How to Visit Giverny in 2026: the Season, the Hours, the Train and the Bag Rule

Quick facts for 2026

• Season: every day from 1 April to 1 November; closed from 2 November to 31 March. The Fondation publishes the next season's dates in the new year.
• Hours: 10 am to 6 pm, last admission 5.30 pm.
• Adult ticket: €13; €7 for ages 7 to 17 and students; €6 for visitors with a disability; free under 7.
• Address: 84 rue Claude Monet, 27620 Giverny, about 80 km west-north-west of Paris.
• Allow: an hour and a half to two hours for the house and both gardens.

What the ticket costs, and the combined tickets

One ticket covers the house, the flower garden and the water garden. Online sales opened on 2 February 2026, and the Fondation recommends booking ahead, above all at weekends and on public holidays. It is advice, not a rule: tickets are also sold at the gate every day. An online ticket cannot be refunded, but you can change it. The visitor guide keeps these fares with the season and the entrance.

The combined tickets are sold at the house, to individual visitors only. The one with the Musée des impressionnismes suits a day spent in the village. The two with Paris museums suit anyone who wants Monet's paintings as well as his garden: the Orangerie holds the great Water Lilies panels, and the Marmottan most of his work.

Getting there from Paris

By train, you go from Gare Saint-Lazare to Vernon-Giverny station, then take the shuttle (€5 single, €10 return), walk, or hire a bike at the station exit and ride the cycle path along the Seine. Check the SNCF timetable and the shuttle's own timetable for your date. By car, Giverny has free car parks near the house. Getting to Giverny sets the four ways side by side.

A tour removes the timetables. The Giverny tours from Paris start at a café, a square or your hotel, and most put the entry ticket in the fare.

What you cannot bring in

This is the rule that catches people. The Fondation checks bags at the entrance and has no left-luggage, so plan your day around it.

• Bags: cabin size only, at most 55 x 35 x 20 cm, carried in your hand or on your back. A suitcase has nowhere to go.
• Food: no picnics in the gardens.
• Easels: no painting or drawing, and no wedding photo shoots.
• Pets: only recognised assistance dogs.

Access for reduced mobility

The gardens are accessible to people with reduced mobility, and a disability card gives priority access at the group entrance on the Sente Leroy. The house is not wheelchair accessible, the Fondation says, and its bedrooms are up a staircase. A companion pays the full fare.

How long to allow

If you want the village as well, add an hour: the church where Monet is buried, the Musée des impressionnismes at 99 rue Claude Monet, and lunch.

When to go

Come at 10 am or late in the day: midday is the busiest time at the gate. The Fondation asks you to book ahead for weekends and public holidays, the busiest days of the week. What flowers depends on the month, from the spring bulbs to the water lilies of summer and the autumn colour on the pond. At Évreux, the nearest long-term weather station, it rains on about one day in four from April to October. The best time to visit and the weather by month go into both.

If you come in winter

From 2 November to 31 March the house and gardens are shut, and no tour can take you inside. The village is still there, and so is the church where Monet is buried, but the gardens are the reason almost everyone comes. If your trip falls in winter, see Monet's paintings in Paris instead, at the Orangerie or the Marmottan, and save Giverny for a spring or summer visit. In 2026 the last day to visit is Sunday 1 November, which is also the first Sunday of the month: the Musée des impressionnismes is free to every visitor that day.

What is within a walk of the gate

Everything worth adding sits on or just off rue Claude Monet, so you need no car once you are in the village.

• The impressionism museum, at 99 rue Claude Monet: €12 for an adult, free under 18, with a restaurant.
• Monet's grave, in the churchyard of Sainte-Radegonde, the village church.
• The old painters' hotel: the Hôtel Baudy, where the American painters stayed, is a restaurant now, with lunch from Tuesday to Sunday in season.
• Les Nymphéas, the restaurant opposite the house, open every day of the season.

Things to do in Giverny covers each one with its hours.

Which kind of day to book

• A coach half-day, from $80: the coach half-day from Porte Maillot puts the ticket and an app in the fare. See the Giverny bus tours.
• A small group, $138 to $255: eight seats or fewer; the eight-seat half-day with a guide keeps the guide with you in the gardens.
• Giverny with Versailles, $158 to $371 on a shared day: never on a Monday, when the palace is closed. See the Giverny and Versailles tours.
• Private, $392 to $1,275 a person for a half-day: the private day with an art historian collects you from your door. See the Giverny private tours.

Next, read the house and gardens, part by part, or the plan for a visit with children.

Days that suit a first visit

From Paris, Monet’s Enchanted Giverny Tour in very small group

Six people at most from Brasserie Le Mirabeau in the 16th: about an hour in the village, two hours in the house and gardens with your guide, and the church.

From $230 per person

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Giverny: Monet's House & Gardens Private Guided Walking Tour

Two hours in the house and gardens with a private guide who meets you at the gate, entry tickets paid. Getting to Giverny is up to you.

From $318 per person

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Giverny Half-Day Trip from Paris with Private Driver

A private driver-guide from your Paris hotel for up to seven, wheelchairs and pushchairs accommodated; the entry to Monet's house is paid on top.

From $392 per person

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