40 Vianden facts and figures for 2026

How many people visit Vianden Castle?

Annual attraction visits reported in the LFT survey, not unique people or town arrivals.

• Vianden Castle recorded 219,280 visits in 2019 in the LFT attraction survey. (Luxembourg for Tourism, 2025)
• Vianden Castle recorded 265,587 visits in 2024 in the LFT attraction survey. (Luxembourg for Tourism, 2026)
• Vianden Castle recorded 264,689 visits in 2025 in the LFT attraction survey. (Luxembourg for Tourism, 2026)

What does Vianden Castle admission cost?

Standard admission and group terms are distinct; these are the operator’s undated prices checked in October 2026.

• Vianden Castle lists standard adult admission at €13, including municipal tourist tax, as checked in October 2026. (Vianden Castle, accessed October 2026)
• Luxembourg for Tourism lists Vianden Castle student admission for ages 13–25 with a student card at €7. (Luxembourg for Tourism, accessed October 2026)
• Vianden Castle lists standard admission for children aged 6–12 at €4, as checked in October 2026. (Vianden Castle, accessed October 2026)
• Vianden Castle lists adult entry for qualifying groups of at least 15 people at €11 per person, as checked in October 2026. (Vianden Castle, accessed October 2026)
• Vianden Castle lists student entry for qualifying groups of at least 15 people at €6 per person, as checked in October 2026. (Vianden Castle, accessed October 2026)
• Vianden Castle lists entry for children aged 6–12 in qualifying groups of at least 15 people at €3,50 per person, as checked in October 2026. (Vianden Castle, accessed October 2026)
• Vianden Castle lists the mobile-phone audio guide at €2, separately from admission, as checked in October 2026. (Vianden Castle, accessed October 2026)
• Vianden Castle lists 11 languages for its mobile-phone audio guide, as checked in October 2026. (Vianden Castle, accessed October 2026)
• Vianden Castle lists a €95 guide charge, in addition to per-person guided-tour admission, as checked in October 2026. (Vianden Castle, accessed October 2026)
• Vianden Castle limits each priced guided-tour group to 40 people, as checked in October 2026. (Vianden Castle, accessed October 2026)

Special-event prices differ. Guided tours are unavailable during the medieval festival. The castle lists closures on 1 January, 2 November and 25 December. Use the admission planner and read the ticket conditions.

What can you add in Vianden town?

Chairlift elevations describe the ride, not step-free access to the castle. Museums have their own admission conditions.

• Vianden’s chairlift starts at a listed elevation of 220 metres, as checked in October 2026. (Visit Vianden, accessed October 2026)
• Vianden’s chairlift reaches a listed elevation of 440 metres, as checked in October 2026. (Visit Vianden, accessed October 2026)
• The Vianden town museum lists adult entry at €4, as checked in October 2026. (Visit Vianden, accessed October 2026)
• The Vianden town museum lists entry for children under 12 at €1, as checked in October 2026. (Visit Vianden, accessed October 2026)
• The Victor Hugo museum in Vianden lists adult entry at €6, as checked in October 2026. (Musée littéraire Victor-Hugo, accessed October 2026)
• The Victor Hugo museum in Vianden lists free entry for young people and children up to 25 years old, as checked in October 2026. (Musée littéraire Victor-Hugo, accessed October 2026)
• The Victor Hugo museum in Vianden lists adult entry for groups of at least 10 at €5,5 per person, as checked in October 2026. (Musée littéraire Victor-Hugo, accessed October 2026)

How demanding is the Éislek Pad Vianden walk?

Published route figures describe the usual circuit. A diversion was posted on 16 September 2026; follow the current signed route.

• The Éislek Pad Vianden route has a published length of 9,25 kilometres, as checked in October 2026. (Visit Éislek, accessed October 2026)
• The Éislek Pad Vianden route has a published duration of 3 hours 15 minutes, as checked in October 2026; this is route guidance, not a guaranteed walking time. (Visit Éislek, accessed October 2026)
• The Éislek Pad Vianden route has a published ascent of 390 metres, as checked in October 2026. (Visit Éislek, accessed October 2026)
• The Éislek Pad Vianden route has a published high point of 479 metres, as checked in October 2026. (Visit Éislek, accessed October 2026)

Allow for the signed diversion and current weather; the usual distance does not establish the length of a temporary detour.

What are the Vianden power-station tour limits?

This is an operating industrial site: booking, age and mobility restrictions apply, and confirmed visits may be cancelled for operational reasons.

• SEO lists its Vianden power-station guided visit at €50 per group, irrespective of participant count, as checked in October 2026. (Société Electrique de l’Our, accessed October 2026)
• SEO describes its Vianden power-station guided visit as approximately 60 minutes, as checked in October 2026. (Société Electrique de l’Our, accessed October 2026)
• SEO limits a Vianden power-station guided group to 12 participants, as checked in October 2026. (Société Electrique de l’Our, accessed October 2026)
• SEO requires Vianden power-station guided-visit requests at least 2 weeks in advance, as checked in October 2026. (Société Electrique de l’Our, accessed October 2026)

How do nearby castle prices compare?

Compare like-for-like adult or child entry; Beaufort’s residence tour is an extra, not the ruins ticket.

• Bourscheid Castle lists standard adult admission at €7, as checked in October 2026. (Bourscheid Castle, accessed October 2026)
• Bourscheid Castle lists admission for children aged 6–12 at €4, as checked in October 2026. (Bourscheid Castle, accessed October 2026)
• Bourscheid Castle lists its winter opening time from 16 October through 31 March as 11:00, as checked in October 2026. (Bourscheid Castle, accessed October 2026)
• Beaufort lists standard adult medieval-castle admission at €8 as checked in October 2026. (Centre des Monuments, accessed October 2026)
• Beaufort lists medieval-castle admission for children aged 6–17 at €5 as checked in October 2026. (Centre des Monuments, accessed October 2026)
• Beaufort lists an adult Renaissance-castle guided-tour supplement of €7 as checked in October 2026, in addition to medieval-castle admission. (Centre des Monuments, accessed October 2026)

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What do transport and a capital-city alternative cost?

Domestic free travel excludes first-class rail and most cross-border travel. The Wenzel figures describe the capital’s guided walk, not a Vianden transfer.

• Luxembourg’s Public Transport Administration dates nationwide fare-free domestic public transport to 1 March 2020, excluding first-class rail. (Public Transport Administration, accessed October 2026)
• Luxembourg’s national first-class rail ticket valid for two hours costs €3, as checked in October 2026. (Public Transport Administration, accessed October 2026)
• Luxembourg’s national first-class rail day ticket costs €6, as checked in October 2026. (Public Transport Administration, accessed October 2026)
• Luxembourg City Tourist Office lists a guided Wenzel Walk duration of 3 hours, as checked in October 2026. (Luxembourg City Tourist Office, accessed October 2026)
• Luxembourg City Tourist Office limits a guided Wenzel Walk group to 20 people, as checked in October 2026. (Luxembourg City Tourist Office, accessed October 2026)
• Luxembourg City Tourist Office lists a private guided Wenzel Walk for up to 20 people from €200 per group, as checked in October 2026. (Luxembourg City Tourist Office, accessed October 2026)

Methods and limitations

We checked 45 candidate figures and kept 40 from ten primary organisations. The visitor table combines the labelled observations in LFT’s 2024 and 2025 reports. Annual change is calculated only between consecutive years: visits fell by 898 from 2024 to 2025, or 0.34% after rounding. Missing years are not interpolated. Visits are not unique people, town footfall or a measure of daily crowding.

The visitor series and student-age conditions were refreshed on 21 October 2026. Other admission and operating figures retain their 18 October source observations. Three quoted figures retain the source decimal comma (€3,50, €5,5 and 9,25 km); tables use English decimal points. Hiking durations are publisher guidance. Museum admissions, castle visits and transport users are not combined into a tourism total.

Next review: 18 January 2027. Report a correction with the figure and its primary source. Accepted corrections update the records, download and modified date together.

Cite this page: Vianden Castle editorial team. “40 Vianden facts and figures for 2026.” Published 18 October 2026; updated 21 October 2026. https://viandencastle.com/vianden/vianden-statistics/

Sources

The original publications and current operator information used above.

• Luxembourg for Tourism, 2026. Attraction survey chart on page 25.
• Luxembourg for Tourism, accessed October 2026.
• Vianden Castle, accessed October 2026.
• Luxembourg for Tourism, 2025. Attraction survey chart on page 24.
• Visit Vianden, accessed October 2026.
• Visit Vianden, accessed October 2026.
• Musée littéraire Victor-Hugo, accessed October 2026.
• Visit Éislek, accessed October 2026.
• Société Electrique de l’Our, accessed October 2026.
• Bourscheid Castle, accessed October 2026.
• Centre des Monuments, accessed October 2026.
• Public Transport Administration, accessed October 2026.
• Luxembourg City Tourist Office, accessed October 2026.

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