Nymphenburg Palace opening hours, season by season
Three sets of hours run on this site at once, and they do not agree with each other. The palace and its two museums keep one calendar. The four park palaces out in the grounds keep the same summer hours and then close for five and a half months. The park keeps a third calendar of its own, opens at six in the morning all year, and does not close for the season at all.
The palace and the museums
| What | April – 15 October | 16 October – March |
|---|---|---|
| Palace | Daily 9 am – 6 pm | Daily 10 am – 4 pm |
| Marstallmuseum | Daily 9 am – 6 pm | Daily 10 am – 4 pm |
| Museum of Nymphenburg Porcelain | Daily 9 am – 6 pm | Daily 10 am – 4 pm |
| Last entry | 30 minutes before closing | 30 minutes before closing |
| Amalienburg, Badenburg, Pagodenburg, Magdalenenklause | Daily 9 am – 6 pm | Closed |
| Palace chapel | Daily 9 am – 6 pm | The operator publishes no winter hours for it |
Two things in that table catch people. The first is the winter door, which shuts at four rather than six, so a lunch that runs long in January costs an afternoon. The second is the palace chapel, for which the operator publishes summer hours and nothing else — so this page prints nothing else either.
Last entry is enforced, and it is thirty minutes
Half an hour before closing, at each of the three museums separately. It is not a guideline. Ivana, who had bought a guided fast-track and had her tickets in hand, wrote: “we arrived to see the carriage museum at 3:30 sharp they close at 4:00 pm . And we had our tickets and all and they didn’t let us go inside . Even that the castle sold us the tickets !!!” — Germany, January 2025, on Munich Nymphenburg Palace & Carriage Museum Fast-Track Tour. She gave the tour five stars and the door none.
The lesson is about order rather than speed. If you want the Marstallmuseum, do not leave it last: it sits across the courtyard from the palace in the south wing of the former royal stables, and reaching its door at closing time minus twenty-nine minutes is the same as not reaching it. What is in there is on the coaches and the porcelain.
Work backwards from the museum you care about most, not forwards from the front gate. In winter that means being inside the Marstallmuseum by half past three and nowhere near the ticket desk at that hour.
The four park palaces, and the date they shut
Amalienburg, Badenburg, Pagodenburg and Magdalenenklause keep the palace’s summer hours and then close from 16 October until April. That is the single most consequential date on this page, because it is a third of what the combination ticket covers and because a visitor who has read about the Hall of Mirrors in the Amalienburg and arrives in November will find the door locked and the walk out there still worth taking. They are described on the park and its four pavilions.
The park does not close for winter
One supplier listing states that the park is closed in winter and reachable only in the summer months. The operator publishes gate times for January, February, March, November and December, and runs the gates. Those hours are below, and there is no admission charge in any of them.
| The park’s main gate | Opens | Shuts |
|---|---|---|
| January, February, March, November, December | 6 am | 6 pm |
| April and October | 6 am | 8 pm |
| May to September | 6 am | 9.30 pm |
The operator’s own published gate times. There is no winter closure of the park in them, and no admission charge in any season.
Which means that on a December afternoon the park is open for two hours after the museums have shut, and on a June evening for three and a half hours after that. In both seasons the free half of this estate outlasts the ticketed half by a wide margin, which is the argument of the park page.
The five closed days
1 January, Shrove Tuesday, and 24, 25 and 31 December. New Year and Christmas surprise nobody. Shrove Tuesday is the one that does, because it moves, because it is not a public holiday in most of the countries visitors fly in from, and because a February city break booked around a Tuesday can land squarely on it. The Munich Residenz closes on the same five days, so there is no swapping one palace for the other — see Residenz or Nymphenburg.
Filling the hours the museums do not
The doors shut at six in summer and four in winter, and the city does not. The guided listings that reach this palace run in the morning and the early afternoon, and the old town out east of here is the natural other half of a day.
Palace + carriagesMunich Nymphenburg Palace & Carriage Museum Fast-Track Tour
City tour, park onlyMunich Moments: City Tour – Nymphenburg Park, BMW Welt
The city centreMunich: Old Town & Viktualienmarkt City Walk in German
How much of a day the whole estate takes is on how long you need, and the order to do it in is on two days in Munich.
Frequently asked questions
What time does Nymphenburg Palace open?
Daily at 9 am from April to 15 October, closing at 6 pm, and daily at 10 am from 16 October to March, closing at 4 pm. The Marstallmuseum and the Museum of Nymphenburg Porcelain keep the same hours, and last entry to all three is thirty minutes before closing. The palace is shut on 1 January, Shrove Tuesday, and 24, 25 and 31 December. What each part covers is on the tickets page.
Is the park at Nymphenburg open in winter?
Yes, every day. The main gate opens at 6 am all year and shuts at 6 pm from November to March, at 8 pm in April and October, and at 9.30 pm from May to September. A supplier listing claiming the park is reachable only in summer is contradicted by the operator’s own published times. What does close from 16 October is the four park palaces — see the park and its pavilions.
When do the Amalienburg and the other park palaces close?
They keep the palace’s summer hours of 9 am to 6 pm from April to 15 October, and are closed from 16 October until April. That is a third of what the combination ticket covers, which is why the winter ticket costs less; the arithmetic is in the table on the tickets page.