Would you like to see the pyramid-shaped shadow of Mount Teide projected onto the sea, and a magical sunset from the Pico Viejo Viewpoint trail, with views of southern Tenerife and some of the neighbouring islands on the horizon? Make your ascent in the cable car outside of usual opening times, and enjoy a unique experience.
Highlights...
- Ascend by Cable Car to an altitude of 3,555 m outside the usual hours of operation
- Prepare to be astounded by the show of Teide’s shadow cast onto the sea
- Marvel at the magnificent Teide sunset from the Pico Viejo viewpoint trail while spotting the islands of La Gomera, La Palma and El Hierro on the horizon
- Complete the Teide Cable Car at Sunset activity with stargazing by booking Sunset & Stars (Sunset and Stars on Teide).
What's included...
- Teide Cable Car return ticket (maximum 90 people)
- Access to the Pico Viejo viewpoint trail
What's not included...
- Transportation
- Astronomical observation
- Accompanying guide
- Access for visitors with physical disabilities or motor impairments
Information
The timetable varies depending on the day booked and the sunset time on said day. When making your reservation you will be able to see the time of the activity. If it is not stated, we will announce it to you by e-mail.
- Since Mount Teide Sunset Tour includes a Teide Cable Car ride, people with heart problems and pregnant women are not allowed to participate in it due to the risk that high altitude poses to their health. If you have any health problems, we recommend that you consult with your doctor before planning your visit.
- Children under 8 are not allowed to participate in this activity with the Cable Car to watch the Teide sunset.
- People with diverse physical or motor functionality are not allowed to use the Cable Car because, due to the technical conditions that exist in the National Park, it cannot be guaranteed that they can be safely evacuated in the time allowed by the regulations.
- It is essential to bear in mind that in the event of the failure of the cable car system due to unexpected technical reasons, passengers already at the upper station will have to make their descent on foot and using steep mountain paths.
- No pets allowed, apart from guide dogs and therapy dogs.
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We reserve the right to refuse admission. For more information, please check the rules for accessing the cable car.
Mount Teide Sunset Tour includes a 40-minute walk both ways of medium-low difficulty, therefore you must be in good physical shape.
Anyone wearing open footwear (sandals), shorts or
short sleeves will not be allowed to join. It is essential to be suitably attired, as the activity will be undertaken in low temperatures.
IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO PRODUCE THE BOOKING CONFIRMATION, EITHER PRINTED OR DISPLAYED ON A MOBILE DEVICE.
In order to enjoy the Teide Sunset Tour, remember that you must be prepared for extremely cold conditions, regardless of the time of year, as even in summer, during the sunset on Teide in Tenerife, the temperatures are low at this altitude.
This is why we recommend that you:
- Wear warm clothing and proper footwear.
- Due to the elevated luminosity, wear sunglasses.
- Take plenty of water on hikes.
Reservations may be cancelled or the date of the activity may be changed free of charge up to 24 hours prior to the activity. After this period, 100% of the amount will be charged.
In the event that weather conditions impede the operation of the cable car at sunset for the ‘Teide Sunset Tour’, the full amount paid for the activity shall be reimbursed.
Date changes are valid for 1 year provided that the vouchers have not been redeemed. Up to 3 changes are permitted.
Check our Terms and conditions for information on other reasons for cancellation.
Parking
The Teide Cable Car base station has a free car park with 220 parking spaces.
Shops
The Teide Cable Car base station’s facilities include an information centre and a shop.
Toilets
There are public toilets at the Teide Cable Car’s base station.
In case of tickets which include a discount for children, a supporting document is required to prove entitlement to discount.
Book to see the sunset with Teide cable car
- Teide Cable Car return ticket (maximum 90 people)
- Access to the Pico Viejo viewpoint trail
- Transportation
- Astronomical observation
- Accompanying guide
- Access for visitors with physical disabilities or motor impairments
- Access to the “Science and Legend” exhibition at the Visitors’ Centre
Where to find us
Street: TF-21 motorway, km 43 - Teide National Park
Postal code: 38300 Municipality: La Orotava
Teide Cable Car is well connected by roads, and can be easily reached from any point of the island of Tenerife.
If you are in the northern part of the island
- Take the TF-21 motorway which connects La Orotava with El Portillo de la Villa and crosses the Teide National Park. The Cable Car is at km 43. (N28º 15' 17" W16º 37' 33")
If you are in the southwest of the island
- Take the TF-21 motorway from Vilaflor to Teide National Park, the route of access for the tourist areas of Playa de Américas and Los Cristianos.
If you are close to Santa Cruz or La Laguna
- Take the TF-24 motorway from La Laguna to Portillo de la Villa (La Esperanza Motorway), which connects with TF-21 that will take you to the base station of the cable car at km 43.
Distances
Mt. Teide is approximately an hour’s drive from any point on the island.
- Santa Cruz: 64 km
- La Laguna: 55 km
- Puerto de la Cruz: 45 km
- Los Gigantes: 52 km
- Los Cristianos: 47 km
FAQs
Check out our weekly calendar of activities and excursions on Mt Teide which we have prepared so that you can view at a glance all the information you need about our activities.
In this article about ascending Mount Teide by car on our blog, you’ll find an interesting guide with the most important points of interest along each route to Mount Teide. However, we recommend not using a car and choosing collective transportation because it is important that together we do what we can to counteract overuse of the vehicle parking areas in the National Park. As a conservation measure, they have been kept to a small size, and they cannot be extended. If you ultimately decide to come by car, it’s a good idea to arrive after 1.00pm.
Reviews of Mount Teide Cable Car sunset tickets
Hello. You ruined my mojo for yesterday. In case you don't know, people expect Teide to be THE experience on the island. We were not aware we need to book over the web days in advance, otherwise we would of done it (lesson learned rest assured). You seem to put the reservation process in front of your scope -- that is to bring being people up/down the volcano. The staff at the cablecar were friendly and told me to go online, on the spot, i tried but there was no place availability for the day/coming days. They said they're sorry but cannot do anything. Yet, we were there witnessing how cable cars go up less than mid capacity instead of "no availability". It was around 10:30AM. This was frustrating not only for us, there were other people there at your location trying to get tickets that were not available and it was easy for everyone to observe there is availability as people were not showing up. We waited there for about an hour, nobody cared, left in disappointment. My wife kept hunting for any opportunities, and at some point we managed to get the sunset ride that appeared available (11+ tickets for 17:45) about lunch time -- double the cost, whatever. As we finished hikeing Garcia Rocks we headed back to the cable car. (Around 3:30PM) The exact same story, nobody cared. A lot of people not showing up, a lot of people being rejected due to unavailability, cablecars going up almost empty in some cases. The bitter taste of your customer management will stay forever and although the sunset tour was nice i will always remember how you ruin every unfortunate tourist day for no reason, just to maintain a reservation system that is far from being efficient and not flexible at all. It is the perfect failure of process over scope. We also heard about other bad practices like no refunds for people late more than 20min. I can relate to some point but since our tour started 18:20+ instead of 17:45, that would entitle us for a refund right? Kidding. ;)
10/10
Fantastic tour!!! Amazing
We bought two tickets for the volcano sunset tour, which we wanted to return, which according to the website, is possible until 6 pm the day before. We were three minutes late due to a bad internet connection, but the system allowed and accepted the redemption, however, citing the expired deadline, they do not want to refund the money. In the end, we bought two new tickets for this program, which started at 18:10 instead of the announced 17:30 departure, and instead of the promised two hours, it was just over an hour, including the lift time.
Poor & disappointing. Not good value for money.
Would have been better if we could have gone to the end of the trail for the sunset
The guide was amazing. The top of the volcano itself is incredibly beautiful
nice view (+) tour shorter than anounced (-)
It was amazing and unbelievable
Very nice experience
We loved the sunset but for us its not a real tour and for just the cablecar tickets €*** is a little too expensive. Plus the group was too big for our taste. Other than that we enjoyed the views.
Breathtaking views! One of the loveliest sunsets I've been lucky to witness. Our guide, *** (for French & German), was very friendly and funny. I'd definitely recommend catching either the sunset or the sunrise from there. It's quite windy and it gets cold pretty quickly, so bring a jumper and a jacket and even gloves, if you intend to take a lot of pictures (you will). My only problem with the location is that the toilets are closed by the time the people with sunset tickets arrive and by the time they open again, too many people are waiting in line and there's not much time left until the tour starts. If you didn't book the star gazing tour, there are quite a few parking spots around that are still dark enough so you can park your car and do your own stargazing, albeit without tue equipment.
We did the sunset tour. An absolutely brilliant experience led by the wonderfully knowledgable ***. I can highly recommend this, we will definitely do this again.
Meeting time was 17:15, start was a hour letter. It like to long 😒
It is definetely worth it to go there and see vulcano view
Description of the tickets
Description
The Teide sunset with the Cable Car for your private use.
Imagine climbing the skies, 3,555m high, in an exclusive cable car, which isn’t accessible by the general public.
Imagine experiencing the impressive Tenerife sunset on the Cable Car at Sunset tour, where you can fly above craters and lava flows as the sun sets at the highest point of Spain.
Furthermore, the Teide Sunset Tour will make you feel really special and privileged.
Because the Teide Cable Car at sunset will operate exclusively for your private group. Enjoy the best Tenerife sunset!
>The creatures that live in the National Park are also unique. Of the almost 200 plant species found here, over 50 are endemic to the Canary archipelago, around thirty are endemic to Tenerife, and 13 can only be found on Tenerife’s mountain heights. They are endemic to a particular locality; in other words, if you want to see them, you’ll need to go up to Las Cañadas del Teide. Some are very rare and scarce, while the survival of others is in peril. And they have evocative names, such as red bugloss or tower-of-jewels, broom, silver thistle, St. John’s wort, or the Teide violet. And the scientific community, while it may think it knows them all, can still be surprised by the Teide National Park, as new species continue to be found—such as the recently discovered Guajara violet, a plant that can only be found on that particular mountain.
Your friends will be amazed by the photographs of Mount Teide and its views at this time of day, which you won’t stop sharing on your social networks! Watching the Teide sunset is a magical experience!
Tenerife sunset in the shadow of the volcano with the Teide Cable Car
You feel special and privileged at the highest point in Spain when you travel by cable car to see the sunset from Mount Teide. As soon as you arrive at the cable car upper station (at La Rambleta, Mount Teide’s penultimate crater, at an altitude of 3,000 metres), you will have at your feet the Las Cañadas caldera, a massive natural amphitheatre. It is one of the largest volcanic calderas in the world, with a perimeter of 45 kilometres stretching from east to west, forming a semicircle of escarpments and slopes, and crowned by the Guajara mountain, which rises to a height of 2,715 metres.
The light from the setting sun highlights the shadows and quirky shapes of the Las Cañadas cirque, the old foothills of the huge volcano that millions of years ago crowned the peaks of Tenerife. The magical light also accentuates the shapes of the volcanic cones and the lava flows that cover the floor of the caldera. Sunset on Mount Teide will help you to better appreciate the lava channels that descend from the peak of the volcano, the blankets of pumice that clothe Montaña Blanca, and the enormous blocks of stone in the Valle de Las Piedras Arrancadas [Valley of Torn-out Stones], where the obsidian glows in the last rays of sunshine.
But Mount Teide is a thousand metres higher than the peaks of the Las Cañadas cirque, leaving the horizon clear when viewed from this gigantic volcano. As the sun sinks, Mount Teide casts its shadow, first over the Las Cañadas caldera, and then extending over the Atlantic Ocean. As if you were looking at parallel railway tracks, the shadow projects into the distance, drawing a perfect triangle of shade that stretches as far as the neighbouring island of Gran Canaria. Few places in the world can offer a natural spectacle on this scale.
This is why long after the end of the Teide Sunset Tour you will still remember the spectacle of Teide’s shadow cast towards the island of Gran Canaria. It’s one of the most beautiful and spectacular moments that the volcano offers its visitors!
An unforgettable sunset in Tenerife with the Teide Cable Car
The Teide Cable Car at sunset activity includes access to the spectacular Pico Viejo viewpoint trail.
This trail is a wonder in itself!
Because from the Pico Viejo trail, you will have the opportunity to see, in the distance, part of the lava poured during the eruptive process that took place on Mount Teide in 1798 and lasted three months!
The eruption of 1798 formed the “Teide’s Nostrils” or “Las Narices del Teide”, the craters which spewed out lava during that historical eruption and which are located on the western slopes of Pico Viejo.
On the Mount Teide Sunset Tour, you will behold all of the volcanic wonders that surround this impressive Pico Viejo viewpoint trail. The trail and the surrounding scenery acquire a truly remarkable array of colours at sunset, which are unforgettable to visitors.
If the weather permits, you will experience a unique view over the neighbouring islands of La Gomera, El Hierro and La Palma on the horizon, with the impressive Pico Viejo crater at your feet, which is 800 m in diameter and at one time, hosted an impressive lava lake.
The Teide sunset is truly unique and unforgettable!
Complete your Teide Sunset Tour with an astronomical observation at the foot of the volcano
If you already know that you won’t want the evening to end after living this volcanic experience, and if the stars, constellations, planets and the entire Universe fascinate you, with our proposal, you will conduct observations of the night sky using long range telescopes and enjoy the explanations, provided by our Starlight guides, of the starry sky over Mount Teide, from where it is possible to see 83 of the 88 existing constellations.
There is a Sunset & Stars (Sunset and Stars on Teide) waiting for you.
