How Much Is The Dubrovnik Cable Car?

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Quick Facts

Item	Figure
Adult return cable car ticket	EUR 30
Adult one-way ticket	EUR 17
Child 4 to 12 return / one way	EUR 8 / EUR 5
Winter closure	December to March
Included in the Dubrovnik Pass	No
Free alternative on the same hill	The Srđ zig-zag trail

The Dubrovnik cable car costs an adult EUR 30 for a return ticket or EUR 17 one way, with children aged 4 to 12 at EUR 8 return and EUR 5 one way. The service is seasonal: it closes from December to March, so in deep winter there is no ride at any price. The Dubrovnik Pass does not cover it, and the free alternative is the Srđ zig-zag trail up the same hill.

Those fares come from the operator's own price page, and they are worth pinning down before you plan a summit visit, because the cable car is one of the few headline experiences in Dubrovnik that sits entirely outside every discount scheme in the city. The walls have a winter price drop, the museums have a January free evening, and the walking tours are free by design. The cable car has none of that: one flat fare structure, and a closure that removes the option altogether for a third of the year.

Looking up the cable car's steel pylons on Srđ hillside above Dubrovnik, Croatia, bright April morning, pale karst rock and low dry scrub along the slope, cabins passing overhead, thin dust on the gravel track beneath

The lower station sits at the foot of Srđ, the hill that rises behind the Old Town, and the ride carries you to the top where Fort Imperial stands. The fort itself is a paid museum, so even at the summit the spending does not necessarily stop with the ticket. Budget for the cable car as a paid experience in full, and treat anything at the top as a separate decision.

Cable car station at the foot of a hill with a walled old town and sea behind

What catches many visitors out is how the cable car price compares with everything else in a Dubrovnik day. A family paying two adult return fares plus two child fares spends more on the ride than a single adult pays for the main-season City Walls ticket at EUR 40, and the walls ticket also includes Fort Lovrijenac across the bay. For the budget you might have set aside for the cable car, you could instead join any of the free, pay what you want walking tours that run on GuruWalk, including the Pearl of the Adriatic Walk, which is rated 4.92 out of 5 across 5,844 GuruWalk reviews and meets at Pile Gate.

If a guided walk through the Old Town's streets appeals more than a ride above them, these English-language tours are all free to reserve and pay what you want on the day.

Every one of those tours runs on GuruWalk, the platform where independent local guides publish free, pay what you want walks. This site operates no walks; its GuruWalk links carry a referral code, at no extra cost to readers, and it tracks fares like the cable car's on the pages travellers actually use.

Cable car cabins travelling on a line above a hillside toward the sea

What Is The Return Fare?

An adult return ticket is EUR 30, and the one-way fare is EUR 17. Children aged 4 to 12 pay EUR 8 for a return trip or EUR 5 one way. There is no free entry tier for the cable car at any age or season, and the operator's own price page is where these figures live.

The fare table below is the whole picture: the cable car has no concession lattice beyond the child rate, no bundled family ticket that any data source states, and no free evening or off-peak window. Whatever the operator's page shows on the day you book is what you pay, and the figures here reflect that page as it currently reads.

Ticket	Adult	Child 4 to 12
Return	EUR 30	EUR 8
One way	EUR 17	EUR 5

A one-way ticket combined with a descent on foot is a pattern worth considering if you want the ride but not the double fare. The Srđ zig-zag trail is free to walk, so riding up and walking down costs EUR 17 instead of EUR 30, and the descent spares you the climb. That said, the trail is a real hill path rather than a promenade, so it suits walkers who are comfortable on uneven ground; the trail's length and climb time are not published by any source this site holds, so no figure is given here.

Set the cable car against the paid sights nearby and the price lands in context. Lokrum island costs EUR 30 per person including the return boat, charged even if you arrive by your own boat. Trsteno Arboretum is EUR 10 for an adult. Rector's Palace is EUR 15. At EUR 30 return, the cable car matches Lokrum's EUR 30 ticket, and the museum free-entry rules for Dubrovnik-Neretva County residents and university students do not apply to it.

From inside a cable car cabin above Dubrovnik, Croatia, warm May midday, worn handrail and scuffed floor of the car, the Adriatic and orange rooftops of the old town sliding past the glass, small fingerprints and salt haze on the pane

Before locking money into the ride, it is worth knowing that the walls circuit has its own free guided option: a GuruWalk tour titled Walk The Walls Of Dubrovnik, rated 5 out of 5 across 55 GuruWalk reviews, which meets at Ploče Gate and runs 1 hour 15 minutes in English. Note that this is a free walking tour, and the walls circuit itself is the EUR 40 ticket described in the Dubrovnik City Walls guide.

Is The Cable Car Open In Winter?

No. The Dubrovnik cable car closes from December to March. That closure sits on top of the fare question, because no ticket exists at any price in those months, and the free Srđ trail becomes the only way up the hill until the ride reopens in spring.

Winter reshapes Dubrovnik's paid attractions more than most visitors expect. War Photo Limited, the photography gallery in the Old Town, is closed from November to March. The Western Outer Wall stretch is closed December to February. The cable car's December-to-March closure belongs to that same pattern: operators shut seasonal infrastructure, and the city's free layer, the streets, gates, squares and beaches, carries the visit instead.

The bare cable car line and empty summit pylons on Srđ above Dubrovnik, Croatia, cold grey December morning, no cabins moving, dry brown scrub stiff with frost, thin cloud over the sea, a strand of wire humming in the wind

The City Walls ticket drops to EUR 20 for an adult from 1 December through January and February, with children 7 to 18 at EUR 5 and children under 7 not paying. The walls operator's own ticket shop lists that winter price cut. The cable car does not mirror it; it simply stops. Anyone planning a December summit visit is walking up, and the trail's condition in winter is not described by any record this site holds.

For a fuller picture of the season, the Dubrovnik in winter guide collects what stays open, what closes and what stays free. The short version relevant here: the cable car is off the table, the walls get cheaper rather than closing, and the Old Town's free surface, Stradun, Pile Gate, Luža Square and the Onofrio fountains among them, carries on regardless. Advent in Dubrovnik runs 28 November 2026 to 3 January 2027 with the main concert programme on Stradun, though no entry fee for the concerts is stated by the official page.

A zig-zag footpath climbing a dry hillside toward a stone fort at the summit

Does The Pass Include It?

No. The Dubrovnik Pass does not include the cable car. The pass bundles the City Walls and Fort Lovrijenac ticket, ten sights and the buses, at EUR 40 for one day, EUR 50 for three days and EUR 60 for seven, and the cable car ride is not one of them.

That matters for arithmetic. In the main season, running 1 March to 30 November, the one-day pass costs exactly the same as the adult walls ticket, EUR 40, so the pass effectively adds the museums and buses for nothing extra. But if you assumed it also unlocked the hill, the assumption costs EUR 30 per adult on top. The pass's own webshop is the source for what it covers, and the cable car appears nowhere in it. Everything else covered here is indexed on Free Things To Do In Dubrovnik.

There is also a seasonal trap in the other direction. No winter pass is on sale; the pass is priced and sold for the March-to-November season only. From 1 December the walls ticket alone falls to EUR 20, while the pass remains absent. So the pass is never a winter saver, and it is never a cable car substitute. The Dubrovnik Pass guide works through the whole bundle.

Low along a dusty gravel stretch of the Srđ trail above Dubrovnik, Croatia, blue dusk after a hot August day, stone cairns marking the path, the city lights beginning below, a weathered walking stick leaned against dry limestone

What the pass does cover is worth stating plainly because the bundles get confused in visitor forums. The walls and Fort Lovrijenac are one ticket, EUR 40 adult in main season, and the pass includes that ticket. The Franciscan cloister and Old Pharmacy, EUR 8 on their own, are free with the pass. The museums are not run by the walls society and charge separately: Rector's Palace at EUR 15, the Maritime Museum at EUR 10, the Ethnographic Museum at EUR 8 and Revelin at EUR 5, or all ten on the museums' own EUR 20 ticket valid seven days. Free entry to those museums applies only to children under 7, Dubrovnik-Neretva County residents, ICOM and HMD members and university students from October to June.

Is The Hike A Real Alternative?

Yes. The Srđ zig-zag trail is free to walk, climbs the same hill the cable car serves, and it is the only route up between December and March when the ride is closed. It is a hill path rather than a paved promenade, and no published figure exists for its length or climb time, so plan it as a proper walk rather than a stroll.

Fort Lovrijenac seen from across the water outside the city walls of Dubrovnik

The trail's price is its whole appeal in a city where the headline experiences cluster at EUR 30 and above. Walking beneath the walls, through Pile Gate and along Stradun is free; the walls circuit with Fort Lovrijenac and Minčeta Tower is the one EUR 40 ticket; the trail up Srđ costs nothing. Three facts about the same hill, kept separate because they are separate regimes.

High on the Srđ walking trail above Dubrovnik, Croatia, fresh March midday between rain showers, wet limestone gravel path glistening, the walled city sharp below through breaking cloud, puddles holding the grey sky, loose pebbles scattered on the bend

What the trail does not spare you is the summit's paid layer. Fort Imperial at the top is a paid museum, so arriving on foot changes the journey, not the fort's admission. The cable car fare and the museum ticket are separate purchases in either direction, and no record held here states a standalone price for Fort Imperial, so none is printed.

The practical combinations, all from verified figures: ride up and ride down at EUR 30 adult; ride up and walk down at EUR 17; walk both ways for free. A child aged 4 to 12 riding both ways costs EUR 8. Walking both ways is the only zero-cost way to reach the summit, since the cable car and Fort Imperial both charge, and it is one of the few genuinely free things in Dubrovnik that involves real terrain rather than a street or a square.

The Old Town you look down on from the top is itself walkable for free with a guide, which is where the GuruWalk list earns its place in a cable car article. The Pearl of the Adriatic Walk, rated 4.92 out of 5 across 5,844 GuruWalk reviews, is a 1 hour 45 minute English walk meeting at Pile Gate, free to reserve on GuruWalk and pay what you want at the end.

Mistakes That Trip People Up At The Cable Car

The common mistakes are assuming the Dubrovnik Pass covers the ride, expecting a winter ticket, treating the summit fort as free, and budgeting the cable car as a family's cheap add-on. Each one is avoidable with a single fact: EUR 30 return, no pass coverage, closed December to March, Fort Imperial paid.

The first mistake is the pass assumption. Travellers who buy the EUR 40 one-day pass for the walls sometimes read "sights and transport" as including the hill ride. It does not. The second is the winter plan: December through March has no cable car at all, so a New Year itinerary built around a summit sunset needs the trail instead.

A lone hiker from far behind on the Srđ trail above Dubrovnik, Croatia, cold January midday, thin winter sun on dry white karst and low maquis scrub, the sea beyond a hazy line, a plastic water bottle left tipping in the gravel

The third mistake is calling the summit free once you have walked up. The trail is free; Fort Imperial is a paid museum, and the two facts travel together. The fourth is the family budget: at EUR 30 per adult return and EUR 8 per child, a family's combined fares quickly exceed an adult main-season walls ticket, so the decision deserves the same weight as the walls purchase rather than being treated as a side expense. The fifth mistake cuts the other way: assuming everything on Srđ costs money. The trail itself is free, and it is the answer whenever the fare or the closure rules the ride out.

Common Questions On This Topic

How Much Is The Dubrovnik Cable Car?

An adult return ticket is EUR 30, with a one-way fare of EUR 17. Children aged 4 to 12 pay EUR 8 return or EUR 5 one way. The figures come from the operator's own price page, and the Dubrovnik Pass does not cover the ride.

Is The Dubrovnik Cable Car Open In Winter?

No. The cable car closes from December to March. In those months the free Srđ zig-zag trail is the only way up the hill, and Fort Imperial at the summit remains a paid museum whenever it is reached.

Does The Dubrovnik Pass Include The Cable Car?

No. The pass bundles the City Walls and Fort Lovrijenac ticket, ten sights and the buses, priced EUR 40 for one day, EUR 50 for three and EUR 60 for seven. The cable car is not part of the bundle, and no winter pass is on sale.

Can You Walk Up Instead Of Riding?

Yes. The Srđ zig-zag trail is free and climbs the same hill. A common pattern is riding up for EUR 17 one way and walking down, which costs less than the EUR 30 return while sparing you the climb.

Is The Fort At The Top Of The Cable Car Free?

No. Fort Imperial at the summit of Srđ is a paid museum. The operator lists no standalone price for the summit museum, so budget the cable car fare and the Fort Imperial ticket as two separate costs.

A pale misty January midday in Dubrovnik, Croatia, looking across the grey-green bay toward the ticketed fortress on its headland, its gate and staircases dark against muted stone, rain beading on a metal handrail in the foreground, one gull on the parapet

Is The Cable Car The Most Expensive Thing In Dubrovnik?

It ties with Lokrum at EUR 30. Lokrum charges EUR 30 per person including the return boat, the same even if you arrive by your own boat. The City Walls ticket is EUR 40 but includes Fort Lovrijenac, so the cable car and Lokrum are the priciest single experiences. The hill itself never charges; only the machines and the fort on it do, and the walk down is always free.