Munich City Pass or Munich Card: the sums, and which one pays

💡 The Short Version: The Munich City Pass is free entry to more than 40 attractions: €39.90 for one day, €55.90 with zone M public transport and €91.90 for three days with transport. It pays at about three paid sights a day: the Residenz, Nymphenburg and the Deutsches Museum with a day ticket come to €68.10 in singles. It loses on a day of one museum and a tower, about €41. The Munich Card is a discount card from €16.90 for 24 hours with zone M transport, and its discounts at the state sights are about €1 to €3, so it pays through the transport. The €1 Sunday museums and the free sights never need a pass. The passes leave out the BMW Museum, the plant tour, the Skylift and Neuschwanstein. Or buy a card: the Munich Card with zone M transportad is from €17 and the Munich City Passad from €40 on GetYourGuide, at the official lists’ prices.

What the cards are

Three products are sold under similar names. The Munich City Pass is a prepaid pass: free entry to the listed attractions, with an optional public transport ticket. The Munich Card is a discount card: reduced entry at more than 100 partners, with an optional transport ticket. Turbopass sells both, with München Tourismus as the intermediary, on munich.travel. Both cancel free up to 24 hours before they start. The CityTourCard is the MVV’s own day ticket with partner discounts, listed by the MVG from €18.50.

Neues Schloss Schleißheim, one of the palaces on the City Pass list. Photo: Georg Botz, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Munich City Pass prices

Adult, 18 and over. Teens aged 15 to 17 pay from €19.90 and children aged 6 to 14 from €14.90.

Munich Card prices

Adult, 15 and over. The group card is for two to five people with zone M transport.

The sums

Prices are the adult rates from the operators. A zone M day ticket is €10.10, the Deutsches Museum is €18 from 2 November and Nymphenburg is €20 in summer and €16 until 31 March. The New Town Hall tower is “from €7”.

• The City Pass pays when a day holds about three paid state or city sights at €16 to €20 each, or when a three-day plan holds eight or more paid entries. One museum and a tower a day does not pay.
• The Munich Card pays through the transport ticket, not the museum discounts.
• Free sights and the €1 Sundays never need a pass. Free things to do in Munich lists them.

What each pass covers

The Munich City Pass gives one visit to each listed attraction, according to the benefits list dated March 2026, which can change. It includes:

• the Residenz museum, the Treasury and the Cuvilliés-Theater;
• Nymphenburg Palace, the Marstall and the park pavilions;
• the Deutsches Museum, the Verkehrszentrum and the Flugwerft Schleißheim;
• the Alte Pinakothek, the Pinakothek der Moderne, Museum Brandhorst, the Sammlung Schack, the Glyptothek and Antikensammlungen, the Lenbachhaus, the Museum Fünf Kontinente, the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, the Egyptian museum and the Jewish Museum;
• the New Town Hall tower and the FC Bayern Museum;
• Altes and Neues Schloss Schleißheim, the Botanical Garden, SEA LIFE, the Umadum Ferris wheel, the Olympic Park railway and the Bavaria Filmstadt tour;
• the hop-on hop-off bus, the official Old Town tour, the New Town Hall tour and a Radius bike tour.

The Schmuckhof of the Botanical Garden in Nymphenburg, another sight on the City Pass list. Photo: Burkhard Mücke, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

It does not include the BMW Museum, the BMW Welt tours, the BMW plant tour, the Skylift or the Neuschwanstein tickets, and the Dachau tours are 20% off with either card. The list still names the Neue Pinakothek, which is closed until 2029, and the Frauenkirche tower ascent, which has been closed since 13 August 2026. The pass also gives a free city map and 50% off the official city guide.

The Munich Card gives discounts at the state sights that are small. At the Residenz museum, the Treasury and the Nymphenburg palace it is about €1 off, at the Marstall about €1 and at the park pavilions about €1. The Cuvilliés-Theater and the New Town Hall tower are 20% off, the Alte Pinakothek €3 off (€9 to €6), the Pinakothek der Moderne 30% off, the FC Bayern Museum €2 off and the Deutsches Museum €2.50 off.

The €40 palaces ticket

The Bavarian palaces ticket is €40 for one person for 14 days. It covers the Residenz, Nymphenburg, Neuschwanstein, Linderhof, Herrenchiemsee and the Nuremberg Imperial Castle, and not Hohenschwangau. The Residenz and Nymphenburg alone come to €40 in summer, so it pays from a third palace: with Neuschwanstein at €21, the three are €61. It is sold at the palaces’ ticket desks, and an online order is posted, so buy it at the Residenz on your first day. Neuschwanstein still needs a booked time, for the €2.50 fee. See the Residenz page and the Neuschwanstein guide.

Which to buy

• A heavy day of palaces and big museums: the City Pass. The three-day version saves the most when the days are full.
• One museum and a viewpoint a day: day tickets, and no card.
• Palaces only over a week or two: the €40 palaces ticket.
• Sunday: the €1 museums, and nothing else.
• A short stay on transport alone: the €10.10 day ticket, or the €19.70 group day ticket for two to five people. Munich public transport has the rules.
• A long stay on transport: the Munich Card matches day tickets when you use four discounts a day.

What to book before you go to Munich has the closed days for every sight, and Munich airport to the city says which cards cover the airport zone. 3 days in Munich builds a plan round the passes and the closed Mondays, and Munich walking tours covers the official Old Town tour that the City Pass includes. For the same sums in other cities, see Berlin’s WelcomeCard or Museum Pass and the Vienna Pass or Vienna City Card.