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Ticket and booking rules for Jaipur: timed entries, closing days and official links, checked September 2026.
Checked September 2026 against official sources
Jaipur
Bookings and opening rules
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City Palace Museum: hours and tickets
- The City Palace Museum is open from 9:30 to 18:30 seven days a week, with the last tickets sold at 18:00, and it closes only on Dhulandi, the second day of Holi. There are two entrances, Gate 1 next to the Jantar Mantar ticket counter and Gate 2 at Jaleb Chowk, and tickets are sold at both; parking is only at Gate 2, and the nearest metro station is Badi Chaupar on the Pink Line.Source: City Palace Museum, Jaipur — Visit · checked Sep 2026
- The museum ticket covering the courtyards and galleries costs ₹400 for an Indian adult, ₹200 for students and children under 12 and ₹200 for senior citizens and defence personnel, and ₹1,200 for an international adult with ₹600 for students and children. The composite ticket, which adds Jaigarh Fort and the royal cenotaphs at Gaitore, costs ₹500 for an Indian adult and ₹1,700 for an international adult, with concessions at ₹300 and ₹850.Source: City Palace Museum, Jaipur — Ticket information · checked Sep 2026
- The Chandra Mahal Royal Tour, which takes visitors into parts of the palace the royal family still occupies, costs ₹4,000 for an Indian adult and ₹5,000 for an international adult and can only be bought at the ticket counter, not online. The Textile Gallery in Mubarak Mahal has been closed for restoration since 27 March 2026 and the Museum at Night programme is temporarily suspended; golf carts within the complex cost ₹150 a person, and guides can be hired at the ticket desk.Source: City Palace Museum, Jaipur — Ticket information · checked Sep 2026
On the day
What to watch at each stop
Hawa Mahal
- Open daily from about 9:00 to 17:00; entry about ₹50 for Indian visitors and about ₹200 for foreign visitors, and it is on the state composite ticket; the free view is from the rooftop cafés opposite, which expect you to buy a chai
City Palace
- Open 9:30 to 18:30 seven days a week and closed only on Dhulandi, last tickets at 18:00; two hours is the honest minimum and the composite ticket also covers Jaigarh and the royal cenotaphs
Jaigarh Fort
- Open daily from about 9:00 to 16:30; about ₹100 for Indian visitors and about ₹200 for foreign visitors, and it is free on the City Palace composite ticket; the road up from Amber is steep, so take the taxi rather than the forty-minute climb
Cenotaphs of Gaitore
- Open daily from about 9:00 to 17:00; about ₹30 for Indian visitors and about ₹70 for foreign visitors, and free on the City Palace composite ticket; half an hour is enough, and it fits on the way back from Amber
Albert Hall Museum
- Open daily from about 9:00 to 17:00 and again from about 19:00 to 22:00 for the lit building; about ₹40 for Indian visitors and about ₹300 for foreign visitors, with a cheaper night ticket; the Ram Niwas garden around it is a good place to sit
The days these rules belong to
3 days in Jaipur
Jaipur is a city of about three million in eastern Rajasthan, 270 km south-west of Delhi and 240 km west of Agra, and it is the only large Indian city that was planned before it was built. Sawai Jai Singh II moved his court down from the fortress at Amber in 1727 because the old capital had run out of water and room, and he laid the new town out on a nine-block grid taken from the Shilpa Shastra, with straight bazaars wide enough for two elephants to pass and each street given to a trade. The walls, the gates, the grid and most of the buildings are still there, which is why UNESCO listed the walled city in 2019 and why Jaipur reads differently from every other city in the country. The pink is not original: Ram Singh II had the whole place washed in it for the Prince of Wales in 1876 and it stuck. Getting here is easy, four hours from Delhi on the fast trains, four from Agra by road, and direct flights from most Indian cities and a few in the Gulf.
