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Ticket and booking rules for Agra: timed entries, closing days and official links, checked September 2026.
Checked September 2026 against official sources
Agra
Bookings and opening rules
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Tickets and opening days
- The Taj Mahal is open sunrise to sunset and closed on Fridays, when the mosque inside opens only between noon and 2 p.m. for prayers; night viewing is allowed on the full-moon night and the two nights before and after it, excluding Fridays and the month of Ramadan. Indian and SAARC visitors pay ₹30 per head to the ASI and foreign visitors ₹500, plus a ₹500 toll tax charged by the Agra Development Authority.Source: Archaeological Survey of India, Agra Circle — Taj Mahal · checked Sep 2026
- Agra Fort is open from sunrise to sunset; Indian and SAARC/BIMSTEC visitors pay ₹30 per head and foreign visitors ₹500 plus ₹50 toll tax, and the ₹500 development-authority ticket covers Agra Fort, Itimad-ud-Daulah, Akbar's Tomb at Sikandra and Fatehpur Sikri, with children under 15 admitted free.Source: Archaeological Survey of India, Agra Circle — Agra Fort · checked Sep 2026
- Fatehpur Sikri is open sunrise to sunset; Indian visitors pay ₹30 to the ASI plus ₹10 toll tax and foreign visitors ₹500 plus ₹10, and children under 15 enter free. The fee covers the 93 protected monuments in and around Fatehpur Sikri, and foreign visitors who have bought the toll-tax ticket the same day at the Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Akbar's Tomb or Itimad-ud-Daulah need not buy it again; the toll tax is waived on Fridays.Source: Archaeological Survey of India, Agra Circle — Fatehpur Sikri · checked Sep 2026
On the day
What to watch at each stop
Fatehpur Sikri
- Sunrise to sunset every day; foreigners ₹510, Indians ₹40, under 15 free; the ticket covers the 93 protected monuments of the complex; an hour each way from Agra
Tomb of Salim Chishti
- Inside the Jama Masjid courtyard, free, open through the day; shoes off and heads covered; the mosque and dargah do not need the ASI ticket
Questions
Quick answers
Which days should I plan around?
The Taj Mahal is closed to visitors every Friday, when the mosque inside opens only for prayers, so the Taj day is never a Friday. It is open from sunrise to sunset otherwise, and night viewing runs on the full-moon night and the two nights either side, excluding Fridays and the month of Ramadan. Agra Fort, Fatehpur Sikri, the Baby Taj and Akbar's tomb are open sunrise to sunset every day, Fridays included, and the Agra Development Authority waives its toll tax on Fridays, which makes Friday the cheapest day for everything except the Taj.
How much do the tickets cost?
The Archaeological Survey of India charges foreign visitors ₹500 at the Taj Mahal plus a ₹500 development-authority toll, with about ₹200 more to enter the mausoleum chamber itself; Indians and SAARC citizens pay ₹30 plus the toll. Agra Fort is ₹500 plus a ₹50 toll for foreigners and ₹30 plus toll for Indians. Fatehpur Sikri is ₹510 for foreigners and ₹40 for Indians, and children under 15 enter free everywhere. The Baby Taj, Akbar's tomb and Mehtab Bagh are about ₹310, ₹310 and ₹300 for foreigners. The toll ticket bought at the first of the five main monuments on a given day covers the others, so buy it where you start.
What should I know before the Taj Mahal?
Tickets are timed and bought online through the ASI's portal or at the gates, entry is limited to three hours, and the queues split by nationality and gender at security. Tripods, drones, food, tobacco and large bags are refused; a small bag, a phone and a camera are fine and shoe covers come with the foreigner ticket for the marble platform. The east gate is the quietest at dawn; the south gate through Taj Ganj is closed for entry. The mausoleum chamber needs its own small ticket, and photography is not allowed inside it.
The days these rules belong to
3 days in Agra
Agra is a city of 1.6 million on the Yamuna, 230 km south of Delhi and two hours by the Gatimaan Express, and its monuments are spread along both banks, so every day needs a car, an auto-rickshaw or the new metro's first line. The Taj Mahal is closed every Friday, which fixes the shape of any visit; it opens 30 minutes before sunrise, and the first hour, before the tour buses from Delhi arrive around 9:00, is the reason to stay the night. Fatehpur Sikri is 37 km west, an hour each way by road. The Agra Development Authority's toll ticket, bought with the first monument of the day, is valid at the other four that charge it, so the order of the day matters to the wallet; it is waived on Fridays. October to March is the season; April and May pass 45°C and the monsoon runs July to September.
