Lisbon Oceanarium tickets: €25.50 to €29.90 by time slot, and what is closed inside

💡 The Short Version: The price depends on the hour: an adult pays €29.90 for a visit from 10:00 to 11:30, €27.70 from 12:00 to 15:30 and €25.50 from 16:00 to 18:30, from tickets.oceanario.pt or at the desk on the day. The Oceanário offers 5% off online with the code ONLINE5. It is open daily, 10:00 to 20:00, last entry 19:00, and a visit takes 1½ to 2 hours. The penguins are out of view while their Antarctic habitat is renovated. Or book a tour: the dolphin-watching trip run in partnership with the Oceanárioad (from £47.19, GetYourGuide, 1 October 2026) leaves from a dock across town, and GetYourGuide’s entry ticket, £21.78, is the €25.50 price.

The tickets, compared

Official prices from the Oceanário’s visiting page, 1 October 2026, converted at the ECB rate of 30 September 2026 (€1 = £0.855). GetYourGuide prices are its lowest “from” price on the same day.

• Reduced-price tickets can be checked. Visitors may be asked to show proof of age.
• Disability. Visitors with a certified disability of 60% or more enter free, and one companion gets 60% off, at the physical ticket office on the day, with the medical certificate.
• All the exhibitions are in the ticket, including the temporary ones.

How to buy

• Online: at tickets.oceanario.pt, by credit card, MB WAY or PayPal. You pick a time slot, and the price follows it. Enter the code ONLINE5 at checkout for 5% off: the Oceanário says the offer is available only on its official site.
• On the day: at the Oceanário’s ticket office, subject to availability.
• The Flexiticket is on the same site and fixes neither date nor time.
• Official sellers. The Oceanário sells online at tickets.oceanario.pt and at its own ticket office. The ONLINE5 code works only on its official site, entered at checkout.

Tours worth paying for

The ticket covers the aquarium, and the Oceanário has its own paid extras; GetYourGuide’s contribution is a different kind of day out in the same part of town. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” price on 1 October 2026, per person.

The Oceanário’s guided tours

From €30.50 (about £26.07), booked on the Oceanário’s site

The guided tour runs for 90 minutes for up to 25 visitors, in English or Portuguese, at 11:15, 13:30 and 16:30 every day. The behind-the-scenes tour is €40 for 2 hours, at 14:15 in English, and takes in the feeding areas and the saltwater plant. It is not recommended for visitors with reduced mobility.

Dolphin watching on the Tagus

From £47.19 · 4.9 stars from 1,263 reviews · 3 hours

Lisbon: Dolphin Watching with Marine Biologist – Small Groupad is run in partnership with the Oceanário and leaves from the Santo Amaro dock, under the Ponte 25 de Abril, not from Parque das Nações. The Oceanário’s own page for the trip, with the same dock, lists €52 for ages 13 and over and €42 for ages 6 to 12, on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, booked 24 hours ahead, and says dolphins come into the Tagus between the start of spring and the end of summer. Free cancellation on GetYourGuide.

Nations Park cable car

From £8.11 · 4.4 stars from 1,828 reviews · 12 minutes

Lisbon: Nations Park Cable Car Round Tripad is sold by the operator, Telecabine Lisboa. It runs along the waterfront, 30 metres above the Tagus, with the Oceanário, the Portugal Pavilion and the Vasco da Gama Bridge in view. Free cancellation.

The Telecabine over the Parque das Nações waterfront, with the Vasco da Gama Bridge on the horizon. Photo: Jules Verne Times Two, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What to see

The Oceanário opened in 1998, for Expo 98. All of the exhibitions are in the ticket:

1. One Planet, One Ocean. The permanent exhibition: a central tank of 5 million litres, ringed by four habitats, Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Southern, with 8,000 animals in all. The four habitats are built to look like a single aquarium.
2. Sea Monsters. Life-size models of prehistoric ocean predators in the main atrium, covering 400 million years. It runs from 15 May to 1 November 2026, in partnership with Dino Parque Lourinhã.
3. Submerged Universe. An immersive installation on the upper floor, by the French studio LesAteliers BK. It has bright, flashing lights that can affect people with photosensitive epilepsy.
4. The penguins are away. Submerged Universe starts where the Antarctic habitat used to be. The habitat is closed for renovation, and the penguin colony is housed away from visitors until it returns.

Allow 1½ to 2 hours. What to skip: the morning slot, if the price matters: the same visit costs €4.40 less after 16:00, and the aquarium is open until 20:00, with last entry at 19:00.

The Oceanário de Lisboa, on the water at Parque das Nações. Photo: Bobo Boom, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

Hours, rules and getting there

• Open daily, 10:00 to 20:00, last entry 19:00. On 24 and 31 December it is open 10:00 to 19:00, last entry 18:00, and on 25 December and 1 January 11:00 to 20:00, last entry 19:00.
• Bags: 39 paid lockers on floor 0 take bags up to 98 cm tall, 40 cm wide and 75 cm deep. Strollers can use the ramps and lifts.
• On the route: no food or drink, no smoking including e-cigarettes, and no flash photography or selfie sticks. Children under 12 must be with an adult.
• To eat: the #SeaTheFuture restaurant and Zafra Coffee & Bar are on the ground floor, and the Submerso restaurant, for Portuguese petiscos, opened in July 2026.
• Getting there: the Oceanário is a few minutes on foot from Oriente station, on the metro’s Red line, which also runs to the airport: Lisbon public transport has the fares, and airport to the city centre shows the Red line from the terminal. Carris bus 728, from Belém, Cais do Sodré and Praça do Comércio, stops at Oceanário Lisboa, and Transtejo ferries run to Parque das Nações from Cais do Sodré and Terreiro do Paço.

For more to book in the city, see what to book before you go in Lisbon; for a sight in the opposite corner, the São Jorge Castle tickets guide; and for the pass that covers other sights, is the Lisboa Card worth it?. 3 days in Lisbon puts the Oceanário on a fourth day, and Lisbon in one day names it as the add-on if you have more time.