Best Time to Visit the Turin Egyptian Museum: Time of Day, Crowds & Opening Hours

Best time to visit the Turin Egyptian Museum: April is the busiest month and September the quietest

The short answer

The Museo Egizio is open throughout the year except on Christmas Day. Standard hours are 9:00–14:00 on Monday, 9:00–18:30 Tuesday to Friday and Sunday, and 9:00–20:00 on Saturday. Last entry is one hour before closing, but a typical visit takes about two hours, so arriving at the last-entry time does not leave enough time for the whole museum. The hour and the weekday matter more than the month.

Book a timed ticket online before you go: tickets are not sold at the museum, and you are let in during the 15 minutes after your slot time, not before. Holiday opening hours can differ from the normal timetable; check the museum’s special-openings calendar before a holiday visit.

The best choice for a full visit is a morning ticket, which leaves time for the whole museum on any open day. On a regular Monday the museum closes at 14:00, so a morning ticket is the only practical choice. From Tuesday to Sunday you can also start in the mid-afternoon, and Saturday is particularly useful for a late-afternoon visit because the museum stays open until 20:00. On a hot day other than Monday, an early- or mid-afternoon ticket keeps you indoors through the hottest hours.

If you are still choosing dates for Turin, choose the month for the city rather than for the museum, which is heated and air-conditioned and works well in any season. The month changes how many people are in the galleries, not the collection or the rooms: in the museum’s 2025 visitor figures, April was the busiest month and September the quietest, with about half as many visitors. Treat that as one year’s pattern rather than a promise for every year.

Once your Turin dates are fixed, the date checker below shows the hours and the latest start for a full visit on your day.

Full visit, any day: Morning
Regular Monday: Morning; closes at 14:00
Late-afternoon visit: Saturday, open until 20:00
Hot day: Early or mid-afternoon, not Monday
Quieter in the 2025 visitor figures: September
Public holiday: Check the special-openings calendar

Key figures

Monday: 9:00–14:00
Tuesday to Friday, Sunday: 9:00–18:30
Saturday: 9:00–20:00
Typical visit: about 2 hours
Last admission: 1 hour before closing
2025 visitors: about 149,000 in April, the busiest month; about 73,000 in September, the quietest

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Check your date

Pick the day you plan to go. The card shows the museum’s published hours for that day, the latest start that still leaves time for a full visit, how busy that month was in 2025, and typical weather in Turin. The weather is a thirty-year average, not a forecast.

Your visit date

Pick a date to see that day’s hours. The regular week is below.

Regular opening hours

Tuesday to Friday and Sunday: 9:00–18:30, last entry 17:30
Saturday: 9:00–20:00, last entry 19:00
Monday: 9:00–14:00, last entry 13:00
Closed on Christmas Day; holiday hours can differ

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Opening hours, day by day

The museum keeps the same standard weekly timetable throughout the year. Special openings, such as a midnight closing on September 12, 2026, are announced separately.

Day	Opening hours	Last entry
Monday	9:00–14:00	13:00
Tuesday to Friday	9:00–18:30	17:30
Saturday	9:00–20:00	19:00
Sunday	9:00–18:30	17:30

Last entry is one hour before closing, and the ticket office closes at the same time. You can stay in the galleries until closing time.

Tickets are sold online only, for a date and a time slot; the museum does not sell tickets on site. You are admitted within 15 minutes of your booked time and not before it, and tickets are not refundable. Holders of the Abbonamento Musei or the Torino+Piemonte Card go in free but still book a free timed ticket online.

The Saturday closing at 20:00 has been part of the regular timetable since early 2026. Before that, late Saturdays were announced one at a time, so older guides may still describe them as occasional.

If the museum is one stop in a longer Turin day, the live list below shows other tours and tickets in and around the city, and it updates on its own.

Which time of day to book

The museum puts a typical visit at about two hours, and every guided tour on this site lasts two hours, or an hour and a half for the family tour. You can easily stay longer if you want to explore the collection in depth. Your latest comfortable start is closing time minus the length of your visit.

Tuesday to Friday and Sunday. A morning slot is the simple choice: you have the whole collection without watching the clock and the afternoon free for Piazza Castello, the Mole or a long lunch. An afternoon visit works too, as long as you start by mid-afternoon. Enter much later and the end of the visit becomes a rush before the 18:30 closing.

Saturday. The museum stays open until 20:00, with last entry at 19:00, so you can start in the late afternoon and still see the whole collection. Around Easter it can be very busy: the busiest single day of Easter 2026 was Saturday, April 4, with 7,461 visitors.

Monday. The museum closes at 14:00 and last entry is 13:00, so a full visit needs a morning start. School groups are not admitted on Mondays.

Arriving by train for the day. The cloakroom is suspended during the building works, and suitcases, trolleys and large backpacks are not allowed in, so leave luggage elsewhere before your slot. Only a few small lockers are available for school-sized backpacks.

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How busy the museum gets, month by month

The Osservatorio Culturale del Piemonte publishes the Museo Egizio’s visitor numbers month by month. Summer is not the peak.

In 2025, a record year for the museum at almost 1.3 million visitors, April was the busiest month at about 149,000, and March and May were close behind. September was the quietest at about 73,000, and June and July were not far above it. August rose again, to roughly the level of January and February. The museum’s 2023 figures follow the same shape, with April highest and September lowest.

Month	Museo Egizio visitors, 2025	Turin average high	Turin rain, whole month	What it means for your visit
January	106,235	8.0 °C	33.5 mm	Mid-level. Short days in the city, so a morning slot keeps the afternoon light for Turin
February	106,506	10.2 °C	39.3 mm	Mid-level, much like January
March	136,371	14.8 °C	51.9 mm	Busy from here to May. Easter sometimes falls this month
April	148,872	18.0 °C	92.0 mm	The busiest month of 2025, and Easter usually falls in it. Book your slot early
May	134,050	22.2 °C	117.1 mm	Still busy, and the wettest month in the city
June	79,324	26.4 °C	103.5 mm	One of the quietest months, and the long days leave plenty of time outside
July	82,041	29.0 °C	73.4 mm	Quiet in the galleries and the hottest month in the city. The museum is a cool place for an afternoon
August	108,039	28.6 °C	88.5 mm	Busier than June and July, and about as hot outside as July
September	73,020	23.9 °C	80.6 mm	The quietest month of 2025, with milder afternoons in the city
October	101,418	18.1 °C	76.1 mm	Mid-level, and cooler outside
November	96,304	12.2 °C	99.7 mm	Mid-level, and one of the wetter months in the city
December	101,174	8.3 °C	42.2 mm	Mid-level on the month. Closed on Christmas Day

The visitor column counts tickets issued, including free ones and school groups, across whole months. It cannot tell you how busy a given hour or weekday is, and a month’s total hides its peaks: Easter weekend, for example, falls in March or April and brought more than 26,000 visitors in four days in 2026.

Public holidays and special openings

Christmas Day is the only full closure in the museum’s published calendar. Holiday opening hours can differ from the normal timetable, and the museum announces them on its special-openings list a few weeks ahead. In 2025 and 2026 most holidays had longer hours than usual; recent examples from that list:

Easter 2026: open until 20:00 from Thursday to Sunday, and 9:00–18:30 on Easter Monday.
May 1, 2026: open until 21:00.
June 1 and June 24, 2026 (the day before Republic Day, and the feast of Turin’s patron saint): open until 20:00.
August 17, 2026, the Monday after Ferragosto: 9:00–18:30.
Christmas 2025: 9:00–14:00 on December 24, closed on December 25, and open on January 1, 2026 from 9:00 to 18:30.

Holiday hours for Christmas 2026 had not been published when we checked, and online ticket sales then ran only to October 18, 2026. If your date is a public holiday, check the special-openings list on the museum’s hours page before you book a late slot.

The museum has also run one-off evenings, such as free Saturday evenings in July and August 2026 and a free late opening for Turin’s Notte Bianca on September 12, 2026. They depend on sponsors and events, so treat them as a bonus if one falls on your dates, not something to plan around.

Choosing dates for Turin as a whole

If the museum is part of a Turin city break or a day trip from Milan, the month is really a choice about Turin. Spring and fall are the easiest seasons for walking between the museums, the arcades and the cafés: average highs are about 18 °C in April and October and 22 to 24 °C in May and September. July and August afternoons average about 29 °C, and in December and January the average high is about 8 °C. May is the wettest month in the city, with about 117 mm of rain across the whole month, which is a monthly total and says nothing about how many days are wet.

Whatever the weather outside, the museum is the same visit at about 24 °C. In July and August it is a cool place for a hot afternoon, as long as you start by mid-afternoon; in winter it is two warm hours with plenty to see. September stands out for pairing mild weather in the city with the quietest month in the galleries.

What changes through the year, and what does not

Inside, very little. The museum is air-conditioned and heated to about 24 °C all year for the sake of the collection, the galleries and the route are the same in every month, and the free audio guide runs on your own phone. Nothing on the visit is outdoors, apart from the short walk to the separate entrance of the Temple of Ellesiya on Via Eleonora Duse.

What does change is not seasonal. The museum is part-way through its bicentenary rebuild: the Gallery of the Kings and the Temple of Ellesiya reopened in November 2024, but the historic rooms on floor -1 have been closed since December 12, 2025 with no reopening date given, the covered courtyard that will become the Piazza Egizia is still under construction, and the cloakroom remains suspended. The Temple of Ellesiya is free and has its own timed ticket, so book it separately if you want to see it. For what to see once you are inside, see our guide to the museum’s highlights and how long to allow for each route.

How we know

Opening hours, last entry, ticket rules and closures. The museum’s own hours, prices and FAQ pages at museoegizio.it, its official ticket shop, and its 2025 visitor regulations, all read on September 19, 2026. The date the Saturday 20:00 closing became regular comes from archived copies of the hours page.
Holiday hours. The museum’s special-openings list, which it publishes with each announcement, plus the City of Turin’s Christmas museum listing for December 25 and Torino Oggi’s report of the 2025–26 holiday hours.
Monthly visitors. Osservatorio Culturale del Piemonte, Rapporto annuale musei for 2025 and 2023, which publish the Museo Egizio’s entries month by month. The 2024 figures are left out because the galleries closed from June 17 to July 12, 2024 for building work, which pulls those two months down.
Easter 2026. The museum’s own figures as reported by ANSA on April 6, 2026.
Turin weather. Average daily highs are the official 1991–2020 normals for the Torino Caselle station, from Aeronautica Militare data published by ISPRA. Rainfall is the 1991–2020 monthly average we calculated from ARPA Piemonte’s daily records for its central Turin station, because no official 1991–2020 rainfall normal is published for Caselle.
Tour prices, ratings and review counts. The GetYourGuide activity pages, read on September 12, 2026.

Where this evidence stops

There is no hourly or weekday count. The monthly figures cannot say whether a Tuesday morning is quieter than a Thursday afternoon, and nothing on this page claims to know. The case for a morning slot rests on published times, the length of a visit and closing time, not on a headcount.

A monthly total is a whole month. It includes school groups, free visitors and holiday peaks, and one busy weekend can sit inside a quiet month. The figures describe the museum’s year, not a particular day.

Holiday hours are published a few weeks at a time. The examples above are what the museum announced for 2025 and 2026; the hours for a future holiday are the ones on its special-openings list nearer the date.

Climate normals are not a forecast. The temperatures are thirty-year averages of daily highs at Caselle airport, about 14 km north of the center, and the city itself runs slightly warmer. The rainfall comes from a different station, in the center, and is a monthly total that says nothing about how many days are wet. For your own date, check a forecast.

This page was last checked on September 19, 2026.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best time of day to visit the Egyptian Museum in Turin?

A morning ticket, for most visitors. A typical visit takes about two hours and last entry is an hour before closing, so a morning ticket gives you plenty of time for a full visit, including on Monday, when the museum closes at 14:00. From Tuesday to Sunday you can also start as late as mid-afternoon; for a late-afternoon start, go on Saturday, when the museum stays open until 20:00.

What are the Museo Egizio opening hours?

Monday 9:00–14:00; Tuesday to Friday and Sunday 9:00–18:30; Saturday 9:00–20:00. Last entry is one hour before closing. The museum is closed on Christmas Day, and holiday hours can differ from the normal timetable, so check its special-openings list.

Which months are busiest at the Museo Egizio?

March, April and May. In 2025 April was the busiest month, with about 149,000 visitors, and the museum's 2023 figures show the same spring peak. Summer is not the peak: June and July were among the quietest months of 2025.

When is the Turin Egyptian Museum least crowded?

September was the quietest month in 2025, with about 73,000 visitors, roughly half of April. June and July were also quiet. The monthly figures do not show which days or hours are quietest, so no time of day can be promised as quiet; the date checker above shows the hours for your day.

Is the Museo Egizio open on Mondays?

Yes, from 9:00 to 14:00, with last entry at 13:00, so plan a morning visit. On Mondays that are public holidays the museum has recently opened for longer, for example until 18:30 on Easter Monday 2026.

Is the Egyptian Museum open on Christmas Day and New Year's Day?

It is closed on Christmas Day, December 25. It was open on January 1, 2026, from 9:00 to 18:30, and on December 24, 2025 it opened from 9:00 to 14:00. Holiday hours are announced on the museum's special-openings list a few weeks ahead.

Do I need to book Museo Egizio tickets in advance?

Yes. Tickets are sold online only, for a date and time slot; there are no ticket sales at the museum. You are admitted within 15 minutes of your booked time. Pass holders who enter free still need to book a free timed ticket.

How long do you need at the Egyptian Museum in Turin?

About two hours for a typical visit, by the museum's own estimate, or longer if you want to explore the collection in depth. Guided tours of the museum usually last two hours. Our guide to how long to allow has one-, two- and three-hour routes.

Does the weather matter for a visit to the Museo Egizio?

Not for the visit itself. The museum is indoors and held at about 24 °C all year. Weather matters for the rest of your day in Turin: July and August afternoons in Turin average about 29 °C, and December and January about 8 °C, so plan the walk and the rest of your day around that.

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