Athens combined ticket: there isn't one, so here is what each site costs

💡 The Short Version: There is no combined ticket: it ended with the March 2025 season, and every site is sold alone at tickets.hh.gr. The Acropolis is €30, the Temple of Olympian Zeus €20, the Roman Agora, Kerameikos and Hadrian’s Library €10 each, and Aristotle’s Lyceum €5. From 1 November to 31 March the Olympieion, the Roman Agora, Kerameikos, Hadrian’s Library and the Lyceum close at 15:00, against 17:00 for the Acropolis and the Ancient Agora. The first and third Sunday of each month from 1 November to 31 March are free for everyone, and the next free day is 28 October 2026. Or book a tour: the Socrates, Philosophy and Democracy walking tourad is from €42 (GetYourGuide).

What each site costs

Hellenic Heritage sells the tickets for the Ministry of Culture at tickets.hh.gr, and describes each site at hh.gr. Search results for these sites include many sellers with the monuments’ names in their web addresses that are resellers. Prices are per person; reduced tickets are half price.

• No combined ticket. The old multi-site ticket ended with the March 2025 season. Each site is sold alone.
• Reduced tickets are for EU citizens over 65, from 1 October to 31 May, and chaperones on school trips. Visitors from outside the EU aged 18 to 25, among them UK, US, Canadian and Australian visitors, pay the full price. Under-18s from outside the EU and EU citizens up to 25 are free.
• Timed tickets. The shop sells entry for a time. Last admission is 20 minutes before closing; allow 30 at Kerameikos.
• Closed: 1 January, 25 March, 1 May, Orthodox Easter Sunday (2 May 2027), 25 and 26 December. On Good Friday the sites open from 12:00 to 17:00.
• Summer hours at all of them: 1 April to 31 August 08:00 to 20:00; 1 to 15 September 19:30; 16 to 30 September 19:00; 1 to 15 October 18:30; 16 to 31 October 18:00.
• Heat. On 22 to 27 July 2025 the Ephorate closed the Acropolis, the Olympieion, the Lyceum, the Roman Agora, the Ancient Agora and Hadrian’s Library from 12:00 to 17:00.

The sums

The free days

Everyone enters free on the first and third Sunday of each month from 1 November to 31 March (1 and 15 November, 6 and 20 December 2026; 3 and 17 January, 7 and 21 February, 7 and 21 March 2027), and on 6 March, 18 April, 18 May, the last weekend of September and 28 October. The Acropolis Museum keeps its own list. Free things to do in Athens has the full calendar.

Tours worth paying for

None of these sites needs a guide. This walk goes past several of them.

Socrates, Philosophy and Democracy walking tour

From €42 · 3.5 hours · 292 reviews

Athens: Socrates, Philosophy & Democracy Walking Tourad is a guided walk in English past the Ancient Agora, Hadrian’s Library, the Tower of the Winds and Pnyx Hill. Add the tickets for any site you want to enter.

What to see

Temple of Olympian Zeus

Vasilissis Olgas Avenue · €20 · closes 15:00 in winter

The temple stands between the Acropolis and the Ardittos hill, on the bank of the Ilissos river. Building began around 515 BC and the Roman emperor Hadrian completed it in 131 to 132 AD, in the Corinthian order, with 104 columns in the outer rows. Fifteen columns are standing and one lies on the ground, where it fell in a storm in 1852. The site is 7 minutes on foot from Acropolis Metro station (line 2); tram T6 and buses 040, 230 and A2 also stop nearby.

The columns of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, with the Acropolis behind. Photo: George E. Koronaios, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

Roman Agora

Dioskouron Street · €10 · closes 15:00 in winter

A Roman market, financed by Augustus and the family of Herod Atticus between 19 and 11 BC: a courtyard of stoas, shops and warehouses, later paved with marble slabs. The gate of Athena Archegetis, with four Doric columns and a Pentelic marble pediment, still stands on the west side. Only half the site has been uncovered; the rest lies under the houses around it. It is 2 minutes from Monastiraki Metro station (lines 1 and 3).

The gate of Athena Archegetis at the Roman Agora. Photo: Jakub Hałun, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.

Hadrian’s Library

3 Areos Street · €10 · closes 15:00 in winter

Hadrian’s library was inaugurated around 132 AD: a rectangular building with a Corinthian propylon, a courtyard of a hundred columns of Phrygian marble according to the ancient writer Pausanias, and the book depository, reading rooms and lecture halls on the east side. Only the northern wing survives. It is 2 minutes from Monastiraki Metro station, beside the Roman Agora.

The remains of Hadrian’s Library. Photo: Jakub Hałun, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.

Kerameikos

148 Ermou Street · €10, with the museum · closes 15:00 in winter

The cemetery and potters’ quarter of ancient Athens, in use as a burial ground from the Early Bronze Age to the 6th century AD. The Dipylon gate was the main gateway to the ancient city, and the procession of the Eleusinian Mysteries began at the Sacred Gate. The museum holds the funerary monuments, including the one to the young horseman Dexileos. It is 7 minutes on foot from Thiseio Metro station (line 1) and 11 from Kerameikos station (line 3).

The columns of the Pompeion at the Kerameikos. Photo: Jebulon, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

Aristotle’s Lyceum

Pavlou Mela Square · €5 · closes 15:00 in winter

The remains of the palaestra of the Lyceum gymnasium, where Aristotle taught for about twelve years after returning to Athens in 335 BC. The remains came to light in 1996 during excavations for the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation Museum of Modern Art. A circular path runs round the site under olive and cypress trees. It is 3 minutes from Evangelismos Metro station (line 3), close to the Byzantine and Christian Museum and the Cycladic museum.

Practical information

• Plan the order by closing time. From November to March, put the Olympieion, the Roman Agora, Hadrian’s Library, Kerameikos and the Lyceum in the morning, and the Acropolis and the Ancient Agora after them.
• Walking distances: the Roman Agora and Hadrian’s Library are 2 minutes from Monastiraki station and beside each other; the Ancient Agora is 4 minutes from Monastiraki Square.
• The one thing that ruins a visit: reaching the Olympieion, the Roman Agora, Kerameikos or Hadrian’s Library after 14:30 between 1 November and 31 March. Last admission is 20 minutes before the 15:00 closing.

The Ancient Agora and the Acropolis are the two with their own pages, and Monastiraki’s flea market is beside the Roman Agora. What to book before you go to Athens has the closed days for every sight. Athens in one or two days fits these sites round the winter closing times, and the best time to visit Athens has the hours month by month.