Teide Cable Car Tickets: Buy Direct or Take a Tour
Teide cable car tickets from EUR 43 return on the cable car company's own site, its rules, what the ticket leaves out, and the tours that include it.
The company that runs the cable car, Teleférico del Pico del Teide, sells its own tickets online on its booking site, volcanoteide.com: a return ticket from EUR 43 and an ascent-only ticket from EUR 24 (checked November 2026; the price moves with demand and the time of year). If you are driving yourself, buying direct is the plain route. Without a car, a tour bundles the ticket with the drive: Volcano Teide’s Tenerife: Mount Teide Tour with Cable Car Ticket & Transfer, from US$103 a person (checked November 2026), cost US$103.26 on every date we read and picks up across the north and the south of the island.
The calendar above is the tour. Pick the option for your pickup area: Costa Adeje, Las Américas and Los Cristianos; El Médano and Golf del Sur; Puerto de la Cruz; Los Gigantes and Puerto Santiago; or Santa Cruz and Candelaria. Some run only on set weekdays, and on 26 November 2026 the last two were not on sale. Free cancellation runs until 24 hours before.
The cable car company’s tickets
| Ticket | From (checked November 2026) |
|---|---|
| Ascent only | EUR 24.00 |
| Return, up and down | EUR 43.00 |
| Return with a digital audio guide | EUR 46.75 |
| Return with a guided walk to the Pico Viejo viewpoint | EUR 55.50 |
“From” prices on the cable car company’s own booking site; it says they move up and down with demand and the time of year.
The rules that come with them:
- Tickets are sold online only, for a set session. Arrive 20 minutes before it.
- You can stay one hour at the upper station, or up to two with a permit for the crater trail when that trail is open.
- Free changes or cancellation until 6.00pm on the day before, with up to three date changes within a year.
- Children under 3, pregnant women and people with heart problems may not ride. Discounted tickets for children and local residents need proof.
- Parking at the base station is free.
- For people who walk up, the company sells a descent-only ticket at EUR 23, by QR code at the upper station when the cable car is running or in cash at the base station.
What a ticket does not cover
A cable car ticket takes you to the upper station at 3,555 m and the trails that leave from it. It is not a permit for the last stretch to the summit: that trail, PNT 10 Telesforo Bravo, needs a booking on Tenerife ON, which costs EUR 15 for most visitors in the 9:00 to 17:00 slots (the summit permit). The cable car company’s own page still calls the permit free of charge; the Cabildo’s page sets the fee.
The ticket also does not travel with the weather. The company may stop the cable car in bad weather and tells ticket holders at about 8:30; a delay of at least 90 minutes lets you ask for a full refund of unused tickets, but if the cable car runs and only the trails are closed, the ticket is not refunded (checked November 2026). A Teide tour in winter has what that looked like in autumn 2026.
Tours that include the ticket
| Tour | Length | The cable car | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tenerife: Mount Teide Tour with Cable Car Ticket & Transfer (Volcano Teide) | 7 hours, 8:05 or 8:15 AM on the dates we read | Ticket included; if wind closes it, the tour still runs and the cable car’s price is refunded | US$103 |
| Tenerife: Mount Teide Sunset and Stars Tour with Cable Car (Volcano Teide) | 8 hours | A cable car ticket at sunset, then a picnic dinner and a telescope | US$178 |
From the GetYourGuide listings, November 2026.
The day tour’s coach leg is 80 minutes each way. Reviewers in September and October 2026 had between about an hour and a half and two hours at the cable car stop, queue included, and one found that left about an hour at the top. The sunset tour is not for children under 8, pregnant women or people with heart problems, and it is rated 4.3 from 121 reviews. The day tour is rated 4.26 from 6,330.
Guided summit hikes do not include the ticket: Natura Xtreme Tenerife's ascent has you buy the cable car ticket and the permit through its own link 72 hours before. The summit permit page compares those hikes.
Which way to buy
If you have a car and a fixed day, the company’s own site costs less than the tour, and you choose the session. If you have no car, or would rather not drive the mountain roads, the tour gives you pickup, a guide and the ticket in one booking, and its refund rule covers the cable car’s share if wind stops it.
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The Cable Car with Pickup and a Guide
Volcano Teide's 7-hour tour with transport from the north or the south of the island and the cable car ticket included. If wind closes the cable car, the tour still runs and the cable car's price is refunded.
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