Scenic drives · Nice to Monaco Corniches
Verdict
Moyenne Corniche for Èze village, Grande Corniche for La Turbie, Basse Corniche for the seafront towns. Nothing to buy, but in a motorhome Monaco is mostly off limits.
Nice's low-emission zone no longer applies to cars, Monaco has no entry fee and runs at 50 km/h, and the A8 motorway is the toll alternative. In June 2027 the Grand Prix takes over Monaco's harbour roads: the race is on 3 to 6 June 2027, and the set-up starts weeks earlier.
Three roads leave Nice for Menton, stacked one above the other on the same hillside. They are free, short and slow, and the questions drivers actually have are about the ends: the zone in Nice, the parking in Èze and La Turbie, and what Monaco lets in. Everything below was checked on 2 October 2026 against the municipalities, the Métropole, the Monaco government and the operators; sources are at the bottom.
The Èze tourist office lists them by their old departmental numbers, and so do most maps: the Basse Corniche (D6098) along the sea, the Moyenne Corniche (D6007) in the middle, the Grande Corniche (D2564) along the top. Newer maps may show the same numbers with an M in front, the Métropole's numbering; I could not find a Métropole page that lists them, so I use the D numbers the tourist office uses. Two connectors, the D45 and D46, link the levels, so you can change your mind halfway.
The Basse Corniche starts from the end of the Nice seafront and runs through Villefranche-sur-Mer, Beaulieu, Èze-bord-de-Mer and Cap d'Ail into Monaco by the Boulevard Charles III. The Moyenne Corniche is the road for Èze village. The Moyenne skirts Monaco's upper edge rather than entering it, according to French Moments. The Grande Corniche is the oldest line, over the Col d'Èze to La Turbie. If I only had one afternoon, I would go out on the Grande and back on the Basse, and leave the Moyenne for the day I wanted Èze.
Èze has two options worth knowing. The covered car park on the Place Charles de Gaulle is run by Effia, open 24 hours, with a 1.90 m height limit: €4.30 for an hour, €10.60 for three, €34.70 for 24 hours. A roof box or a van will not fit, and I would not try. The open-air Place Figuiera and Place de la Colette charge €3.20 an hour from 06:00 to 20:00 and €1.60 at night, according to the tourist board. Coaches pay €80 at the Place François Demay from 1 January 2026.
La Turbie has a page of rules that is dated November 2021, so treat the prices as the latest the town has published rather than current. It lists three free car parks (Place Neuve, Place de la Crémaillère and around the Tête de Chien sports ground), a blue zone with a one-hour limit and a €35 fine, and the Théodore de Banville car park at €1.50 an hour after 30 free minutes. At Mont-Agel the first hour is free. I would use the free car parks and walk up to the Trophée.
On the roads themselves, I found no published weight or length limit for motorhomes on the Moyenne or Grande Corniche, and no official list of speed cameras along them. That is not the same as there being none: watch the signs, and assume the French rules on the France page apply.
Monaco's municipal traffic order bans motorhomes from parking on every public road and square; the one exception it names is the Parking des Écoles in Fontvieille. Towed caravans may not be driven on public roads at all. Vehicles over 3.5 t are banned from 08:00 to 09:00, most vehicles over 7.5 t are banned outright, and nothing over 2.60 m wide, 4.30 m high or 18.75 m long gets in. Some tunnels have tighter limits, down to 3.20 m high. In a motorhome, I would park outside the Principality and take the bus.
Neither the tourist office nor the municipal traffic order mentions any entry charge for a visitor's car. The tourist office says Monaco follows French road rules, with a 50 km/h limit and a 0.5 g/l drink-drive limit. There are about 40 public car parks, mostly underground, and roughly 1,000 street spaces run by the municipal police that are free for electric cars and metered for everything else. The Salines park-and-ride has 1,800 spaces. I would aim for that rather than circling the Rock.
Nice's zone (ZFE) covers the city centre and the whole Promenade des Anglais. Since 18 April 2025 it no longer applies to cars or vans: only lorries over 3.5 t, buses and coaches rated Crit'Air 4, 5 or unclassified are kept out, and breaking the rule costs €68 according to the city's page, but €135 for a lorry, bus or coach according to the Métropole's. The two official pages disagree; for a car it does not matter, because cars are not restricted. Parliament voted in 2025 to abolish France's zones; according to Weka and Leocare, the Conseil constitutionnel struck that out, so the zones remain in 2026. Nice's own page has not been updated since. A motorhome over 3.5 t is the case I would check on the zones page before going; a car needs no sticker for Nice today, though I would still order a Crit'Air for the rest of France.
The A8 runs above all three Corniches with Monaco exits at 56 and 57 (via the A500 tunnel) and 58 (Beausoleil). It is a barrier toll run by Escota; for scale, the Aix-en-Provence to Nice section costs €27.10 for a car and €31.50 in class 2 in 2026. I could not read a reliable 2026 price for the short Nice to Monaco hop, so I am not giving one. On a busy summer day I would take the motorway to Monaco and keep the Corniches for the way back.
Where to leave the car, from our sister site. Each card is the short version; the full guide has every car park, the tow pound and the charging points.
ParkingInEurope
Ten park-and-rides that cost nothing, and a street tariff that stops dead at 2h15.
Full parking guide for Nice Checked 18 September 2026
ParkingInEurope
The richest car park in the world gives you the first hour free. And the electricity.
Full parking guide for Monaco Checked 16 September 2026
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