Paris Open Data Portal (Paris Data)

🤖 AI-generated summary of the sources below · 🔎 Last verified

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed below and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

How this atlas is made · What “last verified” means · What “source-checked” means

The City of Paris opened its open-data portal (opendata.paris.fr, "Paris Data") on 27 January 2011, one of Europe's earlier municipal open-data efforts, publishing hundreds of datasets — mobility, environment, budget, elections — under the open ODbL licence. It stays among the city's most-used digital services (roughly a million downloads and 16 million API calls a month, by the city's own count) and was rebuilt in February 2025. Separately, Paris develops and releases the open-source Lutece framework (public since 2005) that powers many of its e-government services, such as the Dans Ma Rue reporting app.

Live 📅 since 2011
Evidence🏛️ Officialgrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure
what does this mean?The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Scale🏙️ City-wide

Sources

↗ Ville de Paris — Paris en open dataOfficial: portal opened January 2011, ODbL licence, usage figures (~1M downloads / 16M API calls per month), February 2025 redesign.
↗ data.europa.eu — Open Data Paris use caseIndependent EU confirmation of the City of Paris data portal.
↗ Wikipedia — Open data in FranceContext: Paris launched 27 Jan 2011 after a June 2010 council decision; an early but not the first French municipal portal (Rennes preceded).
↗ labo.societenumerique.gouv.fr — From Lutece to CiteLibreConfirms Lutece is a City-of-Paris-built open-source framework (CMS/e-government), distinct from the open-data portal itself.
📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Paris Open Data Portal (Paris Data)” — Paris, France. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/paris-open-data/ (last verified 2026-07-25). Data: CC BY 4.0.

The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.

✉️ Get the next source-checked smart-city project in your inbox

One short email a week: the Landmark, one Insight, the new cities. No spam, one-click unsubscribe. About the newsletter · RSS