Lisboa Card 2026: prices, what's free and when it pays off

The Lisboa Card is Lisbon's official city pass, sold by the city's tourist board. It gives you the Metro, buses, trams and suburban trains, plus free entry to about 50 museums and monuments, for 24, 48 or 72 hours. Whether it saves you money depends on what you do with those hours: it pays off fast on a day of big monuments, and not at all on a day in Sintra.

What's free with the card

• Public transport: the Metro (including to and from the airport), Carris buses and trams, CP trains on the Cascais, Sintra and Azambuja lines, and Fertagus trains across the 25 de Abril bridge to Setúbal.
• In Lisbon: Castelo de São Jorge, the Jerónimos Monastery, the Belém Tower, the National Coach Museum, the Royal Treasury Museum, the National Pantheon, the Ajuda National Palace, the Monument to the Discoveries, the Rua Augusta Arch and the Fado Museum, among others.
• Further out: the monasteries of Batalha and Alcobaça, the Convent of Christ in Tomar and the National Palace of Mafra.

Some places on the list are closed for restoration: on 10 October 2026, the card's shop listed the National Tile Museum, the National Museum of Ancient Art, the National Costume Museum, the National Museum of Theatre and Dance, the National Archaeology Museum and the Santa Justa lift, and Visit Lisboa's own page marked the Lisboa Story Centre as closed for renovation too.

Discounts only, or not included

• Sintra: 10% off Pena and the National Palace of Sintra, 15% off the Moorish Castle, Monserrate and the Capuchos. You pay the difference at the ticket office, so you can't book the timed Pena ticket online with the card. The card does not cover the 434 and 435 buses up to the palaces.
• Other discounts: 20% off Lisbon Cathedral, the Gulbenkian Museum and the Carmo ruins, and 15% off the Oceanário and MAAT, among others.

How the card works

1. Buy it online from Visit Lisboa's shop, or at an Ask Me Lisboa desk. Online you get a voucher, valid for six months.
2. Collect the card at an Ask Me Lisboa desk by showing your order email, up to 30 minutes before the desk closes. It is a physical, contactless card.
3. Start it: write the date and time of first use on the card, sign it, and validate it on your first bus, tram, Metro or train. Your 24, 48 or 72 hours run from then.
4. Use it: show the card at the museums and scan it on every bus, tram, Metro and train.

• Jerónimos and Belém Tower: once you have the card, book a date and time with its number. You can't book ahead with only the voucher, and entry is limited to a daily number of card holders.
• The castle: go to the ticket office and use the "Lisboa Card/Residents" queue. Young people aged 13 to 15 need a ticket for the castle.
• Mondays: many museums and monuments close, including the Jerónimos Monastery, the Belém Tower, the National Coach Museum and the National Pantheon. Don't start a 24-hour card on a Monday.
• No refunds once the voucher is redeemed or the card is used, and a lost or stolen card is not replaced.

Does it pay off?

Two examples for one adult, at full 2026 prices:

• A day of monuments (24-hour card, €31): the castle (€17), the Jerónimos cloister (€18) and the Belém Tower (€15) come to €50, plus €7.25 for a 24-hour Carris and Metro ticket: €57.25 without the card. The card saves you about €26, if you get time slots at Jerónimos and the Belém Tower.
• A day in Sintra (24-hour card, €31): the return train (€5.10) is free, and you save €2 at Pena and €1.80 at the Moorish Castle: under €9 in all. The card costs more than it saves.

If you mostly walk and visit one or two places a day, a 24-hour Carris and Metro ticket (€7.25), or single rides at €1.90, will cost you less. See how the navegante card works. For Sintra, see Sintra in a day and Sintra palace tickets.