Which Lisbon day ticket covers the train to Sintra

Which Lisbon day ticket covers the train to Sintra

The Carris/Metro/CP version, priced at €11.40 on the Metropolitano de Lisboa buy page when we read it on 17 September 2026. The page lists it under 1 Day ticket (24h) as valid for unlimited journeys on Carris, Metro and CP on the Sintra, Cascais, Azambuja and Sado lines during 24 hours following the first validation. The ticket the roundups quote, Carris/Metro at €7.25, sits one line above it and covers buses, trams and the Metro only.

There are three 24-hour tickets on that table, not one, and they all load onto the same Navegante card. Pick by what you plan to ride, not by the headline price.

How much is the train from Lisbon to Sintra on its own

CP prices its Lisbon urban trains by zones, and its Lisbon urban trains price list, in force since 1 January 2026, prints a Lisbon to Sintra return ticket at €5.10. That is exactly twice the four-zone single of €2.55, which is the fare for a Rossio to Sintra ride. Singles run from €1.50 for one zone to €3.90 for eight.

Two other ways to pay for the same train appear on CP's Lisbon urban train tickets page. Zapping, the pay-as-you-go credit, deducts €2.05 per validation on CP and then allows 90 minutes of travel on the urban lines. And every option needs the reusable Navegante card at €0.50, which is added to whatever ticket you load first and lasts a year.

Note what the card will not do. CP states it holds only one type of ticket at a time, so a Navegante loaded with a day ticket cannot also carry a single until the day ticket is used up. Buy the card once and decide which product goes on it before the first machine.

Is the 11.40 ticket cheaper than the 7.25 ticket plus a train fare

Yes, by a small margin, and the gap widens the moment you take a second train. Here is the arithmetic on figures read from the two official pages on 17 September 2026.

• €7.25 Carris/Metro ticket plus a €5.10 CP return to Sintra comes to €12.35, so the combined €11.40 ticket is €0.95 cheaper before you ride anything else.
• Pay as you go instead. Two CP validations on Zapping cost €4.10, and each Metro ride on Zapping is €1.72 on the Metro page. The remaining €7.30 to reach €11.40 buys four Metro rides and change, so from five Metro or bus rides on the same day the day ticket wins.
• Add Cascais. The same €11.40 ticket also covers the Cascais line, so a morning in Sintra and an evening at the beach costs nothing extra, where pay as you go would add another €4.10 in train validations.
• Lisbon only. If no train is planned, the €7.25 ticket is the right one and the extra €4.15 buys nothing.

Which of the three 24-hour tickets matches your day

The three tickets share a clock, 24 hours from the first validation, and a card. They differ only in the operator added to Carris and Metro. Match the add-on to the one trip that leaves the city. CP's own price list adds a fourth option for anyone who will not touch the Metro or a bus at all, a CP Tourist Travel Card for its urban trains at €6.70 for 24 hours or €14.40 for 72.

Where do you buy the 11.40 ticket and how does validation work

The ticket is integrated across the three operators, so you can load it at either end. CP lists it on sale at its ticket offices and vending machines, and the Metro page lists it with the other occasional tickets sold at Metro machines and ticket offices. The steps are the same either way.

• Buy a Navegante card for €0.50 at the first machine if you do not have one, and load the Carris/Metro/CP day ticket onto it.
• The 24 hours start at the first validation, not at purchase, so a ticket bought the night before still gives a full day.
• Validate on every leg. CP states the ticket must be validated for each journey on CP, Carris and Metropolitano de Lisboa, and that fines for non-validation have applied since 1 October 2015.
• On CP, the last 30 minutes of validity only let you leave stations, not enter them, so plan the final train inside the window.
• Keep the receipt until the ticket expires. CP asks for it on every product on its tickets page.

What the Lisbon day ticket does not cover in Sintra

The train ends at Sintra station, and the palaces sit on the hill above it. The Scotturb 434 and 435 buses that climb to Pena and Monserrate are not part of the Carris/Metro/CP ticket. CP's own combined product for that, the Train & Bus ticket at €14.00 on the price list, was marked temporarily suspended on the tickets page on 17 September 2026, so the hill bus is a separate purchase on the day.

The ferry is the other gap. Cacilhas is on the €10.35 version and not on the €11.40 one, so a day that mixes Sintra and the south bank needs pay as you go for one of the two crossings. And none of the three tickets covers Fertagus, the private operator on the Tagus bridge, which CP names only as a Zapping participant.

One planning aid before you go. Timetables and platform changes for the Sintra line are pushed by CP as notices, and the day ticket does not exempt you from reading them. With a travel eSIM you can check the CP page from Rossio rather than guessing at the board. If you are carrying bags between Sintra and the airport, the luggage storage guide explains what a left-luggage counter costs against dragging a case onto the train.

Every figure above was read from an official page on the date stated and is dated in the text. Prices on the price list are marked as in force since 1 January 2026 and can change at the next revision, so read the source pages on the day you travel. How we read and record figures is on the methodology page.