Germany’s most famous romantic ruin, in red sandstone above the Neckar and the old town, with a giant wine barrel in its cellars. Here you’ll find which Heidelberg Castle tickets to buy, the weather during opening hours, opening times and tips for your visit.
Queues and crowds → · Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Weather at 5:00 PM. The castle opens at 09:00.
The ticket includes the funicular ride up, the courtyard, the Great Tun and the German Apothecary Museum. The interiors can only be seen on the official guided tour, which costs extra.
Our pick: the guided tour on GetYourGuide, highly rated (4.6 out of 5) and cancellable: two hours of stories you won’t get on your own. On a budget? The €11 official ticket plus the €6 interior tour in English is the cheapest way to see it all. Tiqets doesn’t sell this castle.
Meets at Kornmarkt · free cancellation up to 24 hours before · 4.6 from 300 reviews
Costs more than the official ticket (€11) because a guide takes you round for two hours.
About 5.5 hours · free cancellation up to 24 hours before · 4.5 from over 770 reviews
Includes the trip from Frankfurt, a guide and castle entry.
Indicative prices, checked onOctober 27, 2026: they may change: the final price is the one shown by the seller.
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Good: clear, 9 to 9 degrees, no rain.
Good
Good: clear, 5 to 10 degrees, no rain.
| Time | Sky | Temperature | Rain | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Clear | 5° | – | 11 km/h |
| 10:00 | Clear | 7° | – | 11 km/h |
| 11:00 | Clear | 8° | – | 12 km/h |
| 12:00 | Fair | 9° | – | 13 km/h |
| 13:00 | Partly cloudy | 10° | – | 13 km/h |
| 14:00 | Partly cloudy | 10° | – | 13 km/h |
| 15:00 | Partly cloudy | 9° | – | 12 km/h |
| 16:00 | Cloudy | 8° | – | 12 km/h |
| 17:00 | Cloudy | 8° | – | 9 km/h |
Today and tomorrow the forecast is accurate hour by hour; up to day seven it is reliable on the trend; the last days give a rough idea. Updated every hour.
Today, Friday, October 30: open 09:00–18:00.
| Period | Hours |
|---|---|
| 09:00–18:00 |
Closed on December 25.
Opening hours: every day from 9 am to 6 pm (last entry 5:30 pm). On 24 and 31 December 9 am to 2 pm, closed on 25 December, 1 January 11 am to 6 pm. The Apothecary Museum has its own hours.
Best time to visit: May, June and September. Mild days, between 21 and 25°C.
| Month | Average high | Rainy days |
|---|---|---|
| Jan | 5° | 15 |
| Feb | 7° | 14 |
| Mar | 12° | 14 |
| Apr | 17° | 12 |
| MayRecommended | 21° | 14 |
| JunRecommended | 25° | 13 |
| Jul | 27° | 14 |
| Aug | 27° | 14 |
| SepRecommended | 22° | 12 |
| Oct | 16° | 14 |
| Nov | 9° | 16 |
| Dec | 6° | 17 |
1991–2020 normals for the Mannheim weather station, about 20 km away: average high and days with at least 1 mm of rain. Source: WMO and DWD, table published on Wikipedia (article “Mannheim”).
Much of the castle is an open-air ruin: courtyard, terrace and gardens.
An hour-by-hour crowd estimate is coming later, always marked as an estimate and with its source.
By public transport: from Heidelberg main station, bus 33 or 20 to the Bergbahn stop, then the funicular to Schloss station.
By car: drive up via Neue Schlossstraße. From 17 June 2026, probably until the end of the year, Graimbergweg is closed for works: on the way back, go down via Hausackerweg or Molkenkurweg.
From Frankfurt: Heidelberg is about an hour away; there’s also a guided day trip.
Good: clear, 9 to 9 degrees, no rain.
Saturday, October 31: Good: clear, 5 to 10 degrees, no rain. Sunday, November 1: Good: cloudy, 6 to 9 degrees, no rain.
Until 31 December 2026 the ticket costs €11 (reduced €5.50), from 2027 €12 (reduced €6). It includes the funicular, the courtyard, the Great Tun and the Apothecary Museum; the interior tour costs €6 extra.
Yes: the castle ticket includes the ride on the funicular (Bergbahn) up to Schloss station.
Every day from 9 am to 6 pm, last entry 5:30 pm. On 24 and 31 December it closes at 2 pm, and it’s closed on 25 December.
Yes: the official interior tours run in English every hour (€6 on top of the ticket), and GetYourGuide sells a two-hour guided tour in English from €39.
At least two hours for the courtyard, terrace, barrel and apothecary; add time for the interior tour and the gardens.
Reliable forecasts reach about 10 days: here you get the next 10, hour by hour for today and tomorrow and as a trend after that. To pick a month, check the climate month by month.
Forecasts come from MET Norway, the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, calculated for the castle’s coordinates and updated every hour during the day and every 3 hours at night. Crowd figures are labelled as estimates, with their source.
Guided castle tour with funicular · from €39
Forecast by MET Norway, the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, calculated for the castle’s coordinates. Forecast: MET Norway (CC BY 4.0), updated every hour. Updated: October 27, 2026.