Hellbrunn Palace and the Trick Fountains: Tickets, Time and How to Get There
Updated October 22, 2026 · 5 min read
You do not need a tour for Hellbrunn: buy the palace’s own ticket, take the city bus and allow half a day. The trick fountains are the reason most people come, and the palace sells everything you need, online or at the entrance. The one thing worth booking in advance through us is a concert.
Season and opening hours
Hellbrunn is open daily from 28 March to 1 November 2026, according to the palace’s own website. Hours change with the month:
| Period | Opening hours | Last admission |
|---|---|---|
| March, April, October, 1 November | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | 4:30 pm |
| May, June, September | 9:30 am to 6:30 pm | 5:30 pm |
| July, August | 9:30 am to 7 pm | 6 pm |
The palace gives no opening hours outside those dates, so do not plan the fountains into a winter trip without checking its website first. If you are visiting in the first days of November, check the hours before you go.
What the ticket covers
The palace lists these prices for 2026: €16.50 for adults, €6.50 for children and pupils aged 4 to 18, €9.50 for students aged 19 to 26, and €36.50 for a family card with two adults and one child. Groups of 20 or more pay €14.50 each.
One ticket gets you three things:
- The trick fountains, with a mobile audio guide, about 50 minutes.
- The palace exhibition, with an audio guide, about 30 minutes.
- The Folk Museum in the Monatsschlössl, about an hour.
The palace lists 15 languages, including English, German, Italian, Spanish, French and Dutch. The palace says visits are possible in all weather. Tickets can be bought online to avoid the queue, or on the spot.
Plan around two hours for the fountains and palace together, and more if you add the museum and a walk through the park. The fountains are built to splash visitors, so wear something that dries and leave the camera in a pocket.
Getting there
From the main station or the city centre, the palace gives bus line 25 in the direction of Untersbergbahn to the stop at Schloss Hellbrunn, a ride of roughly 25 to 30 minutes. That is the plain, cheap way.
By car, parking at the palace costs €3.00 for the first two hours and €1.00 for each additional hour, with a daily maximum of €10.00. For a visit of 2 to 3 hours that is about €3 to €4. A rental car is not worth taking just for Hellbrunn, since the bus does the job.
By boat, the Salzach boat ride follows the river towards Hellbrunn, according to city tourism, but it is a short city cruise and it does not land you at the palace.
Is there anything to book?
The Hellbrunn offers we list are few, and thin on reviews:
- The Hellbrunn Palace concerts are an afternoon concert of about 45 minutes with Baroque works and soprano arias by Mozart. It costs €24 and has 24 reviews at 4.7 stars. Twenty-four reviews is a small sample, so treat the score as a pointer, not a verdict.
- A private tour of the palace and trick fountains, with skip-the-line tickets, takes 2 to 3 hours. It has no reviews yet and is priced far above the palace ticket, so look at what the price covers and for how many people before you decide.
A plain ticket from the palace costs a fraction of the private tour, and the audio guide covers the fountains. The private tour makes sense only if you want a person explaining the place.
Who it suits
- Families with school-age children. The palace sets its child price at ages 4 to 18, which makes it cheap for a family.
- Anyone with a dry afternoon spare. The park is large enough for an hour on its own.
- Not for a rushed day. If you have one day in Salzburg, the Hohensalzburg Fortress and the old town give more for the time.
Accessibility is not something we can promise; ask the palace which parts of the fountain tour and the exhibition you can reach if you use a wheelchair or a pushchair.
See the Hellbrunn Palace concert and dates
For other concerts, see Mozart concerts in Salzburg; for tickets to other sights, attraction tickets in Salzburg.
