Petra by Night

Petra by Night is a candlelit walk through the Siq to the Treasury, with projection mapping and narration since its relaunch in May 2025. Visit Petra lists it five nights a week, Sunday to Thursday, from 8:30 PM to about 10:30 PM, at 30 JD a person, free for children under 10 (November 2026). You need a valid daytime Petra ticket as well, and neither the daytime ticket nor the Jordan Pass includes it. None of the Petra and Wadi Rum tours on this site include it either: they leave Petra by the afternoon.

The days and the ticket

Visit Petra, the Petra Development and Tourism Region Authority’s site, November 2026.

Evening shows can be rescheduled, so confirm the day at the Petra Visitor Center when you arrive; the Petra by Night tickets are sold there.

Golf carts run during Petra by Night for elderly visitors and people with disabilities (Visit Petra fees page, November 2026).

Why no tour from Amman includes it

The day tours from Amman reach Petra in the morning and leave it after a few hours: Al Amal’s day tour gives about 3 hours there before driving on to Wadi Rum. The 2-day tours spend their night in a Wadi Rum camp, about 105 km away by road. So the walk at 8:30 PM needs a night in Wadi Musa, the town beside the Petra Visitor Center.

How to fit it in

• A night in Wadi Musa. Arrive for a daytime visit and stay the night in the town around the Visitor Center, where the evening walk begins. Hotels in Wadi Musa has room searches for the town.
• A two-day Petra ticket. If you stay over, the 55 JD two-day ticket (consecutive days, for visitors staying overnight in Jordan) covers a second daytime visit; Petra by Night is still a separate 30 JD.
• Check the day. Friday and Saturday are not on the current list.

Whether it is worth 30 JD is a matter of taste: it is a candlelit walk through the Siq to the Treasury with a show there, not a second look at the rest of Petra. If your nights are already set for Wadi Rum, the daytime visit and the desert are the trip.