Angkor Pass 2026: Tickets, Prices, Hours and Where to Buy

The Angkor Pass is the one purchase every visitor to Siem Reap makes, and the one most people get slightly wrong. Not the price, which has not moved since 2017, but the timing: when to buy it, which day to start it, which format to carry, and the free sunset that most guides forget to mention.

Search for the price and you get a page of agency sites that bundle the pass into a tour, a few forums arguing about rules that changed years ago, and AI answers that still say the three-day pass is valid for 10 days. It is valid for 7. The ticket card says so. The sites also miss the 2024 reform that removed the photo from one-day tickets, moved the checks from the park perimeter to the temple gates and put the whole system on QR codes, which changed how a day in the park works.

Prices, hours and transport times below were checked against the Angkor Enterprise ticket pages and FAQ, the APSARA National Authority code of conduct and current operator reports in October 2026.

The Pass Is a Park Ticket, Not an Angkor Wat Ticket

The Angkor Pass is a ticket to the Angkor Archaeological Park: roughly 400 square kilometers that contain Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom and the Bayon, Ta Prohm, the grand circuit temples, Banteay Srei 30 km to the north and the Roluos group to the east. One pass, all of it. There is no per-temple ticket inside the park and no way to pay at a temple gate.

Angkor Enterprise, a state company under the Ministry of Economy and Finance, sells the pass and collects the money. The APSARA National Authority, a separate body, manages the park, sets the opening hours and publishes the visitor code of conduct. The division matters when something goes wrong: a ticket problem is Angkor Enterprise, a closed staircase or a dress-code refusal is APSARA.

In practice you buy once, on Road 60 or online, and then show the pass at the entrance of each major temple. Staff with handheld scanners read the QR code eight or ten times in a day. Keep it on you, not in the tuk-tuk. The pass has your photo on it if it is a multi-day pass, and the scanner knows whether today is one of your days.

The money is not small. In 2025 Angkor Enterprise reported 955,131 international visitors and $44.7 million in ticket sales, down from 1.02 million visitors and $47.8 million in 2024. Two dollars of every ticket go to the Kantha Bopha children’s hospitals in Siem Reap and Phnom Penh, which treat Cambodian children without charge.

The Three Passes

One day, $37

Worth it if you are on a layover, if you are back for a second visit and want a single morning, or if temples are not the reason you came. One day is Angkor Wat at sunrise, Angkor Thom and the Bayon by 8:30 a.m., Ta Prohm by 10:30 a.m., and a retreat to the pool by 1:00 p.m. It is enough to say you have seen Angkor and too little to have understood it. The one-day pass has carried no photo since September 2024, which makes it the only pass that can be bought for someone else, in a group order, without that person present. The limitation: there is no time for Banteay Srei, which is the temple people regret missing, and the pass expires at 6:30 p.m. on the printed date whatever the weather did.

Three days, $62

The pass most visitors should buy. Valid for any 3 days within 7 days of the start date, so a day of rest or a day on the Tonle Sap between temple days costs nothing. The honest verdict: three days is one more than the temples need and one fewer than photographers want. Spend the third on Banteay Srei and the grand circuit, not on repeating the first. How many days Angkor deserves depends on heat tolerance more than on interest, and three days in a 7-day window is the structure that absorbs a bad night’s sleep. The limitation: the 7-day window is shorter than the 10 days many guides still quote. Start the pass on the day of your first temple visit, not on arrival day, or you spend a day of the window in a hotel.

Seven days, $72

Ten dollars more than the three-day pass and valid for any 7 days within 30. Buy it if you are staying a week or more, if you intend to go back to Angkor Wat at different hours, or if you cycle: with a bicycle the park becomes a place to spend mornings in rather than a checklist. It is also the pass for anyone spreading the Roluos temples and the outer sites over separate days, with Beng Mealea budgeted as a possible extra $10. The limitation is heat and fatigue, not money. Very few people use all seven days, and the pass cannot be shared with a travel companion on the days you skip.

Where and How to Buy

Angkor Enterprise sells through five channels and no reseller. A pass bought from a street seller, a travel forum or an unofficial website is not valid, and because multi-day passes carry a photo, a second-hand one is useless at the first scanner.

The Angkor Ticket Office on Road 60

A large building on Road 60 at the Apsara Road junction, about 4 km northeast of the Old Market, 15 minutes by tuk-tuk and roughly another 15 minutes on to the Angkor Wat checkpoint. Open 5:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily. Counters are grouped by pass length, with one-day tickets on the right as you enter. For a three-day or seven-day pass the counter camera takes your photo and prints it on the card, which is why everyone in the group has to be present. Payment is US dollars in cash or Visa, Mastercard, UnionPay, JCB, Diners Club and Discover, with ATMs on site. The price is quoted and charged in dollars. The limitation is the queue: at 4:45 a.m. in December and January it can run 15 to 25 minutes, which is the difference between seeing the sky change at Angkor Wat and arriving as it finishes. At 8:00 a.m. there is no queue at all.

The website

Angkor Enterprise sells the same passes at the same prices at angkorenterprise.gov.kh. You create a free account with an email address or a Google, Apple or Facebook login, choose the pass, choose the start date, upload a passport-style photo for a multi-day pass and pay by card. The QR code arrives by email. A phone screen is enough at the checkpoint and printing is unnecessary. One QR code can cover a group order of several people. The limitation: the start date is fixed at purchase and cannot be moved at a checkpoint. If the ticket does not arrive, check the spam folder before paying again, then contact support with the payment reference rather than retrying, which has produced double charges.

The Angkor-Pass app

The app, published by the Ministry of Economy and Finance and released on December 18, 2024, sells the same passes and stores the QR code offline. It is on the App Store and Google Play under the name Angkor-Pass. Several users report that their bank card was refused in the app when it worked on the website, so try the website first if the app declines a payment. The limitation is the obvious one: a phone that dies in the heat at 2:00 p.m. takes the pass with it. Screenshot the QR code, email it to a travel companion and carry a power bank. Staff can look up a ticket number manually if the screen is dead, but it takes time and goodwill.

The self-service kiosks

Since February 2025 Angkor Enterprise has run automated ticket machines, installed with ACLEDA Bank, at the Road 60 office, at the Angkor Wat west entrance and in the basement of the Heritage Walk mall on National Road 6. The machines take Visa, Mastercard, UnionPay, JCB, American Express, Diners Club and Discover, plus KHQR and the Alipay and WeChat wallets, in four languages. The one at Angkor Wat is the only place inside the park where a pass can be bought, and it exists for people who arrived without one. The limitation: it is a machine with a camera at dawn, and the queue of people who did not know about the 4:45 p.m. rule forms in front of it.

Through a hotel, driver or guide

Hotels, agencies and licensed guides will arrange the pass, usually inside a tour price. There is no discount for doing it this way and sometimes a small markup. The legitimate reason is a guide who buys the pass in advance so that the group goes straight to the temples. Angkor Enterprise lists purchase through a tour guide as an official channel. The limitation: a one-day pass is the only one that can be bought in your absence, because the others need your face at the counter or in the upload.

The 4:45 p.m. Rule

A pass dated for tomorrow admits you to the park from 4:45 p.m. today. The evening does not count as one of the pass days. This is published policy in the Angkor Enterprise FAQ and the best-value hour in the park.

Here is how to use it on an arrival afternoon. Buy the pass at the Road 60 office at 4:15 p.m., or online that morning with tomorrow’s date. Be at the Pre Rup checkpoint by 5:15 p.m., climb to the upper terrace, and watch the light go over the rice fields to the east until the guards start whistling at 6:45 p.m. Your three days have not started. Tomorrow at 5:00 a.m. you go straight to Angkor Wat.

Two details catch people. First, it is an entry time, not a purchase deadline. The pass has to be dated for tomorrow. A pass dated today and used at 5:00 p.m. has burned a full day on one sunset. Second, the office closes at 5:30 p.m., so an afternoon arrival that reaches Road 60 at 5:40 p.m. has lost the evening. The online purchase removes both problems. The choice of where to spend that first evening is the subject of the Angkor sunset guide: Pre Rup is the classic, Srah Srang the flat and easy alternative, Phnom Bakheng the one with a 300-person cap and a 20-minute climb.

How the Checkpoints Work

Until 2024 the park had checkpoints on the roads at its four entrances, where a guard inspected or punched the paper pass, plus checks at the big temples. In August 2024 the Angkor Enterprise board, chaired by the Minister of Economy and Finance, approved a reform that removed the photo, nationality, age and gender from one-day tickets from September 2024, cut back the perimeter checkpoints and kept the ones at the temple entrances, and moved sales onto QR codes, kiosks and an app from January 2025.

What this means on the ground:

• The pass is checked at the temple, not on the road. At Angkor Wat the scan is at the west entrance causeway. At Angkor Thom it is at the gates and again at the Bayon. Ta Prohm, Preah Khan, Banteay Srei, Pre Rup and the other major temples each have a staffed point at the entrance. Small roadside shrines and the Angkor Thom walls are not checked.
• Staff carry handheld scanners. A phone screen or a printed QR works. The scanner records the date, so a three-day pass used on a fourth day is refused at the first temple, not discovered later.
• Passports are not checked for adults. The 2024 reform ended routine passport checks at the gates. The exception is a child under 12, whose age staff may want to see in a passport. Carry it.
• Multi-day passes are compared to your face. The printed photo is the anti-lending measure. A pass used by someone other than its holder is confiscated and that person is sent back to Road 60 to buy a new one at full price. Angkor Enterprise does not publish a fine schedule on its ticket pages, and older guides quoting $100, $200 and $300 penalties for a lost pass describe a paper-era rule that the current FAQ replaces with a reissue procedure through customer support.
• Drivers are checked separately. Tuk-tuk, motodop and taxi drivers entering the park must hold a license and wear their identification. A driver without one is turned back at the road, with you in the seat, which is one argument for a hotel-arranged driver on the first day.

The reform made the day faster. It also made it easier to be inside the park without a pass until the first temple, which is where the guard at the causeway of Angkor Wat sends a surprising number of people back toward the kiosk at 5:30 a.m.

What the Pass Covers and What It Does Not

Inside the pass

Everything in the Angkor Archaeological Park: Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom with the Bayon, Baphuon and the terraces, Ta Prohm, Ta Keo, Banteay Kdei, Srah Srang, Phnom Bakheng, the grand circuit of Preah Khan, Neak Pean, Ta Som, East Mebon and Pre Rup, and the outlying temples the park administers: Banteay Srei, Banteay Samre, Kbal Spean, Phnom Krom above the Tonle Sap, Wat Athvea south of town, Chau Srei Vibol and the Roluos group of Bakong, Preah Ko and Lolei. Angkor Enterprise describes it as 50 or more accessible temples. The pass does not cover the Angkor National Museum in town, which has its own ticket, nor any boat.

Beng Mealea: a $10 ticket, and a pass rule nobody agrees on

Beng Mealea, the collapsed jungle temple about 60 km east of town and a little over an hour by car, has its own one-day ticket from Angkor Enterprise at $10, listed on its site as one accessible temple. Recent sources disagree on whether the Angkor Pass is accepted at the gate: some 2026 pages say yes, others treat the $10 ticket as compulsory. Carry $10 in cash and ask at the counter. Opening hours are 6:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The full day, including the road, is in the Beng Mealea guide.

Kbal Spean: a $5 ticket, same uncertainty

Kbal Spean, the riverbed carvings 50 km north of town beyond Banteay Srei, has its own $5 one-day ticket from Angkor Enterprise. Recent sources disagree on whether the pass is accepted there, so carry $5 in cash and ask at the gate. Hours are 6:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., but the path is a 1.5 km climb through forest that takes 40 to 50 minutes each way, and staff stop walkers going up from about 4:00 p.m. The limitation: in the dry season, from February to May, the river can be a trickle and the carvings lose their point.

Koh Ker: a separate park, $15

Koh Ker, the tenth-century capital with its seven-tier pyramid, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in September 2023 and sits 120 km northeast of Siem Reap, about two and a half hours by car. It is run as a separate Koh Ker Temples Park with its own one-day ticket, $15, covering ten or more temples, open 6:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The ticket is sold online at angkorenterprise.gov.kh and at the entrance booth. The Angkor Pass is not valid there. Holders of the free Angkor Special Pass for long-term residents are covered. The limitation is the day: Koh Ker and Beng Mealea together make a 10-hour outing, which the Koh Ker guide lays out hour by hour.

Phnom Kulen: a national park, $20, not Angkor Enterprise at all

Phnom Kulen, the sacred mountain 50 km northeast with its waterfall, reclining Buddha and the carved riverbed of the thousand lingas, is a national park under the Ministry of Environment. Its $20 ticket is sold at the checkpoint at the foot of the mountain and the Angkor Pass is not valid. The road up is one-way: traffic goes up in the morning and down in the afternoon, and the cutoff for going up is enforced at about 11:00 a.m. The limitation: the ticket is cash, the road is slow, and the waterfall is a muddy stream in April. Details are in the Phnom Kulen guide.

Chong Kneas: a boat ticket, also from Angkor Enterprise

The Chong Kneas floating village on the Tonle Sap, 15 km south of town, is reached by boat on a ticket that Angkor Enterprise sells, not the Angkor Pass. The company’s site lists the boat ride as a separate product. Kampong Phluk and Kampong Khleang, the two villages most people should prefer, are reached through community boat associations with their own fees. The comparison is in the Tonle Sap floating villages guide.

Opening Hours, Temple by Temple

APSARA sets the hours and Angkor Enterprise prints the park-wide ones on the ticket: entry from 5:00 a.m., closing at 6:30 p.m. Within that, the temples differ. Hours below were verified against the ticket card and operator reports current to October 2026. Visitors already inside at closing time get about 30 minutes to walk out.

Site	Opens	Closes	Note
Angkor Wat	5:00 a.m.	6:00 p.m.	Sunrise crowd at the west gate from 5:00 a.m.
Bakan (Angkor Wat upper tier)	About 7:40 a.m.	5:00 p.m.	Closed on Buddhist holy days. Age 12 and over. Shoulders and knees covered.
Srah Srang	5:00 a.m.	7:00 p.m.	Sunrise and sunset. No climb.
Pre Rup	5:00 a.m.	7:00 p.m.	The standard sunset temple.
Phnom Bakheng	6:00 a.m.	7:00 p.m.	300-person cap at the summit for sunset. Arrive by 4:00 p.m.
Phnom Krom	5:00 a.m.	7:00 p.m.	Sunset over the Tonle Sap.
Tonle Om (Angkor Thom south gate)	5:00 a.m.	7:00 p.m.	Sunrise and sunset point.
Bayon, Baphuon, Angkor Thom	6:00 a.m.	6:30 p.m.	Standard small circuit hours.
Ta Prohm, Ta Keo, Banteay Kdei	6:00 a.m.	6:30 p.m.	Standard small circuit hours.
Preah Khan, Neak Pean, Ta Som, East Mebon	6:00 a.m.	6:30 p.m.	Standard grand circuit hours.
Banteay Srei	Disputed	Disputed	Sources give 6:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. or 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Arrive about 7:30 a.m.
Banteay Samre	6:00 a.m.	6:30 p.m.	Often empty.
Kbal Spean	6:00 a.m.	6:30 p.m.	Climb stopped from about 4:00 p.m.
Roluos group	6:00 a.m.	6:30 p.m.	Prei Monti still 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Beng Mealea	6:00 a.m.	6:30 p.m.	$10 ticket, pass acceptance disputed.
Koh Ker	6:00 a.m.	6:30 p.m.	Separate $15 ticket.

Two cautions. The 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. schedule that most guidebooks and many websites still print was the pandemic-era one, and the earlier opening has been in force since 2023. And the central sanctuary of Angkor Wat can close early for ceremonies without notice. Staff at the foot of the Bakan stairs will tell you, and nobody else will.

Which temple to do at which hour is a separate question from when it opens. The best time of day for each Angkor temple works through light, heat and crowds for each one.

The Pass on a Typical Day

A one-day pass, used the way the park is designed, looks like this. The alarm goes at 4:15 a.m. The tuk-tuk, booked the night before, leaves the hotel at 4:45 a.m. with the QR code already on your phone from an online purchase dated today. No stop at Road 60. At 5:05 a.m. the driver drops you at the west entrance of Angkor Wat, the guard scans the code under a lamp, and you walk the causeway in the dark with a few hundred others toward the north reflecting pool. The decision about where to stand, and whether to stand at all, is the Angkor Wat sunrise guide.

By 7:00 a.m. the sun is up and most of the crowd leaves for breakfast. This is when to go inside Angkor Wat, with the galleries nearly empty, and when the Bakan opens at about 7:40 a.m. By 8:45 a.m. you are back in the tuk-tuk for the five-minute ride to the south gate of Angkor Thom. The scan at the Bayon is the second of the day. Bayon and Angkor Thom take two hours on foot. At 11:00 a.m. the driver takes you east to Ta Prohm, scan three, where the shade of the trees makes the midday hour survivable. Ta Prohm is 45 minutes if you walk it east to west and skip the queue for one photograph.

At 12:30 p.m. you leave the park. Between 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. from March to May, an open temple is not a place to be, and even in December the stone radiates. Lunch and the pool. At 4:00 p.m. the tuk-tuk comes back and you ride 20 minutes to Pre Rup, scan four, and climb for the light. At 6:30 p.m. you are heading back to town for dinner and the pass expires behind you.

A three-day pass splits this. Day one is the sunrise and the small circuit as above, with a slower Angkor Thom. Day two is the grand circuit, Preah Khan at 7:00 a.m. and Preah Khan, Neak Pean and Ta Som in order, finishing at East Mebon by 10:30 a.m. Day three is Banteay Srei at 7:00 a.m., 40 minutes north and worth the drive, then Banteay Samre on the way back, done by 11:00 a.m. The scan count across three days is about ten. The route logic is laid out in the small circuit versus grand circuit guide.

The Pass With a Guide, a Driver or a Bicycle

A licensed guide

Guides at Angkor are licensed by the Ministry of Tourism after training and an exam, and the license is a photo badge worn on a lanyard. A licensed Cambodian guide does not need a pass to enter the park, so the price you pay is the guide’s fee only. Published rates start around $30 a day for an English-speaking guide, with French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Chinese speakers commanding more and booking out weeks ahead in December and January. The guide does not sell you the pass unless you ask, and a guide who buys it on your behalf can only do so for a one-day ticket or with your photo uploaded in advance. The limitation: a guide walks you through three temples in a morning, and the pass does not get cheaper because you had one. When a guide is worth the money and when a book does the job is the subject of hiring a licensed Angkor guide.

A tuk-tuk or car driver

The driver’s day rate buys the vehicle and the driver’s time, never the pass. Drivers entering the park must be licensed and wear identification. 2026 reports put a tuk-tuk at $18 to $25 for a small-circuit day, $25 to $30 for the grand circuit and $25 to $35 with Banteay Srei, plus about $5 for a sunrise start. An air-conditioned car runs $35 to $60 a day. The driver stops at Road 60 on the way out of town if you have no pass, waits at each temple and knows the order. The limitation: the driver’s loyalty is to the day rate, so a driver who suggests a detour to a shop is spending your pass hours. The comparison of tuk-tuk, car, bicycle and e-bike is in how to get around Angkor.

A bicycle

The pass works the same way on a bicycle and the park becomes a different place. Angkor Wat is about 7 km from the Old Market on flat road, the small circuit adds 17 km, and the ride from town passes within 1 km of the Road 60 office, which is where cyclists without an online pass buy one. Bicycles and e-bikes rent in town for a few dollars a day, and the official FAQ says visitors may rent and ride a scooter in the park. Siem Reap province, however, has banned scooter rental to foreigners since 2002, a rule rarely enforced, and e-bikes are the common compromise. Scans are the same handheld check at each temple. The limitation is the heat and the distance: the grand circuit is a 26 km loop before you add the ride from town, and after 10:00 a.m. from March to May the road surface is hot enough to feel through the soles. Cyclists should hold a seven-day pass and ride mornings only. The practical side, bike hire and routes, is in cycling around Siem Reap.

The Pass in the Rainy Season

From May to October the park is wetter, greener and emptier, and the pass behaves differently. The moats are full, the reflecting pools at Angkor Wat hold the whole temple, and the afternoon storm arrives between 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. with a reliability that can be planned around. Mornings are usually clear.

What changes for the pass:

• The 7-day window earns its keep. A three-day pass in August should be started on a morning with a clear forecast and used on non-consecutive days around the storms. Starting it on arrival day and hoping is how people lose a day to rain.
• Sunset is a gamble. The 4:45 p.m. entry is still free, but a Pre Rup sunset in the rainy season is a coin toss and sometimes a lightning storm on an exposed pyramid. Srah Srang, with a road beside it, is the safer bet.
• The pass does not pause. A day of flooding on the road to Banteay Srei, which happens in September and October, is a day of the window gone. Angkor Enterprise does not extend or refund passes for weather.
• Beng Mealea and Kbal Spean are at their best. The moss is green and the river at Kbal Spean is running over the carvings. Budget their separate tickets, $10 and $5, in case the pass is not accepted.
• Phone and paper both suffer. A QR code on a phone in a dry bag beats a paper pass in a wet pocket. The ink on the printed photo runs.

What the rain does to the rest of a trip, and why some people choose the season on purpose, is in Siem Reap in the rainy season.

The Mistakes That Cost a Day

Each of these is a real pattern from the checkpoints, and each wastes either a pass day or a morning.

1. Starting the pass on arrival day. A three-day pass bought at 2:00 p.m. on arrival and dated that day has used its first day on an afternoon. Date it for tomorrow and take the free sunset tonight.
2. Arriving at Angkor Wat at 5:00 a.m. without a pass. The kiosk at the west entrance exists for this, but the queue at dawn in high season is 20 minutes and the camera does not like dark. Buy online the night before.
3. Using a pass dated today for the 4:45 p.m. sunset. The rule works only on a pass dated for tomorrow. Today’s pass used at 5:00 p.m. has spent a full day on 90 minutes of light.
4. Lending a multi-day pass. The photo is on it, the scanner records it, and the pass is confiscated. Both people then need new passes.
5. Forgetting a child’s passport. Under-12s are free, but a guard who wants proof of age and does not get it can refuse entry. A photo of the passport on a phone is sometimes accepted and sometimes not.
6. Letting the phone die. The QR code is the pass. A dead phone at Ta Prohm at 11:00 a.m. means a walk to find staff who can look up the ticket number, if they can.
7. Counting on 10 days for a three-day pass. It is 7. A pass started Monday is dead the following Monday, used or not.
8. Dressing for the pool. The pass does not get you up the Bakan in shorts above the knee or a sleeveless top, and guards turn people back at several temples. The Angkor dress code and temple rules explain what is enforced and where.

By Situation

You arrive this afternoon and leave the day after tomorrow

Buy a one-day pass online this morning dated for tomorrow, or at Road 60 before 5:30 p.m. Enter at 4:45 p.m. for sunset at Pre Rup. Tomorrow do the sunrise and the small circuit. That is a one-day pass doing a day and a half of work for $37.

You have a week and plan to rest between temple days

Buy the three-day pass dated for the morning of your first sunrise. Use it on days one, three and five of the trip. Days two and four go to the Tonle Sap, Phnom Kulen with its own ticket, or the pool. The 7-day window is built for exactly this and no wider.

You are traveling with children

Children under 12 are free. Carry their passports to every temple, because staff may ask. Children 12 and over pay $37, $62 or $72 like adults, with no youth rate. Nobody under 12 goes up the Bakan. The one-day pass needs no photo, so a parent can buy the children’s tickets, if any, in a group order. Which temples hold a child’s attention, and for how long, is in Angkor with kids.

You want Angkor Wat at sunrise without the queue

Buy online or in the app the afternoon before, dated for tomorrow. Leave the hotel at 4:45 a.m., go straight to the west entrance and have the QR code open on the screen with the brightness up. The Road 60 queue at that hour is the difference between the sky and a photograph of other people’s phones.

You are on a 24-hour layover

A one-day pass bought online while you are still at the airport, dated for the next morning, with a sunset entry the same evening if the flight lands before 4:00 p.m. The airport is about 50 km and 50 to 70 minutes from town, so an evening landing means sunrise only. The 24-hour layover guide does the arithmetic.

You intend to cycle

Buy the seven-day pass, $10 more than three days, and ride mornings. Buy online so the ride from town does not detour to Road 60. Carry the QR on paper as well as on the phone, because a phone in a handlebar bag in the sun is unreliable by 10:00 a.m.

What It Actually Costs

Item	Cost	Notes
One-day pass	$37	Valid on the printed date only. No photo.
Three-day pass	$62	Any 3 days within 7. Photo on the card.
Seven-day pass	$72	Any 7 days within 30. Photo on the card.
Children under 12	Free	Passport may be requested.
Kantha Bopha hospital contribution	Included	$2 of each ticket.
Beng Mealea	Separate ticket, pass acceptance disputed	$10. Carry cash and ask at the counter.
Kbal Spean	Separate ticket, pass acceptance disputed	$5. Carry cash and ask at the gate.
Koh Ker	$15	Separate park, one day.
Phnom Kulen	$20	Ministry of Environment ticket, cash at the mountain checkpoint.
Angkor Special Pass (residents of 2+ years)	Free	Apply at spass.angkorenterprise.gov.kh with passport and photo.
Tuk-tuk, small circuit day	$18 to $25, about $5 more with sunrise	Driver only. Pass not included.
Car with driver	$20 to $30 before surcharges	Air-conditioned.
Licensed guide	From about $30 a day, English	More for other languages.
Booking fee, photo fee, camera fee	None	There is no surcharge at any channel.
Refund, date change or upgrade	Not available	A three-day pass cannot become a seven-day pass.

Prices are in US dollars because the pass is sold in dollars. Riel is the currency of change for anything under a dollar in town, and at the counter the figure you are quoted is the dollar one. The torn-note problem that applies everywhere in Cambodia applies here too, and the card reader avoids it. Money in Siem Reap covers the rest.

The pass does not cover a permit for commercial photography or filming, which comes from APSARA in advance, and drones are prohibited in the park without written permission. There is no fee for a personal camera or tripod, though tripods are discouraged inside the temples.

What Other Guides Get Wrong

1. “Buy your ticket at Angkor Wat.” There are no ticket counters at any temple. The office is on Road 60 and the only in-park sale is the self-service kiosk at the west entrance, which exists for people who got this wrong.
2. “The three-day pass is valid for 10 days.” It was. The ticket card now reads “Expires in 7 days,” and most of the first page of search results, and most AI answers, have not caught up.
3. Quoting the pre-2017 prices of $20, $40 and $60. The pass has cost $37, $62 and $72 since February 1, 2017, and the increase funded the $2 hospital contribution.
4. Printing the pandemic-era hours of 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Most temples have opened at 6:00 a.m. and closed at 6:30 p.m. since 2023, and the sunset sites run to 7:00 p.m.
5. Calling the sunset rule a secret or a trick. It is in the Angkor Enterprise FAQ, it starts at 4:45 p.m., and it applies to a pass dated for the following day, which is the part most retellings leave out.
6. Listing Koh Ker as covered, or settling Beng Mealea in one line. Koh Ker is a separate park with a $15 ticket. Beng Mealea has a $10 ticket, and recent sources disagree on whether the pass is accepted there.

Detailed Guides

• Angkor Wat sunrise settles where to stand, what time to leave the hotel and whether the sunrise is worth the alarm.
• How many days for Angkor gives a number by traveler type instead of the usual “at least three.”
• Small circuit versus grand circuit explains what each loop covers and which to do first.
• Ta Prohm is the tree temple without the Tomb Raider framing, including the route that avoids the photo queue.
• Bayon and Angkor Thom covers the faces, the gates and how to walk the walled city in two hours.
• Banteay Srei argues that the smallest temple justifies the 40-minute drive and says when to arrive.
• Angkor dress code and temple rules lists what actually gets a visitor turned away and where.
• Tuk-tuk, car, bicycle or e-bike prices each way of getting around the park and says which suits which day.
• Angkor sunset spots compares Pre Rup, Phnom Bakheng, Srah Srang and the quiet alternatives.
• Hiring a licensed Angkor guide gives the cost, how to book and when a guide is not needed.
• The best time of day for each temple matches light, heat and crowds to each site.
• Preah Khan, Neak Pean and Ta Som slows down the grand circuit temples most people rush.
• The Roluos group explains the ninth-century capital that came before Angkor and why it is worth a half day on the pass.

Where to Go Next

With the pass sorted, the next decision is how many days to give the temples and in which order, and how many days Angkor needs answers that before the small and grand circuits set the route. If sunrise is the plan, the Angkor Wat sunrise guide covers the 4:30 a.m. logistics. For the days the pass does not cover, Phnom Kulen and its $20 ticket and Koh Ker and its long day are the usual choices, and day trips from Siem Reap puts them side by side.