Portugal City Cards
Lisbon Pass vs Lisboa Card, and the Porto passes
The Lisbon Pass sold on Tiqets bundles four things for €60.50: Pena Palace in Sintra, Jerónimos Monastery, a hop-on hop-off bus and an audio guide app. The Lisboa Card, from €31, includes 51 sights and every metro, bus and tram ride. In Porto, the big sights come in passes on your phone.
The Lisbon Pass: four tickets in one
The Lisbon Pass puts two big monuments, Jerónimos Monastery in Belém and Pena Palace in Sintra, in one purchase. With them come a hop-on hop-off bus round Lisbon and an audio guide app. The tickets come on your phone, and here’s how the price compares with the four bought separately:
The Lisbon Pass
National Palace of Pena & Park · Jerónimos Monastery · 24 or 48-Hr Hop-on Hop-off Bus Tour · Audio Guide App
Saves you €8.90 on the tickets one by one
€60.50
Buy the The Lisbon Pass→What it doesn’t have is public transport. The bus is a sightseeing loop, not the metro, and the train to Sintra for Pena is paid on top.
Lisbon Pass or Lisboa Card?
The two are built differently. The Pass is a short list of tickets, while the Lisboa Card runs for 24, 48 or 72 hours and opens everything on its list while it does.
| Lisbon Pass | Lisboa Card | |
|---|---|---|
| Price, adult | €60.50 | From €31 for 24 hours |
| Sights included | Jerónimos and Pena | 51, Jerónimos and Belém Tower among them |
| Pena Palace | Included | 10% off at the ticket desk |
| Transport | Hop-on hop-off bus | Metro, buses, trams, trains to Sintra and Cascais |
| Format | Tickets on your phone | A physical card, from first use |
| Cancellation | Not possible | Up to the date you picked |
Bought apart, a 24-hour card and a Pena ticket, €31 and €22.40, come to less than the Pass, with the train to Sintra and 50 more sights on top. That sum takes Pena at full price, since the card’s 10% off is only given at the palace’s ticket desk.
The Pass does have two things the card doesn’t: the sightseeing bus and the audio guide app.
The Porto passes: entries on your phone
Porto has no card like the Lisboa Card: the Porto.CARD is no longer sold. Instead, Tiqets sells passes, and these four cover the big sights, each a set of three or four entries on your phone, none with public transport.
| Pass | Price | What's inside | Bought separately | Savings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Porto Highlights Pass | €29.50 |
| €34 | €4.50 |
| Porto Explorer Pass | €61.50 |
| €64.90 | €3.40 |
| Porto Culture Pass | €42.50 |
| €42.90 | €0.40 |
| Historic Porto Pass | €50 |
| €41.99 | −€8.01 |
For the metro, including the ride from the airport, you still need an Andante card. The table shows what each pass saves, or doesn’t, against its tickets bought one by one.
Card, combos and passes
City cards for Lisbon and Porto
Pick the one that fits your trip. Prices are per adult, and you choose your dates on the next page.
Official city cardLisboa Card: 51 Attractions & Public Transportfrom€31Buy→
Card + ticketLisboa Card + Pena Palacefrom€58Buy→
Card + ticketLisboa Card + Lisbon Oceanariumfrom€65Buy→
City passThe Lisbon Passfrom€61Buy→
City passPorto Highlights Passfrom€30Buy→
City passHistoric Porto Passfrom€50Buy→
City passPorto Culture Passfrom€43Buy→
City passPorto Explorer Passfrom€62Buy→
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Is the Lisboa Card worth it for your trip?
Pick how many days you’ve got and the sights you want to see. The calculator adds up the tickets and rides, sets them against the card and tells you right away whether it pays off, and by how much, at today’s prices. No email, no sign-up.
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Frequently asked questions
Is there one card for Lisbon and Porto?
No. Each works in its own city: the Lisboa Card and the Lisbon Pass in Lisbon and around it, a Porto pass at sights in Porto. A trip to both takes one of each.
Lisboa Card or Lisbon Pass?
The Lisboa Card if you'll use the metro and trams and see several museums and monuments: 51 of them are included, and so is the train to Sintra. The Lisbon Pass suits a short stay built around Jerónimos and Pena, getting around on the sightseeing bus.
Do the Porto passes work like the Lisboa Card?
Not quite. They're tickets on your phone for a fixed set of three or four entries, with no public transport. The Lisboa Card is a physical card that runs 24, 48 or 72 hours from first use and opens a long list.
Which Porto pass is closest to a city card?
The Porto Explorer Pass, the only one of the four with a 48-hour sightseeing bus, which it pairs with a river cruise, a port wine cellar in Gaia, the Cathedral and fado. For Clérigos, the Cathedral and a cruise alone, the Highlights Pass costs less.
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