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What will your trip cost?

Pick a city, how long you are staying, how many of you are going and how you like to travel. You get what the stay, food, getting around and things to do add up to, plus return flights at the cheapest fare we have found.

$1,968–$2,248

Including return flights from John F. Kennedy (JFK). Typically $2,144, as below.

Where your money goes

Stay $240Food $176Local transport $56Activities $64
What Per person Your trip
Stay $30 a day $240
Food $22 a day $176
Local transport $7 a day $56
Activities $8 a day $64
On the ground, typically $536
Return flights $804 return $1,608
Total, typically $2,144

For this trip, the Lyon guide's budget daily range comes to $360–$640; the rows above are its typical split. Figures are per person, as the guide gives them, so a room for one usually costs more than half of what two pay. The flights are two one-way tickets each, at the cheapest fare found on 4 November; fares move daily.

How to get there

Cheapest flight from $402 JFK → LYS · Nov 14 · 2 stops

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The cheapest one-way fare we have found from John F. Kennedy (JFK) to Lyon is $402. We'll email you when it drops to your price, and again only if it drops further. It runs for six months; every email can stop it.

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How the numbers work

Every city guide here gives a daily cost for each travel style — the range a day costs one person, and a typical split between where you sleep, what you eat, getting around and what you do. The calculator multiplies that by your nights and travellers: a child aged 2–11 counts as half an adult for food, getting around and what you do, and shares your room; a baby under 2 counts for nothing on the ground. Flights are the cheapest one-way fare our daily search has found between the two airports, counted twice for a return, a full fare for a child and about a tenth of one for a baby on a lap; open the flight search for today's price on your dates. All figures are in US dollars.

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