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Athens Attractions Tickets: Every Price, and Who Sells It
Athens attractions tickets come from four different sellers who share no calendar, no price list and no refund policy. The culture ministry sells the archaeological sites and the national museums; the Acropolis Museum sells its own; the Panathenaic Stadium sells its own at a desk; and the private museums each run their own shop. This page puts every central sight in one table with the price read on its own official page in Q3 2026, then says which of them actually needs booking. The wider plan is on the Athens city guide homepage.
Quick answer What to book, what to walk up to, and what to skip
Only one ticket in Athens genuinely needs booking ahead: the Acropolis, at €30, because entry carries a declared hour. Everything else in this guide is walk-up, and the two big museums have no timed entry at all.
Key takeaways
- Book the Acropolis and nothing else, unless you want a guide. The full price table shows what each gate charges.
- Four sellers, four sets of rules — who sells what explains why a single Athens ticket does not exist and never will.
- The abolished combination ticket is the question everyone arrives with: what replaced it prices the seven sites at €105.
- In winter, check the free-entry days before buying anything — two Sundays a month the state sites cost nothing.
- And check the opening hours before you buy for a specific afternoon: half the central sites shut at 15:00 from November.
Every central sight, priced from its own official page
Adult and reduced prices as published by each seller, all read on 1 September 2026. "Book ahead" means the ticket carries a time you must choose; everything marked walk-up can be bought at the gate on the day.
| Sight | Full (reduced) | Seller | Book ahead? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acropolis | €30 (€15) | Hellenic Heritage | Yes — declared hour |
| Acropolis Museum | €20 (€10) | The museum itself | No |
| Ancient Agora | €20 (€10) | Hellenic Heritage | No |
| National Archaeological Museum | €20 (€10) | Hellenic Heritage | No |
| Temple of Olympian Zeus | €20 (€10) | Hellenic Heritage | No |
| Panathenaic Stadium | €12 (€6) | The stadium, at its desk | Cannot be booked online |
| Museum of Cycladic Art | €12 (€9) | The museum itself | No |
| Roman Agora | €10 (€5) | Hellenic Heritage | No |
| Kerameikos | €10 (€5) | Hellenic Heritage | Site listed as temporarily closed |
| Hadrian's Library | €10 (€5) | Hellenic Heritage | No |
| Aristotle's Lyceum | €5 (€3) | Hellenic Heritage | No |
| Lycabettus funicular | €13 return (€10 one way) | The hill's operator | No |
| Philopappos Hill | Free | — | No gate at all |
| Changing of the guard | Free | — | On the hour, every hour |
Two lines are worth reading twice. The Panathenaic Stadium does not sell to the public online at all — its own page says electronic purchase is for travel agents, and everyone else pays at the desk. And the Byzantine and Christian Museum is missing from this table on purpose: its own site publishes hours but no price, so we are not printing one.
The tickets people actually buy
The reseller cards for the sights above, with the operator's own rating and review count.
from €36
Athens: Acropolis Ticket with Optional Audio or Live Guide
Pre-booked Acropolis entry sent to your phone, with two audio-guide options and no fixed guide to keep up with. The official price is €30; this is the reseller version of the same timed slot.
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from €26
Athens: Acropolis Museum Ticket with optional Audio Guide
Entry to the Acropolis Museum with optional audio guide. The official price is €20; reduced tickets are only issued at the museum desk, never online.
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from €36
Athens: Acropolis Ticket & Heritage Sites + Acropolis Audio
The bundle the official shop does not sell: the Acropolis slot plus entry to up to five more archaeological sites, including both Agoras and the Temple of Olympian Zeus.
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from €63
Combo: Acropolis & Acropolis Museum with Optional Tours
Both tickets in one purchase — a timed slot for the rock and an any-day ticket for the museum. No official pass covers both, so this is the reseller's convenience.
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from €78.90
Athens: City Pass with Acropolis, Museums, HoHo & Transport
The Acropolis, the Acropolis Museum and a 48-hour hop-on hop-off bus in one pass, with public transport and an island cruise as options.
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Four sellers, and why there is no single Athens ticket
Each of them is an independent organisation with its own law behind it.
Hellenic Heritage, for the state estate
The culture ministry and ODAP sell the archaeological sites and the national museums through hh.gr, with the checkout at tickets.hh.gr. One price all year since the winter discount was abolished, non-refundable tickets, two changes allowed up to two hours before at the Acropolis, and the Digital Guide app included. Their free-entry calendar covers every site they run.
Note the address: hhticket.gr on its own returns an error page — the Acropolis ticket page has that story.
The Acropolis Museum, for itself
A separate legal entity ten minutes from the rock, with its own €20 ticket, its own hours, its own four free days and a rule that reduced tickets are issued at the desk only. Nothing sold by either organisation covers both — the museum ticket page has the detail.
The Panathenaic Stadium, at a desk
Its own operator, €12, cash or card at the ticket desk, valid only on the day of issue and not refundable. The audio guide is included and the lavatory costs €1.50 with exact change. The stadium page has the rules.
The private museums
Cycladic, Benaki and the rest each run their own shop, their own free categories and their own closed days — several of which are Greek movable feasts like Clean Monday and Holy Spirit Monday that appear on no state calendar. The museums hub puts them side by side.
What to book, and how far ahead
A short list, because most of Athens is walk-up.
Book: the Acropolis
The only ticket with a declared entry hour. In June, July and August the early hours go first and are the ones worth having, because the rock has no shade; five days ahead is comfortable and two weeks is safer around the free dates and public holidays. From November to March you can usually buy the same morning.
Book if you want a guide, not a gate
Guided walks, food tours and day trips sell out in a way that state gates do not, because a bus or a small group has a fixed size. If a specific tour matters, book it as far ahead as your dates allow; if any tour will do, book it the day before.
Do not book: everything else
The Acropolis Museum, both Agoras, the Olympieion and the National Archaeological Museum have no timed entry. Buying online for those saves a queue on a hot afternoon and nothing else — and at the Acropolis Museum and the stadium, buying online can cost you a reduced rate you were entitled to at the desk.
Check the calendar before you buy anything
Free-entry days can make a ticket unnecessary; opening hours can make it unusable. Both change what is worth buying for a given afternoon, and neither is obvious from a checkout page.
Athens ticket questions
Is there one ticket that covers Athens?
No, and there has not been since the state's seven-site combination ticket was withdrawn. Four separate organisations sell the central sights and none of them sells the others'. The combined-ticket page prices what replaced it.
What actually needs booking in advance?
The Acropolis, because its ticket carries a declared entry hour. Everything else in the table above is walk-up. What to book explains how far ahead.
Which is the official website for Athens tickets?
There is no single one. For the archaeological sites and national museums it is hh.gr; for the Acropolis Museum, its own e-ticketing service; for the Panathenaic Stadium, its own desk. Who sells what has each.
Are tickets cheaper in winter?
No. Reporting on the ministry's April 2025 policy change says the 50% low-season discount was abolished, and every official page now prints one price all year. What winter does give you is two free Sundays a month.
Can I get a refund?
Not at the state sites — Hellenic Heritage tickets are non-refundable, with two changes allowed up to two hours before at the Acropolis. Not at the Panathenaic Stadium either. Some reseller cards do carry free cancellation, which is part of what the extra few euro buys.
Is a multi-site pass worth buying?
Only from about three sites up. Two official tickets — the rock at €30 and its museum at €20 — cover what most visitors came for. The combined-ticket page does the arithmetic by itinerary.
Where to go from here
The pages behind the numbers in the table.
Acropolis tickets
The official shop, the three rules and the reseller comparison: Acropolis tickets.
The one to bookFree entry days
Two calendars, five fixed dates and ten winter Sundays: free entry days.
Before you buyOpening hours
Six seasonal bands and the Tuesday that opens at one: opening hours.
Before you plan an afternoonReviewed Q3 2026 (July–September 2026); next review Q4 2026. Prices, hours and terms are set by the venue or operator and confirmed at checkout.
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