SANParks Fees 2026/27: What Every Park Costs From 1 November

SANParks publishes one tariff sheet a year, it starts on 1 November, and most of the sites that quote it never go back to update the old number. So here is the whole 2026/27 sheet next to 2025/26, pay point by pay point, with the change worked out. The rand figures are copied from the official PDF; the dollar and pound columns use the European Central Bank rate of 2026-10-26 and will drift.

The headline

Kruger goes from R602 to R692 per international adult per day, a 15% rise. That is the number most people search for, and it sets the tone: the big parks all moved by roughly the same step. Across the 21 pay points on the sheet the average increase is 13%. The outlier is Camdeboo National Park, which jumps 42%, from R160 to R227; it was the cheapest big park on the old sheet and SANParks has clearly decided it was underpriced. 1 pay point did not move: Augrabies Falls National Park.

SADC nationals and South African residents got smaller rises in rand terms, mostly between 4% and 8%. The international rate is where the money is being made.

Every park, old rate and new rate

International adult, per person per day. Parks with several pay points (Table Mountain, Garden Route) are listed per gate, because each gate charges its own fee and you pay again when you move between them.

Park (pay point)	2025/26	2026/27	Change	In dollars	In pounds
Kruger National Park	R602	R692	+15%	US$42	£31
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park	R576	R662	+15%	US$40	£30
Table Mountain National Park, Cape of Good Hope (Cape Point)	R515	R592	+15%	US$36	£27
Addo Elephant National Park	R492	R565	+15%	US$34	£25
Garden Route National Park, Tsitsikamma section, Storms River Mouth	R367	R422	+15%	US$25	£19
Golden Gate Highlands National Park	R325	R358	+10%	US$22	£16
Karoo National Park	R325	R358	+10%	US$22	£16
Mapungubwe National Park	R325	R358	+10%	US$22	£16
Marakele National Park	R325	R358	+10%	US$22	£16
Mountain Zebra National Park	R325	R358	+10%	US$22	£16
Augrabies Falls National Park	R325	R325	0%	US$20	£15
Mokala National Park	R279	R306	+10%	US$18	£14
Agulhas National Park	R269	R295	+10%	US$18	£13
Tankwa-Karoo National Park	R269	R295	+10%	US$18	£13
Table Mountain National Park, Boulders penguin colony	R245	R282	+15%	US$17	£13
Garden Route National Park, Wilderness section	R235	R270	+15%	US$16	£12
Garden Route National Park, Knysna section	R231	R254	+10%	US$15	£11
Bontebok National Park	R206	R227	+10%	US$14	£10
Camdeboo National Park	R160	R227	+42%	US$14	£10
Garden Route National Park, Tsitsikamma section, Nature’s Valley	R165	R190	+15%	US$11	£9
Namaqua National Park	R130	R143	+10%	US$9	£6

Child rates (ages 2 to 11) are half the adult rate, rounded, and under-2s are free. Each park’s own page has the SADC and resident columns and the notes that go with them.

What it means for a real trip

Two adults and two children, five days in Kruger from November 2026: R10,370 in conservation fees before a bed or a litre of fuel, about US$624 or £467. The same trip under the outgoing sheet was R9,020. The park fee calculator does this sum for any park and any party, and it switches to the new rates on 1 November by itself.

If that family stays longer than about four days, a Wild Card is cheaper than paying at the gate, and that break-even point moves earlier every year the gate fee rises faster than the card.

How we checked

The 2026/27 figures come straight from the SANParks daily conservation fee sheet on sanparks.org, read on 7 October 2026. The 2025/26 figures were first collected from published reports that reproduced last year’s sheet and then compared against the official sheet when we got it; they matched. Blyde River Canyon is not a SANParks reserve (it is run by the Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency), so it is not in this table even though we track its fee. The fees comparison page shows every park we cover, SANParks or not, with the date each figure was last checked.