The Eiffel Tower lights up every evening from sunset to 1am (2am during the three months of summer), coupled with the lighthouse on the Tower top that sends out its light beams during the same hours. As for the glimmering lights, this ten minute show is added during the first five minutes of each hour on the hour.

The golden night lighting has adorned the Tower since December 31, 1985. It is composed of 335 spotlights placed so as to highlight the structure of the monument. The beacon and the glittering lights arrived in celebration of the new millennium, December 31, 1999. The beacon’s two beams of light can travel up to 80 kilometers; it is composed of four automatically-operated spotlights. As for the glimmering lights, 20,000 light bulbs are necessary; that is to say, 5,000 per façade.