International Agricultural Show

An unmissable event for French farming, the International Agricultural Show attracts more than six hundred thousand visitors to Paris Expo Porte de Versailles every year for nine days devoted to livestock, regional produce and French gastronomy.

The International Agricultural Show is one of the largest consumer events held in France every year, bringing more than six hundred thousand visitors to Paris Expo Porte de Versailles over its nine days. The 2027 edition, scheduled from 27 February to 7 March with Serbia as guest of honour, continues a tradition firmly anchored in the Paris calendar, the show having become over the decades an event followed well beyond the farming world, to the point of being an almost obligatory stop for French politicians at this time of year.

The show occupies several halls of the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre to present all the sectors of French livestock farming, from cattle, sheep and horse breed competitions to regional stands devoted to local produce and gastronomy, as well as educational areas for younger visitors, creating an extremely rich visit that attracts a very wide family audience over all nine days.

The show's exceptional attendance, one of the highest of the year at Paris Expo across all types of fairs, puts considerable pressure on all access to the site, with metro line 12 and the T3a tram carrying far more passengers than usual, especially at weekends, which traditionally draw the biggest crowds.

The presence of many animals on site, brought in by specialist lorries for the duration of the show, requires particular logistics around the exhibition centre, with traffic areas dedicated to livestock vehicles adding to the usual flow of visitors and occasionally complicating road access to the site during set-up and dismantling.

For farming and agri-food professionals travelling to Paris specifically for the show, often for B2B meetings with regional exhibitors or the institutions present, full-day chauffeur hire makes it easy to combine business meetings with the visit itself, a format particularly suited to the size of the site and the variety of halls to cover.

For families or tourists discovering this iconic event of French culture, private transport to Porte de Versailles avoids saturated public transport on busy days, particularly at weekends, when families from Paris and many visitors from the regions all head to the site at the same time.