Prague City Pass or Prague Card: Which Is Worth It in 2026

The four Prague passes on sale in 2026

Four sightseeing passes are on sale in Prague in 2026, and they differ in what they cover, how long they run and which currency they charge in. The table sets them side by side, with the cheapest adult entry price for each.

Two of the four are priced in euros and two in koruna, which is why a straight price comparison moves with the exchange rate.

What is the Prague Card?

Prague Card is the physical smart card version of Prague CoolPass, and it gives access to exactly the same attractions. Prague Card and Prague CoolPass are sold by the same company, CoolPass s.r.o., which traded as Prague Card s.r.o. before the rename, and its own FAQ states that the two formats carry identical benefits. You buy a voucher online and exchange it for the card at a collection point in Prague.

The choice between the two formats is permanent. A digital pass cannot be converted into a physical card afterwards, and a card cannot be turned into a QR code, so decide before you pay.

Older guides describe Prague Card as discontinued and replaced by CoolPass in 2023. That is not what the operator says now: the brand is live and is the format you ask for when you want plastic rather than an app.

What is Prague CoolPass?

Prague CoolPass is a digital sightseeing pass covering more than 90 Prague attractions and experiences with free entry, plus roughly 60 more at discounts of up to 50%. CoolPass includes Prague Castle with St Vitus Cathedral, the Jewish Museum in Prague, the National Museum, Prague Zoo, the Lobkowicz and Schwarzenberg palaces, a sightseeing bus tour of the historic centre and a choice of Vltava river cruises.

The pass runs for 1 to 10 consecutive calendar days, not for rolling 24-hour periods, and it stays activatable for 12 months from the date you buy it. It lives in the free Prague CoolPass app, which works offline once the pass has downloaded and is published in 17 languages.

Public transport is not included. The operator’s reasoning is that Prague’s fares are low and the historic centre is walkable, which is fair as far as it goes, but it means a 72-hour PID ticket at 340 Kč in the PID Lítačka app or 350 Kč on paper (about €14, $17, £12) sits on top of the pass price if you plan to ride.

What is the Prague City Pass?

Prague City Pass is a paper or printable card that covers two things: the Prague Castle circuit and the Jewish Town in Prague. Prague City Pass costs 1,800 Kč (about €74, $86, £64) for an adult and 1,400 Kč (about €58, $67, £50) for a junior, and it adds a guided sightseeing bus tour from the centre up to the castle and a commentated cruise on the Vltava.

The castle half covers the Old Royal Palace with Vladislav Hall, St Vitus Cathedral, St George’s Basilica and Golden Lane with Daliborka Tower. The Jewish Town half covers the Maisel, Spanish, Pinkas and Klausen synagogues, the Old-New Synagogue, the Ceremonial Hall and the Old Jewish Cemetery.

Three of those Jewish Quarter sites, the Robert Guttmann Gallery, the Ceremonial Hall and the Klausen Synagogue, are flagged as temporarily closed on the operator’s own pages, so check before you count them.

The validity rules are unusual and worth reading twice. The pass itself runs for 30 days from first entry, but the Prague Castle ticket inside it is valid for 2 days from first entry and the Jewish Town ticket for 3 days, and each interior can be entered once. Collect the physical card from the Gray Line stand at Revoluční 25/768 in the centre, or print it yourself.

What is the Prague Visitor Pass?

Prague Visitor Pass is the city’s own pass, run by Prague City Tourism, and it is the only Prague pass that includes unlimited public transport. The Visitor Pass covers metro, trams, city buses, trolleybuses and ferries across Prague, including the run in from the airport and back, alongside free admission or discounts at more than 70 experiences.

It comes in 48-hour, 72-hour and 120-hour versions, priced in koruna, and it counts hours rather than calendar days. You can activate it the moment you buy it or schedule the activation for a later date. If your Prague list is the classic one, the castle, the Jewish Quarter, a river cruise, the Old Town Hall clock tower and Petřín, and you would rather not think about tickets, the official city pass with public transport is the least fiddly of the four.

Prague CoolPass and Prague Card prices in 2026

Prague CoolPass and Prague Card are sold in euros only, from €72 for one adult day to €160 for ten. The reduced rate covers students aged 16 to 26 on full-time study and children aged 6 to 16, and an adult ticket starts at 16. The koruna figures below are the euro price converted at the 10 September 2026 rate, not a price the operator quotes.

A student ID is not needed to buy the reduced pass, but an attraction can ask to see one at the door, and any national or international student card is accepted. Groups of more than 10 people are asked to contact the operator, because some attractions turn large groups away.

Prague Visitor Pass prices in 2026

Prague Visitor Pass is sold in koruna, from 2,700 Kč for 48 adult hours to 3,900 Kč for 120. The euro, dollar and sterling figures are conversions at the 10 September 2026 rate.

Prague City Tourism publishes its own worked example for the 72-hour pass: twelve attractions plus a 72-hour transport ticket come to 6,010 Kč at the gate against 3,300 Kč for the pass, a saving of 2,710 Kč. That itinerary is a busy one, four paid sights a day for three days, and it is the operator’s own arithmetic rather than an independent test.

Which Prague pass is worth it?

A Prague pass is worth it when you will visit three or more paid attractions a day, and it is not worth it when you plan a slower trip built around walking, squares, bridges and beer. Prague’s headline sights are expensive on their own, so the maths turns quickly. The Prague Castle main circuit alone is 450 Kč for an adult and 300 Kč reduced (about €19 and €12), and it is valid for 2 consecutive days.

The four cases below cover most trips.

1. You want the widest choice of attractions: buy Prague CoolPass or Prague Card. More than 90 sites are included free, which is the largest list of the four, and the 1-to-10-day range fits odd trip lengths that the hour-based passes do not.
2. You want public transport in the price: buy the Prague Visitor Pass. It is the only one of the four that carries a transport ticket, and it covers the airport run in both directions, which the others leave you to buy separately.
3. You only want the castle and the Jewish Quarter: buy the Prague City Pass, or buy the two tickets on their own and compare. At 1,800 Kč it covers exactly those two blocks plus a bus tour and a cruise, and it gives you 30 days to use them, which suits a trip with a day in Prague at each end.
4. You have one day and an early start: buy a 1-day CoolPass at €72 or a Go City All-Inclusive day at €64, and start at opening time. Both count calendar days rather than 24-hour blocks, so a pass activated after lunch throws away a morning.

Book the Prague city pass you have settled on before you fly, because the app version arrives by email and is ready to scan the moment you land.

What a Prague pass does not cover

No Prague pass covers everything, and three gaps catch people out. They are listed below in the order they cost travellers money.

• Public transport, on three of the four passes. CoolPass, Prague City Pass and Go City all leave transport to you. A 24-hour PID ticket costs 140 Kč in the Lítačka app or 150 Kč on paper, and a 72-hour ticket costs 340 Kč or 350 Kč (about €14).
• A separate entry queue. Of the three, only the Prague City Pass advertises skipping the ticket-office line. CoolPass and the Visitor Pass are scanned at the door in place of a ticket, so a queue at the attraction is still a queue.
• Refunds for what you did not use. A pass is a fixed price whether you visit two attractions or twelve. Go City is the outlier here, refunding non-activated passes within 90 days of purchase, and CoolPass offers a money-back guarantee on an order cancelled before activation.

Where to buy and how to activate a Prague pass

Buy any of the four online before you travel, then activate on the day you start sightseeing. Buying ahead matters more than it sounds, because a digital pass arrives with a reference code you enter in the operator’s app, and that step wants a connection.

Prague CoolPass and Prague Card are sold on the operator’s own site and in the Prague CoolPass app. Physical Prague Cards are collected in the centre at the Central Bohemia tourist office in the Old Town, at Tourinfo on Panská, at the tourist information centre on Mostecká by Charles Bridge, and at the Martin Tour desk on Mikulášská. Prague City Pass is bought through its own shop and collected from the Gray Line stand on Revoluční, or printed at home. The Prague Visitor Pass is sold at its own points of sale, on its website and in its app.

The pass sits in an app in three cases out of four, which means you want mobile data on arrival rather than after you find WiFi. An eSIM for Czechia installs before you fly and costs less than airport roaming, and the code HARRY5578 takes €3 off.

Prague pass questions

Is Prague Card the same as Prague CoolPass?

Yes. Prague Card is the physical smart card and Prague CoolPass is the digital QR pass, and both cover the same 90-plus attractions from the same operator. The format you buy cannot be swapped afterwards.

Does any Prague pass include public transport?

The Prague Visitor Pass includes unlimited public transport across Prague, including the airport journey. Prague CoolPass, Prague City Pass and Go City Prague do not, so add a PID ticket at 140 Kč for 24 hours or 340 Kč for 72 hours if you plan to ride.

How long is a Prague pass valid before you activate it?

Prague CoolPass and Prague Card can be activated for 12 months from the date of purchase, and Go City passes for 12 months. The Prague City Pass runs 30 days from first entry, with a 2-day window on the castle ticket and a 3-day window on the Jewish Town ticket inside it.

Which Prague pass is cheapest?

Go City’s Essentials Pass at €44 is the cheapest entry point, but it only covers three attractions and excludes Prague Castle. Among the passes that include the castle, a one-day CoolPass at €72 (about 1,750 Kč) and a Go City All-Inclusive day at €64 undercut the 48-hour Visitor Pass at 2,700 Kč, which carries transport the other two do not.

Do children pay for a Prague pass?

Children pay a reduced rate on all four. CoolPass charges the reduced price for ages 6 to 16, the Visitor Pass has its own child tier from 1,350 Kč, and Go City sets its child rate at ages 3 to 16. Under-6s already travel free on Prague public transport when accompanied.

WonderfulWanderings Pro Tips

Five things about the Prague passes are easy to miss and expensive to get wrong, and they are listed below with the most costly first.

1. Pick your format before you pay, not after. A digital Prague CoolPass cannot be converted into a physical Prague Card, and a card cannot be turned into a QR code. The operator states this on the order page, and it is the one decision the money-back guarantee does not undo.
2. Activate a day pass in the morning. Prague CoolPass counts consecutive calendar days and the Go City All-Inclusive counts calendar days too, not 24-hour periods, so a pass first scanned at 2pm has already lost half its first day.
3. Watch the exchange rate, because two passes are priced in euros. CoolPass and Go City charge in euros while the Visitor Pass and Prague City Pass charge in koruna, so which one is cheaper genuinely moves with the rate. On 10 September 2026 a 48-hour Visitor Pass at 2,700 Kč worked out at about €111 against €96 for a 2-day CoolPass, before you add a transport ticket to the CoolPass.
4. Check the Jewish Quarter before buying the Prague City Pass for it. The operator’s own pages mark the Robert Guttmann Gallery, the Ceremonial Hall and the Klausen Synagogue as temporarily closed, and those are three of the sites the card is sold on.
5. Read the castle window inside the Prague City Pass. The pass lasts 30 days, but the Prague Castle ticket inside it expires 2 days after first entry and the Jewish Town ticket 3 days after, so splitting the castle across a long trip does not work.

For what a day in the city actually costs beyond the sightseeing, see our guide to prices in Czechia, and for getting around, transport in Czechia. If you are still shaping the trip, start with Prague, the museums most of these passes cover, the Jewish Quarter and the facts about Czechia worth knowing first.

About the author. This guide is written and maintained by the Wonderful Wanderings editorial team. Wonderful Wanderings was founded in 2012 by Sofie Couwenbergh, and the team covers Czechia for independent travellers, including the Prague sightseeing passes, museums, tours and city cards worth buying, and updates this page when prices, tiers and operators change.