"Bures-on-Yvette") is a commune in the Essonne department in the Île-de-France region in Northern France.

It is a southern Parisian outer suburb in the Vallée de Chevreuse, with a population of 9,254 as of 2021.

Bures-sur-Yvette is located in the Vallée de Chevreuse on the river Yvette, along which the RER B line is laid.

The stations on the line serving the commune are Bures-sur-Yvette and La Hacquinière.

Bures-sur-Yvette hosts the greater part of the Orsay campus of the University of Paris-Sud (Paris XI), as well as the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS).