Connection time of 3 hours enough for Charles de Gaulle airport?

Is it a one ticket journey?

Checked bags?

What is your origin & when is the trip?

Historically, 3 hours has been my preferred amount of time for a connection at CDG. It gives some buffer for your incoming flight being a little late and should give you plenty of time to transit immigration and the airport.

Caveats:
1. This assumes the entire itinerary is on a single ticket
2. Airline schedules at this point remain a guestimate of what airlines will actually operate, so don't be surprised if changes are made to your itinerary.

Before Covid my husband and I spent two weeks in Naples every September. We stopped connecting through CDG after the year that a 5-hr layover was not enough time to make our connection. Once we started flying through Frankfort or Munich we had no problems.

We have connected through CDG several times and had less than 3 hours and no problems.

If it's one ticket booked through one airline, it should be fine, barring of course some surprise.

The trip will be May 19th, no checked luggage, leaving Seattle direct to Paris, all on a Delta/Air France ticket. Returning June 16th is Milan-Paris-Seattle with a five hour connection time. There is a direct Seattle-Newark-Naples flight on United. It’s much more expensive and I have had a terrible experience there and swore to avoid if at all possible. I could always book a cheap flight from Paris to Naples as back up I suppose.

The trip will be May 19th, no checked luggage, leaving Seattle direct to Paris, all on a Delta/Air France ticket. I could always book a cheap flight from Paris to Naples as back up I suppose.

Why? If you book the entire journey Seattle to Naples from one carrier (even if it involves legs on partner airlines) then the carrier is obligated to get you there if you miss their connection. They'll put you on another flight, no need to buy it yourself. And you're doing the right thing IMHO by connecting in Europe. There are far more flights within Europe than across the Atlantic.

As for whether 3 hours is enough, the answer is "usually". Nobody can predict if your flight to Paris will be delayed and by how much. 3 hours is a comfortable gap to allow for most delays, but there are always going to be fat-tail events.

I've had a one and a half hour connection that worked out fine -- even had time to buy a pain au chocolat and eat it in a leisurely fashion. But I would never plan it that way -- my flights changed after I booked them.

I prefer to have at least three hours at CDG. It can be totally chaotic, though I've never had one that took longer than that.

Fantastic!!! Thanks all. I am going to purchase the ticket now. 🙂

Air France has a flight to Naples 6 hours later that day, so you should be OK.