Granada is perfectly connected with the main cities of Spain, as well as other international destinations. It has an airport, train station and bus station.

Here are some useful recommendations for getting to and around Granada.

How to get there?

• Plane

The airport is located 20km from Granada. The way to get to the capital is by bus or cab. The bus leaves with a frequency of 30 minutes and has different stops in the center of Granada, ending its route at the Palacio de Congresos, its price is 2,70€. In the case of the cab, the price of the trip is usually around 20€.

• Bus

The bus option is the slowest but also the cheapest. ALSA is the transport company that manages the routes and there is a wide availability of schedules and routes that you can check here.

• Train/Ave

It is undoubtedly one of the most practical options to get to Granada. Since 2019 Granada has the AVE with direct connection to Madrid, whose journey takes about 3 hours. The station is located in the center of the city, close to hotels, the metro and several bus stops. You can check the timetables here.

• Car

The option of traveling by car gives us a great independence to organize our trip to Granada. If you plan to go by car to Granada, you can arrive by the following roads that we show you below:

From Seville: A-92

From Malaga/Murcia: N-432 / A-92

From Motril: A-44

From Cordoba: N-432

From Madrid: A-44

The disadvantage of traveling by car to Granada is the difficulty in finding parking and the limited circulation in the old town. However, Granada has many parking lots located in the center, as well as in the area of the Neptuno shopping center and Parque de las Ciencias. You can consult the parking offer here.

How to get around Granada?

• City bus

This is the best option to reach the most interesting places such as the Albaicín and Sacromonte neighborhoods, the Alhambra or other corners of the historic center. The service schedule is from 6 am to 11 pm and the frequency is from 3 to 10 minutes depending on the line. Timetables and routes can be consulted here.

These are the most interesting lines:

C30: Alhambra – Centro

C31: Albaicín – Centro

C32: Alhambra – Albaicín

C34: Sacromonte – Center

The ticket can be purchased directly on the bus and costs approximately 1,40€. It can also be purchased on the bus itself Credibus card, this has a cost of 2 € which will be returned when delivered back and can be recharged with an amount of 5 € to 20 €. This last option is the cheapest.

• Metro

Since a few years ago, Granada has a metro line that connects the towns of Armilla and Albolote thus crossing the capital from north to south. The most central stop is Recogidas and it also has another one in the Nevada Shopping Center.

It has a fairly long timetable, from 6.30 am to 11 pm from Monday to Thursday, from 7 am to 2 am on Fridays and Saturdays and from 7.30 am to 11 pm on Sundays. Frequency is usually about 7 minutes. You can consult the timetable and itinerary here.

The price of a trip is 1,35€ and 2,70€ if we take the round trip ticket. There is the possibility of acquiring a card of the metropolitan transport consortium with which the trips will have the approximate cost of 1€.

• Taxi

This option is one of the most comfortable and fastest to reach your destination, although not the cheapest. In Granada there are more than 400 cabs so it is easy to find one available.

There are different taxi ranks where they are located but the most central ones are Plaza Nueva, Fuente de las Batallas and Jardines del Triunfo. The main company is Radio Taxi Genil, whose telephone number is: 958 132 323.