Plitvice’s published 2026 adult one-day ticket is €40.00 in summer before 4 p.m. and €25.00 after it, against €23.00 in April and October and €10.00 in winter. The park prices the hour as well as the date, and no family ticket exists.
A tariff that charges for the time of day
Most national parks price a day. Plitvice prices a period of the year and then splits the summer day into two tickets: price A, valid until 4 p.m. from June to August and until 3 p.m. in September, and price B for entry after that. There is no family ticket in the published list.
The full 2026 price list runs to 37 rows and it is published by the park itself. That makes it one of very few Croatian tourist prices this site can quote at all, and the only national park tariff it holds — Krka’s could not be retrieved, which is a page in its own right.
| Ticket | 1 Jan – 31 Mar and 1 Nov – 31 Dec | 1 Apr – 31 May and 1 – 31 Oct | 1 Jun – 30 Sep, price A | 1 Jun – 30 Sep, price B |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adult | €10.00 | €23.00 | €40.00 | €25.00 |
| Adult, group of 15 or more | €9.50 | €21.00 | €35.00 | €25.00 |
| Student | €6.00 | €14.00 | €25.00 | €15.00 |
| Student, group of 15 or more | €5.00 | €13.00 | €24.00 | €15.00 |
| Child 7–18 | €4.00 | €6.00 | €15.00 | €9.00 |
| Child 7–18, group of 15 or more | €3.50 | €5.00 | €13.00 | €8.00 |
The adult column is the one that reframes the visit. In the depth of summer the same park costs €40.00 at ten in the morning and €25.00 at half past four, and in January it costs €10.00 at any hour. That is a four-to-one spread across the year on a single adult ticket, which is a much larger variable than anything else in a park day.
€40.00 → €25.00
the published 2026 adult one-day ticket before and after 4 p.m. in summer — the same park, the same day
The two-day ticket is priced on the same period bands but without the clock split, and without group or concession rows beyond the three published below.
| Two-day ticket | 1 Jan – 31 Mar and 1 Nov – 31 Dec | 1 Apr – 31 May and 1 – 31 Oct | 1 Jun – 30 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adult | €15.00 | €39.00 | €60.00 |
| Student | €9.00 | €20.00 | €40.00 |
| Child 7–18 | €7.00 | €10.00 | €20.00 |
Two days at the summer rate costs more than two separate one-day tickets bought after 4 p.m., and less than two bought before it, which is the clearest possible statement of what the park is actually charging for. The interaction below holds the summer split against itself.
adult, 1 June to 30 September
Valid until 4 p.m., and until 3 p.m. in September
Student €25.00, child 7–18 €15.00, adult group of 15 or more €35.00. This is the ticket almost every visitor buys, and it is the most expensive row in the entire published tariff.
The group anomaly in the price B column is worth noticing if you are booking for a party: every other band in the tariff discounts a group of fifteen or more, and that one does not.
Buying the afternoon ticket to save money on a park you have driven to
The saving is real and the arithmetic behind it usually is not. Plitvice is not on any of the 68 routes in the 2026 coastal register, so getting there is a road day taken out of the same allowance as an island day — which is the argument the park page makes in full. Spending that whole day travelling in order to arrive after 4 p.m. inverts the cost structure: the cheap part of the day is the part you have already paid the most to reach.
Price B makes sense in exactly one shape of trip: an overnight near the park, entering late on the arrival afternoon on the €25.00 ticket. In every other shape the period band matters far more than the clock — the same adult ticket is €23.00 in April and October and €10.00 from November, which beats any afternoon discount outright.
So the decision this tariff actually forces is the month, then the hour, and only then the ticket. April and October cost a little over half of high summer for the same one-day adult entry, and November to March costs a quarter of it. No other Croatian attraction this site can source publishes anything like that spread.
What do you need to work out next?
The tariff is published. These are the decisions around it.
Where to stay
Is a night near the park worth it?
Only an overnight makes the after-4 p.m. ticket sensible.
Getting around
What does the park day cost in travel?
None of the 68 registered coastal routes reaches it; it is a road day.
When to go
Is October cheaper?
The adult one-day ticket is €23.00 in April, May and October against €40.00 in summer.
Planning
Does Krka price the same way?
Unknown. Krka's 2026 price list could not be retrieved from any official source.
Park entry tariffs: Nacionalni park Plitvička jezera, published 2026 price list. Ferry data: Agencija za obalni linijski pomorski promet (ZOLPP), 2026 state coastal line register and per-line timetables.