Is the Granada Card worth it? The sums for the €55 and €60 cards, what they include and the Alhambra tickets they hold when the shop is sold out

💡 The Short Version: The Granada Card is €55 for 48 hours and €60 for 72, each with an Alhambra day ticket, the Cathedral, the Royal Chapel, the Cartuja, San Jerónimo, the Sacromonte Abbey, the Science Park, nine city-bus rides and one tourist-train trip. It pays only if you use most of it: the Alhambra, Cathedral and Royal Chapel are €39.27 as single tickets, about €16 less than the card, and with the Cartuja, San Jerónimo, the Abbey and the nine rides the singles are €75.67. Its real use is a separate Alhambra quota: individual tickets can be sold out while Card passes remain. The Alhambra date and the Nasrid Palaces time are fixed when you buy. Prices are in euros. Or book a tour: the Alhambra guided tour with ticketsad is from €49 and the Albaicín and Sacromonte sunset walkad from €15 (GetYourGuide).

The cards and their prices

The pass is the City of Granada’s. It is sold on the tourism site’s Granada Card page and through Clorian, and by phone on +34 858 880 990, daily from 09:00 to 20:00. There is no point of sale in Granada. Other websites sell the same pass, and none is the City’s own site.

These prices have applied since 13 November 2025. The card is sold up to three calendar months ahead, children under 3 need no card, and every card is named, with ID checked at the Alhambra. The Alhambra day, the Nasrid Palaces time and the start date are chosen at purchase and cannot be changed.

What is included

The 48-hour and 72-hour cards include:

• the Cathedral, the Royal Chapel, the Cartuja, San Jerónimo and the Sacromonte Abbey;
• the Science Park, without the Planetarium (€3.50) and the BioDomo (€7), which are bought at the Park’s ticket office;
• the Casa de Zafra, the Cuarto Real de Santo Domingo, and the Fine Arts, Archaeological and Casa de los Tiros museums;
• nine rides on city buses and one trip on the tourist train, which is not the hop-on hop-off service.

The courtyard of the Casa de Castril, home of the Archaeological Museum. Photo: José Luis Filpo Cabana, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.

The 72-hour card adds the Corral del Carbón, the Bañuelo, the Casa del Horno de Oro, the Maristán and Dar al-Horra. The Maristán is closed until further notice. Each monument other than the Alhambra is visited once, in opening hours, without booking, and everything is closed on 25 December and 1 January. The card has no guide.

A Nasrid hall in the Cuarto Real de Santo Domingo. Photo: José Luis Filpo Cabana, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.

The bus rides are collected at four machines by the Cathedral and at Puerta Real, with the code on your voucher; they do not cover the airport bus. Granada public transport has the detail.

The sums

Single tickets at the operators’ adult prices, against the 48-hour card at €55. The Cathedral is €10 until 28 November 2026 and €7 from 29 November, and the figures in brackets are for 29 November onwards.

The Science Park is €10 as a single ticket, the Casa de Zafra €3 and the Cuarto Real €2. The 6-monument ticket is sold by the Archdiocese at ticketsgranadacristiana.com for 7 days: the monasteries page and the Cathedral and Royal Chapel page have the single prices.

The rule: the card breaks even when the singles you will use come to about €55 for 48 hours, or €60 for 72. The Alhambra, the Cathedral and the Royal Chapel reach €39.27, the Cartuja and San Jerónimo take it to break-even, and the Abbey or the buses take it past.

The Alhambra quota

The City says individual Alhambra tickets can be sold out while Card passes remain. When the Patronato’s shop shows nothing for your dates, the card is a second place to look, at a floor of €50 to €60. You pick the Alhambra date and the Nasrid time at purchase, so look at the Card before you book the rest of the trip. Alhambra tickets sold out? lists the other routes, and the Alhambra tickets page has the official shop’s prices.

Who should buy it

• Most of the churches plus the buses: the 48-hour card at €55, or the 72-hour card at €60 to spread them over four days.
• The Alhambra, the Cathedral and the Royal Chapel only: single tickets.
• The Alhambra and the churches, no buses: the Archdiocese’s €33 ticket beside the Alhambra’s own.
• The Alhambra sold out in the shop: the card, if the Alhambra date it offers suits you.
• A guide: the card has none; Alhambra guided tours compares the tours that include the ticket.

What to book before you go to Granada lists the closed days, and things to do in Granada gives each sight’s hours. Granada public transport covers the buses, the hop-on hop-off train the trip the card includes, and where to stay in Granada compares the areas.