Visiting Chenonceau: the 2026 hours, day by day

The full 2026 schedule

This is the operator’s own table, reproduced row for row. Thirteen bands across the year, and not one closed day among them.

Four periods are extended to 9:00–19:00: Easter (4–6 April), the May holidays, Ascension (14–17 May) and Pentecost (23–25 May). Those are the longest days of the year here and they are also the busiest.

Open on 1 January and on 25 December

It is worth checking twice, because almost nothing else in France is open on both of those dates. The operator publishes “open everyday, all year long” and then names 1 January and 25 December specifically, which reads like a page written by somebody tired of being asked. If you are in the Loire between Christmas and the new year, the late December band is one of the longer ones in the table above.

The last-admission question

The operator publishes no last-admission time on its own pages, so the time to work to is the closing time in the table above. Arrive with the house still ahead of you rather than the gardens, and the order takes care of itself.

The platform’s ticket listing adds a line the operator’s own site does not: “the opening hours correspond to the entrance times to the estate. The castle closes 30 minutes later.” That is still not a last admission — it is a statement about the estate and the house closing at different moments — and the two pages do not say the same thing. Where they differ, this site follows the operator.

What the ticket gets you through

One ticket covers the house, the gardens and the two galleries in the outbuildings. Below is what the platform’s admission listing puts on each side of its own block, in its own words — the second column is the part that gets flattened into the first when a page like that is read as plain text.

The full tariff, including the audioguide tier and the group rate, is on the tickets page. The platform sells the same admission at the same price as the door, which is unusual enough that the tickets page spends most of its length on it.

Book the admission

This is the ticket itself — no guide, no transport — and the widget prices itself from the platform, so it cannot go stale on this page.

Before you set off

• Getting there — the A10, the TER, and the station 400 m from the ticket office.
• How long you need — and why the answer is a range rather than a number.
• What to see, in order — the operator’s own route through the house.
• Doing it from Paris — thirteen hours, and the closing time you are driving towards.

Frequently asked questions