Going inside the Great Pyramid: the extra ticket

Yes, you can go inside the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the largest of the three Giza pyramids, but it takes a separate ticket bought on top of plateau admission. The antiquities ministry lists the interior as open daily from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. On the 12 tours on this site that visit the pyramids by day, going inside is an optional extra, not included in the tour.

Can you go inside the Giza pyramids?

You can go inside the Great Pyramid with its interior ticket. Our checked facts carry a separate interior ticket only for the Great Pyramid; they have no hours or ticket for entering the pyramids of Khafre or Menkaure, so this guide says nothing about those two.

The two tickets, side by side

Prices from the Ministry, in Egyptian pounds (EGP), as of August 2026. Ticket prices change often.

Student tickets require a valid student ID, and the student must be 24 or under. Children under 6 enter Ministry sites free. At Giza, self-service machines accept bank cards for site tickets.

When the interior is open

The Ministry's page for the Great Pyramid gives daily hours of 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. The plateau around it has its own hours, and the two official sources for those differ: the ticketing portal says 7 a.m. with last entry at 4 p.m., the site page 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Since you reach the pyramid through the plateau, plan around the 4 p.m. plateau cutoff, and the Ministry advises arriving at least one hour before a site closes. In Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, the plateau runs 8 a.m. to a 3:30 p.m. last entry; our facts have no separate Ramadan hours for the interior. Our guide Best time of day to visit the Giza pyramids covers the plateau's hours.

What is inside

Encyclopaedia Britannica describes the interior this way:

• The entrance is on the north side, about 59 feet (18 meters) above the ground.
• An ascending passage leads to the Queen's Chamber and to a slanting gallery, the Grand Gallery, 151 feet (46 meters) long.
• A passage at the top of the gallery reaches the King's Chamber, lined and roofed entirely with granite.

The pyramid was built for Khufu (Cheops in Greek), the second king of the 4th dynasty. It stood 481.4 feet (147 meters) high and now measures 451.4 feet (138 meters), stripped of its outer casing. UNESCO calls it the only surviving wonder of the ancient world.

Going inside on our tours

These 12 tours list entry inside the Great Pyramid among the things not included, as an optional extra:

The plateau entrance fee is included on these tours; the interior ticket is not. If you want to go in, say so in your booking request, so the plan for the day allows for it. On the Pyramids, Memphis and Saqqara tour the day continues to Saqqara afterwards; on the Giza pyramids and Egyptian Museum and Grand Egyptian Museum and the pyramids tours it continues to a museum after lunch; on Pyramids and both museums in a day it continues to the Grand Egyptian Museum and, after lunch, the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir. The Giza pyramids and the Sphinx half day, about 4 hours, has no second site: the pyramids, the viewpoint on the plateau, the Sphinx and the Valley Temple. The half day, the both-museums day and the layover tour are newer tours: their program follows how the market runs the day and is confirmed with your quote.