What the ticket costs and covers
The Hellenic Heritage page for the Ancient Agora lists two prices: €20 full and €10 reduced. Hellenic Heritage (ODAP) runs the ticket shop at tickets.hh.gr, and its terms say only tickets from an official point of sale are valid.
The page describes the monuments of the site, including the Temple of Hephaestus, which it calls "the best preserved temple of the 5th century BC", the Bouleuterion and the Tholos, and gives the Museum of the Stoa of Attalos its own Tuesday opening time. Hellenic Heritage's April 2026 hours announcement sets hours for "the archaeological site and the Museum of the Ancient Agora" together. Neither page states in words what the €20 ticket includes, so check the ticket description in the shop when you book, or ask at the ticket office, if seeing the Stoa of Attalos museum matters to you.
Neither the Agora nor the Acropolis page on Hellenic Heritage offers a combined ticket. The Acropolis costs €30 full, so the two single tickets together cost €50 per adult. Our Athens combined ticket guide explains what replaced the old combined ticket and compares the single-site prices.
Who enters free or pays less
The Ministry of Culture's free admission page lists:
- Free: children and young people from EU member states under 25, with an ID card or passport showing age and country; people with a disability of 67% or more with one escort, with a disability certificate (a foreign equivalent is accepted); journalists, ICOM and ICOMOS members and several Greek social categories.
- Reduced (50%), 1 April to 31 October: EU and EEA citizens over 65, with ID or passport; and non-EU young people aged 6 to 25, with a passport.
That ministry page also says non-EU children are free only up to age 5, and that from 1 November to 31 March the reduced rate applies to all visitors. Hellenic Heritage's Agora page repeats neither rule: it shows only the €20 and €10 prices, without saying who pays which. The page carries no update date, so treat its age limits and the winter rule as something to confirm in the shop. If you are also visiting the Acropolis, our Acropolis tickets guide covers its time slots and ticket types.
Free days
Everyone enters free on these days, according to the site page:
- the first and third Sunday of each month from 1 November to 31 March;
- 6 March, 18 April, 18 May and 28 October;
- the last weekend of September.
The ministry's free admission page mentions only the first Sunday; Hellenic Heritage, which sells the tickets, lists both the first and the third, and its terms say the same. The next free Sundays are 1 and 15 November, 6 and 20 December 2026, then 3 and 17 January 2027. The terms add that free-day tickets are issued only at ticket offices, not online, so expect a queue at the entrance.
Free Sundays can be cancelled at short notice: the Agora page still records that the site closed on Sunday 7 and Sunday 21 December 2025, both free days, for restoration work. Check the announcements page in the week before. On 29 October 2026 its latest notices concerned Rhodes, Crete and Thessaloniki, not Athens.
For a couple, a free Sunday saves €40 at the Agora alone, and €100 if you also fit in the Acropolis on the same day. On a short winter day that is feasible, since both close at 17:00, but go early.
Opening hours and closed days
The site page gives this timetable, with last admission 20 minutes before closing:
| Period | Hours |
|---|---|
| 1 November – 31 March | 08:00–17:00 |
| 1 April – 31 August | 08:00–20:00 |
| 1–15 September | 08:00–19:30 |
| 16–30 September | 08:00–19:00 |
| 1–15 October | 08:00–18:30 |
| 16–31 October | 08:00–18:00 |
The Stoa of Attalos museum opens at 10:00 every Tuesday, two hours after the site, so on a Tuesday morning visit the museum last.
The site is closed on 1 January, 25 March, 1 May, Easter Sunday, and 25 and 26 December. The page does not mention special hours for 24 or 31 December, so check the announcements page before a visit on either eve. Our guide to Athens sites in winter and over the holidays lists the other sites' hours for those dates.
Buying online and time slots
Buy on tickets.hh.gr or at the site's ticket office. The terms say full-price tickets arrive by email as PDFs, must be paid with a card you hold yourself, and are valid only for the site and date or period printed on them. A time slot applies only where the booking system sets one for a site; the Agora page does not mention timed entry. If your ticket shows a slot, the terms allow up to two free changes, no later than 120 minutes before the visit; the help page points to Manage Tickets on tickets.hh.gr for this.
Buy only from tickets.hh.gr or an official ticket office: the terms state that tickets from other sellers are not valid, and resale is prohibited.
Getting there
The site page gives the address as 24 Adrianou Street, 10555 Athens, about four minutes' walk from Monastiraki Square and 14 minutes from Syntagma Square.
- Metro: Monastiraki (lines 1 and 3) or Thiseio (line 1).
- Bus: lines 025 and 026 to the Monastiraki stop.
Arriving from the airport? Our airport to city guide compares the metro, bus and taxi. For metro tickets and tap-to-pay, see Athens transport tickets.
Planning a winter visit
In winter, with last admission at 16:40, start the Agora by about 14:30 if you want time for the Temple of Hephaestus, the main ruins and the Stoa of Attalos museum. Hellenic Heritage does not publish a recommended visit length.
A practical one-day plan is the Acropolis first thing, then a walk down to the Agora around midday, keeping in mind that on Tuesdays the Stoa museum opens only at 10:00. If the site is closed for an unannounced reason, Hellenic Heritage's terms allow a refund or extension when a site closes for force majeure on the day of the visit.
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