Schönbrunn Palace tickets: €42 for the whole piano nobile, €49 with the gardens, and a fixed admission time on every ticket

💡 The Short Version: The Palace Ticket is €42 (audio guide, the whole piano nobile, about 75 minutes) and the State Apartments ticket is €30 (selected rooms, about 40 minutes). The Classic Pass is €49 and adds the Privy Garden, Orangery Garden, Maze and Gloriette, but it is a summer ticket, sold to 2 November 2026. Every palace ticket has a fixed admission time, and the Schönbrunn Group says genuine tickets are sold online only at imperialtickets.com. From 3 November the palace opens 8:30 to 17:00 until 31 March 2027. Or book a tour: the skip-the-line palace and gardens tourad (from €63) puts a guide and the entry in one booking, and the operator’s own guided tour is €44.

The tickets, compared

Prices are the adult rate from the Schönbrunn Group, which runs the palace. They are the summer-season prices, sold to 2 November 2026 and subject to seasonal change after that. Palace tickets are for a fixed admission time.

• The Classic Pass saves €9 on the Palace Ticket (€42) and the Exclusive Gardens ticket (€16) bought separately, which come to €58.
• The Classic Pass Plus costs €6 less than the Palace Ticket, the Zoo (€29) and the Exclusive Gardens ticket bought separately, which come to €87, and it adds the Desert Experience House and the Palm House.
• Resellers still list the old names. The Imperial Tour (22 rooms) and the Grand Tour (40 rooms) are now the State Apartments and the Palace Ticket, and the operator gives no room counts.
• Prices rose for summer 2026. The Palace Ticket, State Apartments and guided tour were €38, €28 and €39 in winter 2025/26.

The Great Gallery on the piano nobile. Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.

How to buy

• Online at imperialtickets.com, the Schönbrunn Group’s own shop, or at the ticket desks at the palace. Buy online to choose the time.
• A booked time is the entry. Admission is by fixed time, and busy days sell out. Last admission to the palace and each attraction is 45 minutes before closing, and 30 minutes for the Privy Garden, Orangery Garden and Gloriette.
• Card only at the garden ticket offices. The offices at the Maze, Privy Garden and Gloriette take cards and no cash.
• Concessions: students aged 19 to 25 with an international student card, and disabled visitors with valid ID, pay less. A person accompanying a blind or vision-impaired visitor or a wheelchair user enters free.
• Audio guides come free with the Palace Ticket and the State Apartments, in 21 languages, handed out after the turnstiles.

Tours worth paying for

The tours below include the entry and a guide. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices, per person. The operator’s own guided tour is €44 for 75 minutes.

Skip-the-line palace and gardens tour

From €63 · 8,440 reviews · 2 hours

Vienna: Schönbrunn Palace & Gardens Skip-the-Line Tourad is GetYourGuide’s biggest Schönbrunn product. It includes the palace entry, a guide and the gardens, for €21 above the Palace Ticket.

A cheaper palace and gardens tour

From €57.95 · 1,979 reviews · 2 hours

Vienna: Skip-the-Line Schönbrunn Palace and Gardens Tourad is a 2-hour palace and gardens tour for €5.05 less. A third version, Schönbrunn Palace & Garden Skip-the-Line Guided Tourad, is from €52.25 with 1,338 reviews.

The skip-the-line tour priced by date

From €15.59 · 8,066 reviews · 1 to 2.5 hours

Vienna: Skip-the-Line Schönbrunn Palace & Gardens Tourad is priced by date, so the figure above is its lowest. Check the price for your day on the booking screen.

The after-hours ticket

From €42 · 757 reviews · 40 minutes

Schönbrunn Palace: Exclusive Ticket after the opening hoursad is a visit to the private apartments of Franz Joseph and Elisabeth, the Great Gallery and other rooms after the palace closes. It costs the same as the Palace Ticket for about half the time, and the listing says it is likely to sell out.

The palace and the Panorama train

From €51 · 298 reviews · 2 hours

Vienna: Skip the Line Schönbrunn Palace & Panoramic Trainad adds a ride on the Panorama train through the gardens. The train alone is from €9ad.

What to see

Schönbrunn is a Baroque palace and park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996. The tickets decide which rooms you see, so plan by the time each takes.

Schönbrunn Palace and the Great Parterre, seen from the Gloriette end of the park. Photo: Thomas Wolf, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.

1. The piano nobile (about 75 minutes). After an introduction to the palace’s history, the route runs through Franz Joseph’s rooms (the Audience Chamber, his study, and the bedroom where he died on 21 November 1916) and Empress Elisabeth’s apartments. The state rooms follow: the Hall of Mirrors, the three Rosa Rooms, the Great Gallery (43 metres long, almost 10 metres wide) and the two Chinese Cabinets. Maria Theresa’s rooms come last, with the Vieux Laque Room, the Porcelain Room and the Millions Room.
2. The ground floor. Maria Theresa’s summer rooms, with Johann Wenzel Bergl’s landscape murals, are on the guided tour.
3. The park (free, 1 to 2 hours). The Great Parterre runs from the palace towards the Gloriette and its viewing terrace. Both the Gloriette terrace and the Privy Garden are up stairs only.
4. The Maze and the Orangery Garden. The Maze is open to wheelchairs, and children under 14 need an adult in it.
5. The Zoo and the Carriage Museum. The zooad is €29 for an adult (€17 for ages 6 to 18) and is open 365 days a year. The Imperial Carriage Museum is €12 online or €14 at the door, daily 9:00 to 17:00 until 30 November.

What to skip: the State Apartments ticket, unless time is tight. It saves €12 and 35 minutes, and leaves out part of the piano nobile that the Palace Ticket covers.

The order that works: take the earliest palace slot, 8:30, then walk the park to the Gloriette.

The Gloriette on its hill at the end of the Great Parterre. Photo: Tournasol7, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.

Hours, rules and getting there

• Open daily, including public holidays. The park gates open at 6:30 and close at 17:30 from November to February, 19:00 in March and October, 20:00 in April and September and 21:00 from May to August.
• Fountains: the park fountains do not run from mid-October to mid-April, and the festive lighting of the palace and Gloriette is switched off.
• Bags: free lockers are in the Group Center, which also has an ATM. There are no dogs, bicycles or drones in the palace or park.
• Photography: generally allowed in the state rooms for personal use, with no flash, tripods or selfie sticks.
• Getting there: the palace is at Schönbrunner Schloßstraße 47. Take the U4 to Schönbrunn.

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