Teotihuacan Pyramids ToursAbout Teotihuacan Pyramids Tours
An independent comparison of the guided trips that run from Mexico City to Teotihuacan, about 50 km northeast of the capital. We compare tour listings, official visitor information and recent traveller feedback. We do not operate or personally conduct these tours, hold no bookings and run no vehicles. The trips sit on the Teotihuacan tours comparison, and the sources behind every number are set out in our editorial methodology.
Why this site exists
Search for these pyramids and half the results still tell you to climb the Pyramid of the Sun. The summit has been closed since 2019 — you get the first flight of stairs and no further — and the Pyramid of the Moon lets you up to the first platform only. That single outdated line is why people arrive with the wrong picture of the day.
The entry fee gets the same treatment: figures from several price rounds ago, and no mention that most tours already include the ticket in the price you pay upfront. None of this is hidden. It is in official tourism information, in the operators' own small print and in what travellers write the week after they go. Putting it next to the price is the entire job of this site.
Where the facts come from
Prices, durations, ratings, review counts, inclusions, pickup points and cancellation terms are read off each operator's own listing on the date shown on the page, in US dollars. Eleven tours are compared here, from $31 for a guided walk you reach on your own up to $166 for the sunrise balloon flight, sold on GetYourGuide and Viator. Every tour page carries the same fields in the same order. Tour listings checked: August 2026.
Entry fees, opening hours and what is climbable are checked against official tourism information and recent visitor reports, then dated where they appear. Entry fee verified against official tourism information and recent visitor reports: August 2026. Traveller feedback reviewed: 14,000+ reviews.
Where a listing admits something inconvenient, we keep it. The half-day tour that warns its Starbucks Reforma pickup has three lookalike branches on the same intersection; the early-access trip whose box lunch is food for the bus, not a seat at the restaurant buffet; the full-day combination tour whose own review summary says travellers want less shopping and more pyramid. Review quotes carry the reviewer's name, country and travel month exactly as published. We do not write testimonials.
What we do not do
We do not inspect the archaeological zone, ride the tours, meet the guides or audit safety records. Whether a particular driver is careful, or whether the shade-free walk down the Avenue of the Dead is bearable on the morning you go, needs someone standing there — and that is the job of the company you book with and of the site staff.
We also do not take your booking. Every Check Availability button sends you to the platform the operator sells on, where the price, the terms and the cancellation window are theirs.
How the site pays for itself
Links to tours on this site are affiliate links. If you book through one, the platform pays us a commission and you pay the same price you would pay going there directly.
That arrangement pays for the research and nothing else. It does not decide which tours appear, what order they sit in, or what we say about them. The cheapest listings in the catalogue earn us the least, and they are the ones we point most visitors towards.
Corrections
Prices in Mexico move, opening hours shift and structures close for conservation without much warning. If something here is out of date, write to us and tell us what you found and when you were there. We would rather fix a number than defend it.