In the comfort of the cable car, travel the 1,199 metres between the base station and the upper station, located at an altitude of 3,555 metres, and walk along one of the free-access trails at the summit. Add to your return cable car ticket the Teide Legend digital audio guide to learn all about Teide National Park (with its trails and points of interest) or a guided tour to the Pico Viejo Viewpoint.
Highlights...
- Tickets to ascend Spain’s highest peak by cable car
- Enjoy spectacular views of the Teide National Park
- Choose from three spectacular trails to walk on the heights. The trail that leads to the summit requires a permit issued by the National Park.
- With your Online Ticket you won’t miss out on your seat to ascend Mt. Teide
- The Guided Tour to Pico Viejo is unsuitable for people with mobility problems and children under 5.
- Enjoy the “Science and Legend” exhibition at the Teide Cable Car Visitors’ Centre (available in Spanish and English).
- By booking the ticket with audio guide, you’ll be able to use the Teide Legend digital audio guide to Teide National Park for Android and iOS, which offers general information about the park, its access routes by car, and trails on Mount Teide that can be hiked on foot at the base and top stations. It also features all the content of the “Science and Legend” exhibition, which is available in the audio guide’s 8 languages.
What's included...
- Tickets with an assigned session
- Tickets + Guided tour to the Pico Viejo viewpoint (optional - with a Spanish or English-speaking guide)
- Tickets + Teide Legend audio guide (optional - with the possibility of downloading to an Android or iOS device for a contactless experience)
- Free access to the “Science and Legend” exhibition at the Visitors’ Centre (included in your cable car ticket)
What's not included...
- Permit to ascend the peak of Teide
- Spanish or English-speaking guide, or Teide Legend digital audio guide (if you book only the cable car ticket)
- Access for visitors with physical disabilities or motor impairments
Information
Teide Cable Car Timetable
- Check Teide Cable Car opening times here.
- The stay at the upper station is limited to one hour. Those visitors who have a permit to access the crater can extend this limited time up to 2 hours to complete the activity.
Guided Tour to Pico Viejo schedule
- We offer various guided tours throughout the day. You can choose the time of your guided route when making your booking.
- The meeting point is at the cable car base station, next to the boarding area, at the time indicated on the voucher.
- People with heart problems, pregnant women, and children under 3 are not allowed to ascend by cable car due to the risk that high altitude poses to their health. If you have any health problems, consult your doctor before planning your visit or booking your Mount Teide Cable Car tickets.
- In accordance with current regulations, persons with any physical disability or motor impairment are not permitted to make the ascent by cable car, because of the potential risks if the vehicle has to be evacuated.
- It is essential to bear in mind that in the event of the failure of the cable car system due to unexpected technical reasons, passengers already at the upper station will have to make their descent on foot and using steep mountain paths.
- Pets are not allowed.
Guided Tour to Pico Viejo restrictions
This activity is not suitable for people with mobility problems and children under 5.
Anyone wearing open footwear (sandals) will not be allowed to join. Due to the uneven nature of the path, suitable footwear is essential.
You must show up at the Cable Car boarding area with your ticket, either printed or on your mobile phone, 20 minutes prior to the time slot specified on your ticket, although we recommend that you show up at the premises of the Cable Car prior to the boarding time, in order to have enough time to park, etc. If you arrive late you will lose the right to board.
Our facilities may stop operating due to adverse weather conditions. If the cable car cannot operate on the day of your visit, we will send you a notification by e-mail and/or text at approx. 8.30am. Please bear in mind, however, that if you have booked your Teide Cable Car tickets for an early-morning session, it's likely that you're already on your way when you receive our notification. In this event, and provided that the Cable Car Visitors’ Centre is open, remember that you can still visit the “Science and Legend” exhibition included with your ticket, and enjoy our shop and restaurant.
The audio guides are available in the following languages, and in both physical and digital formats: English, German, Spanish, French, Russian, Italian, Polish and Dutch.
Download the audio guide app to your Android or iOS device. You just need to use the booking code from your cable car + audio guide ticket to quickly and easily download the app and enjoy a contactless experience.
If you do not have a smartphone, you can receive a physical audio guide. In order to pick it up it is necessary to leave your passport/ID card or a deposit of €50.00 which will be returned to you when you return the audio guide. You should pick up your audio guide 30 minutes before your session at the Information Point located outside the building. Audio guides are included free of charge in the package tickets + audio guide for children. Please remember that, if you need to use a physical audio guide, these only have information about the trails at the top station.
You should be prepared for extremes in weather, both heat as well as cold, depending on the time of year in which you use your Tenerife cable car tickets.
Our recommendations:
- Wear warm clothing and proper footwear.
- Protect yourself from sunstroke.
- Due to the elevated luminosity, wear sunglasses.
- Take plenty of water on hikes.
Teide Cable Car is located within a fragile and protected national park. Therefore we must follow a series of basic rules of civic behaviour and respect of the natural environment, such as not littering or taking rocks, plants or animals. Please remember that it is prohibited to make fire, make loud noises, stray from the signposted paths, feed the animals, or to camp.
Up to 3 date changes within a maximum of 1 year are permitted. You can change the time or date, or cancel your ticket free of charge until 6.00pm on the day prior to the reserved date. Once this period has elapsed, or if the reservation is made after 6.00pm on the previous day, changes will not be accepted, and in the event of a cancellation, customers will be charged the full cost of the booking. Check our Terms and conditions for information on other reasons for cancellation.
All changes and cancellations of Cable Car tickets can be made comfortably via our booking management module.
Since the operation of the Cable Car is subject to the changing weather (wind speed, temperature, etc.), on occasions, the estimated boarding time may be delayed. If the closure of the facilities due to adverse weather conditions or technical reasons causes a delay of at least 90 minutes in relation to the booked time, the full refund of the amount may be requested free of charge provided that the tickets have not been used.
The base station
The Teide Cable Car Visitor’s Centre, which is at the cable car base station, is perfectly accessible by road and is located at an altitude of 2,356 m.
Its modern facilities are equipped with two cabins that travel to the top in under 8 minutes and can hold a maximum of 44 passengers, although for the comfort of our customers, we usually do not take more than 35 people on board.
The views from the base station allow you to behold the spectacular peaks surrounding the Teide volcano.
The base station offers facilities specially designed to make your visit enjoyable: the “Science and Legend” exhibition, an official souvenir shop and a restaurant-cafeteria with a wide range of cuisine and panoramic views of the National Park. This is also the perfect place to find out about the different routes and trails you can do from the upper station.
The upper station
The Teide Cable Car upper station is the starting point of three spectacular trails at the summit of Mount Teide, which are directly accessible from a small hall from where you can walk outside. It has Wi-Fi and toilets.
Although there is not a café in the upper station, you will have vending machines at your disposal with drinks and non-perishable food such as snacks.
We recommend that you come prepared for all weather conditions since the upper station is at an altitude of 3,555 m.
Parking
Avoid the car. Choose collective transportation. It is important that together we do what we can to counteract overuse of the vehicle parking areas in the National Park. As a conservation measure, they have been kept to a small size, and they cannot be extended. If you finally decide to arrive by car, please do so after 1.00pm.
The Cable Car base station has a car park with 220 spaces. You can check the car park opening and closing times here.
Outside its opening hours, the car park is closed and the entry and exit of vehicles is not allowed.
Shops
The Teide Cable Car Visitors’ Centre facilities, located at the cable car base station, include an information centre and an official souvenir shop.
Restaurant / Café
At the Visitors’ Centre you will find our café and restaurant facility with spectacular views of the Teide National Park. The restaurant offers a wide range of cuisine, with the emphasis on locally sourced ingredients.
Toilets
There are toilets at both the base station and the upper station, which remain open during the opening hours of the facilities.
In case of discounted Mount Teide Cable Car tickets for children or local residents, a supporting document is required to prove entitlement to discount.
Book Mount Teide cable car tickets online
- Teide Cable Car return ticket with the Teide Legend digital audio guide for Android or iOS
- Official Spanish, English, German or French-speaking guide
- Transport from the north of Tenerife to visit Mount Teide in a sustainable way
- Free access to the “Science and Legend” exhibition at the Visitors’ Centre (included in your cable car ticket and available in 8 languages with the Teide Legend audio guide)
- Food and/or drinks (you can bring your own snack or buy it in our restaurant-snack bar)
- Permit to access the Teide crater issued by the National Park
- Guide in other language than Spanish, English or German
- Access for visitors with physical disabilities or motor impairments
- Teide Cable Car return ticket with the Teide Legend digital audio guide for Android or iOS
- Official Spanish, English, German, Italian or French-speaking guide
- Transport from the south of Tenerife to visit Mount Teide in a sustainable way
- Free access to the “Science and Legend” exhibition at the Visitors’ Centre (included in your cable car ticket and available in 8 languages with the Teide Legend audio guide)
- Food and/or drinks (you can bring your own snack or buy it in our restaurant-snack bar)
- Permit to access the Teide crater issued by the National Park
- Guide in other language than Spanish, English, Italian, German or French
- Access for visitors with physical disabilities or motor impairments
- Teide Cable Car return ticket (maximum 90 people)
- Access to the Pico Viejo viewpoint trail
- Transfer
- Astronomical observation
- Accompanying guide
- Access for visitors with physical disabilities or motor impairments
- Access to the “Science and Legend” exhibition at the Visitors’ Centre
- Cable Car ticket
- Guided tour to the viewpoint of Pico Viejo
- Spanish or English-speaking guide
- Free access to the “Science and Legend” exhibition at the Visitors’ Centre (included in your cable car ticket)
- Permit to ascend the peak of Teide
- Access for visitors with physical disabilities or motor impairments
- Guide in other language than Spanish or English
- Teide Cable Car return ticket with an assigned session
- Teide Legend audio guide for visiting Teide National Park (available as an Android or iOS download, or by collecting a physical audio guide device (only trails at the top station) and depositing €50)
- Free access to the “Science and Legend” exhibition at the Visitors’ Centre (included in your cable car ticket)
- Permit to ascend the peak of Teide
- A guide
- Access for visitors with physical disabilities or motor impairments.
- Tickets with an assigned session
- Teide Cable Car return ticket (up & down)
- Free access to the “Science and Legend” exhibition at the Visitors’ Centre (included in your cable car ticket)
- Permit to ascend the peak of Teide
- A guide
- Access for visitors with physical disabilities or motor impairments
- Tickets with an assigned session
- Ticket for the ascent by cable car
- Permit to ascend the peak of Teide
- A guide
- Access for visitors with physical disabilities or motor impairments
- Access to the “Science and Legend” exhibition at the Visitors’ Centre
- Ticket for the descent by cable car
- Free access to the “Science and Legend” exhibition at the Visitors’ Centre (included in your cable car ticket)
- Permit to ascend the peak of Teide
- A guide
- Access for visitors with physical disabilities or motor impairments
Where to find us
Street: TF-21 motorway, km 43 - Teide National Park
Postal code: 38300 Municipality: La Orotava
Teide Cable Car is well connected by roads, and can be easily reached from any point of the island of Tenerife.
If you are in the northern part of the island
- Take the TF-21 motorway which connects La Orotava with El Portillo de la Villa and crosses the Teide National Park. The Cable Car is at km 43. (N28º 15' 17" W16º 37' 33")
If you are in the southern part of the island
- Take the TF-38 motorway from Boca de Tauce to Chío, which connects with TF-21.
- Take the TF-21 motorway from Vilaflor to Teide National Park, the route of access for the tourist areas of Playa de Américas and Los Cristianos.
If you are close to Santa Cruz or La Laguna
- Take the TF-24 motorway from La Laguna to Portillo de la Villa (La Esperanza Motorway), which connects with TF-21 that will take you to the base station of the cable car at km 43.
Distances
Mt. Teide is approximately an hour’s drive from any point on the island.
- Santa Cruz: 64 km
- La Laguna: 55 km
- Puerto de la Cruz: 45 km
- Los Gigantes: 52 km
- Los Cristianos: 47 km
FAQs
Yes. You must show up at the boarding area with your purchase confirmation, either printed or displayed on your mobile phone, 20 minutes prior to the time specified on your ticket in order to redeem it and access the boarding area to board the cabin.
In this article about ascending Mount Teide by car on our blog, you’ll find an interesting guide with the most important points of interest along each route to Mount Teide. However, we recommend not using a car and choosing collective transportation because it is important that together we do what we can to counteract overuse of the vehicle parking areas in the National Park. As a conservation measure, they have been kept to a small size, and they cannot be extended. If you ultimately decide to come by car, it’s a good idea to arrive after 1.00pm.
Moreover, if you finally decide to travel independently and would like to access the most comprehensive audio guide to Teide National Park, hear from legendary figures about volcanoes, geology, and the history of Mount Teide on an audio-guided tour to the main viewpoints and points of interest, and have information about the best trails near the Teide Cable Car base and top stations, we recommend choosing the ticket for the ascent and descent + audio guide.
Reviews about Volcano Teide cable car
I've booked for a party of 5 with 3 weeks in advance for end of August 2024 and could choose the preferred time slot. Everything is very well organised.
Wonderful facility and staff.
No negative thoughts. All was fine.
Good service for getting into and out of the cabin
It was an amazing experience
I found it difficult searching for and booking cable car ticket on the website, one moment my ticket choice was there and then disappearing. It took a day or two!! Eventually got my ticket. The ride up quiet quick, a little crowded, bit scary coming down but everything fine.
Beautiful
Bardzo ciekawa wycieczka. Piękne widoki. Można kupić pamiątki, na miejscu jest gastronomia i są również toalety.
Everything was fine!!!
prices are super high
Great experience!
Great experience.
as I wrote before
Fantastic views
Perfect trip!
Great
It was scary, but great!
:).
Is good that you can reschedule your ticket if needed.
Awesome experience !
I liked it
Everything was very good, really, but on the tickets was no QR codes and we need them for the toilets and boarding - so please, send tickets with QR and that will be super... 👍🙂
Well organised.
Yes, awesome experience.
One way trip was fine, walking back was hard, we could use some info or a better path to lead us back to the original parking instead of other parking place and having to walk 2.5km more back to get to the car. We almost missed dinner because of this.
Wonderful day! Kind and helpful staff.
The trip to Teide volcano is an one in a life time experience that you don t want to miss when you come to Tenerife.
it was extremely exciting, service, safety at the highest level👌🏻
No remarks
The ride up and at the top and ride down was good. Loved it except for being in the tram with 43 other people. It was like sardines in a can.
Overpriced and charged twice for the same app
Overpriced
Easy to navigate and efficient
Un 10 !!
I arrived 20min before my time and was able to board the next cable car with no problem.
Take the ride up and enjoy the audio tour!
Punctual service
Great experience. Thoroughly enjoyed.
Audio guide not possible to download, cable car is to crowded.
Satidfied with the servisce, but not with the booking
I have no additional comments
Easy and efficient.
The whole experience was excellent.
Wonderful
When arriving at the bottom station, you are told you can spend maximum one hour at the top. This was not communicated beforehand and was a big disappointment for people that want to do a hike (not to the top).
My daughter and I really enjoyed the night hike
We walked up Teide so it was lovely to be able to ride back down again!!
friendly staff
Boring tour.
Awesome!
Great experience
Very nice experience, easy booking, all the information available.
We wholeheartedly recommend this tour! Our guide *** was knowledgeable and showed us so many wonderful places!
Oo
Was cool
The hike was beautiful, but the young woman checking the permits at the gate for the final ascent was extremely unfriendly and rude, as was the guide who extremely brutally yelled at another tourist at the summit for stepping two meters down to pick up a hair clip that she had dropped accidentally. These two people should in my view be severely reprimanded and relocated to different jobs where they do not interact with people.
Everything was perfect
I bought the tickets only for the return cabin and I was very disappointed and angry when only after the payment you communicate the last cabin run at 13.50 pm. Nowhere is written the hours and nobody know that. Very bad thing in a beautiful day. I'm really sorry of that inconvenience. I payed 44 euros...not nuts.
Same as the ascend,no issues,everything smooth and we'll organized
Shocking that you cannot buy a bottle of water at 4:50PM , even though they promised on Google that restaurant will be open until 6:30PM.
make sure you're there at least 20 minutes before the time you're due to go otherwise they may well refuse to let you on.
Wonderful experience!
Everything was super pro, I can bet that guide has impressive knowledge but he was very chatty mostly in Spanish language. English was ok, sometimes hard to understand. He gave me information that I already had. I expected more details and interesting facts than those I found in the first guidebook I found. Maybe next time
This is a must see in Tenerife.
It is super all
.. .
Best choice!
Not impressed with the value for money at all
The guide was great
Indeed, buy your tickets online well in advance and be punctual when showing up for the cable car because demand is huge and tickets for the day run out in the first hour's of the day. But the ride is so worth it
Very few tickets at the box office! it is not reported anywhere! People who arrived without a bank card do not get to the top! When you ask for help with buying a ticket online, the sellers at the ticket office try to sell the most expensive ticket, justifying it by the fact that the regular tickets are all sold! The guides announce all the basic information only in Spanish, English is spoken very little and very abbreviated, there are no other languages at all!
Cable car ride and views up top were good but tour was poor. Overall not great value for money compared to other volcanic tours done in canary islands.
It was interesting and the views were amazing.
Skip queue as tours have starting hour and they get priority on boarding.
It was great day out full of experiences and memory making with close friends.
10/10
Fantastic tour!!! Amazing
We bought two tickets for the volcano sunset tour, which we wanted to return, which according to the website, is possible until 6 pm the day before. We were three minutes late due to a bad internet connection, but the system allowed and accepted the redemption, however, citing the expired deadline, they do not want to refund the money. In the end, we bought two new tickets for this program, which started at 18:10 instead of the announced 17:30 departure, and instead of the promised two hours, it was just over an hour, including the lift time.
Poor & disappointing. Not good value for money.
Would have been better if we could have gone to the end of the trail for the sunset
The guide was amazing. The top of the volcano itself is incredibly beautiful
nice view (+) tour shorter than anounced (-)
It was amazing and unbelievable
Very nice experience
We loved the sunset but for us its not a real tour and for just the cablecar tickets €*** is a little too expensive. Plus the group was too big for our taste. Other than that we enjoyed the views.
Breathtaking views! One of the loveliest sunsets I've been lucky to witness. Our guide, *** (for French & German), was very friendly and funny. I'd definitely recommend catching either the sunset or the sunrise from there. It's quite windy and it gets cold pretty quickly, so bring a jumper and a jacket and even gloves, if you intend to take a lot of pictures (you will). My only problem with the location is that the toilets are closed by the time the people with sunset tickets arrive and by the time they open again, too many people are waiting in line and there's not much time left until the tour starts. If you didn't book the star gazing tour, there are quite a few parking spots around that are still dark enough so you can park your car and do your own stargazing, albeit without tue equipment.
We did the sunset tour. An absolutely brilliant experience led by the wonderfully knowledgable ***. I can highly recommend this, we will definitely do this again.
Meeting time was 17:15, start was a hour letter. It like to long 😒
It is definetely worth it to go there and see vulcano view
One of the best experiences of sunset I ever had :) highly recommend
verry nice
We had to change the bus with the English/german customer, the bus we changed wasn’t cleaned properly and the guide was very helpful.
The whole process from initial booking to being picked up on the day was effortless, our guide Jose was a fountain of knowledge with some lighthearted humour thrown in. The same goes for our driver Carlos really couldn’t fault him the entire time a true gentleman. The total experience was beyond my wildest expectations.
The same as in answear before
Brilliant trip, very well organised and the guide and driver were exceptional! The whole trip was amazing and anyone visiting Tenerife should go and see Teide with Volcano Teide - brilliant organisation and knowledge. Plus Harry our guide was funny with it too so made for a perfect trip!
Super
Very good tour, guide was fantastic! Freedom to explore at the top of mt Teide!
Really nice trip!
It’s “must See “ on a Tenerife
A good trip well worth doing, very informative guide and Mount Teide was fascinating. Would highly recommend this trip.
Really enjoyed this trip, our guide was informative and friendly, and my family (2 adults, 2 children aged 3 and 6) had a great day visiting Mt Teide.
A good trip. The time at the upper station is limited to one hour, which was not enough for us, but I realise that this is governed by the National Park/cable car operator.
Great guide and driver, comfortable bus Beautiful location Shame we couldn’t stay at each stop longer, felt a little rushed and was slightly shorter than advertised, otherwise amazing
Excellent tour
Even though we are experienced walkers we were both hit by the effect of lower oxygen levels at 3500+ metres. Care is needed
As previous
Great experience
Looking at Teide, go to the left side of trail. It is much better. You probably will not have enough time for both sides (1h limit).
N/A
Scenery was amazing but far too short time at the cable car station. We barely had time to walk around at the top station let alone eat (as we weren't allowed to eat on the coach), queue for the toilets or visit the museum. Tour guide harshly said if we were just 5 minutes late the coach would go without us so the stress of queuing for the cable car to come down knowing we'd be late was hard work with two children.
wonderful tour and very knowledgeable guide
Cable car was not running. Highly disappointing. Would have given 0 stars if that was possible
*** guide and his driver *** or similar from the bus they were lovely and very organized. All the trip both way was so smooth and perfectly on time . We didn’t spend many hours in the bus . That what I like :) and just the Vulcano I can’t say much about it . I think it wasn’t worth that €280 . Time on Vulcano was no enough. Volcano was lovely but there was boiling hot
Excellent day trip, Julian and Domingo were brilliant 👏
Although Calima was active during my visit, the scenery was outstanding. My guides positivity and energy were consuming, without doubt the best guide I've had for any excursion anywhere
A fabulous unmissable coach trip to one of the most magical locations in Spain on Tenerife, Mount Teide.
Nope
Overall good experience guides helpful
The guide gave use complete and interesting comments about what we were seeing. The views were magnificent, especially from the paths around the top station of the cable car, and the fact that we had a different route going down (on the bus) than going up added to the overall sightseeing experience.
Extraordinary experience
Description of the ticket
Description
Go up Mount Teide by Cable Car
Enjoy the quickest way to go up Mount Teide.
When you get off the cable car, you will be at an altitude of 3,555 m, and will have various choices on how to take in the stunning views of the largest national park in the Canary Islands.
Choose the viewpoint of La Rambleta to behold the views of the Siete Cañadas and the Ucanca Valley. From here, you can just imagine the enormous size of the old volcano that stood atop the island 150,000 years ago, and which was known as the Cañadas edifice, at a time when Mount Teide did not yet exist. In front of you stretches the Las Cañadas cirque, which has its highest point on Montaña Guajara. These are the remains of a great volcano whose own weight caused it to slide towards the northern coast in no more than a few minutes.
Its remains, millions of tons of volcanic rock, lie scattered over hundreds of kilometres in the depths of the ocean. In the huge tunnel left by the collapse of the volcano, new eruptions began immediately, and began to fill it. One of these eruptions was the origin of Mount Teide.
Over a long period of time, eruption followed eruption, forming the huge volcano from which you are now looking out at the surrounding landscape.
If you prefer to gaze at spectacular views of La Gomera, El Hierro and La Palma with an impressive crater at your feet, (which once upon a time was a lake of lava), choose the path to the Pico Viejo Viewpoint, another colossal volcano over 3,000 m high, the second highest peak in the archipelago, crowned by a crater 800 m in diameter. Pico Viejo forms part of the same volcanic edifice as Mount Teide, and at its base lie the Narices del Teide [literally: the nostrils of Mount Teide], the two mouths of historic eruptions, including the last one recorded within the bounds of the National Park.
You can take this tour of great scenic and volcanic interest with a guide, by booking the guided tour to the Pico Viejo viewpoint with a cable car ticket included.
Choose the La Fortaleza trail if you’d like to enjoy fantastic views of northern Tenerife: the outstanding valley of La Orotava, with Puerto de la Cruz on the ocean shore, although for most of the year, the valley is shrouded in clouds borne by the trade winds from the north east. As they collide with the island’s northern slopes, these winds rise up, and the moisture carried along by them condenses, until it forms a spectacular sea of cloud, which is vital to sustain Tenerife’s forests. You may also like to take this trail if you want to make your descent via Montaña Blanca.
And if you are one of those people who won’t leave Tenerife without having reached the summit of Mt. Teide, choose the Telesforo Bravo trail to the peak of Teide and shout ‘I am the King of the world’ from an altitude of 3 718 m.
But remember that for the trail that leads to the crater, you will need a special free permit, issued by administration of the Teide National Park, which you must apply for months in advance. Would you like a guide for this option? Read all the information on our ascent to the peak with a cable car ticket.
Use the Teide Cable Car Online Tickets and take advantage of their benefits
Guarantee your seat by purchasing your Mount Teide Cable Car tickets online. You will enjoy tickets with an assigned session. It is as simple as booking a time slot for a specific date. You must show up at the Cable Car boarding area with your Online Ticket, either printed or displayed on your mobile phone, 20 minutes prior to the time specified on your Mount Teide Cable Car ticket in order to redeem it and access the boarding area to board the cabin afterwards.
If you arrive by private vehicle, which you will need to park, we recommend that you show up at the premises of the Cable Car prior to the time indicated on your Mount Teide Cable Car tickets, although we recommend that you avoid driving and choose collective transportation instead because it is important that together we do what we can to counteract overuse of the vehicle parking areas in the National Park. In addition, this represents your personal commitment to reduce greenhouse gases and to the conservation of the National Park. As a conservation measure, they have been kept to a small size, and they cannot be extended.
Which is why we offer you our tour to Mount Teide with cable car tickets included. If you finally arrive by car, it is best that you book your Mount Teide Cable Car tickets for a time slot after 1.00pm.
If for whatever reason you arrive too late for your session, you will lose the right to board.
Tickets + Guided tour to the Pico Viejo viewpoint
Would you like to ascend by cable car and also walk some of the trails with a guide? You got it! By booking this guided tour you will be able to discover all of the volcanic wonders that surround the impressive trail to the Pico Viejo viewpoint. Our guide will explain everything to you in Spanish or English.
Please bear in mind that this activity is not suitable for people with mobility problems and children under 5.
Tickets + ‘Teide Legend’ digital audio guide to Teide National Park or physical audio guide to the trails
The perfect option if you’re travelling to Teide with your own vehicle and you prefer to discover the landscape and find out about it under your own steam with the help of our Teide Legend audio guide (available in English, German, Spanish, French, Russian, Italian, Polish and Dutch for download on Android and iOS devices).
The audio guide included in this ticket is actually a full audio-guided tour of Teide National Park.
The Teide Legend audio guide included with your cable car + audio guide ticket is an audio-guided tour to Mount Teide. It reveals the natural and cultural heritage of Tenerife and different points of interest in Teide National Park, depending on the access road you take to reach our facilities.
This audio-guided tour shows you the best viewpoints and hiking trails near the cable car base and top stations, plus restaurants, local shops, cultural centres, etc.
Characters from the “Legend of Guayota” will be your guides on this tour, and you’ll learn about the volcanology, anthropology, and history of the National Park, while you’ll be also introduced to the indigenous Guanches, Tenerife’s earliest inhabitants who worshipped the Teide volcano, and who believed its eruptions to be the expressions of the fury of the gods.
The section on trails at the top station offers detailed and essential information about the three emblematic trails that leave from Teide Cable Car top station and follow different routes across the volcano’s slopes. You can hike the trails at the same time as you learn about the most important and characteristic parts of the volcano.
The audio guide is fun and easy to use! You just need to use the booking code from your cable car + audio guide ticket to quickly and easily download the app and enjoy a complete contactless experience.
Want to know how the audio guide app works? We explain in this video. Follow the instructions to get the most from your visit to Mount Teide.
If you do not have a smartphone, you can receive a physical audio guide. In order to pick it up it is necessary to leave your passport/ID card or a deposit of €50.00 which will be returned to you when you return the audio guide. It’s important to remember that, by choosing this option, you’ll only have the audio guide to the trails at the top station.
Live the Teide Legend at the Teide “Science and Legend” exhibition!
The cable car ticket (except for the ticket for the ascent and the Cable Car at Sunset activity) includes free admission to the “Science and Legend” exhibition, which you will find at the Teide Cable Car Visitors’ Centre.
You will learn about Mount Teide’s last major eruption (around 1,000 years ago) which the indigenous Guanches probably interpreted as a fight between mythological deities—an explanation far removed from that which science now attributes to volcanic eruptions.
The characters of the legend of Guayota, both gods and humans, will show you their vision of the stages of the eruption that took place back then, and which formed the pylon at the summit of Mount Teide, known locally as “el tapón del Teide” [the Teide cap]. A magical story in which good and evil join in an epic battle. Along with the legend, you will be shown reliable data to illustrate the scientific interpretation of the eruption. Although the two perspectives may seem diametrically opposed, they are in fact closely connected.
In addition, you can have a great time at our Visitors’ Centre, where you can find brilliant mementoes of your visit to the legend of the Teide National Park at our official souvenir shop. And you can relax and enjoy a culinary experience with panoramic views of the National Park in Spain’s highest restaurant and snack bar, whose badge of identity is the distinctly Canary Island character of its food and drink.
If you book the cable car + audio guide ticket, the Teide Legend app is included with your purchase, and it features detailed audio recordings so you can enjoy the exhibition in any of the audio guide’s 8 languages.
Teide Tour: the most rewarding excursion to ascend Mount Teide by cable car
If you wish to contribute to the conservation and care of the Teide National Park, the best way to visit is using group transport—and a guide! This will help to reduce atmospheric pollution, and we can fight climate change together; at the same time, you will get to know more about this jewel of the natural world, thanks to the explanations given by our guides.
On this guided visit to the Teide National Park (available every day, and with pick-ups in the north and south of the island, and the metropolitan area of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Candelaria), you will ascend to an altitude of 3,555 metres by cable car. Once there, you can enjoy free access to the trails leading to wonderful viewing points, where you can marvel at northern Tenerife’s characteristic ‘sea of clouds’—or at the spectacular views of Pico Viejo, southern Tenerife, and some of the neighbouring islands on the horizon. It also includes a free digital audio guide to the trails at the cable car top station and entry to the “Science and Legend” exhibition.
So, are you coming with us on our Teide excursion? Then click on the following link:
Enjoy this experience at sunset
Would you like to ascend by Cable Car outside the usual hours of operation and with our staff to behold the sunset from an altitude of 3,555 m? No problem! Just select the product Cable Car at Sunset.
Enjoy this experience in the company of a maximum of 90 other participants. Prepare to be astounded by the show of Teide’s shadow cast onto the sea and take in the sunset from the Pico Viejo viewpoint, with the islands of La Gomera, La Palma and El Hierro on the horizon, to bid farewell to the day from the heights.
Mount Teide Cable Car booking management system
Do you want to modify your Teide Cable Car tickets reservation quickly and comfortably, or cancel your booking because the cable car is closed?
No charges apply to changes or cancellations of Mount Teide Cable Car tickets which are caused by the closure of the Teide Cable Car’s facilities due to adverse weather conditions, so access «Manage your booking» to cancel or modify your Mount Teide Cable Car booking by entering your booking locator and the e-mail address provided at the time of booking.
