Lisbon Metro tickets and fares
One price for the whole network — and two things you pay for on the first trip
You pay twice on your first journey
This catches almost every visitor. In Lisbon the ticket and the card it lives on are two separate purchases. The card — a navegante ocasional — costs €0.50 and is yours to keep and reload. The journey on top of it costs €1.90. So the first trip is €2.40 and every one after that is €1.90.
Since the gates take contactless bank cards, you can simply tap your own card or phone and pay €1.92 a journey — slightly more than the €1.90 on a navegante, and you save the €0.50 of the card. For one or two journeys that is the cheaper option; from the third it is not.
Every fare, one by one
| Ticket | Price |
|---|---|
| Single ticket (Carris/Metro) | €1.90 |
| 24-hour ticket, Carris and Metro | €7.25 |
| 24-hour ticket, Carris, Metro and the ferry | €10.35 |
| 24-hour ticket, Carris, Metro and trains | €11.40 |
| One metro journey paid with zapping | €1.72 |
| One journey paid with a bank card | €1.92 |
One flat price covers the whole network, from the airport to the far end of any line. Nothing you can do with the metro makes a journey more expensive than another.
Zapping: the cheapest way to pay as you go
Zapping is stored credit on the navegante card. You load an amount and each journey takes €1.72 off it, which is less than the single ticket. It also works on buses, trams and the ferries, and that is its real advantage: one card, one balance, several operators.
The maximum balance a navegante card can hold is not published by the operator. Sites that give a number for it are quoting each other, not the source, so this page does not give one.
Where to buy
At the ticket machines in every station, which have an English option, and at the staffed desks. The machines take cash and cards; the card and the credit are bought in the same operation.
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The stations, timetables and journey times on this page come from the GTFS file that Metropolitano de Lisboa, E.P.E. publishes as open data (Fonte: Metropolitano de Lisboa, E.P.E. — dados.gov.pt (CC BY)), edition 23.04.00, retrieved on 21 October 2026. Lisbon Metro is an independent guide: it is not run by Metropolitano de Lisboa, E.P.E. and has no connection with the company. Prices are the ones published by the operator on the date shown and can change. The Portuguese version of this site, with all 50 stations, is at metrolisboa.org.