A return ride up Mount Calamorro costs €17.90 booked online and €21.90 at the window, and the 15-minute climb lands you at 769 metres with the coast from Málaga to Gibraltar in a single view. Two things decide whether the day works, and neither is the price: full adult fare starts at age 8, and the cable car stops for wind without warning. Every fare below was checked against telefericobenalmadena.com on 14 August 2026.
Every 2026 fare, online and at the window
The Teleférico prices dynamically, so its own site describes these as starting prices that can move with demand. In practice they have been stable, and the online-to-window gap is the constant.
| Ticket | Online | Box office |
|---|---|---|
| General return, age 8 and over | €17.90 | €21.90 |
| General one-way | €10.90 | €12.90 |
| Reduced return | €12.90 | €16.90 |
| Reduced one-way | €9.90 | €11.90 |
| Under 3, or under 1 metre tall | Free | Free |
| Open-date return | €25.90 | not sold |
| Group return, 15 or more paying | €16.20–€17.20 | – |
Two lines in that table are worth reading twice.
The open-date ticket is €25.90, not €48.90. It is sold online only, and it buys you a return trip with no fixed date attached – which is the honest answer to the wind problem below, at an €8 premium over the standard online fare. The €48.90 figure that circulates, including on this page until today, is the price of a three-park SELWO combination ticket, not an open-date cable car ride.
The one-way fare is only €7 cheaper than the return. That matters if you were planning to walk down. At €10.90 against €17.90 you are paying €7 for a two-hour descent on a rocky mountain path in full sun, which is a poor trade for most people and a bad one in July.
Cyclists get their own tariff: €4.00 per trip to carry a bike, with a €30.00 day pass and a €70.00 weekly pass for anyone riding the mountain repeatedly.
Who counts as reduced, and the age that catches families out
This is the single most useful thing on the page, because nothing at the station tells you in advance and the arithmetic is worse than most families expect.
Full price starts at age 8. A family of two adults and two children aged 9 and 11 pays four general fares – €71.60 online, or €87.60 at the window. There is no child rate above seven and no teenage rate at all.
The reduced fare covers:
- Children aged 3 to 7, or any child measuring 1 metre or under
- Visitors with a recognised disability of 33% or more, whose companion travels free
- Large-family cardholders, on production of the certificate
Children under 3, or under 1 metre tall, travel free. Bring the documentation for the disability and large-family rates: like every Spanish concession, it is checked rather than taken on trust.
There is no timetable, there is a calendar
Most attractions publish opening hours. The Teleférico publishes a day-by-day calendar instead, and asks you to pick your date on it before you travel. That is not evasiveness – it reflects how the operation actually works.
The site states plainly that service can be changed or suspended for weather, capacity, safety, veterinary or public health reasons, and it posts same-day maintenance and wind closures on its own front page and social channels. There is no published seasonal table that can be relied on more than a day or two out, and any guide printing one, this page included until today, is inventing certainty.
What is reliably true about the shape of the day: it opens later in winter than in summer, and in July and August it runs well into the evening for the sunset and the night views. Beyond that, check the date.
Check the day you are going, not the season
The practical response is to schedule it early in your trip rather than on the last day, so a closure costs you a reshuffle rather than the whole plan. If your dates are genuinely fixed and the forecast is unsettled, the €25.90 open-date ticket exists precisely for this.
What is actually at 769 metres
Three things, and they are not equally worth your time.
The view is the product. On a clear day it runs from Málaga in the east to Gibraltar in the west, with the Moroccan coast visible across the Strait. Haze builds through the day in summer, so the clear-air window is the morning – before about 11:00 from June to September.
The birds of prey show is run separately by the Fundación Valle de las Águilas and is not included in the cable car ticket: €7.00 for adults and €4.00 for children aged 3 to 11, paid in cash at the entrance. It is genuine falconry flown along an open ridge rather than a caged display, and it is the one paid add-on up here that earns its money.
Published show times have run at 13:00, 14:30 and 17:00 through the winter schedule, with an additional 20:00 session in high summer, but the schedule shifts seasonally and can be cancelled for weather or veterinary reasons – confirm at the summit.
La Cima restaurant is the highest in Benalmádena and sells the panorama with the food. It does not publish prices online, so budget at tourist-restaurant rates rather than local bar rates.
Six marked walking trails start from the summit station, from a 5,150-metre woodland route to the R-6 Sendero de los Cazadores, described by the operator as a demanding mountain path. The ground above 700 metres is rocky and almost entirely unshaded. Proper shoes and more water than you think, or stay on the terrace.
Getting to the station, which is not on the seafront
Explanada del Tívoli s/n, Arroyo de la Miel. The base station sits beside the former Tivoli World site, inland from the coast, and a good number of listings imply it is in Benalmádena Costa. It is not, and that error is how people end up in a taxi twice.
- By car: A-7, exit 1003 for Benalmádena / Arroyo de la Miel. There is parking at the station, but the operator publishes neither price nor capacity, so treat it as unpriced rather than free.
- By train: Cercanías C1 to Arroyo de la Miel / Benalmádena, then 15 to 20 minutes uphill on foot, or a short taxi. The walk is straightforward but it is a climb, which in August is a poor way to start a day on an exposed mountain.
- From Málaga Airport: the airport is on the same C1 line, roughly 35 to 40 minutes with a change. With children and bags, a private transfer from Málaga Airport to Benalmádena is the simpler arrival.
Is it worth €17.90?
Yes, with one condition attached. This is the best viewpoint on the Costa del Sol that does not require you to walk up a mountain, and 769 metres of vertical for 15 minutes of sitting down is an honest trade at the price. The €4 online saving makes booking ahead automatic.
The condition is the weather. Nothing about this ride is worth doing in haze or high wind, and neither is refundable at the top. Check the day, go in the morning, and put it early in the week.
Below the mountain, Puerto Marina Benalmádena is a ten-minute drive away for lunch, and the dolphin trips from the same marina start at €20 for an hour, which makes a summit-and-sea day out of one trip into town. The wider Benalmádena guide covers the rest.
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