Valencia Tourist Card: is it worth it? The sums for the 7-day card and the 24, 48 and 72-hour cards

💡 The Short Version: Buy the 7-day card (€15, €13.50 online) if you will visit the cathedral and IVAM: they cost €12 and €5 separately, and the card makes them free. The 24, 48 and 72-hour cards (€17, €24 and €30; 10% less online) include transport and the free municipal sights, and pay back only for someone who rides every day and takes the airport metro both ways. The 24-hour card does not pay for itself. The City of Arts and Sciences gets 10% off, not 50%. Twelve of the 14 free sights are open: L’Almoina and the City Museum are closed. Buy online: it is 10% cheaper than the list price. Or book now: the 24, 48 or 72-hour cardad is from €17 and the 7-day cardad from €15 (GetYourGuide), the same as the list prices.

What the card is

The card is issued by the Fundació Visit València, the city’s tourism body, and sold on visitvalencia.com. It is a physical card, activated the first time you scan it, and it cannot be returned once delivered.

Groups of 20 or more get 15% off. Collect the card free at a tourist office (the airport arrivals hall, the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, Calle de la Paz or Joaquín Sorolla station), at one of 17 self-service kiosks (the airport kiosk is open 24 hours) or at your hotel, where delivery is between 10:00 and 11:00.

The sums

Single-ticket prices: cathedral €12, Miguelete €3, IVAM €5, Lonja €2, Torres de Serranos €2, Torres de Quart €2, Fallas Museum €2, EMT bus €2.00, metro €1.50 within zone A, airport metro €4.80, Oceanogràfic €39.45 in mid-season (2026 prices).

The ride counts are our assumptions, not the operator’s figures. The 72-hour sum also leaves out the 10% off the City of Arts and Sciences (about €4 on one mid-season Oceanogràfic ticket) and the cathedral’s 20% off with the 24, 48 and 72-hour cards (€2.40).

The days that decide it

• Sunday: the Lonja, the two gates, the Fallas Museum and several others are free, and IVAM is free on Sundays. The cathedral opens only from 14:00 to 17:30. A 24, 48 or 72-hour card is wasted on a Sunday; the 7-day card saves only the cathedral’s €12.
• Monday: IVAM, the Fallas Museum and the Ceramics Museum are closed, so a Monday on the 7-day card is the cathedral, the Lonja and the gates.
• A day at the City of Arts and Sciences: the 10% is about €4 on the Oceanogràfic. It does not pay for a card on its own.
• Airport days: the 24, 48 and 72-hour cards include the metro lines 3 and 5 and Metrobus 150. The airport page has the single fares.

What the card does not cover

• Not free entry to every museum: the City of Arts and Sciences, the Bioparc, the Ceramics Museum, the Hortensia Herrero Art Centre, IVAM (on the 24, 48 and 72-hour cards) and the cathedral (on the same cards) are discounted, not free.
• Closed sights: two of the 14 municipal sights on the card, L’Almoina and the City Museum, are closed. L’Almoina has been closed since about 21 July 2026 for works Visit València puts at 14 months, and the City Museum since 7 September 2026.
• Cercanías: the 24, 48 and 72-hour cards cover Renfe Cercanías only inside zone AB. Buy a Renfe ticket for Xàtiva.
• Validation: scan the card on every boarding. Visit València warns of fines of up to €50.

The 12 free sights that are open

Each costs €2 without the card. The cards open them free:

• the Lonja de la Seda
• the Torres de Serranos and Torres de Quart
• the Fallas Museum
• the Rice Museum
• the Cervelló Palace Museum
• the San Vicente Mártir crypt
• the Benlliure House
• the History Museum, in Mislata
• the Natural Sciences Museum
• the Blasco Ibáñez House
• the Concha Piquer House, open Tuesday to Saturday mornings only

The rice-milling machinery inside the Rice Museum. Photo: Joanbanjo, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Valencia museums has the hours and the Monday rule.

The discounts

The three-venue packs add only the 10%: Visit València’s “72 hours and the Oceanogràfic, Museu de les Ciències and Hemisfèric” pack at €69.98 is the 72-hour card at €27.00 plus the three-venue ticket at €42.98, which is the mid-season €47.75 less 10%.

Which to buy

• A weekend in the old town: the 7-day card if you will pay for the cathedral and IVAM; otherwise single tickets.
• Three days with airport transfers and daily rides: the 72-hour card, online.
• One day: single tickets, or the SUMA 24-hour ticket at €4.50 from Valencia public transport.
• Families: children 6 to 12 have their own 24, 48 and 72-hour prices, the 7-day child card is for ages 4 to 15, and children up to 15 enter the municipal museums free.

What to book before you go to Valencia has the prices of every sight, and where to stay in Valencia compares the areas. Things to do in Valencia lists the sights by price, and free things to do in Valencia covers what costs nothing without a card.