If you’re planning to visit several paid attractions or museums in Nuremberg, consider buying the official Nürnberg Card.

The card is valid for 48 hours and includes unlimited travel on public transport and free entry to around 30 sights, museums and other attractions. If you’ve got a packed two-day itinerary, it can pay for itself on the very first day.

In my view, the Nürnberg Card is particularly worthwhile for a first two-day stay in Nuremberg.

If you just want to visit the zoo or have a stroll through the city centre, I wouldn’t buy it. However, as soon as you add two paid museums and public transport, it starts to pay for itself quite significantly.

Buy a 48-hour Nürnberg Card

Price and validity of the Nürnberg Card

• Adults and children aged 12 and over: 38 eur
• children aged 6 to 11: 12 eur
• Children up to and including 5 years old: free when accompanied by an adult with a valid card
• Validity: 48 hours from the selected date and time
• Format: digital card sent by email

This does not mean 2 calendar days. For example, if you set the start time to Friday at 10:00, you can use the card until Sunday at 10:00.

The card is non-transferable and you may be asked to show proof of identity during a check. Each included attraction or museum can only be visited once.

You can check the current price and terms and conditions on the official Nürnberg Card website.

What’s included in the price?

The Nürnberg Card includes free entry to around 30 museums, monuments and attractions in Nuremberg and neighbouring Fürth.

Among the most interesting are:

• Nuremberg Imperial Castle
• Albrecht Dürer’s House
• Germanisches Nationalmuseum
• DB Museum
• Toy Museum
• Nuremberg Trials Museum
• Deutsches Museum Nuremberg
• Nuremberg Zoo with Dolphinarium

As well as free entry, you’ll also get discounts on other attractions and tours.

This usually amounts to a 50% discount, for example on tours of the historic underground passages, the planetarium, the 1. FC Nürnberg stadium or the Faber-Castell Experience.

The card is valid for standard admission. Special exhibitions, special tours or other activities subject to an additional charge may be charged separately.

Free public transport for 48 hours

Throughout the card’s validity period, you can travel unlimitedly on the underground, trams, buses and S-Bahn trains in fare zone A, which includes Nuremberg, Fürth and Stein.

In practice, you can use the card, for example, for:

• a journey on the U2 underground line between the city centre and Nuremberg Airport
• Tram number 5 to Nuremberg Zoo
• travelling between the main station, the historic centre and the museums
• travelling by public transport to the Playmobil FunPark in Zirndorf

Admission to the Playmobil FunPark itself is not included in the price. However, with the Nürnberg Card, you’ll get a discount of 2 eur during peak season, and travel by public transport is included.

A single all-day ticket for one person costs 10,60 eur. For two days’ travel, you would therefore pay 21,20 eur.

You can find details about tickets and individual routes in the section on Transport in Nuremberg.

When is the Nürnberg Card worth it?

The Nürnberg Card is particularly good value for a two-day visit during which you’ll be using public transport and visiting at least two or three paid attractions.

Example of savings for an adult

• Imperial Castle: 10 eur
• DB Museum: 10 eur
• Germanisches Nationalmuseum: 10 eur
• Public transport for 2 days: 21,20 eur
• Total without the card: 51,20 eur
• Nuremberg Card: 38 eur
• savings: 13,20 eur

The more included attractions you visit, the greater your overall savings will be.

The card can also be good value if you’re visiting the zoo. A single adult ticket costs 21 eur and a 2-day public transport pass costs 21,20 eur, so in total you’ll pay 42,20 eur.

When is the card not worth it?

Generally, don’t buy the Nürnberg Card if:

• you’re only in the city for a few hours
• you only want to visit one paid attraction
• you plan to get around mainly on foot
• you’re only driving to the zoo or the Playmobil FunPark
• you’re mainly heading to the Christmas markets and the parts of the city centre that are free to enter

For families visiting only the zoo, the family ticket for the ‘ 47,50 eur ’ works out cheaper than buying a separate Nürnberg Card for each family member.

Where can you buy the Nürnberg Card?

The easiest way is to buy it online. When booking, select the exact date and time the card is due to start, and you’ll then receive the digital card by email. There’s no need to print it out.

You can buy the card on the official websitenurembergcard.comor for exactly the same price via GetYourGuide.

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Buy the Nürnberg Card online

You do not need to exchange the card for a physical one or activate it separately upon arrival. Simply show the digital card on your mobile at the entrances and during any checks on public transport.

When purchasing, please check the start date carefully. Once the card has been issued, it is generally not possible to cancel your booking or change the date.

How to get the most out of the card?

Set the start date to the morning of your first day to make the most of its 48-hour validity period.

We recommend checking the opening times of individual museums in advance, as some are closed on Mondays.

A practical two-day itinerary might look something like this:

1. Day 1: Imperial Castle, Albrecht Dürer’s House, the Germanisches Nationalmuseum and the city centre
2. Day 2: Nuremberg Zoo or the DB Museum, the Nuremberg Trials Memorial and other museums

For an itinerary like this, it’s more practical to stay in the city centre or near the main railway station, where all underground lines intersect and from where there’s a direct tram to the zoo.

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