How to get to Saint-Etienne?
By plane
Lyon Airport, Saint-Exupéry (25 km est to Lyon, 70 km from Saint-Etienne).
The Rhone-Express tramway links the Lyon-Saint-Exupery airport to the Part-Dieu train station.
There are direct trains from Part-Dieu train station to Saint-Etienne.
Saint-Etienne Boutheon Airport (16 km from Saint-Etienne)
42160 Andrézieux Bouthéon
T. +33 (4) 77 55 71 71
There are direct low cost flights from Porto, Fes, Dubaï, Istanbul.
Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport / Orly Airport
If you arrive to one of these two airports in Paris, you have two options:
1) To take another flight to Lyon;
2) To take a train to Saint-Etienne. There are some direct trains from Charles de Gaulle Airport to Lyon (3 times a day). Otherwise, from both airports you need to take the RER B (or the bus from Orly) to the train station “Paris-Gare de Lyon” and from there take a train to Lyon or directly to Saint-Etienne.
By train
The main train station in Saint-Etienne is called “Gare de Châteaucreux”.
There are direct trains from Paris “Gare de Lyon” to Saint-Etienne (3 times a day).
There are direct trains from Lyon (“Lyon-Part-Dieu”) to Saint-Etienne (twice per hour).
There are direct trains from Paris “Gare de Lyon” to “Lyon-Part-Dieu” (1 per hour).
There are direct trains from Bruxelles to Lyon (5 times a day).
By car
See: Googlemaps
