St Stephen's Basilica tickets: 2,600 HUF for the church, 5,000 HUF for the panorama terrace and treasury, and the nave opens at 13:00 on Sundays

💡 The Short Version: Entry is ticketed and checked at the door: 2,600 HUF for the church space, 5,000 HUF for the Panorama Terrace and Treasury and 6,800 HUF for both (about £6, £11.50 and £16), since 1 December 2025. The nave opens at 13:00 on Sundays, and weddings at weekends can restrict it. The terrace and treasury are open every day from 9:00 to 19:00. Cover your knees and shoulders. The Budapest Card takes 20% off. Or book a tour: GetYourGuide’s Basilica entry with optionsad (from £10) starts above the 2,600 HUF church ticket, and its Basilica tourad (from £15) adds a guide.

The tickets, compared

Prices are from the basilica’s own price list, valid from 1 December 2025, converted at about 434 HUF to the pound. Reduced tickets are sold only at the ticket office, on showing a card or document that proves eligibility. Look-alike ticket sites turn up in search results: the operator is bazilikabudapest.hu.

• The prices are those in force from 1 December 2025. The three adult tickets cost 2,400, 4,500 and 6,200 HUF before that date.
• Tickets cannot be refunded if you buy the wrong number, date or type online. To use a ticket on a new date, write to turizmus@basilica.hu.
• If the basilica restricts visits for a religious or state event and the notice was not up when you bought, it refunds the ticket on request.

How to buy

• At the office: the ticket office stands beside the basilica. It sells every ticket, and the reduced ones only there.
• Online: the basilica’s webshop sells the standard tickets. The basilica’s price page links to it.
• Checks: every ticket is checked at the entrance.

The front of St Stephen’s Basilica on Szent István tér. Photo: Slyronit, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Tours worth paying for

The basilica’s tickets are enough for most visitors. The products below are on GetYourGuide, which is not the basilica’s own shop. Prices are its lowest “from” prices, per person.

Entry with options

From £10 · 4.6 stars from 15,145 reviews

Budapest: St Stephen’s Basilica Entry with Optionsad is GetYourGuide’s biggest basilica product. The “from” price is about £4 above the 2,600 HUF church ticket (about £6), and the options with the terrace cost more once you choose them. The basilica’s own combined ticket is 6,800 HUF (about £16).

A guided tour

From £15 · 4.7 stars from 1,559 reviews · 1 to 1.5 hours

Budapest: St Stephen’s Basilica Tourad is a guided visit of one to one and a half hours. It suits visitors who want the history told.

An organ concert

From £25 · 4.6 stars from 1,564 reviews · 1 hour to 2 hours 10 minutes

Budapest: Organ Concert in St Stephen’s Basilicaad is a concert ticket, separate from sightseeing entry. The Budapest Card gives 10% off an organ concert in the basilica. For a longer programme, Classical Music Concerts in St Stephen’s Basilicaad starts at £51.

What to see

The basilica is the largest Roman Catholic church in the capital. The terrace and treasury open at 9:00 every day and the nave only at 13:00 on Sundays, so on a Sunday go up first. Go in this order:

1. The church space. Building began in 1851 to József Hild’s designs, the dome collapsed in 1868 and Miklós Ybl took over, and the church was consecrated in 1905. It has carried St Stephen’s name since 1897.
2. The Holy Right. King Stephen’s mummified right hand, in a glass cylinder inside a neo-Gothic reliquary made in Vienna in 1862, stands at the Assumption altar. It has been shown in the church space since 2018 and is carried in a procession each 20 August.
3. The Panorama Terrace and the Treasury, on the 5,000 HUF ticket or the combined one. Open every day from 9:00 to 19:00, with the city in view.

The painted dome inside St Stephen’s Basilica. Photo: Zophas, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What to skip: the Treasury, if you have limited time, since most people come for the terrace. The church ticket alone is 2,600 HUF, and it costs less than half the combined ticket.

Hours, rules and getting there

• Weekends: wedding services can restrict visits to the church space.
• Services: the basilica is a working church. Mass is at 18:00 on weekdays, and on Sundays at 8:30, 10:00, 12:00, 16:00 (in English) and 18:00, and liturgy has priority over visiting.
• Dress: women wear a skirt or trousers to the knee and a top that covers the shoulders, or a scarf over it. Men wear a shirt and trousers to the knee. The basilica can refuse entry for unsuitable clothing.
• Behaviour: no alcohol, smoking, sharp objects or animals (guide dogs are admitted), and visitors stay on the marked routes.
• Getting there: the basilica is at Szent István tér 1, a short walk from Deák Ferenc tér, where the 100E airport bus stops. Budapest public transport has the fares.

The Budapest Card takes 20% off the tickets. The Hungarian Parliament is a short walk away, and the Hungarian State Opera tours and the Dohány Street Synagogue are the other nearby sights to book. 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. To sleep nearby, where to stay in Budapest compares the areas, and where to eat in Budapest lists places to eat. Danube river cruises, Buda Castle and Fisherman’s Bastion and Matthias Church are the views from the other side. The House of Terror is on Andrássy út, past the Opera, and Budapest’s thermal baths compared covers an afternoon in a bath. The Christmas market in the square outside runs to 1 January 2027.