City of Arts and Sciences tickets: the 2026 prices by season, which of the three buildings to pay for and the Hemisfèric rule

💡 The Short Version: The Museu de les Ciències is €9.90 and the Hemisfèric €8.90 all year. The Oceanogràfic is €43.05, €39.45 or €37.00, and all three buildings together €51.25, €47.75 or €45.55, by season (2026 prices). High season includes 31 October to 1 November, 5 to 7 December 2026, 20 to 28 March 2027 and July and August 2027. A combined ticket saves €4.70 to €10.50 at mid-season prices, is valid for one, two or three consecutive days and cannot repeat a building. The Hemisfèric admits nobody once the film has started. The Umbracle walkway is free, and the Valencia Tourist Card takes 10% off. Prices are in euros. Or book a tour: the three-building comboad is from €45.55 and the Oceanogràfic and Museu comboad from €38.90 (GetYourGuide).

Tickets and prices

Prices are from the operator’s rates page and are the 2026 prices. Each date is high, mid or low season, and only the Oceanogràfic and the combined tickets change with it. The operator’s own shop is tickets.cac.es: buy there, since searches for the City of Arts and Sciences return sites with its name in their web address that are not the operator.

• Reduced is for children aged 4 to 12, people over 65 or retired, pensioners and people with a disability, with documents at the door. Children under 4 are free.
• Discounts. A Youth Card or student card from any country takes 15% off the general price, and large or single-parent families 15%; both are claimed at the ticket desk, and discounts do not combine. The Valencia Tourist Card takes 10% off the individual or combined tickets.
• High season is 31 October to 1 November and 5 to 7 December 2026, then in 2027 20 to 28 March, 1 July to 31 August, 9 to 11 October, 30 October to 1 November and 4 to 6 December. Low season is 2 November to 4 December and 8 to 24 December 2026, then in 2027 7 January to 28 February, 2 November to 3 December and 7 to 21 December. Every other date is mid season, so March to June and September to October 2027 are mid apart from the high-season days above. The operator’s calendar shows the season for any date.
• Combined tickets are valid for one, two or three consecutive days. You name a date for each building when you buy, and you cannot enter the same building twice.
• The date. Tickets are not refundable, but the date can be changed twice, up to a year ahead, by phone or email, paying any difference.

Where to buy

GetYourGuide’s “from” prices equal the operator’s low-season prices, so check the price it shows for your date against the table above. The Oceanogràfic page has the aquarium’s ticket on its own.

Tours worth paying for

The operator sells its own tickets, and these listings are the same tickets at the operator’s price. The City of Arts and Sciences also sells guided tours of its own, booked by phone or email: a 1 hour 30 minute walk round the exteriors, including areas closed to the public, and a 2-hour architectural tour. Prices below are the lowest “from” prices, per person.

All three buildings

From €45.55 · 4.5 stars from 3,530 reviews

Valencia: Oceanogràfic, Hemisfèric & Science Museum Comboad is the “La Ciutat” ticket, sold by Tixalia.

Oceanogràfic and Museu de les Ciències

From €38.90 · 4.7 stars from 2,894 reviews

Valencia: Oceanogràfic & Science Museum Comboad is the two-building ticket without the Hemisfèric, sold by Tixalia.

Museu de les Ciències

From €9.90 · 4.3 stars from 1,186 reviews

Valencia: Science Museum Entry Ticketad is the museum alone, sold by GetYourGuide.

What to see

The complex is a line of buildings along the old river bed. Santiago Calatrava designed the Hemisfèric, the Museu, the Umbracle and the Àgora, and Félix Candela the Oceanogràfic’s underwater restaurant and entrance building. Three buildings charge for entry, and the rest cost nothing or sell performances.

The Museu de les Ciències and the Hemisfèric across the water. Photo: Michielverbeek, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. The Oceanogràfic. The aquarium is on 110,000 square metres, with a dolphinarium and an underwater restaurant by Candela, and the operator puts the visit at about 4 hours. The Oceanogràfic page has the dolphin presentations, the extras and the rules.
2. The Museu de les Ciències. A hands-on science museum with 26,000 square metres of exhibitions, which the operator puts at about 3 hours. The 2026 exhibitions include Dance! The Art of Movement and Metamorphosis, and Jules Verne 200, with a virtual-reality experience, is announced for mid-November 2026. The space simulator takes 20 minutes, from 1.1 metres tall, in English and Spanish, and needs a Museu ticket for the same day. The audio guide is €1 on your phone, so bring headphones.
3. The Hemisfèric. Calatrava’s “eye”, which opened on 16 April 1998 as the first building of the complex, is an IMAX Dome and planetarium with a 900-square-metre concave screen and more than 300 seats. One ticket is one film of 45 to 50 minutes, and you choose Spanish, Valencian or English on the earphones at the door; French and Italian depend on the film. Black Holes. Unknown Horizons is new from 2 October 2026.
4. The Umbracle. A free 320-metre landscaped walkway over the car park, with an art promenade of sculpture and a sundial and astronomy garden. It keeps the complex’s hours, and it is the best free thing here.
5. The Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía and the Àgora. The Palau is an opera house that sells performances and visits: a guided visit is €18 (in English on most days) and an audio-guide visit €14 from 10:00 to 14:30, both on lesarts.com. The Àgora is a covered plaza for events and sport, and it holds CaixaForum València, whose exhibitions are not in the combined tickets and cost €6 on their own.

The Umbracle, the free landscaped walkway above the car park. Photo: MCAE Consulting, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

The order that works: the operator recommends two or three days for all three buildings, the Oceanogràfic on one and the Museu and Hemisfèric on another. On one day, be at the Oceanogràfic at 10:00, take the Museu or the Hemisfèric after it, and walk the Umbracle at the end. What to skip: the Palau de les Arts visit unless you want to see the opera house inside, and the Hemisfèric if you will not be at the door before the film starts.

The Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, the opera house, seen across a rose garden. Photo: Ymblanter, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Hours, rules and getting there

• Ticket offices close one hour before the Museu closes. The Hemisfèric runs on screening times and is closed on 25 December with the Museu. The operator’s calendar has every date.
• Re-entry. At the Museu you can leave and return the same day with your ticket. At the Oceanogràfic you can only on a combined ticket with a second building that day, and you must ask for a wristband at the information point.
• Rules. No food or drink inside except in the designated areas, and none may be brought into the Oceanogràfic park. No flash, selfie sticks or underwater cameras at the Oceanogràfic, no drones over the complex and no pets, guide dogs excepted. Children under 12 must be accompanied. Visitors may not enter the pools.
• Lockers. €3, €4 or €5 a day by size at the Oceanogràfic access building, by card only. The Museu’s first-floor lockers are free for small bags.
• Wheelchairs are free against a deposit of €10 at the Oceanogràfic and €20 at the Museu.
• Weather. A red alert can close the Museu, the Hemisfèric and the Umbracle car park the same afternoon.
• Getting there: Metrovalencia line 5 to Alameda or line 10 to Ciutat Arts i Ciències - Justícia, tram line 10, or EMT buses 13, 14, 35 and 95. Bus 95 follows the old river bed. From the airport, take metro line 3 or 5, or bus 150. On foot or by bike, the Turia Gardens lead to the complex.
• The one thing that ruins a visit: reaching the Hemisfèric after the film has started, which loses the ticket, or arriving on a date in the next high season without checking the price.

What to book in Valencia has the closed days for every sight. The Oceanogràfic has its own page. Valencia with kids sorts the family sights by age, and the Bioparc is the other big ticket for children. The Turia Gardens link the old town to the complex, and the Turia Gardens walk follows them on foot from the Torres de Serranos to the Àgora. Valencia public transport has the bus and tram fares, and the hop-on hop-off bus stops at the complex. Valencia Tourist Card: is it worth it? runs the 10% discount against the card’s price. 3 days in Valencia puts the City of Arts and Sciences on one day. For a bed, see where to stay in Valencia.