Checked 26 October 2026. Angkor Wat is published at 05:00–17:30. Bayon, Ta Prohm and most of the park are published at 07:30–17:30. Phnom Bakheng and Srah Srang open with the sunrise gates. This page is the clock. Pass prices are one sentence, then the Angkor Pass guide.
Two offices publish the times, and they are not the same document. Angkor Enterprise sells the pass and lists Angkor Wat’s hours. The APSARA National Authority visitor pages list hours temple by temple. On 26 October 2026 the live Angkor Enterprise pages sat behind a bot check, so the Enterprise figures below are from the indexed official text we could read that day. APSARA’s pages came through in search. If a guard gives you a different time, the gate wins.
Hours at a glance
Angkor Enterprise’s available-tickets listing publishes a 1-day pass at $37, a 3-day pass at $62 that expires in 7 days, and a 7-day pass at $72 that expires in 30 days. That same listing puts the park pass window at 05:00–18:30, which is wider than most temple closes.
| Temple | Opens | Closes | Ticket | Useful time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angkor Wat | 05:00 | 17:30 | Angkor pass | Sunrise, then the galleries after the crowd thins |
| Phnom Bakheng | 05:00 | 19:00 | Angkor pass | Sunset. APSARA bars under-12s and pregnant visitors from the top |
| Srah Srang | 05:00 | 17:30 | Angkor pass | Sunrise on the east-facing terrace. No climb |
| Pre Rup | 07:30 | 17:30 | Angkor pass | Late light only if you are inside before the published close |
| Bayon | 07:30 | 17:30 | Angkor pass | Just after opening, or after 15:00 |
| Ta Prohm | 07:30 | 17:30 | Angkor pass | At opening, before the root-photo queue |
| Banteay Kdei | 07:30 | 17:30 | Angkor pass | With Ta Prohm, a few minutes away |
| Preah Khan | 07:30 | 17:30 | Angkor pass | Morning on the Grand Circuit |
| Ta Som | Ask at the gate | Ask at the gate | Angkor pass | On the Grand Circuit with Neak Pean |
| Neak Pean | 07:30 | 17:30 | Angkor pass | A short stop between Ta Som and Preah Khan |
| East Mebon | 07:00 | 17:30 | Angkor pass | With Pre Rup, on the east side of the Grand Circuit |
| Ta Keo | 07:30 | 17:30 | Angkor pass | Mid-morning, between Angkor Thom and Ta Prohm |
| Banteay Srei | 07:30 | 17:30 | Angkor pass | At opening, before the buses |
| Banteay Samre | 07:30 | 17:30 | Angkor pass | On the way back from Banteay Srei, or with the Grand Circuit |
| Roluos group | Ask at the gate | Ask at the gate | Angkor pass on the main park product | A separate morning east of town |
| Beng Mealea | 06:00 | 18:30 | A $10 day pass is listed. Park-pass acceptance was not in the excerpt | A full morning out of town |
| Kbal Spean | 07:30 | 15:00 | Not confirmed. See the Kbal Spean guide | Morning, paired with Banteay Srei |
| Koh Ker | 06:00 | 18:30 | A $15 Koh Ker day pass is listed | Leave Siem Reap early. The drive is the long part |
| Phnom Kulen | See the Kulen guide | See the Kulen guide | Outside this table. Do not assume the Angkor pass | Its own day |
Sources for the rows: Angkor Wat hours and the pass products are Angkor Enterprise. Phnom Bakheng, Srah Srang, Pre Rup, Bayon, Ta Prohm, Banteay Kdei, Preah Khan, Neak Pean, East Mebon, Ta Keo, Banteay Srei and Banteay Samre are the APSARA visitor pages linked in the sources at the end. Beng Mealea’s 06:00–18:30 and $10, and Koh Ker’s 06:00–18:30 and $15, are products on the Angkor Enterprise ticket list. Kbal Spean’s 07:30–15:00 is APSARA. Ta Som and the Roluos temples did not return an hours line we could quote on 26 October 2026.
The early openers
Three places are published as open at 05:00. Angkor Wat (Angkor Enterprise, 05:00–17:30) is the sunrise most people came for. The sunrise guide covers where to stand. Phnom Bakheng (APSARA, 05:00–19:00) is a hill, and APSARA warns that the top is closed to children under 12 and to pregnant visitors. Srah Srang (APSARA, 05:00–17:30) is the easy sunrise: a stone landing facing east, no stairs.
Pre Rup is often described as a sunrise or sunset temple. APSARA’s Pre Rup page publishes 07:30–17:30, and calls it a sunset visit. A 05:00 arrival is not what that page says. Go for late light only if you are inside before 17:30. In months when the sun sets after that, the published close comes first.
The upper level of Angkor Wat, the Bakan, has its own dress check and its own closures. We did not retrieve a current APSARA age rule or a separate Bakan clock on 26 October 2026. Shoulders and knees are enforced; the dress-code guide is the practical version. After heavy rain, stairways are sometimes closed for safety. We did not find a published seasonal rule for that. Ask at the gate.
Sunset
Phnom Bakheng is the sunset hill with a published window through 19:00. The summit is capped; our sunset guide explains the queue. Pre Rup’s published close is 17:30, so treat it as a late-afternoon alternative when the light and the gate agree, and as a miss when they do not. Srah Srang faces east. It is a dawn terrace, and a poor plan for sunset.
A sunrise at Angkor Wat and a sunset at Phnom Bakheng on the same pass day is possible because both gates are published as open at the right ends of the day. The middle of that day is when Bayon and Ta Prohm are actually open. See the sample below.
The ticket office and the temple gates are different clocks
Angkor Enterprise’s Angkor Wat page places the ticket office on Road 60, 4 km from the centre of Siem Reap. The pass product lists entry 05:00 and closing 18:30. That is the pass window. It is later than the 17:30 close APSARA publishes for Bayon and Ta Prohm, and earlier than Phnom Bakheng’s 19:00. Holding a valid pass does not keep a temple open past the temple’s own close.
The same Enterprise help text says you can buy on the website, in the app, at a kiosk, at the counter, or through a tour guide. Tickets bought anywhere else are not valid. Our pass guide recommends buying the afternoon before a sunrise so the 04:45 queue is not where your morning goes. We could not confirm a counter closing time beyond that advice. Buy in daylight if you need the counter, or buy online and screenshot the QR. Signal at the gates is patchy.
A sample day that follows the clocks
Leave town in time to be at Angkor Wat for the 05:00 gate if sunrise is the point. When the sky has done its job, eat, then enter Bayon at 07:30 rather than standing outside a closed gate in the dark. Ta Prohm is the same 07:30 open. Doing it first, before the late-morning tour wave, matches the hours better than leaving it until the heat. The one-day itinerary is the routing; this page only says which gates are actually open. Be out of the 17:30 temples as that close approaches. Phnom Bakheng can still be open for sunset.
A second day is the Grand Circuit after 07:30: Preah Khan, Neak Pean, East Mebon from 07:00, Pre Rup before 17:30. The small circuit and grand circuit page splits the stops. Distances are on the temples map.
The small-group sunrise day above is built around the 05:00 gate and then the 07:30 temples. A private car can start at sunrise or later:
The pass is excluded on these products. You still buy it yourself. A tuk-tuk for a temple day is about $20–35, agreed before you leave. The tuk-tuk guide has the ranges.
Outer temples and separate tickets
Banteay Srei is on the APSARA list at 07:30–17:30 and sits on the Angkor pass in the way our pass guide describes it. Banteay Samre is the same hours.
Further out, the ticket list is a different set of products. Beng Mealea has its own $10 day pass on that list, window 06:00–18:30. Koh Ker has its own $15 day pass, same window. We are not saying the Angkor park pass is refused at those gates, and we are not saying it is accepted. The excerpt did not say. Ask before you ride an hour on the wrong assumption. The Beng Mealea guide and the Koh Ker guide cover the visits.
Kbal Spean is on APSARA’s archaeological-park pages at 07:30–15:00. We did not see a separate Kbal product in the ticket excerpt, and we did not see a line that says the park pass includes the hike. The Kbal Spean guide keeps that hedge. Phnom Kulen is a different gate again. Use the Kulen guide and buy whatever that window asks. Do not plan Kulen, Koh Ker and the small circuit as one sunrise morning.
Festivals and the rainy season
Khmer New Year is mid-April. The temples draw domestic crowds, hotels fill, and offices close. The Water Festival is a November spectacle centred on Phnom Penh. Our festival calendar has the dates. The temples themselves are not on a published holiday shutdown in that guide. Expect crowds and slower roads, and check the year you travel because the lunar dates move.
In the green season the problem is rain on stone, not a published winter timetable. We did not find an APSARA rule that closes the upper levels for the whole rainy season. Stairs do close after storms. Carry the packing list, and ask at the bottom of any staircase that looks shut.
FAQ
What time does Angkor Wat open?
Angkor Enterprise publishes Angkor Wat as 05:00 to 17:30. That is the temple clock on its Angkor Wat page. The park pass product on the same site lists a wider entry window, 05:00 to 18:30. Use 05:00 if you are going for sunrise, and confirm the gate on the day. We could not open the live page on 26 October 2026 because of a bot check; this is the indexed official text.
Do all the Angkor temples open at 5:00?
No. APSARA publishes 05:00 for Angkor Wat’s neighbour Phnom Bakheng (until 19:00) and for Srah Srang (until 17:30). Bayon, Ta Prohm, Banteay Kdei, Preah Khan, Neak Pean, Ta Keo, Banteay Srei, Banteay Samre and Pre Rup are published at 07:30 to 17:30. East Mebon is published at 07:00 to 17:30. A 05:00 pickup only helps at the early gates.
What time is last entry?
The pages we could read give a closing time, not a separate last-entry time. For most of the park that close is 17:30. Plan to be walking out then. Kbal Spean is the exception on APSARA’s own page: 07:30 to 15:00. A hike started at 14:30 will not finish inside that window.
Can I buy the pass the evening before sunrise?
Angkor Enterprise says the pass can be bought on its website, at the Road 60 counter, at a kiosk, or through a tour guide. Our pass guide recommends the afternoon before a sunrise so you are not in the counter queue at dawn. We did not retrieve a separate evening closing time for the counter. If you need the counter, go in daylight and check the site.
Does the Angkor pass cover Beng Mealea, Koh Ker and Kbal Spean?
Angkor Enterprise’s ticket list shows a separate Beng Mealea day pass at $10 and a separate Koh Ker day pass at $15, each with an entry window of 06:00 to 18:30. The excerpt we could read does not say whether an Angkor Archaeological Park pass is also accepted at those gates. We did not see a separate Kbal Spean product in that excerpt. APSARA lists Kbal Spean inside the archaeological park and publishes 07:30 to 15:00. Ask at the window before you assume the park pass is enough.
Hours, pass products and gate rules change. The figures above were read on 26 October 2026 from APSARA’s visitor pages and from indexed Angkor Enterprise text. Confirm both before you set a 04:30 alarm.
Sources
- Angkor Enterprise, Angkor Wat — 05:00–17:30, ticket office on Road 60, 4 km from the centre.
- Angkor Enterprise, available tickets — $37 / $62 (expires in 7 days) / $72 (expires in 30 days); park window 05:00–18:30; Beng Mealea $10 and Koh Ker $15, each 06:00–18:30.
- APSARA, Phnom Bakheng — 05:00–19:00; top closed to under-12s and pregnant visitors.
- APSARA, Srah Srang — 05:00–17:30.
- APSARA, Pre Rup — 07:30–17:30.
- APSARA, Bayon — 07:30–17:30; central tower closed from 1 February 2020 until the work is finished.
- APSARA, Ta Prohm — 07:30–17:30.
- APSARA, Banteay Kdei — 07:30–17:30.
- APSARA, Preah Khan — 07:30–17:30.
- APSARA, Neak Pean — 07:30–17:30.
- APSARA, East Mebon — 07:00–17:30.
- APSARA, Ta Keo — 07:30–17:30.
- APSARA, Banteay Srei — 07:30–17:30.
- APSARA, Banteay Samre — 07:30–17:30.
- APSARA, Kbal Spean — 07:30–15:00.