Official Porto Card for 2025

What is the Porto Card?

The Porto Card is the official sightseeing pass of the city of Porto, which offers free and unlimited use of public transportation, free or discounted entry to over 150 attractions and museums as well as additional discounts in restaurants and stores for 1 to 4 days.

Free admission to 5 museums
50% Discount on 10 attractions
Up to 50% discount at over 150 attractions
Available for 1 to 4 days
Available with and without free use of local public transport

Some top attractions: Casa do Infante, Sé Cathedral, Casa da Música, city tour by boat, etc. If you have chosen the appropriate option, you will travel free of charge on public transport!

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Price: from 15,00 EUR

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With the Porto Card you can visit 5 museums free of charge.

Casa do Infante
Casa Museu Marta Ortigão Sampaio
Museu da Cidade - Extensão do Romantismo
Museu da Cidade - Reservatório
Museu do Papel Moeda

You can find a complete list of all free museums here: Overview of services Porto Card

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The Porto Card allows unlimited free travel on the metro, city buses, private bus lines and local trains in Porto and the surrounding area. The following means of transportation are included:

City buses (STCP)
Metro incl. line E from the airport to the city center
Private bus lines
CP local trains and suburban trains (which also take you to the popular beach in Espinho)

The card must be validated for every journey, even when changing trains. To do this, you hold it up to the yellow card validator and a green light signal confirms successful validation.

Historic streetcars are not included in the Porto Card and require separate tickets.

Porto Card: Bus in Porto — © luisapohren/ Shutterstock.com

With the Porto Card you receive the following discounts, among others:

Galeria da Biodiversidade (50%)
Igreja e Torre dos Clérigos (25%)
Museu Militar do Porto (50%)
City Sightseeing Portugal (25%)
Museu da Farmácia (20%)
City tour (15-20%)
Museu FC Porto (10%)
Boat trip on the Duoro (15%)
Casa da Música (25%)
Gaia cable car (10%)
Funicular dos Guindais (25% one way)
Palácio da Bolsa (25%)

Here you will find a list of all discounts: Overview of services Porto Card

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Purchase at headout
Website in English
Attractive payment methods
Voucher immediately available

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Porto Card: Savings calculator

Porto Card: Day 1

Museu Romântico: 4,00 EUR
Palácio da Bolsa: 3,50 EUR discount
Igreja de São Francisco: 1,88 EUR discount
Ticket public transport 3 days: 15,00 EUR

Total: EUR 24.38

Porto Card: Day 2

Casa do Infante: 4,00 EUR
Funicular dos Guindais: 0,60 EUR reduction
Hop On-Hop Off bus ride: 6.25 EUR discount
Symphony orchestra concert Casa da Música: 3,00 EUR reduction

Total: EUR 13.85

Porto Card: Day 3

SEA LIFE Porto: 3.70 EUR discount
Casa Museu Marta Ortigão Sampaio: 4,00 EUR
Best of Porto city tour: EUR 3.48 discount

Total: EUR 11.18

Savings: In this example, you use services worth EUR 49.41 within 72 hours. The Porto Card costs EUR 32.00 for 72 hours. So you save 17,41 EUR.

How to use the Porto Card optimally

Plan early activation

The card runs for exactly 24, 48, 72 or 96 hours from the first use. Activate it in the morning to reach the maximum usage time.

Plan visits strategically

Visit as many of the 150+ attractions with free or discounted admission as possible. Plan your route so that it includes the most expensive attractions.

Make intensive use of public transport

Take advantage of free and unlimited use of the metro, buses and local trains. Including airport transfers, this saves additional money on separate tickets.

Take advantage of discounts in restaurants

The Porto Card offers discounts at many restaurants and stores. Find out about participating establishments in advance and take advantage of the discounts.

Flexible when issuing cards

You can pick up the card at the airport but activate it later. This means that the period of use remains unchanged and you have flexibility.

Prefer online purchase

Buy the card via the German website. This offers advantages such as German-language service, no additional fees and convenient pre-ordering.

Buy Porto Card

Purchase at headout
Website in English
Attractive payment methods
Voucher immediately available

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Frequently asked questions

The price of the Porto Card depends on the period of validity and the use of public transport:

Porto Card with unlimited public transport

24 hours: 15,00 EUR
48 hours: 27,00 EUR
72 hours: 32,00 EUR
96 hours: 41,50 EUR

Porto Card without public transport

24 hours: 7,50 EUR
48 hours: 12,00 EUR
72 hours: 16,00 EUR
96 hours: 18,00 EUR

No, the price applies to all age groups.

There are two different options:

Porto Card, which offers access to free museums and discounts.
Porto Card, which includes access to free museums, discounts and free use of public transport.

The card can be purchased online as a voucher that can be exchanged for a plastic card.

You can collect your Porto Card from various collection points in Porto.

Porto Tourist Office
Calçada Dom Pedro Pitões 15, 4050-467 Porto
daily 9:00 to 18:00

Interactive Tourism Store, Floor 0
4470-558 Vila Nova da Telha, Portugal
daily 08:00 to 18:30

The Porto Card is automatically activated from the date and time stated on the back. The separate transport ticket is activated the first time it is used on public transport.

Yes, if you buy the Porto Card at headout.com, you can cancel it free of charge up to 35 hours before the start.

Reservations are generally not required.

The Porto Card is held up to the validator on public transport. Important: Even if you change trains, you must validate the card again. If you buy a Porto Card for 2 or 4 days, you will receive 2 local transport tickets.

The Porto Card can be used during the opening hours of the participating attractions. Please note that museums and some attractions in particular have one day off per week.

No, the Porto Card does not entitle you to preferential admission.

No, but the card gives you a discount of 20-25% on the hop-on hop-off bus.

Yes, you can buy the Porto Card for several people. You will then receive several vouchers that you can exchange for the corresponding number of Porto Cards.

Yes, the Porto Card is personal and non-transferable.

No, with the Porto Card each attraction can only be visited once. After visiting an attraction for the first time, the ticket is validated electronically so that it is not possible to visit the same attraction again.