Angkor Pass 2026: Prices, the 10-Day Rule and Where to Actually Buy It

This is the single most useful thing to know before you plan anything in Siem Reap, and almost every itinerary online gets it wrong.

The three-day Angkor pass costs USD 62 and is valid on any three days inside a ten-day window from first use. Not three consecutive days. The seven-day pass at USD 72 works the same way across thirty days. You can do a sunrise day, take a full day off for the Tonle Sap or the countryside, and come back for the far temples on day four — and the same pass covers all of it.

Why it matters: temple fatigue is real and it arrives faster than people expect. By the fourth hour of a second straight day on sandstone in the mid-thirties, most visitors have stopped seeing carvings and started seeing stone. Spreading three temple days over five calendar days costs exactly nothing extra, and it is the difference between remembering Angkor and enduring it.

One more piece of arithmetic that catches people out: two single-day passes cost USD 74, which is more than the three-day pass at USD 62. If there is any chance at all you will want a second temple day, the three-day is already the cheaper ticket. And if you are planning four temple days, the seven-day pass at USD 72 beats buying a three-day plus a one-day at USD 99.

Passes are sold by Angkor Enterprise, the state operator, and by nobody else. There is one ticket office, a purpose-built building on the road out to the temples about four kilometres from town, and an official online sale on their own site.

Tickets are not sold at the temple gates. This is the error that costs people a morning: a driver says he will sort the ticket when you get to Angkor Wat, you arrive at 05:10, and you are turned back at the checkpoint to drive twenty minutes in the wrong direction. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either confused or has not done it recently.

Opening hours are 04:30 to 17:30. The 04:30 start exists for the sunrise crowd, which means the queue at that hour is real. Buy your pass the evening before your first temple day — it is a ten-minute errand that saves you the worst twenty minutes of the trip.

What you need: your passport. They photograph you at the counter and your face is printed on the pass, which is checked at every temple, so the pass is not transferable and a friend's leftover days are worthless to you. Children under twelve are free on the strength of a passport showing the date of birth. There is no student rate, no group rate and no half-day ticket, whatever a booking site tells you. Payment is by card or US dollars.

If someone offers to sell you a pass at a markup, they are not an agent and they are not saving you anything — the price is fixed and the only seller is the state.

The Angkor Pass covers the Angkor Archaeological Park, which is a large area but not everything a tour will sell you.

Phnom Kulen charges its own USD 20 entry. It is the plateau the Angkor temples were quarried from and where Jayavarman II declared himself universal monarch in 802 — the date Cambodians give as the founding of the empire. The waterfall, the carved river bed and the reclining Buddha at the summit are worth it in or just after the rains, when the falls actually run. In March they are a trickle and the USD 20 stings.

Koh Ker and Preah Vihear both sit well outside the park and carry separate admission. So does Banteay Chhmar up towards the Thai border. Beng Mealea's fee is now generally folded into the Angkor pass, but confirm it with your operator rather than at the gate.

A guide is not included in anything. Licensed Cambodian guides are registered with the Ministry of Tourism and wear a numbered badge; a guide typically costs USD 35–45 a day on top of transport. You do not need one for Banteay Srei or the lake. You do want one for Angkor Thom and the Bayon, where nothing is labelled and the bas-relief galleries are unreadable without someone to point at them.

Transport is separate too. A tuk-tuk for a small-circuit day runs roughly USD 18–25, a private car with driver USD 35–55, and both are hired by the day because the driver waits at each temple rather than dropping you and leaving.

One temple day — the one-day pass at USD 37. This is the right answer for a stopover, and it buys you Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom and Ta Prohm at a brisk pace. You will not see Banteay Srei.

Two or three temple days — the three-day pass at USD 62, always. Two singles cost more. Use the ten-day window: temples, a break, temples.

Four or more temple days — the seven-day pass at USD 72. Ten dollars over the three-day removes every scheduling constraint for thirty days, and it is what makes Koh Ker and Preah Vihear sensible additions rather than expensive ones.

For a sense of how this fits an actual trip, our 3-day Siem Reap itinerary spreads two temple days around a lake day on a three-day pass, and the Cambodia itinerary pages do the same at every length from three to ten days.

One last thing worth saying plainly: the pass money goes to Angkor Enterprise and a share is committed to conservation and to Kantha Bopha children's hospitals. It is one of the few entry fees in the region where the destination of the money is publicly stated.