Day trips from Dijon

Which day trip from Dijon suits you?

Choose by what you want from the day: wine villages, a town, a château or an abbey. Drive times are by road from Dijon-Ville station, where the TER regional trains leave too. Opening times and prices were checked on 28 October 2026 on each place's own website; confirm them before you go.

How do you spend a day in the Côte de Nuits from Dijon?

Follow the Route des Grands Crus, which starts in Dijon and runs south along the foot of the slope: Marsannay-la-Côte comes first, 8 km from the centre, then Gevrey-Chambertin at 13 km, the Château du Clos de Vougeot at about 18 km and Vosne-Romanée at 21 km, 15 to 25 minutes by road.

Gevrey-Chambertin holds nine of Burgundy's 33 grands crus: taste with a family domaine there, by appointment, or begin at the Château de Marsannay, a winery built in 1990 in the style of an old estate, whose short tasting of three wines needs no appointment. At the Château du Clos de Vougeot, which the Cistercian monks of Cîteaux built in the middle of their walled vineyard of some 50 hectares, you see the vat house with its four giant presses and the great cellar. It opens every day, from 9.30 to 18.00 from April to October and from 10.00 to 17.00 in winter; the self-guided visit costs €12 without booking, and the guided tours in English, at 11.30 and 15.30, are booked by e-mail. Two kilometres south, above Vosne-Romanée, you see the Romanée-Conti vineyard from the lane: it is a working vineyard, with no visit.

Half a day fits two tastings and the Clos de Vougeot. A full day adds lunch in Nuits-Saint-Georges and a third visit, or the Côte de Beaune further south. Most family domaines close on Sundays, so keep this day for Monday to Saturday.

Without a car, about 22 TER trains a day reach Gevrey-Chambertin in about 15 minutes, but the station lies some 2 km below the village. The Mobigo coach 113 leaves Dijon-Ville station seven times a day from Monday to Saturday and twice on Sundays, stops on the main road below Gevrey-Chambertin, Chambolle-Musigny, Vougeot and Vosne-Romanée, and costs €2: the 8.40 reaches Vougeot at about 9.15, and the last coach back leaves Vougeot at about 18.50, Monday to Saturday. That makes one or two villages per outing; our guide to Burgundy's wineries without a car has every option.

Is Beaune worth a day trip from Dijon?

Yes, and it is the easiest one without a car: about 45 TER trains a day take 18 to 30 minutes, the last ones leaving at about 22.00 in each direction, and Beaune station is about 1 km from the Hôtel-Dieu.

Start at the Hôtel-Dieu, the hospital for the poor that Nicolas Rolin founded in 1443 under its roofs of glazed tiles; it opens every day from 9.00, and the visit takes about an hour. Then taste in the old town, where the Marché aux Vins across the street and the cellars of the merchant houses receive visitors every day: our guide to wine tasting in Beaune compares them. With a car or a driver, the Côte de Nuits lies on the way there or back, and Pommard, Volnay and Meursault are 5 to 9 km beyond the town.

Which châteaux around Dijon are worth the trip?

More than 40 of the châteaux on this site lie within 45 km of Dijon by road, but only about 20 let visitors in, for a tour, a tasting or their gardens, and several, such as the Château d’Arcelot east of the city, open only in July and August. Choose by the kind of visit you want.

Châteauneuf and Commarin, 5 km apart, make an easy half day: go from Thursday to Sunday in season, when both open, and add the gardens of Barbirey, about 20 minutes away in the Ouche valley.

Is Fontenay Abbey worth the trip from Dijon?

Yes, if you want to see how the monks lived: Fontenay Abbey, founded in 1118 by Bernard of Clairvaux and listed by UNESCO in 1981, is a complete Cistercian monastery alone in a wooded valley, about 75 km and an hour to an hour and a quarter from Dijon. You walk on your own through the church, the cloister, the chapter room, the dormitory and the forge with its hydraulic hammer, then the gardens; allow 1.5 to 2 hours. It opens every day, from 10.00 to 18.00 from 3 April to 1 November, and from 10.00 to 12.00 and 14.00 to 17.00 the rest of the year.

Make a full day of it with Flavigny-sur-Ozerain, 25 minutes away: a walled village on a rocky spur, one of the Plus Beaux Villages de France, where Les Anis de Flavigny are still made inside the old abbey and the film Chocolat was shot. The MuséoParc Alésia, on the site of the battle between Caesar and Vercingetorix, is 10 minutes from Flavigny, and the Château de Bussy-Rabutin 15.

Without a car, take the train to Montbard, 35 to 40 minutes from Dijon with about 16 trains a day, then cover the last 6 km by taxi, €18 to €24 according to the abbey, or on a bike hired from the Montbard tourist office. No train reaches Flavigny.

Why visit the Château de Bussy-Rabutin?

For rooms that read like a diary on the walls. Roger de Bussy-Rabutin, a soldier and writer at the court of Louis XIV, was sent to the Bastille and then exiled to this estate over a satirical book about the court, and spent some seventeen years filling it with more than 300 paintings: portraits of the people of his world, painted emblems and mottoes in the Salle des Devises, and the Tour Dorée, lined with portraits.

Allow about an hour and a half with the park. It opens every day except five public holidays, with a break at lunchtime, until 18.00 from mid-May to mid-September and 17.00 the rest of the year, last entry an hour before; the ticket costs €9, free for under-18s, and the guided tours are in French. The painted rooms make it a good choice for a rainy day, and it pairs with Flavigny-sur-Ozerain and Fontenay Abbey. By train, the nearest station is Les Laumes-Alésia, about half an hour from Dijon on a direct train and 8 km from the château.

Why go to Châteauneuf-en-Auxois?

To walk into a medieval fortress that still looks the part. The Château de Châteauneuf stands on a limestone ridge above the valley of the Canal de Bourgogne, with five round towers joined by curtain walls, a drawbridge and the chapel of Philippe Pot, the counsellor to whom Duke Philip the Good gave the castle in 1457. The Region, which owns it, has completed a restoration that opened parts once closed to visitors, and the village of stone houses around it is one of the Plus Beaux Villages de France.

Allow about an hour for the château, more for the lanes of the village and the view. It opens all year except on Mondays, from 9.45 to 12.30 and 14.00 to 17.30, until 18.00 in July and August, for €6. Its access page gives the roads and the cycle path along the canal but no train or bus, so come by car or with a driver: about 40 minutes from Dijon on the A38. Add the Château de Commarin, 5 km away, or the gardens of Barbirey on the way back.

How does a private driver work from Dijon?

Your driver meets you at Dijon-Ville station, off the TGV from Paris, or at your hotel in Dijon, waits at each stop and brings you back. Prices are per car for up to four guests, with tolls, parking and waiting included.

For a day in the vineyards, the full wine day starts at your hotel in Dijon or at Dijon-Ville station and brings you back there: 8 hours for €560 per car, the same price as from Beaune, with time for the grand cru villages of the Côte de Nuits and, after lunch, the Côte de Beaune. The long day, 12 hours for €880, starts in Dijon too and reaches Chablis. The Côte de Nuits day from Dijon station plans the drive through the grand cru villages around your trains. For other days, the driver by the hour is the flexible choice, €75 an hour with a 3-hour minimum: about 5 hours for Châteauneuf and Commarin (€375), 7 to 8 for Fontenay Abbey with Flavigny-sur-Ozerain or Bussy-Rabutin (€525 to €600), and about 4 for a short visit to the Côte de Nuits (€300), as the half-day wine tour starts around Beaune. If you would rather sleep in Beaune, the transfer from Dijon station costs €120.

You book your tastings and tickets yourself, directly with each domaine or château; we suggest domaines that receive visitors and plan the day around your appointments. Every price for the city is on our page for a private driver in Dijon.