Meteora Monasteries Opening Hours: Days Closed and Times

The Meteora monasteries opening hours differ gate by gate: five of the six close on one fixed weekday each, and only on Saturday and Sunday are all six open. In summer the gates open between 09:00 and 10:00, and the last one shuts at 17:30.

Four public timetables disagree on the hours of all six gates, so the notice at each entrance has the final word. If you are planning the rest of the trip, the Greece Tours homepage lists the other regions and cities we cover.

What are the Meteora monasteries opening hours?

Counting from the Kalampaka.com timetable, the Meteora monasteries opening hours run from 09:00 to 17:30 in summer. That is a span of 8 hours 30 minutes. Each of the six monasteries keeps its own hours and its own weekly closing day.

Wikipedia counts six extant monasteries at Meteora, and the UNESCO World Heritage listing covers the whole group. The Meteora travel guide on this site names the same six. Each of the six has a timetable on Kalampaka.com, on infotouristmeteora.gr, on visitmeteora.travel and in the Maptrotting blog.

The Meteora monasteries opening hours run on two timetables, one for summer and one for winter. Kalampaka.com sets summer from 01/04 to 31/10 and winter from 01/11 to 31/03. The Great Meteoron’s own site and visitmeteora.travel give the same dates in words.

The Maptrotting blog is looser. It starts summer hours “around 1 April” and says the changeover can “drift by a week either way”. A week either way from 1 April runs from 25 March to 8 April.

On weekends the Meteora monasteries opening hours stop splitting by monastery. Kalampaka.com says it plainly: “Every Saturday and Sunday all 6 Monasteries are OPEN”. The Maptrotting blog agrees for Saturday and for Sunday.

Six points split the four pages that publish the Meteora monasteries opening hours:

• Saint Nicholas Anapausas: open every day on Kalampaka.com and infotouristmeteora.gr, closed Friday on visitmeteora.travel and Maptrotting.
• Great Meteoron in winter: its own site, Kalampaka.com and infotouristmeteora.gr close it at 14:00, visitmeteora.travel at 15:00. Maptrotting lists a 09:00 opening where the other four pages say 09:30.
• Roussanou in summer: the closing time is 15:30 on Kalampaka.com, 16:30 on visitmeteora.travel and infotouristmeteora.gr, and 17:00 on Maptrotting.
• Varlaam in winter: Thursday and Friday closings on Kalampaka.com and visitmeteora.travel, Friday only on infotouristmeteora.gr and Maptrotting. Its winter closing time is 15:00 on three pages and 16:00 on visitmeteora.travel.
• Holy Trinity in summer: 10:00 to 16:00 on Kalampaka.com and visitmeteora.travel, 09:00 to 16:30 on infotouristmeteora.gr, 09:00 to 17:00 on Maptrotting.
• Saint Stephen’s: the summer morning slot ends at 13:30 on Kalampaka.com, visitmeteora.travel and Maptrotting, and at 13:20 on infotouristmeteora.gr. In winter visitmeteora.travel lists 09:00 and 15:30, where the other three list 09:30 and 15:00.

The notice at the entrance is the final answer. The Maptrotting blog says each monastery prints its weekly matrix on a small notice there, updated once per year. Infotouristmeteora.gr says the hours “change from year to year”. Treat the Meteora monasteries opening hours here as a record of each source. Confirm your day at the gate.

Which weekday does each of the six monasteries close?

Kalampaka.com gives five monasteries one closing weekday each. Tuesday shuts the Great Meteoron and Friday shuts Varlaam. Wednesday shuts Roussanou, Thursday shuts Holy Trinity and Monday shuts Saint Stephen’s. Saint Nicholas Anapausas has no closing day on that page.

• Great Meteoron: Tuesday, on all five sources, including the monastery’s own site.
• Varlaam: Friday, on Kalampaka.com, infotouristmeteora.gr, visitmeteora.travel and Maptrotting.
• Roussanou: Wednesday, on the same four pages.
• Holy Trinity: Thursday, on the same four pages.
• Saint Stephen’s: Monday, on the same four pages.
• Saint Nicholas Anapausas: no weekday that all four pages share.

Saint Nicholas Anapausas is the one monastery without a settled weekday. Two pages list no closing day for it. Two close it on Friday. The Maptrotting matrix counts the result. On Friday Varlaam and Saint Nicholas are both shut, which leaves four of the six open.

The same blog calls Friday the day with the fewest monasteries open.

On every weekday in the Kalampaka.com list, one monastery is shut and five are open. Friday can lose two: Varlaam, and Saint Nicholas Anapausas too if visitmeteora.travel and Maptrotting are right. Match your weekday to this list before you fix a route. The Meteora monasteries opening hours differ on every day from Monday to Friday.

Winter adds closing days to the Meteora monasteries opening hours. From 01/11 the Great Meteoron and, on two of the pages, Varlaam close on extra weekdays.

What hours do the Meteora monasteries keep from April to October?

Kalampaka.com lists the summer Meteora monasteries opening hours from 1 April to 31 October. Saint Nicholas Anapafsas keeps the longest day, from 09:00 to 17:00. The Great Meteoron runs from 09:30 to 15:00, and Holy Trinity from 10:00 to 16:00.

Kalampaka.com is a local town site, and it lists all six active monasteries. Here is its summer timetable, one line each.

• Great Meteoron: 09:30 to 15:00
• Varlaam: 09:00 to 16:00
• Saint Stephen’s: morning 09:00 to 13:30, afternoon 15:30 to 17:30
• Holy Trinity: 10:00 to 16:00
• Roussanou: 09:00 to 15:30
• Saint Nicholas Anapafsas: 09:00 to 17:00

The Great Meteoron’s own site, infotouristmeteora.gr and visitmeteora.travel all print the same 09:30 to 15:00 for that monastery. The Maptrotting blog lists 09:00 to 16:00 instead. Its window runs 1 hour 30 minutes longer than the one on the monastery’s own site.

Varlaam shows no disagreement in summer. The Maptrotting blog, visitmeteora.travel, infotouristmeteora.gr and Kalampaka.com all print 09:00 to 16:00. Its summer Meteora monasteries opening hours match across all four.

Roussanou shows the widest spread in these Meteora monasteries opening hours. It closes earliest on Kalampaka.com, at 15:30, and latest on the Maptrotting blog, at 17:00. Between them, visitmeteora.travel and infotouristmeteora.gr both say 16:30. The infotouristmeteora.gr page also opens it at 09:30, not 09:00.

At Holy Trinity the gate opens at 10:00 on Kalampaka.com and visitmeteora.travel. The infotouristmeteora.gr page says 09:00 and a close at 16:30. The Maptrotting blog says 09:00 and a close at 17:00. Check this monastery’s opening time first.

Saint Stephen’s is the steadier one among the Meteora monasteries opening hours. Its afternoon slot starts at 15:30 in all four sources. The morning slot ends at 13:30 in three of them, and at 13:20 on infotouristmeteora.gr.

The Maptrotting blog gives Saint Nicholas Anapafsas 09:00 to 16:00. The other three lists close it at 17:00, one hour later.

Visitmeteora.travel adds one note about the summer Meteora monasteries opening hours. The full summer timetable of Saint Stephen’s and Roussanou begins 44 days after summer starts on 1 April. An April trip to either one falls before it.

How do the Meteora monasteries opening hours change from November to March?

Kalampaka.com sets winter from 1 November to 31 March. It shortens the day at five of the six monasteries and adds closing days at two of them. Only Holy Trinity keeps the same 10:00 to 16:00 hours.

Two monasteries carry the extra closing days in the winter Meteora monasteries opening hours. Here is the Kalampaka.com list.

• Great Meteoron: 09:30 to 14:00, closed Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
• Varlaam: 09:00 to 15:00, closed Thursday and Friday
• Saint Stephen’s: morning 09:30 to 13:00, afternoon 15:00 to 17:00
• Holy Trinity: 10:00 to 16:00
• Roussanou: 09:00 to 14:00
• Saint Nicholas Anapafsas: 09:00 to 16:00

The Great Meteoron’s own site lists winter from 1 November to 31 March. It is open Monday and Friday to Sunday from 09:30 to 14:00. Kalampaka.com, infotouristmeteora.gr and visitmeteora.travel list the same three closing days. That gives this monastery a four-day week under the winter Meteora monasteries opening hours, down from six days in summer.

Varlaam closes on Thursday and Friday on Kalampaka.com and visitmeteora.travel. That leaves it open five days a week, against six in summer.

Counting from the Kalampaka.com lists, winter takes 1 hour off three closing times. Those are the Great Meteoron, Varlaam and Saint Nicholas Anapafsas. It takes 1 hour 30 minutes off Roussanou, from 15:30 to 14:00. Saint Stephen’s opens 30 minutes later and closes 30 minutes earlier, at 17:00.

Holy Trinity and Roussanou are the steadier lines in winter. All four sources print 10:00 to 16:00 for Holy Trinity. All four close Roussanou at 14:00, though infotouristmeteora.gr opens it at 09:30.

Saint Nicholas Anapafsas splits the sources in winter. Two pages, Kalampaka.com and visitmeteora.travel, say 16:00. The infotouristmeteora.gr line reads 09:00 to 17:00, the same as its summer line. The Maptrotting blog says 09:00 to 14:00. Closing times for this one monastery span 3 hours across the four lists.

For a short winter stay, pick the day before the hour. The Meteora monasteries opening hours drop to four or five open days at two sites. A trip that falls on Tuesday and Wednesday finds the Great Meteoron shut both days. If your dates are still open, our time to visit Meteora page helps you choose the season.

Which monasteries are open on a Monday, a Tuesday, a Wednesday and the rest of the week?

Counting from the Kalampaka.com timetable, five of the six monasteries are open on each summer weekday. All six are open on Saturday and Sunday. Winter cuts the Wednesday count to four and the Thursday count to three.

The five weekdays each close a different monastery, so the Meteora monasteries opening hours read like a grid. Kalampaka.com sets its summer list from 1 April to 31 October. Each line below names the shut gate and the number left open.

• Monday: Saint Stephen’s is shut, five are open.
• Tuesday: the Great Meteoron is shut, five are open.
• Wednesday: Roussanou is shut, five are open.
• Thursday: Holy Trinity is shut, five are open.
• Friday: Varlaam is shut, five are open.
• Saturday: nothing is shut, six are open.
• Sunday: nothing is shut, six are open.

Kalampaka.com says it in one line: every Saturday and Sunday, all six monasteries are open. That is why the Meteora monasteries opening hours look simplest at the weekend. A count of five on a weekday tells you only that one gate is shut. Read the name on the line before you pick the day.

Winter changes two lines of the grid on the same list. On Wednesday the Great Meteoron and Roussanou are both shut, so four are open. On Thursday three are open, because the Great Meteoron, Varlaam and Holy Trinity are shut. Monday, Tuesday and Friday keep five, and the weekend keeps six.

The Great Meteoron’s own site gives the same closed days as Kalampaka.com in both seasons. Varlaam is where the Meteora monasteries opening hours split. Infotouristmeteora.gr lists Varlaam closed on Friday only in winter, so its winter Thursday has four open. Kalampaka.com and Visitmeteora.travel leave that Thursday at three.

Fridays hold one more question for the Meteora monasteries opening hours. If Visitmeteora.travel and Maptrotting are right that Saint Nicholas Anapafsas shuts on Friday, each Friday count drops by one. That makes four open on a Friday in both seasons.

On which days do the Meteora monasteries opening hours let you see the Great Meteoron and Varlaam in one visit?

On the Kalampaka.com timetable, both are open on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday in summer. In winter the shared days shrink to Monday, Saturday and Sunday. Tuesday and Friday fail in both seasons, because one of the two is shut.

In summer the pair works on five days out of seven. Four sources give the same summer closing days for this pair: Tuesday for the Great Meteoron and Friday for Varlaam. Kalampaka.com, Maptrotting, infotouristmeteora.gr and Visitmeteora.travel all list them. In the warm months, the Meteora monasteries opening hours give one short rule: skip those two weekdays.

Monday is the one weekday that works in both seasons. On the Kalampaka.com list, Saint Stephen’s is the only gate shut that day, and the other five stay open.

Winter fails on four weekdays under the Meteora monasteries opening hours. On the Kalampaka.com list, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday lose the Great Meteoron, and Friday loses Varlaam. Only Monday, Saturday and Sunday keep both gates open from 1 November to 31 March.

Suppose your trip falls on a Thursday in winter. The Meteora monasteries opening hours leave neither the Great Meteoron nor Varlaam open that day. Kalampaka.com leaves Roussanou, Saint Stephen’s and Saint Nicholas Anapafsas open. Build the day around those three, or move the trip to a Saturday or Sunday, when all six are open.

Sunday needs its own note, because two sources move the Meteora monasteries opening hours that day. Infotouristmeteora.gr opens Roussanou at 10:30 on Sundays and Saint Stephen’s at 9:30. Visitmeteora.travel lists Roussanou from 09:00 to 16:00 on Sundays. Those Sunday times differ from the weekday times in the same two sources.

On the infotouristmeteora.gr list, Roussanou is the last gate to open on a Sunday. That puts all six open together from 10:30. Maptrotting calls Sunday busier, with local worshippers at the monasteries.

Our one day in Meteora page lays out a full day at the rocks. Check its weekday against the Meteora monasteries opening hours before you book. The gate times decide which stops stay open.

Do feast days, August or February break the Meteora monasteries opening hours?

Yes. The Great Meteoron’s own site lists three closed periods. They run 5 to 7 August, 30 September to 1 October, and 1 to 28 February. Maptrotting and visitmeteora.travel add that religious celebrations and feast days change the weekly pattern.

The three periods add up to 33 closed days. Counted one by one:

• 5 to 7 August: 3 days
• 30 September and 1 October: 2 days
• 1 to 28 February: 28 days

The same page ends with one line: “The schedule is subject to change by decision of the monastery”. Four other sources publish the Meteora monasteries opening hours by weekday: Maptrotting, Kalampaka.com, visitmeteora.travel and infotouristmeteora.gr. None of them lists these three periods.

Greeks mainly know the Great Meteoron as the Transfiguration of the Saviour monastery, says Wikipedia. Wikipedia’s page on the Transfiguration says Eastern Orthodox churches on the Revised Julian calendar mark the feast on 6 August. The Great Meteoron’s August closure runs from 5 to 7 August.

No source says why the monastery shuts on those days. Add all three periods to your notes on the Meteora monasteries opening hours.

Maptrotting says Orthodox feast days override the weekly schedule. On those days a monastery is closed, or open only in the morning for pilgrims and not for visitors.

These overrides sit on top of the weekly Meteora monasteries opening hours. Maptrotting names the days around Easter and the patron saint day of each monastery. It gives no date for the patron saint days.

Easter moves every year. Wikipedia says it falls on the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon. It adds that Catholic and Protestant churches celebrate Easter on a different date from the Eastern Orthodox. Maptrotting gives Sunday 12 April as the Orthodox Easter date of the year it wrote.

visitmeteora.travel sends readers to its Holy Week guide for holiday schedules. The guide puts Holy Week in April or at the start of late spring. It lists church services and gives no gate times.

The guide names the Twelve Gospels reading on Holy Thursday night and Epitaphios processions on Good Friday. A midnight Resurrection service follows on Holy Saturday. None of the five sources prints the Meteora monasteries opening hours for Holy Week.

On Easter Sunday itself, Maptrotting answers “Partially”. It says the Monday after is more restricted too, and it points to the Tuesday or Wednesday after Easter. On the Kalampaka.com summer list, either day leaves five monasteries open. The Great Meteoron is shut that Tuesday and Roussanou that Wednesday.

Which Meteora monastery closes at midday, and which one closes last?

Saint Stephen’s does both. Maptrotting, Kalampaka.com, infotouristmeteora.gr and visitmeteora.travel all list a midday gap for it. Kalampaka.com also has it open until 17:30 in summer, later than any other gate.

The Kalampaka.com summer timetable gives this closing order, from the first gate to shut to the last:

• 13:30: Saint Stephen’s shuts for its midday break and reopens at 15:30
• 15:00: Great Meteoron
• 15:30: Roussanou
• 16:00: Varlaam and Holy Trinity
• 17:00: Saint Nicholas Anapausas
• 17:30: Saint Stephen’s, for the day

Counting from that list, only Saint Stephen’s and Saint Nicholas stay open after 16:00. That holds on a summer day when both are open. It makes the Meteora monasteries opening hours thin late in the day: two gates, then one.

Winter changes the clock in the Meteora monasteries opening hours. Kalampaka.com moves the midday break to 13:00 until 15:00. Great Meteoron and Roussanou close at 14:00, Varlaam at 15:00, and Holy Trinity and Saint Nicholas at 16:00. Saint Stephen’s shuts last at 17:00 and is the only gate open from 16:00. visitmeteora.travel reopens it at 15:30 in winter instead.

Maptrotting lists a second, smaller pause in the Meteora monasteries opening hours. It says Holy Trinity closes for 15 minutes around midday while the monks pray. It tells you to wait if the gate looks shut at 13:00. Kalampaka.com lists Holy Trinity as one unbroken window, and so do visitmeteora.travel and infotouristmeteora.gr.

None of the five sources gives a last-entry time for the Meteora monasteries opening hours. Each one lists an opening time and a closing time, and nothing in between. Whether you pay at the gate or book ahead, the Meteora monasteries tickets page explains how each route works.

What time do you need to arrive, given the Meteora monasteries opening hours?

Arrive at 09:00 in summer. The Kalampaka.com timetable opens four monasteries then: Varlaam, Saint Stephen’s, Roussanou and Saint Nicholas Anapafsas. The Great Meteoron opens at 09:30 and Holy Trinity at 10:00. Nothing opens earlier, so 09:00 is the first slot.

The Meteora monasteries opening hours give you an early window, from 09:00 to 10:30. That is 90 minutes. The Maptrotting blog says coach groups do not arrive until 10:30 to 11:00, so the window ends there. The same blog says the morning rush starts at 09:00. It wants you on the road by 08:30.

The four 09:00 gates give you all 90 minutes. The Great Meteoron gives you 60 of them, because it opens at 09:30. Holy Trinity gives you 30, because it opens at 10:00. That makes Holy Trinity the one gate that you reach after the early window has started.

Do not wait at the Great Meteoron at 09:00, because its gate is still shut. Start at one of the four monasteries that are already open. Then reach the Great Meteoron at 09:30, before the coaches.

Winter changes the first hour. On the Kalampaka.com winter list, Varlaam, Roussanou and Saint Nicholas Anapafsas open at 09:00. The Great Meteoron and Saint Stephen’s open at 09:30. Holy Trinity opens at 10:00. In winter the Meteora monasteries opening hours hand you three gates at 09:00, where summer gives you four.

A second night gives you a second early window. On a two-day trip, the Meteora monasteries opening hours let you start at 09:00 twice. Our two-day Meteora itinerary shows how to split the monasteries between the two mornings.

How do you fit six monasteries into the Meteora monasteries opening hours of one day?

All six gates stand open together from 10:00 to 13:30 in summer, and only on a Saturday or a Sunday. The Kalampaka.com timetable closes at least one monastery on every weekday. In winter the shared window shrinks to 10:00 to 13:00.

Holy Trinity sets the start at 10:00, and Saint Stephen’s morning slot sets the end at 13:30. That makes the summer window 3 hours 30 minutes long. The winter window is 3 hours. You do not need all six inside it. It only marks the hours when no gate is shut.

The Meteora monasteries opening hours give each monastery its own window. Counting from the Kalampaka.com timetable, here is how long each one stays open:

• Great Meteoron: 5 hours 30 minutes in summer, 4 hours 30 minutes in winter.
• Varlaam: 7 hours in summer, 6 hours in winter.
• Roussanou: 6 hours 30 minutes in summer, 5 hours in winter.
• Holy Trinity: 6 hours in both seasons.
• Saint Stephen’s: 4 hours 30 minutes plus 2 hours in two slots in summer, 3 hours 30 minutes plus 2 hours in winter.
• Saint Nicholas Anapafsas: 8 hours in summer, 7 hours in winter.

On a summer Saturday, sort the six by closing time and skip any gate that has not opened yet. The Meteora monasteries opening hours then give you this order:

• Saint Stephen’s morning slot first, at 09:00. It ends at 13:30.
• The Great Meteoron from 09:30. It shuts at 15:00.
• Roussanou next. It shuts at 15:30.
• Varlaam next. It shuts at 16:00.
• Holy Trinity after 10:00. It also shuts at 16:00.
• Saint Nicholas Anapafsas last. It shuts at 17:00.

Saint Stephen’s afternoon slot runs from 15:30 to 17:30. It is the other late option for your final stop.

The Maptrotting blog counts a visit at 20 minutes. It counts the whole loop of six at about seven hours, with drive and walk time. It says all six are possible in one summer day. Six visits of 20 minutes add up to 2 hours of those seven.

Seven hours from 09:00 ends at 16:00, an hour before Saint Nicholas Anapafsas shuts. On a summer weekday, the Meteora monasteries opening hours on Kalampaka.com close one monastery all day. That leaves five stops. The timetables stop at the gate. For the drives between gates, read our notes on getting around Meteora.

Which day trips from Athens or Thessaloniki fit the Meteora monasteries opening hours?

Three GetYourGuide day trips last 12 to 14 hours. The longest gate window on the Kalampaka.com summer list is 8 hours. None of the three gives a clock time for its monastery stop. Pick the date from the Meteora monasteries opening hours first.

The three trips differ in length, languages and the number of monasteries they visit. Each line below comes from the listing data.

• The Athens full-day tour with a live guide and Greek lunch lasts 14 hours. It offers eight languages, including English, French and German, and steps inside 3 monasteries. The lunch is optional, and the listing adds a private option and an optional audio guide.
• The daily trip from Athens by van lasts 14 hours. It offers Italian, Spanish and English, visits 3 monasteries with entry included, and stops at panoramic viewpoints. The listing adds a meal at a local tavern and pickup.
• The small-group trip from Thessaloniki lasts 12 hours and takes up to 8 people. It offers English and Greek and visits 2 monasteries. Free time in Kastraki or Trikala is left for lunch.

Counting from the Kalampaka.com timetable, five or six monasteries are open on every summer weekday. A tour that visits two or three always has a choice, so the weekday alone does not block it. The clock is the open question. The listing data gives no time for the gate stop.

The Thessaloniki listing runs 2 hours shorter and visits 1 monastery fewer than the Athens listings. A longer tour does not stretch the gates, because the longest window stays at 8 hours. Ask the operator when the group reaches the first gate. Then test that time against the Meteora monasteries opening hours for your weekday.

Our page on Meteora day trips from Athens covers the Athens start. For the northern start, read the day trip from Thessaloniki page. Both pages leave the Meteora monasteries opening hours to the sources named here.

What can you see at Meteora outside the Meteora monasteries opening hours?

The rock pillars stay in view when every gate is shut. Wikipedia describes Meteora as a rock formation in Trikala, in Thessaly. The monasteries stand on top of its sandstone and conglomerate pillars.

The Meteora monasteries opening hours end well before sunset in June. The sunrise-sunset.org service gives 18:04 UTC for sunset at the Meteora coordinates on 21 June. Wikipedia says Greece runs at UTC+03:00 in summer, so local sunset is 21:05. Kalampaka.com lists 17:30 as the latest summer closing time. That leaves 3 hours 35 minutes.

The gap between sunset and the Meteora monasteries opening hours shrinks in the cold months. On 21 December the same service gives 15:12 UTC, and Greece runs at UTC+02:00 in winter, so sunset is 17:12. The Maptrotting blog and three other lists all give 17:00 as the latest winter closing time. Sunset comes 12 minutes later.

The summer Meteora monasteries opening hours end on 31 October. Clocks go back on the last Sunday in October, so sunset that day is 17:33. That is three minutes after the 17:30 gate.

Two GetYourGuide listings put the sunset in the programme. The Meteora sunset tour lasts 4 hours, with pickup from Kalabaka or Kastraki. Its listing says you view all the monasteries, hike to the hermit caves and watch the sunset. It offers eight languages, a private option and an optional audio guide.

The small-size sunset tour lasts 4.5 hours. Its listing says it visits monasteries, the oldest church and hermit caves, with pick-up and drop-off from Kalabaka. It offers 12 languages and a multilingual smart guide app.

Neither listing gives a start time. In June the sunset falls 3 hours 35 minutes after the last gate. The sunset stop itself sits outside every gate window, so it never competes with the Meteora monasteries opening hours.

Our Meteora sunset page names the evening stops. Wikipedia lists climbers, hikers, mountain bikers and trail runners among the visitors to the rocks, especially in summer. Our guide to the hiking trails covers the walking routes.

Which tours plan the day around the opening hours?

Two of the six listings name a clock time: a 09:00 start from Thessaloniki and a 09:00 departure from Athens. None prints the Meteora monasteries opening hours of its stops. The Maptrotting blog says tour operators in Kalambaka and Kastraki build their routes around the weekly closing days.

The same blog names two usual shapes for a guided day. A half-day runs 09:00 to 13:00 and visits three monasteries. A full day runs 09:00 to 16:00 and visits four monasteries, plus the sunset. Hold each listing below against the Meteora monasteries opening hours of your own weekday.

• Meteora Monasteries Day Trip at 9 AM, Sunset, Caves & Lunch lasts 14 hours and starts in Athens. It lists 12 languages. The highlights say the group goes inside 3 monasteries and sees all 6. The summary names a Greek lunch and dinner. Counting 14 hours from the 09:00 departure ends the day at 23:00. In the Kalampaka.com summer list of Meteora monasteries opening hours, the last gate closes at 17:30.
• 09:00 Thessaloniki Meteora Kalabaka and Trikala day trip lasts 11 hours and lists Greek and English. The summary names two monasteries, Saint Stephen’s and Varlaam. It adds free time in Kalabaka for lunch and a coffee break in Trikala. The Meteora monasteries opening hours in every source shut Saint Stephen’s on Monday and Varlaam on Friday. In summer the pair is open together on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.
• Meteora Small Group Monasteries Tour lasts 4 hours and lists 13 languages, with hotel pickup in its title. The title says small group, and the summary says the group goes inside 3 monasteries. Its page address calls it a half-day tour. That matches the Maptrotting half-day of 09:00 to 13:00: the same 4 hours and the same 3 monasteries.
• The morning half-day listing, a sightseeing and monasteries tour, lasts 4 hours and lists 8 languages, with pickup and a private option. The title says morning but gives no clock time. Starting at 09:00 puts the end at 13:00, the same window the Maptrotting half-day uses.
• Meteora: Monasteries, Rock Formations & Spiritual Escape lasts 8 hours as a day trip from Larissa and lists Greek and English. Pickup is listed, and the summary adds free time in Kalambaka or Kastraki. It gives no clock time and names no monastery. Ask the operator for the start and the stops before you book.
• From Athens: Full-Day Meteora Tour Stopping at Thermopylae lasts 11 hours and runs in English only, with pickup listed. The summary mentions panoramic photo stops and a drive through Greek villages. It puts the Thermopylae battlefield on the return journey, so the monasteries come first. No clock time is given.

Three of the six list a private option: the 14-hour Athens trip and the two 4-hour tours. Read the page on a private tour before you choose between group and private.

The listing data gives no exact meeting point for any of the six. It gives a start city or a pickup label. Check the Meteora monasteries opening hours for your day, then pick the tour whose named stops are open.

What do travellers ask about the Meteora monasteries opening hours?

Travellers ask which gate is shut on their day and whether the Meteora monasteries opening hours change yearly. Each answer names its source, because the five sources do not agree on every point.

Which monastery has no weekly closing day?

Saint Nicholas Anapausas, in two sources out of four. Kalampaka.com and infotouristmeteora.gr show a gate open seven days a week. Visitmeteora.travel and the Maptrotting blog shut it every Friday.

Is the Great Meteoron open on Wednesday in summer?

Yes. Its own site lists every day except Tuesday as open, from 09:30 to 15:00. In winter, Wednesday joins Tuesday and Thursday on that closed list.

Can you visit all six monasteries on a Thursday?

No. The Meteora monasteries opening hours shut Holy Trinity on Thursday in four sources: Kalampaka.com, the Maptrotting blog, visitmeteora.travel and infotouristmeteora.gr. Winter shuts the Great Meteoron that day too, per its own site and three of the others.

Are the Meteora monasteries opening hours the same every year?

No. The FAQ on infotouristmeteora.gr says they change from year to year. It warns against relying on guide books or general web sites. The Maptrotting blog says the notice at each entrance is updated once per year.

Where do you confirm the Meteora monasteries opening hours for your day?

At the entrance. The Maptrotting blog says each gate carries a small notice with the weekly table. It adds that the April changeover to summer hours can drift by a week either way.

Which night in town suits the closing days?

A night before a Saturday or a Sunday suits a full set. Kalampaka.com lists all six open on both days. For a bed near the rocks, read where to stay in Meteora first.