Moritzburg Castle opening hours

The three-week gap nobody mentions

The baroque exhibition runs 20 March to 1 November. The castle then shuts completely from 2 to 19 November. From 20 November to 28 February the building holds the Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel exhibition — Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella — at the same admission price, and while that is on, the baroque rooms are not part of the visit.

The gap is the thing to write on your calendar. From 2 to 19 November there is no exhibition at all in the building — not a reduced visit, not a courtyard-only visit, nothing. I have met people on the causeway in the second week of November who had read somewhere that a castle this size never closes. The park was still there and the lake was still there, and that was the whole afternoon. What you can still walk to when the doors are shut.

The closed days inside the winter season

The Cinderella exhibition does not run straight through. The castle publishes these as closed: 24 and 31 December 2026, then 7, 8, 11, 18 and 25 January and 1 and 22 February 2027. Most of those are Mondays, and a January Monday is exactly the sort of day a visitor from Prague picks because the roads are quiet.

Last entry, and what a late arrival really gets you

Last entry is an hour and a quarter before the doors shut in both seasons. That is not a formality: the baroque route with a HistoPad in your hand takes longer than most people plan for, and the winter exhibition is built to be walked slowly. If your bus from Dresden puts you in the village after four, you will see the building rather than the rooms. How much time the visit actually wants.

The other building, on its own clock

The Fasanenschlösschen in the park keeps a shorter and stricter season than the castle: 30 April to 1 November, Thursday to Sunday only, 10:30 to 15:30, and guided tours at 11:00, 12:15 and 14:00 with ten places each. It is the easiest thing on the estate to miss by arriving on a Tuesday.

The castle sells its own admission at its own counter and on schloss-moritzburg.de. There is no Moritzburg entry ticket on GetYourGuide, so nothing on this site is a substitute for that counter. What the platform sells is the journey, and two of the six listings that reach Moritzburg carry a castle ticket inside the day: the guided day from Dresden and the private Prague car that pairs Moritzburg with the Zwinger.

A day built to arrive in the open hours

The guided day from Dresden runs about eight hours and puts Meißen and the porcelain works in the same trip, with the castle admission named in its inclusions and the day’s public transport covered. Per group of up to ten, around four hundred and twenty euros, rated 4.6 from 3 reviews. How the Dresden day works.

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