Casa Milà (La Pedrera) Tickets 2026: Which of the Six Is Worth It

La Pedrera sells six different ways into the same building, and the official ticket page lists them as a grid of near-identical cards with prices from €25 to €120. Nothing on that page tells you that two of the six open exactly the same rooms for a €4 difference.

That is the decision worth getting right. The rest of this is hours, closures and the one clause in the small print that decides what happens to your money when it rains.

In 3 minutes

• Essential is €29, Sunset is €25, and they are the same visit. Same rooms, same videoguide in 11 languages, same 90 minutes. Essential runs 9:00 to 17:30, Sunset 17:30 to 20:30.
• Under-12s go free on every ticket. Ages 12 to 17 pay €12.50; over-65s, students and 33%+ disability pay €19 on the daytime tickets.
• The official site does not refund and does not change dates, unless you add €1.90 flexibility insurance at checkout. GetYourGuide sells the same entry with free cancellation up to 24 hours before.
• If it rains the rooftop shuts. You can reschedule only if you have not scanned your ticket yet.

The six tickets, side by side

Every price below is the adult rate from La Pedrera's own ticket pages, read on 31 August 2026.

Two more worth knowing about. Art Season (€35, from 2 October 2026) is the Essential visit plus the Anselm Kiefer temporary exhibition, which sits in the Milà family's own main-floor apartment, a space the official page says opens to all visitors only twice a year. And there are three combined tickets: €42 with the Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site, €42 with the Palau de la Música Catalana, €44.50 with the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres.

Which one to buy

Buy Sunset if the weather is settled. €25 for the identical building is the clearest saving on this page, and it lands you in the quieter half of the day: La Pedrera's own FAQ names 9 to 10 AM and after 4 PM as the least crowded windows. One caveat that the ticket page does not spell out. The published Sunset window, 17:30 to 20:30, sits inside the summer schedule; from 2 November the building closes at 18:30, so check the slot times on the booking calendar rather than assuming the evening exists all year.

Buy Essential if you are booking around a fixed morning. €29 is the price of putting La Pedrera at 9 AM, before Casa Batlló further down the same street. That is a genuinely good half-day and worth €4.

Buy the Night Experience for the show, not the building. €39.50 gets a guided tour in one of four languages, a video-mapping projection on the roof and a glass of cava, and it is 1h20 rather than 1h30. You are paying €14.50 over Sunset for the projections. If what you want is Gaudí's roof against a sky, Sunset gives you that for less.

Skip Open Date at €45 unless you are buying it as a present. It is Essential with no date attached and a 6-month window, and the €16 premium is the price of that flexibility.

Sunrise and Premium are for people who already know this building. Sunrise puts you inside from 8:00 with no general public; Premium is a maximum of six people with access to the mezzanine, the rear courtyard and the period lift. Neither is a first visit.

The rooftop, the attic and the apartment are not equal

Every daytime ticket opens the same spaces, and visitors tend to treat them as one experience. They are not. Here is what each is actually for.

The rooftop is the reason to come. It carries 29 chimneys at four metres, two ventilation towers at five, and six stairwell exits, the badalots, at seven metres each with a spiral staircase inside. Only one group of chimneys is clad in trencadís, and the fragments are dark green champagne bottles. Four of the six badalots are faced in recycled Ulldecona stone, Macael or Carrara marble and white Valencian tiles. Beside two of the staircases Gaudí set small arches in white trencadís, and one of them frames the Sagrada Família: he calculated the height of the finished work so that it would.

The attic is the surprise. Gaudí roofed it with 270 catenary brick arches so it would not add weight to the building, and it worked as the communal laundry, the storage and the thermal chamber before it worked as a museum. It now holds the Espai Gaudí, which the museum describes as the only exhibition centre in Barcelona covering his whole career rather than one building. If you are doing several Gaudí sites this trip, do this one early: it explains the others.

The apartment is the part people rush. It is a 1911 bourgeois flat with period furniture, and the thing to look up at is the ceilings. Gaudí drew them curved and had the plasterer reproduce circles, ellipses and spirals over a braided reed frame, which is why they are called techos planos de caña in Spanish. Nothing in the flat sits on a flat plane.

The two courtyards are on your way in and out, and the murals in them are by the Symbolist painter Aleix Clapés: Vertumnus and Pomona on the Passeig de Gràcia side, the deadly sins and the Trojan heroes on Provença. The Passeig de Gràcia courtyard is also structurally the strangest thing in the building, held up by two concentric cylindrical girders tensioned like a bicycle wheel across twelve metres.

Hours, last entry and the days it is shut

6 March to 1 November 2026: 9:00 to 20:30 every day including public holidays. Night sessions 20:40 to 22:20.

2 November 2026 to 25 February 2027: 9:00 to 18:30. Night sessions 19:00 to 23:00.

26 December 2026 to 3 January 2027: 9:00 to 20:30, with 1 January opening late at 11:00. Night sessions 21:00 to 23:00.

Closed: 6 July, 7 September and 25 December 2026, and the whole week of 11 to 17 January 2027.

Last entry is 17:15 on Essential and 19:00 on Sunset, so the closing time is not the time you can still walk in. For the rest of the city's schedule, the Barcelona museum opening hours guide covers who shuts on Mondays.

Buying online matters here for a reason beyond queues: the official FAQ states that the box office adds processing fees and sells at a higher price than the website, and there is a separate entrance for online tickets.

The rain clause

This is the paragraph worth reading twice, because it is buried in La Pedrera's cancellation policy and no reseller repeats it.

If it rains, the rooftop closes for visitor safety. In that case the visit can be rescheduled to another available date whether or not you bought the flexibility insurance, provided the ticket has not been validated. Once it has been scanned, no changes are accepted, and you have paid €29 for a building whose best space is shut.

So on a wet morning, do not scan in and hope. Ask at the entrance whether the roof is open before you go through, and if it is not, reschedule while the ticket is still unused.

Is La Pedrera worth €29?

Against the other Gaudí buildings, yes, and for a specific reason: it is the only one where the roof, the structure and the exhibition explaining both are in the same ticket. Park Güell at €18 gives you the park and almost no interpretation. Casa Batlló is more theatrical and more expensive. Sagrada Família is a different order of building and a different order of queue.

If you are doing one Gaudí interior and you want to understand how he built rather than only what he built, this is the one. If you are doing three, put the attic first for the same reason. And if you are in Barcelona for Gaudí Year 2026, note that La Pedrera hosts part of the UIA World Congress of Architects at the end of June, which is the week to avoid.

Frequently asked questions

How much is a La Pedrera ticket in 2026?

La Pedrera Essential, the daytime self-guided ticket, is €29 for adults. Ages 12 to 17 pay €12.50, under-12s go free, and over-65s, students and visitors with a disability of 33% or more pay €19. The evening Sunset ticket is €25 adult for the same rooms, and the guided Night Experience with the rooftop show and a glass of cava is €39.50.

What is the difference between La Pedrera Essential and La Pedrera Sunset?

The time of day and €4. Both are self-guided with the same videoguide in 11 languages, both last about 90 minutes, and both open the same spaces: the two courtyards, the tenants' apartment, the attic and the rooftop. Essential runs 9:00 to 17:30 with last entry at 17:15. Sunset runs 17:30 to 20:30 with last entry at 19:00. The official FAQ names 9 to 10 AM and after 4 PM as the least crowded times, which puts Sunset on the quiet side of the day.

What happens at La Pedrera if it rains?

The rooftop closes for safety. La Pedrera's cancellation policy says the visit may then be rescheduled for another available date, whether or not you bought the €1.90 flexibility insurance, but only if the ticket has not been validated yet. Once you have scanned in, no changes are accepted. Decide before you go through the gate.

Can you cancel a La Pedrera ticket?

Not on the official site. Its policy is that once tickets are bought, no date changes and no refunds are accepted, and a single date or time change costs €1.90 in flexibility insurance added during checkout. The GetYourGuide listing for the same operator's ticket carries free cancellation up to 24 hours before.

When is La Pedrera closed in 2026?

6 July, 7 September and 25 December 2026, plus a full closure from 11 to 17 January 2027. Otherwise it opens every day including public holidays: 9:00 to 20:30 from 6 March to 1 November 2026, and 9:00 to 18:30 from 2 November 2026 to 25 February 2027.

If you only take one thing from this: the €25 ticket and the €29 ticket open the same doors. Check the weather, book the evening, and keep the money for the roof terrace at the end of Passeig de Gràcia.