What is the cheapest way from Lisbon Airport to the city centre?

The Metro or a Carris bus. A Carris/Metro ticket costs €1.90 on a navegante occasional card, which itself costs €0.50, and is valid for 60 minutes on both networks. A single Metro ride paid by tapping a contactless bank card costs €1.92, and a ticket bought on board a Carris bus costs €2.30.

How long does the Metro take from Lisbon Airport to the city centre?

In Metro's timetable data the red line takes about 16 minutes from Aeroporto to Alameda. There you change to the green line, which takes about 6 more minutes to Rossio, 7 to Baixa-Chiado and 9 to Cais do Sodré, plus the time it takes to change. By day, trains leave the airport 7 to 10 times an hour on weekdays and 7 to 9 times an hour on Saturdays and Sundays.

What time does the Metro stop running at Lisbon Airport?

The Metro opens at 6:30 a.m. and closes at 1:00 a.m. every day, including weekends and public holidays. Metro says you can still reach any station on the same line if you board by 1:00 a.m. After that, Carris night bus 208 leaves the airport for Cais do Sodré at 01:12, 01:42, 02:42, 03:42, 04:12 and 04:42, with the same times on weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays in Carris's timetable data.

Is there an Aerobus from Lisbon Airport?

We found no current Aerobus service. It is not on the airport's public transport page or in Carris's timetable data, and its old website address now redirects to an unrelated site. The Carris buses from the airport to the centre are routes 744, 783 and 722 by day and 208 at night.

How much is a taxi from Lisbon Airport to the city centre?

Under the scheme for the airport taxi rank that came into force on 15 October 2026, taxis on the rank that join it charge fixed prices. Baixa, Chiado, Rossio and Cais do Sodré are in Zone 2: €19 on weekdays from 07:00 to 22:00, and €23 at night, at weekends and on public holidays, for up to four passengers and the luggage that normally fits in the car, with no supplements. Confirm the price before you set off.

How do I get from Lisbon Airport to Cascais?

Take the Metro to Cais do Sodré (red line, then the green line from Alameda) and the CP train to Cascais, which takes 33 to 40 minutes. Because of engineering works, CP's timetable data for October has through trains to Cascais until 21:10 on weekdays, 20:00 on Saturdays and 19:00 on Sundays (and none before 08:20 on Sundays). At other times CP runs replacement buses between Caxias and Cascais.

Will my transfer driver wait if my flight is late?

Up to a point. Your driver comes for the pickup time you booked, and the 60 minutes of free waiting at airports start then, so a long delay can use them up. If your flight is delayed, message your driver in the LocalsRide chat.

Lisbon Airport to city centre: Metro, bus, taxi or car

Lisbon Airport sits inside the city, to the north of the centre: Rossio is about 6 km south of the airport’s Metro station in a straight line and about 7 km by road (OpenStreetMap). You can cover that by Metro, Carris bus, taxi, an app car or a car booked in advance. Which one suits you depends on the hour you land, how much luggage you have and where you are staying.

This guide uses figures from the airport, Metropolitano de Lisboa, Carris, CP, the taxi regulator and the taxi associations. Every timetable figure is given for the days it was checked: weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays separately, and for the weeks either side of 25 October.

The short answer

Option	Time to the centre	Price	Best for
Metro, red line then green line	About 16 minutes to Alameda, then 6 to 9 minutes to Rossio, Baixa-Chiado or Cais do Sodré, plus the change	€1.90 Carris/Metro ticket (card €0.50) or €1.92 by contactless bank card	Travelling light, between 06:30 and 1:00 a.m.
Carris 744 and 783	20 to 46 minutes to Marquês de Pombal or Restauradores, depending on the bus and the day	€2.30 on board; €1.90 with a prepaid Carris/Metro ticket	Hotels near Avenida da Liberdade, small bags only
Night bus 208	34 minutes to Cais do Sodré	Same as above	Landing after the Metro closes
Taxi from the rank	No official journey time; about 7 km by road to Rossio	Zone 2 (Baixa, Chiado, Cais do Sodré): €19 on weekdays 07:00–22:00, €23 at night, weekends and public holidays, under the rank scheme in force from 15 October	Up to four people with suitcases
Private transfer	Door to door	Offered by drivers when you book; the accepted price does not change	Families, late landings, Cascais in the evening

Terminal 1 and Terminal 2

The airport says Terminal 2 is exclusively for departures, for Eurowings, Norwegian, Ryanair, Transavia, Volotea, Vueling and Wizz Air. The Metro station, bus stops, taxi rank and app pick-up area described below are on the Terminal 1 side of the airport.

Terminal 2 is closed between 00:30 and 03:30 and has no car park. A free shuttle links it with Terminal 1, leaving the departures area of each terminal every 12 minutes for a trip of about 3 minutes. The airport’s Terminal 2 page gives the shuttle’s hours as 03:30 to 00:30; its terminal opening hours page says the shuttle does not run between 01:30 and 03:30. Either way, there is no shuttle in the small hours.

Metro: the red line, then one change

The Metro station is at the airport, and the red line runs from Aeroporto to São Sebastião. The airport’s own page still describes an “Aeroporto – Saldanha” line; in Metro’s timetable data the trains run on through Saldanha to São Sebastião, about 20 minutes from the airport.

The red line does not reach the old town, so for the centre you change once:

For Rossio, Baixa-Chiado or Cais do Sodré: ride about 16 minutes to Alameda and change to the green line towards Cais do Sodré. From Alameda it is about 6 minutes to Rossio, 7 to Baixa-Chiado and 9 to Cais do Sodré.
For Marquês de Pombal, Avenida or Restauradores: stay on to São Sebastião and change to the blue line. Restauradores is about 5 minutes from there.
For long-distance trains: Oriente station is about 6 minutes from the airport on the red line, without a change.

Hours and frequency. Metro opens at 6:30 a.m. and closes at 1:00 a.m. every day, including weekends and public holidays. Its rule for late travel: you can reach any station on the same line if you board by 1:00 a.m. Metro’s published average waits on the red line range from 6 minutes to 9 minutes 45 seconds on weekdays, and from 7 minutes to 9 minutes 45 seconds at weekends and on public holidays. Its timetable data shows these departures from Aeroporto:

Weekdays (Monday 19, Wednesday 21, Friday 23 and Wednesday 28 October): first train at 06:33, then 7 to 10 an hour from 07:00 to 22:00 and 6 an hour after that.
Saturdays and Sundays (24, 25 and 31 October, 1 November): first train at 06:31, then 7 to 9 an hour from 07:00 to 22:00 and 6 an hour after that.

The data has a last departure from Aeroporto at 01:10 every day, and green-line trains leaving Alameda for Cais do Sodré until 01:20 on weekdays and 01:18 at weekends. Metro’s own promise after 1:00 a.m. covers the same line only, so if you land late and need to change lines, keep the 208 bus or a car in mind as a fallback. The data covers 21 September to 31 December 2026 and shows the same times after 25 October as before it.

Fares. Metro and Carris tickets go on a navegante occasional card, which costs €0.50 from the ticket machines or ticket office in the station and can be reloaded for a year. Each card is for one person at a time.

Carris/Metro ticket, €1.90: unlimited journeys on Carris and the Metro for 60 minutes from the first validation. It cannot be used for two consecutive Metro journeys.
Zapping: pay-as-you-go credit, topped up in amounts from €3 to €40. A Metro journey costs €1.72.
Contactless bank card, €1.92 a ride: tap the same card at the gate going in and coming out. One card per passenger.
24-hour tickets: €7.25 for Carris and the Metro, or €11.40 including CP trains, which covers the Cascais line.

Children under 4 travel free on the Metro if they are with an adult and do not take a seat.

Carris buses, by day and at night

The airport says city and intercity buses stop near the arrivals terminal. In Carris’s timetable data, the buses into the centre leave from the stop called Aeroporto:

744 to Marquês de Pombal, Avenida da Liberdade and Restauradores. Weekdays: 05:50 to 21:06, 3 to 5 buses an hour, 29 to 46 minutes to Restauradores. Saturdays: 05:49 to 20:56, every 23 minutes in the middle of the day, 28 to 35 minutes. Sundays: 06:44 to 20:56, every 26 to 29 minutes in the middle of the day, 26 to 32 minutes.
783 to Saldanha, Marquês de Pombal and, on weekdays, Amoreiras. Weekdays: 05:17 to 23:43, plus one bus at 00:13; every 17 or 18 minutes in the middle of the day; 21 to 38 minutes to Marquês de Pombal. Saturdays: 05:16 to 00:07 (just after midnight), 20 to 28 minutes. Sundays: 06:12 to 00:07, every 28 to 30 minutes in the middle of the day, 20 to 24 minutes. The 05:17 and 05:37 on weekdays and the 05:16 and 05:43 on Saturdays carry on through Restauradores and Rossio to Praça do Comércio.
722 also reaches Restauradores, by way of Areeiro and Saldanha: 06:28 to 20:57 on weekdays (30 to 44 minutes) and 07:12 to 20:57 at weekends (24 to 30 minutes).
208, the night bus, leaves the airport at 23:42, 00:12, 00:42, 01:12, 01:42, 02:42, 03:42, 04:12 and 04:42. The times are the same on weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays. It runs by Martim Moniz, Praça da Figueira and Praça do Comércio to Cais do Sodré, which it reaches in 34 minutes.

Fares. A ticket bought on board costs €2.30. A Carris/Metro ticket on a navegante card (€1.90) or a zapping journey (€1.72) is cheaper.

Luggage. Carris allows only small luggage on board: 55 x 40 x 20 cm. The airport’s page gives 50 x 40 x 20 cm; we have used the operator’s figure. Either way, the limit is roughly the size of a cabin bag.

After 25 October. Carris marks its timetable file as valid from 15 to 30 October 2026. The timetables inside it run to 31 December and show the same departures on Wednesday 28, Saturday 31 October and Sunday 1 November as in the week before. Carris uses its Sunday timetable on public holidays.

What about the Aerobus? Older guides still mention it. On 7 October we found no Aerobus on the airport’s public transport page or in Carris’s timetable data, and the old aerobus.pt address redirected to an unrelated website. We could not find a current timetable or operator.

Taxis: the rank’s fixed prices and the meter

The airport warns that taxis and app cars should be hired at the proper place or through an app, never from someone who approaches you in the terminal. It says taxis normally queue outside the departures and arrivals terminals.

The airport scheme now in force. On 11 September 2026 Lisbon City Council, the airport operator ANA, Turismo de Lisboa and the two taxi associations signed a protocol for the taxi rank in the arrivals area, and ANTRAL confirmed it came into force on 15 October 2026. Trips from the rank to anywhere in the city of Lisbon get a fixed price by zone:

Zone 2, which includes the parishes of Santa Maria Maior, Misericórdia and Santo António (Baixa, Rossio, Chiado, Alfama, Cais do Sodré and Avenida da Liberdade, which we checked on OpenStreetMap): €19 on weekdays from 07:00 to 22:00, €23 from 22:00 to 07:00, at weekends and on public holidays.
Zone 1, the parishes nearest the airport, such as Avenidas Novas, Areeiro, Alvalade and Parque das Nações: €16 and €20.

These prices cover up to four passengers and the luggage that normally fits in the car, and no supplements may be added. A larger taxi carrying more than four passengers costs €20 or €23 by day and €24 or €28 at night, at weekends and on public holidays. You can buy a voucher at the Turismo de Lisboa desk in arrivals or pay in the taxi, which must accept bank cards and MB Way at no extra charge.

Two cautions. ANTRAL describes the prices as voluntary for the drivers who join, not a tariff fixed by the council, and from a date still to be announced only accredited taxis will be able to use the airport rank. And the Turismo de Lisboa desk sells vouchers only from 07:00 to 22:00; after that, you pay in the taxi. Confirm the price at the desk or with the driver before you set off.

Metered fares. The national regulator AMT published Regulation 1324-A/2026 on 13 October, in force from 23 October 2026; it replaces Regulation 717/2026, whose entry into force had been postponed. For a taxi carrying up to four passengers, the national reference rates are: €2.00 at the start, €0.73 per km and €0.34 per minute on weekdays from 07:00 to 22:00. The per-minute rate rises to €0.42 on weekday nights, €0.50 at weekends and on public holidays by day, and €0.59 at weekend and holiday nights. For its first year, the regulation sets a lower final price of €0.58 per km and €0.28 per minute, before the night, weekend and holiday increases. The only supplement is €0.80 for booking by phone or app, and tolls are added; the new tariff lists no luggage supplement. The regulation gives taxi meters up to 90 days from its entry into force to be adapted, so until early 2027 some meters may still run the old tariff.

The airport’s taxi page still says a trip to the centre costs 10 to 15 euros including luggage, and that the driver may charge luggage and pet fees separately. That is below the rank scheme’s fixed prices.

Uber and Bolt

The airport has a dedicated pick-up area for Bolt and Uber on P2, Level 2, on the arrivals level of Terminal 1. Going back to the airport, app cars drop passengers at Drop Off 1 or Drop Off 2, next to departures.

If someone is collecting you or dropping you off

Kiss & Fly is at the departures kerb and is meant for quick stops where the driver stays in the car. The airport says entry was simplified from 19 August: number plates are read automatically and there is no ticket to collect. The first 10 minutes are free, twice in 24 hours (the two stops cannot be back to back). Under the airport’s rates in force from 1 October 2026, for those first two entries a stop of up to 15 minutes costs €2.15, 30 minutes €12.65, 45 minutes €23.20 and an hour €33.70, then €10.55 for each further 15 minutes, up to €105.25 a day. From the third entry in 24 hours, 15 minutes cost €6.35 and even the first 5 minutes cost €2.15. The “Download Rates” link on the Kiss & Fly page still opens an older 2024 sheet, so go by the rates on the parking page.

To wait for someone, the airport points drivers to its car parks. P2, the arrivals car park, costs €1.40 for the first 15 minutes, then €1.00 per 15 minutes, up to €28.95 a day. For dropping someone at Terminal 2, which has no car park, the airport suggests P1 or P2 at Terminal 1 and the free shuttle.

Lisbon Airport to Cascais

Cascais is about 26 km west-south-west of the airport in a straight line and about 35 km by road (OpenStreetMap). The airport’s public transport page lists no bus to Cascais. The public route is the Metro plus a train:

Metro to Cais do Sodré: red line to Alameda (about 16 minutes), green line to Cais do Sodré (about 9 minutes), plus the change.
CP train from Cais do Sodré to Cascais: 33 to 40 minutes, most trains 40.

The Cascais line is under engineering works. Since 6 April, the section between Caxias and Cascais has been closed at certain times, with replacement buses calling at every station from Caxias to Cascais. CP’s notice dated 21 September gives the bus periods as Monday to Friday from 21:50, Saturdays from 20:50, and Sundays from 05:30 to 08:50 and from 19:50. In CP’s timetable data for October, that means through trains from Cais do Sodré to Cascais:

Weekdays: 05:30 to 21:10, every 15 minutes at peak times and every 20 minutes in the middle of the day.
Saturdays: 05:30 to 20:00, every 20 minutes for most of the day.
Sundays: 08:20 to 19:00, every 20 minutes.

Outside those times, trains run to Caxias and you change to the bus. The data shows the same pattern through Sunday 1 November and evening trains to Cascais again from Monday 2 November, but CP’s notice gives no end date for the works. The replacement buses cannot carry bicycles or scooters, and group tickets are not accepted on them.

Fares. CP’s 2026 price sheet gives a zapping journey on CP at €2.05 and a Lisbon–Cascais return ticket at €5.10. The €11.40 Carris/Metro/CP 24-hour ticket covers the Metro from the airport and the train to Cascais.

By taxi. Turismo de Lisboa’s Taxi Voucher list gives €53.40 by day for Estoril, Cascais and Sintra, and €64 at night (22:00 to 07:00), at weekends and on public holidays, for up to four people with luggage and tolls included; confirm the price at the desk.

Choosing by situation

One or two people with cabin bags, landing while the Metro is running, staying near Rossio, Baixa-Chiado or Cais do Sodré: the Metro, with one change at Alameda.
Staying near Marquês de Pombal or Avenida da Liberdade, travelling light: bus 744 or 783, or the Metro with a change at São Sebastião.
Landing after the Metro has closed: the 208 night bus to Cais do Sodré, a taxi from the rank, or a car booked in advance.
Up to four people with full-size suitcases: a taxi from the rank at the scheme’s fixed price, or a booked car to your door.
Heading for Cascais in the evening or early on a Sunday: check whether the replacement bus applies to your train, then compare it with a taxi or a booked car.

The private transfer

On LocalsRide you enter the airport, your address, the date and time and the number of passengers. Local drivers send offers showing the vehicle and a price, with a star rating from past passengers once the driver has completed rides. You choose one and pay by card online. The price of the accepted offer does not change.

The driver comes for the pickup time you booked, and airport pickups include 60 minutes of free waiting from then. A long delay can use that time up, so if your flight is late, message your driver in the LocalsRide chat. If you ask for a name sign, each offer shows whether the driver will meet you with one; otherwise you agree a pick-up point with the driver. Child seats and a note about your luggage go in your request, so drivers see them before they make an offer, and each offer’s details show the vehicle’s luggage capacity.

A booked car makes most sense where the public options are weakest: after the Metro closes, on the way to Cascais while the replacement buses run, or with suitcases larger than Carris allows on its buses and an address away from a Metro station.

Checking a transfer for your date

Whether you get offers depends on the drivers available on your date. Enter your landing time and your address in Lisbon or Cascais and see what offers arrive before you count on a car, then compare them with the Metro, bus and taxi options above for your day. Driver offers for the airport are on our Lisbon Airport transfer page.