Short flight connection for return flight to USA: 85 minutes in CDG or 100 minutes in AMS?

I can't speak for CDG, but AMS is pretty good. You can move up in the passport line if your connecting flight is imminant.

While there is no way to predict exactly what the conditions will be on your date of travel,
on average, Amsterdam will be the better airport to connect in.

CDG is large and potentially confusing. AMS is not small, but less confusing.

As long as your flights are booked on the same ticket, KLM will make sure you get home.

OK thank you both. You confirmed my suspicions. I'll book through AMS. I appreciate the quick responses.

I had a similar dilemma and opted for AMS for my trip later this summer.

I was at CDG last year and it was tight for my connection there even though just under 2 hours (arriving from USA heading to Morocco).

You will be coming from within EU so I expect either connection to be easier/faster.

We have used both airports for flights.

I would give the edge to AMS over CDG. At CDG you have farther to walk between the two terminals.

I would choose Amsterdam. Use their airport planner to navigate your transfer. Info is available about 2 weeks ahead of your flight day. https://www.schiphol.nl/en/transfers/

I too would opt for Amsterdam, mainly because of the ease of the airport, but personally, if I was going to be stuck someplace, the Amsterdam area is much easier to get around and much more pleasant than Paris.

I too would choose Amsterdam. I've had a 90 minute connection at CDG when returning to the US. I was told to run. I thought the agent was joking. I didn't run but walked very quickly. The door closed within a couple of minutes of my boarding. Folks who I knew were also on that flight didn't make it. And I've missed a connection to the US at Amsterdam when my inbound flight was significantly delayed. The airport hotel Delta/KLM (don't remember which, it was a codeshare) put me up in was very nice. Swimming pool, good restaurant and if I had the energy, easy access to the City Center.

Just a reminder that, if you're delayed on a flight returning to the US from the EU on a single ticket, the airline will owe you a substantial amount of reimbursement. That fact (and that I've been retired) means I don't sweat the connection times so much.

jphbucks is partially correct. If the delay is due to an airline issue and not an Act of God
(e.g., weather, war, etc), then the EC261 provisions kick in and compensation is due based
on the amount of delay and the distance traveled. It's not the easiest thing to figure out,
and some airlines will drag their feet to the greatest extent possible before offering a
resolution.

Also, in the event of a delay for any reason, the airline is required to offer "Care of Duty"
which means meals and a hotel room overnight if that is the extent of the delay.

Amsterdam. CDG is awful even for experienced travelers.

Is it my imagination or are airlines scheduling more flights with less time for connections? We don't see as many 2+ hour layovers as we used to.

It's a normal connection in AMS (I've done as little as 1 hr.), it's a tight one in CDG!