Which day attractions close

If you plan one museum day on a city break, make it anything but Monday. We counted the weekly closing day of every attraction in our atlas — 633 places across 31 countries — and the result is not evenly spread. 50 of 108 weekly closures fall on a Monday — nearly half of them, and close to three times the next-highest day. The remaining 58 are spread across the other six.

Closures by day of the week

93 of 633 places close on at least one fixed day each week. A place closed on two days is counted once under each, so the column totals 108.

Two-tier entry pricing

111 of India's 349 places charge foreign visitors more than residents, typically about 5 times as much (the median across those places). 311 of all 633 places are free to enter. India's ticketed monuments run by the Archaeological Survey of India are the best-known example of two-tier pricing. Structured resident-versus-foreign prices exist for India only: for other countries the individual place pages state a foreign-visitor price in their text, but this study does not count them. A place counts as free only if every price tier listed for it is free.

How these numbers were produced

• The population is every attraction published on Traveliac at the time this page was built — 633 places in 31 countries. It is not a sample and not a survey.
• A “weekly closure” means the place has a day marked closed in its structured hours record. Seasonal and holiday closures are excluded, because they are not weekly.
• 604 places state a clock time; 29 keep no fixed hours and are excluded from the closure counts rather than guessed at.
• Hours are compiled from each place's official source and public records, and every place page names the source and the date it was last checked. Our guides are compiled with AI assistance and we say so on how we write these guides.
• Counted on 2026-11-02. The figures are computed from the live dataset when the page is built, so they move as the atlas grows — cite the date alongside the number.