The navegante card
The €0.50 piece of plastic every journey sits on
What it is
navegante is the travel card of the Lisbon region. The version a visitor buys is the navegante ocasional: a yellow paper-thin card that costs €0.50, is not personal and can be reloaded. The other one, the navegante personalizado, costs €7.00, carries your photograph and is what monthly passes require.
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Three things written on the card itself
The card is rechargeable for one year after purchase. If you come back next spring with last summer's card, check it before queueing.
Validation at the start of each journey is compulsory, including when you change between operators. The gates do it for you in the metro; on buses and trams you have to tap.
Do not hold it against other contactless cards. Two cards in the same wallet at the gate is the classic way to be charged on the wrong one — or on neither.
What you can load on it
One card, several kinds of ticket — but one kind at a time, and it is a single-person card: it cannot pay for two people.
| 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 |
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.