. Two of the three sources agree on 07:00 to 21:00, so treat that as the working figure, and check before relying on an early-morning or late-evening slot. If your flight lands at 22:30, the desk will not be open, and the plan needs to be something else entirely.

What The Official CDG Left-Luggage Desk Costs And How It Works

The operator publishes an indicative price list: carry-on bags from 3 EUR per hour or 10 EUR per day, medium bags from 4 EUR per hour or 15 EUR per day, and large bags from 5 EUR per hour or 20 EUR per day. There is a minimum storage duration of 2 hours and a maximum of 30 days. These are the operator's own published indicative rates, not an observed checkout total, and the terms page itself says detailed and updated rates are available at the point of sale, so treat the numbers as a planning range rather than a quote.

The word "indicative" is doing real work in that table. It is the operator's own label, and it is the honest way to publish airport prices that no one has captured at a live checkout. What is published firmly are the rules around the price: a 2-hour minimum, a 30-day maximum, and pricing that depends on both duration and bag size.

Optional extras are priced separately, and they can change the arithmetic. Supplemental insurance for value up to 3,000 EUR costs 5 EUR per 500 EUR increment. Reinforced packaging is 10 EUR per bag. Priority service is 15 EUR. And if you would rather not carry the bag at all, the same operator will transport it from 25 EUR per bag between Paris intra-muros and the airports, or from 35 EUR per bag between CDG and Orly, with a 50 percent surcharge for delivery in under 3 hours.

Payment is another practical difference from the station lockers. The airport desk takes online payment by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, CB, PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay. Several of the SNCF station consignes in Paris are coins-only or cash-only, which is a real problem for a traveller with no euros in their pocket. At the airport, cards work.

For a traveller weighing this against storing in the city, the honest comparison is on the next sections, but the short version: the airport desk is an hourly product with a 2-hour minimum, and a large bag stored for a full day costs an indicative 20 EUR. A network point in Paris costs 3.90 EUR per bag per day plus a 1.99 EUR per-bag checkout fee, which is 5.89 EUR for one bag for one day as arithmetic on the two published figures. The airport desk is roughly three and a half times that for a large bag, and it buys you the convenience of not going into the city first.

If your plan is to store near a station in Paris instead, these are the three clusters most CDG arrivals end up weighing:

Why Radical Storage Has No Storage Point At CDG

Radical Storage has no storage point at Charles de Gaulle because its CDG page, while real and live, lists zero storage locations, and the same is true of its Orly page. The company simply has not established any partner storage points at either Paris airport, so travelers searching there will find no available options. Both are landing pages with no inventory behind them, and the network's own copy routes airport readers toward its points near the main Paris stations instead. This site's rule is to say that plainly rather than pretend otherwise, because a reader standing in Terminal 2 with a booking confirmation for a CDG point that does not exist has a worse problem than a reader who never found this page.

The network's global marketing says "from 1.90 EUR a day", but that is a worldwide floor, not a Paris price. Across the Paris location cards counted in this site's research, the overwhelming standard rate is 3.90 EUR per bag per day, with only a handful of Bercy-cluster points at 1.90 EUR and three at 5 EUR. A Paris booking should be budgeted at 3.90 EUR plus the 1.99 EUR per-bag fee that appears at checkout. One bag for one day is 3.90 plus 1.99, which is 5.89 EUR. Three days with one bag is 3.90 times three plus 1.99, which is 13.69 EUR, because the fee is charged once per bag and does not scale with nights.

The guarantee deserves the same honesty. Radical Storage advertises a 10,000 EUR guarantee, and its binding terms cap payment at 3,000 EUR per claim, stating plainly that the guarantee "is not an offer to insure your property and does not constitute a contract of insurance". The two figures only ever belong together. If you are deciding whether to leave a laptop in the bag, the 3,000 EUR cap is the number that matters, not the headline.

The terms also set hard deadlines that most people never read. A loss or damage must be reported within seven days of discovering it, or the guarantee is invalidated. A theft must be reported to the police within 48 hours. And a claim requires a signed, itemised list of the bag's contents with estimated values, which means the single most useful thing you can do before handing over any bag is photograph the contents and write the list while you still have the bag. For more on the safety picture generally, see is Paris bag storage safe.

The practical conclusion is simple. If your day is spent in Paris and you only transit CDG at the start and end of it, storing in the city beats storing at the airport on price, on hours and on where you actually need your hands free. The rest of this guide is about how to do that well.

The Gare du Nord Route: Storing Bags In The City Instead

Yes, you can skip airport storage entirely: the RER B runs from the CDG terminal stations to the Gare du Nord cluster in about 35 minutes, and that cluster carries 10 published storage points rated 4.75 across 2,937 reviews, making the city a strong alternative once you drop your bags near the station. For a traveller landing at Charles de Gaulle with a free afternoon and a night flight, the arithmetic favours the city: one bag for one day at a network point is 5.89 EUR in total against an indicative 10 EUR per day for even a carry-on at the airport desk. The bag also ends up where you actually are, not 35 minutes back out at the terminal, which is the part of the decision that usually settles it.

Gare du Nord is also where the RER B from CDG arrives, so there is no second transfer with the suitcase. The station's own SNCF consigne exists too, with staffed duration pricing of 4 EUR for up to 4 hours, 7.50 EUR for 4 to 12 hours, and 9.50 EUR for 12 to 24 hours, open 06:15 to 23:15. For a short stop that official counter is cheaper than a network booking. For a full day the network wins, and unlike the airport desk, the network points cluster: 16 of them around Gare du Nord, with the earliest opening at 07:30 and the latest closing at 23:59.

Hours vary point by point and are often ordinary shop hours, so check the specific point's card before booking rather than assuming anything. The Gare du Nord Grandes Lignes point, for instance, runs 08:30 to 20:00, while other points in the cluster run later. No Paris storage point in this network should be described as around-the-clock; the published hours are the hours.

If Eurostar is part of your trip, Gare du Nord is doubly the right cluster: it is the Eurostar terminus, and Eurostar's own allowance is generous, two bags plus one item of hand luggage on Standard and Plus, with no strict weight limit. The full baggage picture at that station is covered in Eurostar baggage and bag storage at Gare du Nord, and the wider station-by-station view is in Paris train station luggage storage.

What Each Terminal Means For Your Bag

Only Terminal 2 gives you direct access to the storage desk, which sits at the TGV station end of that terminal. If you are in Terminal 1, Terminal 3, or any of the Terminal 2 sub-terminals other than the one housing the desk, you will need to take the CDGVAL shuttle first before you can drop off or pick up your bags. Terminal 2 is not one hall but a set of sub-terminals, and travellers arriving at 2E, the long-haul terminal most intercontinental passengers use, are closest to the desk. Terminal 1 passengers take the CDGVAL shuttle, and Terminal 3, which serves low-cost carriers, is a shuttle ride plus a walk.

This is where the level contradiction bites in practice. The airport operator's page says level 0 of the exchange hall at the TGV station; the desk's own page says level 4, opposite the Sheraton at the CDGVAL arrival point. If you are coming from Terminal 1 or 3 on the CDGVAL, the operator's "at the CDGVAL arrival point" description is the more useful landmark. If you are already inside Terminal 2, follow the TGV station signs. The full index of guides sits on Luggage Storage in Paris.

One more terminal-level fact is worth knowing before you plan a day around it: SNCF treats the CDG 2 TGV railway station as an off-site partner station in its own 2026 tender, which is official confirmation that there is no SNCF consigne inside it. The airport-side service belongs to the airport operator's contractor, not to the railway. A fuller treatment of the Orly side, where the desk sits in Terminal 3 arrivals near the Metro line 14 arrival at Gate 33a, is in luggage storage at Orly airport.

How The Price Compares Across Every Real Option

For one bag for one day, the network route is 5.89 EUR, the Gare du Nord official counter is 9.50 EUR for the 12 to 24 hour band, and the CDG desk is an indicative 10 EUR for a carry-on up to 20 EUR for a large bag. For a short stop of up to four hours, the official station counter at 4 EUR is the cheapest option in this entire guide. Nothing here makes one option universally cheapest, which is why the honest answer is a table rather than a slogan.

The network rate in that table is arithmetic on two published figures, 3.90 EUR per bag per day plus the 1.99 EUR per-bag fee that appears at checkout, not an observed checkout total. The airport rates are the operator's own indicative list. The station rates are SNCF's published tariff.

Two structural differences decide most real cases. First, the airport desk prices by the hour with a 2-hour minimum, which suits a four-hour gap between landing and a hotel transfer, and suits nothing longer. Second, the network price is flat per day regardless of bag size, with no published size or weight limit, which suits a large checked suitcase that the station lockers might not fit. The SNCF locker interiors run 433 x 347 x 824 mm for small up to 908 x 519 x 824 mm for large, and a bag that does not fit does not get stored.

Safety, ID And What You Cannot Leave

You must show a valid national ID card or a passport at the CDG desk, since no other document is accepted for the identity check, and your bag will be X-rayed and scanned before storage. Any items you cannot leave behind should stay with you, as the desk takes custody only of luggage that passes these checks. A driving licence will not get your bag accepted, which is the single most catchable detail in the whole airport process and one almost nobody publishes. The published procedure, on the operator's own page, is check-in after the identity check, then X-ray, then scanning and storage for as long as necessary. Network points work differently: there is no X-ray, no scanner and no ID check, only a label on the bag and the terms behind it.

The same operator publishes the only fully open prohibited-items list of any Paris storage provider this site's research found: hazardous, flammable, explosive or toxic products, weapons and ammunition, perishable goods or fresh produce, live animals, narcotics, counterfeit goods, and radioactive or chemical items. Discovery of a prohibited item means refusal of service with no refund, and possible notification of the authorities. That list is this operator's own; other providers publish nothing comparable.

For network points, the safety picture is contractual rather than procedural. Radical Storage's guarantee is capped at 3,000 EUR per claim, is explicitly not insurance, and requires a signed itemised list of contents as a condition of any claim. Theft must be reported to the police within 48 hours. Valuation is at current market value minus wear and tear, and sentimental value is explicitly irrelevant to the valuation. The practical advice that falls out of the terms: photograph the contents, list them with values, and keep the list with you, before you hand the bag over.

The wider legal backdrop rewards a moment of attention. The law of 28 April 2025 set penalties for abandoned baggage across SNCF and RATP networks: from 72 EUR rising to 450 EUR for involuntary abandonment, 150 EUR rising to 750 EUR where the bag carries no label, and 180 EUR rising to 1,500 EUR for manifest voluntary abandonment. Leaving a bag unattended is not a harmless shortcut, and the free anonymous QR-code luggage labels available in stations are worth sixty seconds of anyone's time. SNCF's own figures say it takes 19 minutes on average to deal with an unattended bag, and 360 items are left behind on trains and in stations every week.

Multi-Day Storage, Early Flights And The Last-Day Problem

The airport desk accepts bags for up to 30 days, and a network point has no published maximum at all, so multi-day storage is not the constraint. Hours and price are the real limits, especially on departure day, when you need your bags back before an early flight and the desk may not yet be open. A 6 a.m. departure is the real problem, because the CDG desk opens at 07:00 and closes at 21:00, and a bag that needs to be with you at 5 a.m. cannot be collected from a closed desk the night before. For early flights, the honest sequence is to store in the city, collect the bag before the point closes the evening before, and spend the last night with the bag, or use a point whose hours match a late-evening collection.

The multi-day price arithmetic favours the network heavily once you pass a day. Three days with one bag at a network point is 3.90 times three plus the one-time 1.99 fee, which is 13.69 EUR. Three days at the airport desk's indicative carry-on day rate would be 30 EUR, and for a large bag 60 EUR. The station lockers sit between the two: at Gare de Lyon, for example, a small locker is 5.50 EUR for the first fixed 24 hours plus 5 EUR per further 24 hours, which is 15.50 EUR for three days.

If the last day is your actual question, the planning detail that matters most is the closing hour of the specific point you book. The Gare de Lyon cluster's points run as late as 23:59, and the Gare du Nord cluster likewise, but individual points close much earlier, and one hotel point in the network's own Paris listing showed as closed at the time of this site's research. Book the point, not the neighbourhood, and read the hours on that point's card. The fuller playbook for the final hours before a night flight is in your last day in Paris with a suitcase.

For overnight and multi-day storage generally, including what happens if a point is closed when you arrive to collect, see overnight and multi-day bag storage in Paris.

The Verdict: When To Use The Desk And When To Take The Train

Use the CDG desk when your gap is two to six hours, you are not leaving the airport, and a carry-on rate of an indicative 10 EUR beats riding into Paris. Take the train instead when you have longer to spare, want to see the city, or would rather put that money toward the trip itself. Take the RER B to Gare du Nord and store in the city when you have a full day, a large bag, or an evening in Paris, because 5.89 EUR all-in against 20 EUR indicative for a large bag pays for most of your return train fare on its own. That is the whole decision, and everything else in this guide is detail around it.

Two cautions keep the decision honest. The airport desk's rates are indicative, published by the operator as a planning list rather than a checkout total, so confirm at the counter before handing over the bag. And the network's advertised "from 1.90 EUR a day" is a global marketing floor, not a Paris price; budget 3.90 EUR plus the 1.99 EUR fee and the numbers in this guide will match what you actually pay.

If you are still weighing the options before booking, these are the same three station clusters again, with live availability:

Common Questions About Luggage Storage At CDG Airport