Angkor Pass and tickets: the complete 2026 price and rules guide
Siem Reap: Angkor Wat Admission Ticket
How much does the Angkor Pass cost in 2026?
The Angkor Pass costs $37 for 1 day, $62 for 3 days (usable within 10 days), or $72 for 7 days (usable within 30 days). It is sold only by Angkor Enterprise, at the ticket counter or on angkorenterprise.gov.kh. Children under 12 enter free with a passport. Koh Ker, Phnom Kulen and Beng Mealea require separate tickets, not covered by any Angkor Pass tier.
What the Angkor Pass actually covers
The Angkor Pass is a single ticket product, sold in three durations, that covers entry to every temple inside the Angkor Archaeological Park boundary: Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom (Bayon, Baphuon, the Terrace of the Elephants), Ta Prohm, Preah Khan, Neak Pean, Pre Rup, the Roluos Group, Banteay Srei, and dozens of smaller sites along the Small and Grand Circuits. It does not cover anything outside that boundary — a distinction that trips up more visitors than any other piece of Siem Reap logistics, because tour listings and blog posts routinely blur the line between “Angkor” the park and “Angkor” the general region.
There are exactly three tiers, priced in US dollars, unchanged in structure for several years:
| Pass | Price | Validity window | Typical use |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-Day | $37 | Usable on 1 calendar day, within 5 days of purchase | Sunrise + Small Circuit only, or a rushed single day |
| 3-Day | $62 | Usable on any 3 days within 10 days of purchase | Small Circuit + Grand Circuit + Banteay Srei, most common choice |
| 7-Day | $72 | Usable on any 7 days within 30 days of purchase | Slow travel, repeat sunrise visits, photographers |
Notice the value curve: the jump from 1 to 3 days costs $25 more for two extra days, but the jump from 3 to 7 days costs only $10 more for four extra days. If there’s any chance you’ll return to the park a fourth time — for a second sunrise, a rainy-day reshoot, or simply because three days wasn’t enough — the 7-day pass is the better deal per visit, even if you only end up using four or five of the seven days.
Children under 12 enter free, but you must carry the child’s passport to prove age at the checkpoint; a birth certificate or hotel printout is not accepted at every gate. A portion of every ticket, roughly $2, is earmarked for a local children’s hospital fund, which is sometimes cited by guides as a reason not to feel resentful about the price relative to other Southeast Asian heritage sites.
Where to buy it — and where not to
Angkor Enterprise is the sole authorized seller of the Angkor Pass. There are two legitimate channels:
- The Angkor Enterprise ticket office, on the road between town and Angkor Wat (most tuk-tuk drivers know it as “the ticket checkpoint”). You’ll have your photo taken on the spot and the pass is printed immediately, usually in under ten minutes outside of the 4:30–5:30am sunrise rush.
- angkorenterprise.gov.kh, the official online portal. You upload your own passport-style photo, pay by card, and receive a digital pass you can show on your phone or print. This is the only legitimate way to buy online — bookmark the domain before you search, because paid ads and lookalike domains selling “Angkor Wat tickets” at a markup show up above the official result on most search engines.
Buying the evening before an early sunrise visit is common practice and works fine: the counter is open before the park itself, and a pass bought at 5:30pm the day before is valid for use starting the next morning without losing a day of its window. What doesn’t work is trying to buy after dark expecting a 24-hour counter — the physical office keeps daytime hours, so plan the purchase into your first afternoon in Siem Reap if you’re chasing a first-morning sunrise.
What GetYourGuide and Viator actually sell you
This is the single most common point of confusion in Angkor trip planning, and it’s worth stating plainly: GetYourGuide and Viator sell transport and guiding around the temples — a tuk-tuk driver for the day, an air-conditioned car, an English-speaking guide, sometimes a fixed itinerary with pickup times built in.
Neither platform issues the Angkor Pass itself, because only Angkor Enterprise is authorized to do that. Read every tour listing’s inclusions carefully: some clearly state “entrance ticket not included,” others bundle the ticket cost into the tour price and have the driver buy it with you at the counter on the way in, and a few third-party resellers add a markup to the pass price disguised as a “convenience” or “service” fee.
None of this makes booking a tour a bad idea — a guided Small Circuit tour solves transport and interpretation in one booking, which many first-time visitors value. The point is to separate the two purchases in your head and your budget: the pass is roughly $37–$72 depending on duration, paid to Angkor Enterprise; the tour or transport is a separate line item, paid to whichever operator you book through. If a listing’s total price looks suspiciously close to just the pass price, assume the pass is not included and check before paying.
The tickets the Angkor Pass does not cover
Three of the most photographed sites near Siem Reap sit outside Angkor Enterprise’s jurisdiction entirely and require their own, separate tickets bought at their own gates:
| Site | Separate ticket price | Distance from town | Managed by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beng Mealea | $10 | ~65 km / ~1.5 hr | Provincial authority, not Angkor Enterprise |
| Koh Ker | $15 | ~120 km / ~2 hr | APSARA/NAPV, not Angkor Enterprise |
| Phnom Kulen | $20 | ~50 km / ~1.5 hr | Provincial authority, not Angkor Enterprise |
Holding any tier of Angkor Pass gets you zero discount at these three gates — it’s an entirely separate cash or card transaction on-site. This matters for trip budgeting: a visitor doing the 3-day Angkor Pass plus a Koh Ker and Beng Mealea day trip is really paying $62 + $15 + $10 = $87 in entrance fees alone, before transport or a guide. Use the Angkor Pass and outlier-ticket calculator to total your exact combination before you commit to a pass tier — it’s the fastest way to see whether the 3-day or 7-day pass pencils out once outlier tickets are added.
For the honest verdict on whether each of these outlier sites is worth the extra ticket and travel time, see our separate breakdown of outlier temples worth visiting — this page sticks to what the Angkor Pass itself does and doesn’t cover.
How the checkpoint system actually works
Every entry point inside the park — not just the main Angkor Wat gate — has a checkpoint where staff scan your pass and, for the 3-day and 7-day tiers, mark off which day you’re using. The pass carries your printed photo, and staff do glance at your face against it, particularly at Angkor Wat’s main causeway checkpoint during the crowded 5am sunrise window. Keep the pass on a lanyard or in an easily reachable pocket; fumbling through a daypack at 5:15am while a queue forms behind you is a bad way to start the day.
One practical detail that catches people out: the 3-day and 7-day windows don’t require consecutive days. A 3-day pass bought on a Monday can be used Monday, then skipped Tuesday for a floating-village trip, then used again Wednesday and Thursday — as long as all three visit days fall within 10 days of the purchase date. This flexibility is exactly why the 3-day pass suits most itineraries better than the 1-day: it lets you split temple time around a rest day, a rainy afternoon, or a Tonlé Sap excursion without losing pass value.
Angkor Pass math by trip length
- One day in Siem Reap overall: the 1-day pass ($37) is your only realistic option, and it forces hard choices about which temples make the cut — see our dedicated Angkor in one day plan for how to sequence it.
- Two or three days: the 3-day pass ($62) comfortably covers a sunrise visit, the full Small Circuit, the Grand Circuit, and Banteay Srei with room to revisit a favorite temple in different light. This is the most common purchase and the one most guides on this site assume by default.
- Five days or more: the 7-day pass ($72) costs only $10 more than the 3-day tier and buys four additional usable days across a full month — worth it even if you only end up using five of the seven, since $72 for five visits still beats $62 for three plus a same-day 1-day top-up at $37.
For a longer discussion of how pass tiers interact with real trip lengths, our Angkor Pass math blog post walks through the numbers for a specific 5-day itinerary.
Common mistakes worth avoiding
Buying from a reseller site because it ranks above angkorenterprise.gov.kh in search results is the single most avoidable mistake — you’ll pay a markup for a product that costs the same $37/$62/$72 at the source, with no added benefit. See our official vs. resellers breakdown for how to spot the difference at a glance.
Assuming a booked tour includes the pass, when it explicitly doesn’t, is the second most common error, usually discovered awkwardly at the ticket counter with a driver waiting. Read the fine print on any GetYourGuide vs. Viator listing before departure day, not on the morning of.
Underbuying pass duration is the third: a 1-day pass bought to save $25 often gets replaced with a same-day upgrade fee or a second full-price purchase once a visitor realizes one day at Angkor genuinely isn’t enough to see the Small Circuit properly, let alone add Banteay Srei or a second sunrise attempt. If your budget allows the extra $25, the 3-day pass removes that risk entirely.
What a full day of the Angkor Pass is actually worth
It helps to compare the Angkor Pass against other major heritage-site tickets in the region to understand why $37-$72 sits where it does: a single day at Angkor covers dozens of individually significant temples spread across a park larger than many small cities, versus a single monument elsewhere in Southeast Asia.
Divide the 3-day pass’s $62 across three full days of temple access and it works out to roughly $20 per day for effectively unlimited entry to every site inside the park boundary — Angkor Wat, Bayon, Ta Prohm, the entire Grand Circuit, Banteay Srei and the Roluos Group included, with no per-temple ticketing at all. Framed that way, the jump from the 1-day to the 3-day tier isn’t really “$25 more,” it’s closer to halving your effective daily cost while tripling your usable time.
Rain, illness and other disruptions
The Angkor Pass has no formal refund policy for weather, illness or a missed day, which matters more during rainy season (May-October) when a downpour can genuinely wash out a morning’s plans. This is one more practical argument for the 3-day or 7-day tier over the 1-day: if you lose a morning to rain with a single-day pass, you’ve lost the entire ticket’s value; with a 3-day or 7-day pass, a rained-out morning simply shifts your remaining visit days later within the window, at no extra cost.
If illness strikes mid-trip, Angkor Enterprise has historically shown some flexibility on medically-documented cases for pass extensions, but this isn’t guaranteed policy and shouldn’t be counted on when planning — treat the printed validity window as firm.
Sample budgets by trip style
A backpacker doing a tight 2-day Angkor visit might buy the 1-day pass ($37) for a sunrise-to-Small-Circuit push, skip a second Angkor day entirely, and put remaining budget toward a floating village trip instead — total temple-entry spend: $37. A mid-range traveler on a standard 3-day Angkor plan buys the 3-day pass ($62) and adds nothing else, covering Small Circuit, Grand Circuit and Banteay Srei comfortably — total: $62.
A more ambitious visitor adding Beng Mealea and Koh Ker to a 7-day pass ($72) is looking at $72 + $10 + $15 = $97 in total entrance fees across the trip, before any transport or guiding cost. None of these numbers include tour or driver fees, which are a separate budget line entirely — see our Siem Reap travel budget guide for how ticket costs fit into an overall daily spend.
How the Angkor Pass compares to booking a package “with entrance included”
Some tour listings quote an all-in price that folds the Angkor Pass cost into the tour total, which can make cross-shopping tours confusing — a $90 “full-day Angkor tour with entrance” and a $50 tour advertised as “entrance not included” aren’t actually $40 apart in real cost once you add the $37 pass to the second option; they’re closer to $3 apart. Always normalize tour prices by asking, explicitly, whether the ticket is bundled before comparing two listings on price alone. Our GetYourGuide vs. Viator comparison walks through exactly this kind of normalization across both platforms’ typical listings.
Practical buying checklist
Bring a passport (not a photo of one — an actual physical passport, or the digital pass with your uploaded photo already verified). Bring exact or close-to-exact USD cash if buying at the physical counter, since change in USD is not always readily available and riel change at a 4,000:1 rate can be confusing at 5am.
If buying online in advance, do it at least a day before your first visit day so the digital pass has time to process, and screenshot the confirmation in case of a connectivity issue at the checkpoint. Finally, decide your pass tier using your actual itinerary length, not your flight length — many visitors staying five or six nights in Siem Reap only spend two or three of those days inside the park once floating villages, cooking classes, and rest afternoons are factored in.
Keep the physical pass (or a saved screenshot of the digital one) somewhere you can reach it without digging, since every checkpoint inside the park — not only the main Angkor Wat causeway — requires a scan, and a fumbled search through a daypack while a queue builds behind you is an avoidable friction point on an otherwise smooth morning. Consider also photographing the pass immediately after purchase as a backup in case the physical copy is damaged by rain or sweat over a multi-day visit — Angkor Enterprise staff can generally verify a valid pass against their own records even if the printed copy is partially unreadable, but a personal backup photo saves time at the gate regardless.
Frequently asked questions about Angkor Pass and tickets
Can I buy the Angkor Pass online before I arrive?
Yes, at angkorenterprise.gov.kh — the only official channel besides the physical counter. You upload a passport photo, pay by card, and print or show a digital pass with your photo printed on it. Third-party sites that add a markup or a service fee are reselling, not official.Does GetYourGuide or Viator sell the Angkor Pass?
No. GetYourGuide and Viator sell transport (tuk-tuk, car, or minivan) and guiding services around the temples. The pass itself must still be bought separately, either by you or, on some tours, by the driver on your behalf using cash you provide. Read the tour description carefully — some list the pass as 'not included' in small print.Is the Angkor Pass worth buying for 3 days instead of 1?
For most first-time visitors, yes. The 3-day pass costs $25 more than the 1-day pass but buys two extra visit days usable within a 10-day window, which is enough to see the Small Circuit, Grand Circuit and Banteay Srei without rushing. A single day is tight if you also want a sunrise visit and a full circuit.What happens if I lose my Angkor Pass?
Report it immediately at the main ticket checkpoint near the Angkor Enterprise office on the road to Angkor Wat. Because the pass carries your photo and is logged in Angkor Enterprise's system, replacement is possible but requires your passport and takes time out of your visiting day — keep the pass in a zip pouch, not a back pocket.Do I need the Angkor Pass for Koh Ker, Phnom Kulen or Beng Mealea?
No. Those three sites sit outside the Angkor Archaeological Park boundary and are managed separately, not by Angkor Enterprise. Each requires its own ticket bought at its own gate: Koh Ker $15, Phnom Kulen $20, Beng Mealea $10. Holding an Angkor Pass gives you zero discount at any of them.Is the Angkor Pass price the same for every nationality?
Yes. Unlike some Southeast Asian heritage sites that charge foreigners more than nationals, the Angkor Pass has a single foreigner price ($37/$62/$72) and Cambodian nationals enter free with ID — there is no separate 'tourist vs local' pricing tier for foreign visitors to worry about.Can two people share one 3-day or 7-day Angkor Pass?
No. Each pass is printed with an individual photo taken at the point of purchase and is checked against your face at every temple checkpoint by Angkor Enterprise staff. Passes are non-transferable and sharing one between travelers will get you turned away at the gate.
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