Würzburg Residence opening hours
Daily, all year, on two calendars. From April to October the doors are open from 9 am to 6 pm with last entry at 5.15 pm. From November to March it is 10 am to 4.30 pm with last entry at 4 pm. Four days in the year are closed and the Court Garden keeps its own hours entirely.
Last entry is not the time that matters
Because the guided tour is already paid for inside your ticket, the deadline worth planning around is the last tour rather than the last admission. The last German tour leaves at 4.30 pm from April to October and at 3.30 pm from November to March. The English tours run at 11am and 3pm every day of the year. Arriving at ten past five in July gets you through the door and misses everything the ticket entitles you to, which is a peculiarly annoying way to spend about ten euros.
Half past ten in the morning and half past one in the afternoon are the comfortable arrivals: enough of a run at the rooms, then a German tour on the half hour or an English one at three. The mechanics of joining are on the tour that comes with the ticket.
The 11am English tour is the one to build a morning around. It leaves you out in the middle of the day with the Court Church and the free garden still ahead of you, and both of those are on what costs nothing here.
The four closures, and the one that catches people
1 January, Shrove Tuesday, 24 December, 25 December and 31 December. New Year and Christmas surprise nobody. Shrove Tuesday is the one that does, because it moves, it is not a public holiday in most of the countries visitors fly in from, and a February city break booked around a Tuesday can land squarely on it. Check the date before you commit a winter afternoon to this building.
Winter has a second, smaller cost. One reviewer of the road train, riding in January, put it plainly: “Die Tour war toll. Man hat viele Sehenswürdigkeiten sehen können. Leider war es trotz Heizung kalt weil es irgendwo an den Beinen hereinzog.” — Alexandra, Germany, four stars, on Würzburg: City Tour with the Bimmelbahn Train. Heated, and still cold round the legs. The palace interior is not the problem in February; the hours around it are, and they are short.
The garden and the museum keep different clocks
The Court Garden is open daily until dusk and until 8 pm at the latest, which is the operator’s own formula and the reason this page prints no fixed closing hour for it. In December that means the garden shuts long before eight; in June it means the last hour of the day out there is the best one, and it costs nothing.
The Martin von Wagner Museum in the south wing runs on time slots rather than opening hours. The antiquities are open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 to 1.30, the picture gallery Tuesday to Saturday from 1.30 to 5, and on Sundays the two collections alternate week by week. It is free, it is in the same building, and it is closed on Mondays when the palace itself is not. The full account is on what costs nothing here.
Filling the hours around the ticket
The palace shuts at six in summer and half past four in winter, and the city does not. The old-town walks and the evening glass on the bridge are the natural other half of the day, and the shortest of them takes an hour.
The standard walkWürzburg: Guided Walking Tour
One hour, one glassWürzburg: Brückenschoppen (guided tour with wine)
Most bookedWürzburg: City Tour with the Bimmelbahn Train
How much of a day the whole thing takes is on how long you need inside, and the order to do it in is on one day in Würzburg.
Frequently asked questions
What are the opening hours of the Würzburg Residence?
Daily from 9 am to 6 pm between April and October, with last entry at 5.15 pm, and daily from 10 am to 4.30 pm between November and March, with last entry at 4 pm. The building closes on 1 January, on Shrove Tuesday and on 24, 25 and 31 December. What the ticket buys during those hours is on the tickets page.
What time is the last guided tour?
The last German tour leaves at 4.30 pm from April to October and at 3.30 pm from November to March. The English tours run at 11am and 3pm all year. Since the tour is already inside your ticket, those are the times to plan around rather than last entry; see the tour that comes with the ticket.
When is the Court Garden open?
Daily until dusk, and until 8 pm at the latest — the operator gives no fixed closing hour, so this site prints none. It costs nothing to walk in, in any season, and so does the Court Church. Both are covered on what costs nothing here.