Morocco Attraction Entry Fees & Opening Hours — 2026 Reference

Morocco keeps sightseeing cheap by European standards. Most state-run monuments — palaces, medersas, tombs, Roman sites — charge a flat per-person fee, usually somewhere between 50 and 100 MAD (about $5–10). A handful of privately run showpieces such as the Jardin Majorelle and the Musée Yves Saint Laurent cost more, and a licensed guide, camel or excursion is always extra. Even so, you can fill a whole day of monuments in Marrakech or Fes for well under 300 MAD a head.

Two quirks matter. First, almost everything runs on cash: ticket desks rarely take cards, so carry small dirham notes. Second, fees are revised regularly and are often quoted higher for foreign adults than for residents, students and children. Treat every figure on this page as an approximate 2026 guide, not a guarantee — confirm at the desk. For the wider picture of what a trip costs, see our Morocco trip cost breakdown and the city-by-city Marrakech prices guide.

Marrakech packs the country's densest cluster of paid sights, and it is where you will spend the most on tickets. The classic medina circuit — Bahia Palace, El Badi Palace, the Saadian Tombs and the Ben Youssef Madrasa — sits at the standard 50–100 MAD tier, so all four together come to roughly 250–300 MAD. The splurge is the Jardin Majorelle complex, where the garden alone is about 170 MAD and the adjoining YSL Museum around 140 MAD.

Buy the Majorelle tickets online with a timed slot; the walk-up queue in high season can swallow an hour. If you want to string several palaces into one morning, our things to do in Marrakech route sequences them sensibly. Photographers should note the Maison de la Photographie, a modest ~50 MAD, whose rooftop café doubles as one of the best free-with-a-mint-tea medina viewpoints.

Fes is cheaper to sightsee than Marrakech because its headline attraction — the labyrinthine medina itself — is free. The paid highlights are the medersas: the Bou Inania and the jewel-box Al-Attarine, each around 50–70 MAD. The Chouara tanneries cost nothing to view, but you see them from the terraces of leather shops, where you are expected to browse or leave a small tip. Nearby Meknes and the Roman city of Volubilis make an easy, low-cost day out.

Volubilis is the north's must-pay site at roughly 70–100 MAD, with official on-site guides for about 120 MAD — worth it to make sense of the mosaics. Rabat's monuments are largely free or cheap: the Kasbah des Oudaias and Hassan Tower cost nothing, while the Roman-Merinid ruins of Chellah run about 70 MAD. For the broader story of these sites, see the Morocco Roman ruins guide.

Beyond the imperial cities, the standout paid experience is the Hassan II Mosque tour in Casablanca — one of the few working mosques non-Muslims may enter, at around 140 MAD for adult foreigners on a guided slot. Down south, Aït Benhaddou, Morocco's most filmed kasbah, is essentially free to wander: you may meet small crossing or house fees of 10–20 MAD, and a local guide runs about 100–150 MAD. The Ouarzazate film studios charge a modest entry to walk their backlots.

On the Atlantic, El Jadida's mirror-water Portuguese Cistern — the El Jadida cistern that Orson Welles filmed — costs only a few dozen dirham, as do most small kasbah and medina museums in Tangier, Essaouira and beyond. As a rule, the further you get from Marrakech, the less you pay to look at things.

Morocco's greatest sights are free. The medinas of Fes and Marrakech, the souks, Jemaa el-Fnaa, the Menara and Oudaias gardens, the Hassan Tower, most kasbah ramparts, the blue lanes of Chefchaouen and every beach cost nothing to enjoy. Mosque exteriors are free too — you simply cannot go inside, the Hassan II being the famous exception. Build a day around these and your only spend is mint tea and lunch.

To trim the paid sights, ask at the first ticket desk about a combined culture ticket: some cities bundle several state monuments at a discount, though availability comes and goes. Students should carry an ID card for the reduced rate, and families should ask about child prices, which are often free under six and half thereafter. Avoid touts selling 'tickets' outside gates — buy only at the official window.

Most monuments open around 9:00 and close between 17:00 and 18:00, with last entry often 30–45 minutes before closing. Gardens and archaeological sites like Volubilis open earlier and follow daylight. During Ramadan, hours shorten across the board and some sites close early afternoon, so check locally if you travel in the fasting month — note the June–July 2030 World Cup window falls outside Ramadan.

Two timing traps catch visitors. Fridays disrupt some medersas and the Hassan II Mosque tour around midday prayers, so aim for mornings or mid-afternoon. And a scattering of museums close one weekday — often Tuesday or Wednesday — so don't build a whole day around a single institution without confirming. Arriving at opening also means cooler light and thinner crowds at honeypots like the Bahia Palace and Saadian Tombs.

Carry enough cash for the day's tickets before you set off, ideally in 20, 50 and 100 MAD notes; ATMs cluster in the ville nouvelle, not deep in the medina. Photography is free at almost every site, though some museums ban flash or tripods, and you should always ask before photographing tannery workers, performers or people. A licensed guide is optional at most monuments but genuinely useful at Volubilis and the Fes medina.

Budget realistically: two or three headline tickets a day plus a guided site is typical, which keeps most travellers under 300 MAD a head for entries. If you are hiring help, our guide and driver hire cost guide sets out fair day rates, and the Marrakech prices guide shows how tickets sit alongside meals and taxis in a daily budget.