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The only one of the Old Town Hall Tower tickets I found is the $20 entry ticket from Prague City Tourism, rated 4.5 from 7,745 reviews. It covers the tower plus the historical halls and underground, but not the elevator. The viewing gallery is 41 m up, per the Prague Visitor Pass. I’d go on a clear morning or an hour before sunset.
| Tour | From | Rating | Length | Free cancellation | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Town Hall Tower Entry Ticket | $20 | ★ 4.5 (7,745) | 24-hour ticket | Yes | Check availability |
Everything in Prague’s Old Town Hall sits under one roof on Old Town Square, so buying Old Town Hall Tower tickets also gets you into the rest of the complex. The numbers below come from Open-Meteo, Wikidata where it has them, and the listing.
| What | Detail |
|---|---|
| Viewing gallery | 41 m, per the Prague Visitor Pass |
| Reached by | Stairs, or an elevator that costs extra |
| Address | Staroměstské nám. 1/3, Old Town, Prague (per Google Maps) |
| Opening hours | 09:00 to 20:00 daily on the Prague Visitor Pass page; Google Maps differs, see the hours section |
| Google rating | 4.8 from 42 reviews for the tower listing; 4.8 from 4,888 for the town hall (per Google Maps) |
| Time to allow | The ticket is valid for 24 hours, so you can fit the tower, halls and underground around your day |
was the highest in the city in the Middle Ages
These Old Town Hall Tower tickets open the gallery, and there is just one product to choose from. The Old Town Hall Tower Entry Ticket costs $20 per person and the operator is Prague City Tourism a.s. It is a plain entry ticket, not a guided tour. It includes entrance to the tower and to the historical halls and the underground of the building.
You meet nobody. Enter the Old Town Hall through the glass door and show your voucher at the priority counter on the ground floor, then head to the third floor for the tower. The listing says the elevator fee is not included, and a ticket for a guided tour of the interiors can be bought at the ticket office as well.
Prague City Tourism a.s.
My pick: My pick, and the only one: the plain entry ticket with the tower, halls and underground, 4.5 from 7,745 reviews. Budget extra if you want the elevator.
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Cancellation is free up to 24 hours ahead for a full refund. The ticket is valid for 24 hours, which matters if you want to come back at dusk after a daytime look.
At $20, Old Town Hall Tower tickets work out cheap compared with most skyline decks on this site, though the price here pays for a shorter climb than a skyscraper. If you are travelling as a group, the calculator below gives the total and links to the booking page.
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from per person, before any child or group discount
Prices are the lowest per-person prices on GetYourGuide when I last checked; the final price depends on the date, time slot and age.
The one extra is the lift. It is not in the $20, so the real cost of the easy way up is higher. The Prague Visitor Pass page lists a free elevator ticket for pass holders, so if you already own that pass, check whether it beats buying separate Old Town Hall Tower tickets.
Booking Old Town Hall Tower tickets ahead is simple because the product is a voucher, not a timed slot. The listing gives no entry time, so you walk in during opening hours and use the priority counter. Compared with buying at the desk, the benefit of booking online is mainly the priority counter and a free-cancellation window.
I would still avoid arriving as the apostles appear on the hour, since Old Town Square fills up in front of the clock. According to the listing, the figures turn every hour between 9:00 AM and 11:00 PM. Slip in between shows and you will get the lobby to yourself.
For Old Town Hall Tower tickets, the fee I can state is the $20 on the listing, in US dollars, which is how GetYourGuide shows it to me. The ticket office sells tickets in Czech crowns, and I did not find one consistent official figure to quote, so the official Prague tourism site is where to confirm it. Two things push the total above $20: the elevator, and the guided interior tour sold at the office.
Old Town Hall Tower tickets are only useful when the tower is open, and the Prague Visitor Pass page gives it as open daily from 09:00 to 20:00. Google Maps is less tidy. The tower listing shows 8 am to 8 pm and marks Sunday as closed, while the Old Town Hall listing shows 9 am to 8 pm every day. I trust the official page over the map for the daily hours, and I’d check prague.eu for the date you plan, because hours here change with the season.
Weekday mornings are the quiet time for using Old Town Hall Tower tickets, in my reading of the numbers, since the clock crowds build towards midday.
You can climb or ride, and Old Town Hall Tower tickets cover either way up apart from the lift fee. The route to the gallery goes up from the third floor, and a reviewer on the listing wrote that it was “easy to get to the top, no need for the lift.” So the stairs are manageable, and the elevator is a choice, not a requirement. I’d take the elevator if anyone in your group struggles with steps, since it is a paid extra on top of the Old Town Hall Tower tickets.
The tower was completed in 1364, per Wikipedia, and the clock beside it dates from 1410 in its oldest part, per Wikipedia.
Yes, and Old Town Hall Tower tickets suit you if you like views of old rooftops more than glass skyscrapers. The gallery is only 41 m up, so you look across the roofs, not down on a city grid. You get the square directly below, the towers of the Old Town, and Prague Castle in the distance, 1.42 km (0.88 mi) away. For a single ticket this is good value, and I would buy Old Town Hall Tower tickets again, and tickets for the Old Town Hall Tower also cover the halls and the underground.
The tower belongs to the town hall complex of five buildings on Old Town Square. The listing calls it the oldest town hall tower in the Czech Republic, and says it was the tallest structure in the city when it was built. The astronomical clock on its side is the reason many visitors come, but the tower ticket does not buy a separate view of the clock mechanism.
Open-Meteo’s 2025 data shows August as the clearest month, with 44% average cloud cover, followed by June at 47% and March at 49%. December was the cloudiest at 76%, then January at 75% and October at 72%, according to Open-Meteo. Sunset runs from 15:59 in December to 21:13 in June. I’d arrive 45 to 60 minutes before sunset, but check the closing time first, because the 20:00 close beats a summer sunset.
| Month | Sunset (Prague time) | Cloud cover | Sunshine a day | Rainy days |
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| Jan | 16:28 | 75% | 4 h | 12 |
| Feb | 17:20 | 57% | 6.7 h | 2 |
| Marclearest | 18:07 | 49% | 8.3 h | 8 |
| Apr | 19:56 | 56% | 9.9 h | 5 |
| May | 20:42 | 62% | 11.2 h | 12 |
| Junclearest | 21:13 | 47% | 13.2 h | 10 |
| Jul | 21:06 | 62% | 11.6 h | 17 |
| Augclearest | 20:20 | 44% | 11.6 h | 8 |
| Sep | 19:15 | 54% | 8.4 h | 10 |
| Oct | 18:10 | 72% | 6.4 h | 12 |
| Nov | 16:17 | 71% | 4.9 h | 7 |
| Dec | 15:59 | 76% | 3.9 h | 3 |
Pick your date below before you book Old Town Hall Tower tickets, to see the sunset time and the entry time to aim for.
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book this entry time (50 min before sunset)
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sunset, Prague time
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typical cloud cover that week
Sunset and cloud cover for the same dates in 2025 at the deck (Open-Meteo historical weather (ERA5), 2025); sunset moves by about a minute between years.
From a gallery 41 m up, the horizon is closer than from a skyscraper, but the calculator shows what the height gives you. The height is the Prague Visitor Pass figure, and I use it as the eye height.
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41 m · 135 ft
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to the horizon ( miles)
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with typical atmospheric refraction
Geometric horizon d ≈ 3.57 × √h (km, h in metres); refraction adds about 8%. Haze and clouds usually limit the real view first. Formula: Distance to the horizon.
Distances below are straight lines from the tower: the Astronomical Clock 0.03 km (0.02 mi), Old Town Square 0.09 km (0.06 mi), the Powder Tower 0.53 km (0.33 mi), Charles Bridge 0.64 km (0.40 mi), Prague Castle 1.42 km (0.88 mi), St. Vitus Cathedral 1.49 km (0.92 mi), Petřín Tower 1.84 km (1.15 mi), Žižkov Television Tower 2.29 km (1.42 mi) and Vyšehrad 2.53 km (1.57 mi).
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Old Town Hall Tower tickets compete with more lookouts than in most cities, since Prague has many, and several are free. The one on this site with its own ticket guide is Petřín Lookout Tower, on the hill across the river. The ratings are from Google Maps.
| Place | Google rating | Reviews | Distance from this tower | Free or paid |
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| Old Town Hall Tower | 4.8 | 42 | n/a | Paid, $20 entry |
| Old Town Bridge Tower | 4.8 | 17,086 | 0.49 km (0.30 mi) | Check locally |
| Jindřišská Tower | 4.6 | 2,209 | 0.72 km (0.45 mi) | Check locally |
| Petřín Lookout Tower | 4.5 | 36,908 | 1.84 km (1.15 mi) | Check locally |
| Žižkov Television Tower | 4.4 | 24,321 | 2.29 km (1.42 mi) | Check locally |
| Vyhlídková terasa | 4.8 | 720 | 1.57 km (0.97 mi) | Check locally |
The tower listing has just 42 Google reviews, so I read its 4.8 with caution and lean on the 7,745 reviews of the ticket instead.
I think so, mainly for the position. The gallery is 41 m up, per the Prague Visitor Pass, and it looks straight down on Old Town Square, with the castle in the distance. The $20 ticket also includes the historical halls and the underground, which adds to the visit.
The only product I found is the $20 Old Town Hall Tower Entry Ticket on GetYourGuide, rated 4.5 from 7,745 reviews. The elevator is not included. For the price you would pay at the ticket office in Czech crowns, check the official Prague site before you go.
Yes, but it costs extra. The GetYourGuide listing says the elevator fee is not included, and the Prague Visitor Pass page lists a separate elevator ticket. A reviewer on the listing wrote that there was no need for the lift, because the way up was easy.
The Prague Visitor Pass page gives the tower as daily 09:00 to 20:00. The Google Maps listing for the tower shows 8 am to 8 pm and lists Sunday as closed, while the town hall listing shows 9 am to 8 pm every day. Check prague.eu for your date.
The listing says you present the voucher at the priority counter on the ground floor, then go up to the third floor for the tower. So you avoid the main queue for buying a ticket. You may still wait for the elevator or on the stairs at busy times.
I have no free entry rule for it in my data, so I won't claim one. Petřín Lookout Tower is a separate ticketed lookout on the other side of the river, and I cover its prices on its own page. Check the official site for current fees.