Dohány Street Synagogue tickets: 9,000 HUF, closed every Saturday and on Jewish holidays, and the box office shuts an hour before closing

💡 The Short Version: An adult ticket is 9,000 HUF (about £21). The synagogue is closed every Saturday and on Jewish holidays, including 3 and 4 October 2026. From 24 May 2026, until further notice, it is open Sunday to Thursday 10:00 to 20:00 and Friday 10:00 to 16:00, and the box office and entrance close an hour before closing. Cover knees and shoulders, or buy a cloak at the door for 500 HUF. Some resellers print 14,500 HUF for admission, against 9,000 HUF on the synagogue’s own ticket site. Or book a tour: GetYourGuide’s Jewish Quarter walking tour with synagogue entriesad (from £46) is the guided option.

The tickets, compared

Prices are from the synagogue’s ticket site, dohanyutcai.hu, converted at about 434 HUF to the pound. Student tickets need a Hungarian student card or an ISIC. The same tickets are sold on jegy.hu.

• The price has not changed since at least June 2025.
• Rumbach Street: student 1,200 HUF, child 1,000 HUF and family 4,000 HUF.
• Budapest Card: 10% off the Dohány ticket, the Kazinczy Street Synagogue and the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives.
• Look-alike sites turn up in search results and print different prices. The synagogue’s own ticket site is the one above.

How to buy

• At the box office or online: the synagogue sells tickets at its box office and on its ticket site. The pages give no booking horizon, so a ticket can be bought on the day.
• Hours: see the table below. The box office and the entrance close an hour before the closing time.
• Entry: a security check at the entrance. Anyone attending a service shows ID or a passport.
• Tours: the ticket site also sells guided tours, and the tours below are on GetYourGuide.

The front of the Dohány Street Synagogue, with its two towers. Photo: Suicasmo, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Tours worth paying for

The ticket is enough for most visitors. The products below are on GetYourGuide, and prices are its lowest “from” prices, per person. The admission is about £21 on its own.

Priority entry

From £33 · 4.7 stars from 67 reviews · 45 minutes

Budapest: Dohány Synagogue & Jewish Museum w/Prio Entryad costs about £12 more than the 9,000 HUF ticket. It buys the priority entry and nothing else listed, so it suits only visitors who do not want to queue at the box office.

A walking tour with entries

From £46 · 4.7 stars from 176 reviews · 2.5 hours

Budapest: Jewish Quarter Walking Tour with Synagogue Entriesad is a guided 2.5-hour walk of the quarter that includes the synagogue entries. It costs about £25 more than the Dohány ticket, and the rest is the guide.

A longer heritage tour

From £59 · 4.8 stars from 656 reviews · 2 to 4 hours

Budapest: Jewish Heritage Guided Tour with Synagogue Ticketad is the biggest guided product, with a synagogue ticket included. Pick it for the guide and for the longer route, not the price.

A walk without entry

From £2.55 · 4.8 stars from 428 reviews · 1.5 hours

Budapest: Past & Present Jewish District Walkad is a 1.5-hour walk round the district. The listing’s price is the lowest “from” price, and it does not include the 9,000 HUF ticket.

What to see

The synagogue complex is on Dohány utca, and Rumbach Street is a few minutes away. Go in this order.

1. The Dohány Street Synagogue. Built in 1854 to 1859 in a Moorish style, to designs by Ludwig Förster, it seats nearly 3,000: 1,497 men on the ground floor and 1,472 women in the galleries. It is a Neologue synagogue, so men and women sit apart at services.
2. The garden behind it. Dohány utca was the edge of the Jewish ghetto in the Second World War, and about 2,600 of those who died in the Holocaust are buried in the garden.
3. The Jewish Museum, the Heroes’ Temple and the memorial park are part of the complex. One tour operator names the Raoul Wallenberg Memorial Park, with its weeping-willow memorial tree, among them.
4. The Rumbach Street Synagogue, on its own 3,000 HUF ticket, if you want a second building.

The nave of the Dohány Street Synagogue, with its galleries on both sides. Photo: Alexey Elfimov, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0.

What to skip: Rumbach Street, if the Dohány ticket has filled your hour. The quarter around the synagogue is also where Budapest’s ruin bars are: see Budapest ruin bars, which come after the synagogue closes.

Hours, rules and getting there

• Closed on Jewish holidays, as well as every Saturday. The ticket listing gives the dates, and the box office and entrance close an hour before the time shown.
• Dress: no sleeveless tops, and no shorts or skirts above the knee. A cloak is sold at the door for 500 HUF.
• Services: prayers are on Friday at 18:00 and Saturday at 9:30 in the Dohány Street Synagogue. At a service men cover their heads and men and women sit apart. Photographs and video are not allowed during Shabbat services.
• Getting there: the nearest metro stop is Astoria, on line M2. Trams 47 and 49 stop at Astoria, and bus 74 at Károly körút. Budapest public transport has the fares.

The Budapest Card takes 10% off the ticket. St Stephen’s Basilica and the Hungarian State Opera tours are within walking distance, and the House of Terror tells the history of the same period on Andrássy út. The Hungarian Parliament is the other sight to book ahead, and Budapest’s thermal baths compared covers a bath. For the rest of the city’s bookings, see what to book before you go to Budapest. 3 days in Budapest and Budapest in one day build the plan round the bookings, including the Saturday closure. To sleep in the district, where to stay in Budapest compares the areas, and where to eat in Budapest lists places to eat. Budapest ruin bars cover the evening in the same streets, and two of the walks in Budapest food tours compared start in the Jewish Quarter.