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Antalya tickets
Ticket and booking rules for Antalya: timed entries, closing days and official links, checked September 2026.
Checked September 2026 against official sources
Antalya
Bookings and opening rules
Follow the official link before you buy. Full walking days: Antalya itinerary.
Tickets and opening days
- The Aspendos archaeological site is open every day from 8:00 to 19:00 with the ticket window closing at 18:30; Turkish citizens may enter with the Müzekart, and night-museum tickets are sold at 200 lira in addition to the card.Source: Müze Kart (T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı), Aspendos Örenyeri · checked Sep 2026
- The Perge archaeological site is open every day from 8:00 to 20:00 with the ticket window closing at 19:30; the ancient theatre is temporarily closed for restoration work.Source: Müze Kart (T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı), Perge Örenyeri · checked Sep 2026
- The MuseumPass Türkiye e-card costs €165 and is valid for 15 days from the first museum visit, giving one entry to each of more than 350 museums and archaeological sites of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism; it is not valid for night museums after 19:00.Source: Müze Kart, MuseumPass Türkiye E-Kart · checked Sep 2026
- The Antalya Museum page of the Ministry's museum portal lists the museum as closed to visits ("Ziyarete kapatılmıştır"), with no opening hours or prices published; the museum was closed on 16 July 2025 to be demolished and rebuilt on the same site.Source: Müze Kart (T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı), Antalya Müzesi · checked Sep 2026
- Kaleiçi, the walled old town founded as Attaleia around the 2nd century BC, has been a protected heritage zone since 1972; Hadrian's Gate was built in AD 130 with three barrel-vaulted openings entirely of white marble except for the columns, the Yivli Minare of the 13th-century Seljuk complex is 38 metres tall with eight flutes, and the Kesik Minare began as a 2nd-century temple, became a Byzantine basilica and then a mosque whose wooden minaret top was destroyed by fire in the 19th century.Source: T.C. Antalya Valiliği, Kaleiçi · checked Sep 2026
On the day
What to watch at each stop
Suna & İnan Kıraç Kaleiçi Museum
- Open about 9:00–18:00, closed one day a week (check Monday or Wednesday); small entry fee, a few euros; Kocatepe Sokak 25
Perge
- Daily 8:00–20:00, ticket office closes 19:30 (shorter in winter); about €11, on the MuseumPass; the theatre is temporarily closed for restoration
Aspendos
- Daily 8:00–19:00, ticket office closes 18:30; about €15, on the MuseumPass; the opera and ballet festival uses the theatre in September
Side and its theatre
- Theatre and museum ticketed, about €10 each, on the MuseumPass; open daily about 8:00–19:00 in summer; the ruins and the old town are free
Termessos
- Daily about 8:00 to dusk; about €3 at the site plus the national park entry per person and car; on the MuseumPass; 30-minute steep climb from the car park, proper shoes
Questions
Quick answers
Which days should I plan around?
The ministry's archaeological sites are open every day: Aspendos 8:00 to 19:00 with the ticket office closing at 18:30 and Perge 8:00 to 20:00 with the office closing at 19:30 in the summer season, shorter in winter; Termessos, run as a national park, opens from about 8:00 to dusk. The Kaleiçi Museum is closed one day a week, usually Monday or Wednesday, so check before going. Hadrian's Gate, the towers, the parks, the waterfalls' viewpoints and the beaches are open all the time. Friday is market day in many districts and prayer time at the mosques around midday. Aspendos hosts the opera and ballet festival in the theatre in September.
How much do the tickets cost?
Foreign visitors pay in euros at the ministry's sites: currently about €15 at Aspendos, €11 at Perge and €3 at Termessos, with Side's theatre and museum ticketed separately and most of Side's ruins free; the MuseumPass Türkiye covers all of them for €165 over 15 days, and the MuseumPass Mediterranean, about €90 for 7 days, covers the sites of Antalya, Mersin, Adana and Denizli. The Kaleiçi Museum charges a small entry fee of a few euros. The Upper Düden park charges a small fee, around 100 lira, and the Lower Düden park in Lara is free. Hadrian's Gate, the minaret and the towers, Karaalioğlu Park and the beaches are free.
What about the archaeological museum?
The Antalya Archaeological Museum, home to the Perge sculptures, the Herakles Farnese and the sarcophagi, was closed on 16 July 2025 by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism because of earthquake risk and lack of storage, its 100,000 objects moved to stores in the garden, and the building demolished in September 2025 to be rebuilt on the same site; the ministry's target for the new museum is the end of 2026. Until it opens, the finest Perge pieces are out of view, which is one more reason to see Perge itself.
The days these rules belong to
3 days in Antalya
Antalya's old town is walked; everything else is a drive. Day one is on foot inside and around the walls of Kaleiçi, where cars cannot go anyway, with the nostalgic tram along the boulevard above it. Day two is the classic Perge, Aspendos and Side loop, 150 km round trip east along the coast, by hired car, taxi for the day or a tour, since no useful bus links the three sites. Day three is Termessos, 35 km northwest up a mountain road with no public transport, then back through the city to the two waterfalls and the beach. The Antalya Archaeological Museum, the city's great collection of Perge sculpture, closed in July 2025 to be demolished and rebuilt on the same site and is not expected to reopen before the end of 2026, so it is not in the plan. The ministry's sites are open every day and priced in euros for foreign visitors; the MuseumPass Türkiye at €165 for 15 days or the regional Mediterranean pass covers all of them. July and August are hot beyond walking; April to June and September to October are the months.
