THE VOLCANO
Teide & Las Cañadas
102TOURS
27 173REVIEWS
€15FROM
Tenerife sights to see
The island from the 3 715 m summit down to sea level — and which of the six directions books each one.
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THE SHORT ANSWER
Every sight belongs to a direction, and every direction is a booking
There are two ways to read this island. A place is a thing you stand in front of — a summit, a gorge, a cliff. A direction is how you get there and what you book. Each of the six places below belongs to one of six directions, and the volcano and the whale channel carry 159 of 306 tours and 111 275 of 126 173 reviews between them.
The other four are quieter and cheaper. The north is also greener, because 520 mm of rain across 64 days a year does that.
A place
What you stand in front of. Altitude, what it is, what it costs to reach.
six of them · 3 715 m → 0 m
A direction
Where the tours go. Every direction has a hub page of its own and a booking today.
six of them · 199 tours · from €15SUMMIT TO SEA LEVEL
Six named places
Read top to bottom and you have descended the island: 3 715 metres to nothing in six steps. The bar on the left is each one's height against the summit; the tag says which direction books it.
The island, in metres
altitudes: IGN + Grafcan · prices 11 Sep 2026
3 715 m
Pico del Teide
The highest point in Spain. The last 160 m to the crater need a €15 permit with a time slot, booked weeks ahead through Tenerife ON — no tour can give you one.
TEIDE & LAS CAÑADAS Teide hub 2 356 →3 555 m Teide cable car
Eight minutes for 1 199 metres of climb. €42 adult return, bought separately from almost every tour, and closed without warning in wind.
PAID ON SITE Cable car page 2 139 m Roques de GarcíaEroded lava monoliths on the caldera floor. Every minivan, coach and jeep stops here, which is why it is the photograph you have already seen.
TEIDE FROM THE SOUTH Teide from the south 750 m to the sea Masca gorgeA village on a terrace above a ravine that drops to the water. Booking is mandatory, Wednesday to Saturday, €40.66 and up — and the descent and the boat back are separate tickets.
MASCA & THE WEST Masca hub up to 600 m Los Gigantes cliffsA wall straight into the ocean. From the road above you see a coastline; the scale only reads from the water, which is why every photograph of it is taken from a boat.
LOS GIGANTES Los Gigantes 0 m The whale channelResident short-finned pilot whales, twenty minutes out of Los Cristianos. They live there, so ninety minutes is genuinely enough — this is not a migration you can miss.
WHALE SIGHTSEEING Whale hubThree of the six are free to stand in front of. The three that are not — the cable car at €42, the summit permit at €15 and the gorge descent from €40.66 — are each bought separately, and none of them is inside a tour price.
Pick a directionWHERE THE TOURS GO
Six directions
Each card has two exits on purpose: book the strongest product in that direction today, or open our own page for it and compare the rest first.
THE CHANNEL
Whale sightseeing
57TOURS
84 102REVIEWS
€26FROM
THE WEST
Masca & the west
39TOURS
6 383REVIEWS
€15FROM
THE NORTH
Anaga & the north
29TOURS
996REVIEWS
€16FROM
THE CAPITAL
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
13TOURS
979REVIEWS
€19FROM
NEXT ISLANDS
La Palma & La Gomera
12TOURS
4 386REVIEWS
€110FROM
IF YOU WOULD RATHER READ FIRST
Three guides
ROUTE PLANNER
Tenerife sightseeing itinerary
Three days that do not repeat each other — up to the caldera, out to the whales, around the west coast.
Use it when you know how many free days you have and not what to put in them. 8 min readRead the guide TIMINGBest time for Tenerife sightseeing
Twelve months set against rain, the cloud sheet, snow on the summit and Saharan dust.
Use it when your dates are fixed and you want to know which tour those dates reward. 6 min readRead the guide WHERE TO STAYTenerife south sightseeing
Which of the three southern bases reaches what, and how far each is from the volcano and the water.
Use it before you book a hotel, not after. 7 min readRead the guideTHE ONE MOST PEOPLE START WITH
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Teide + Masca in one day
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All Tenerife sightseeing tours
306 in the core catalogue · from €15 · 126 173 reviews
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SIX QUESTIONS
About the sights
What are the main sights on Tenerife?
Six, and they run from 3 715 m down to sea level: Pico del Teide, the cable car that climbs from 2 356 to 3 555 m, Roques de García on the caldera floor at 2 139 m, the Masca gorge with 750 m to the sea below it, the Los Gigantes cliffs up to 600 m, and the whale channel at nothing at all. Everything else on the island is a variation on one of them.
What is the difference between a place and a direction here?
A place is what you stand in front of; a direction is how you get there and what you book. Roques de García is a place — a lava monolith on the caldera floor. «Teide & Las Cañadas» is a direction: 102 tours, 27 173 reviews, from €15. Every place on this page names the direction that books it.
Which sights cost money to see?
Three of the six. The cable car is €42 adult return, €21 for a child, €23.50 one way, and it is bought separately from almost every tour on the site. The summit path needs its own permit at €15 per person with a time slot. The gorge descent at Masca is a separate booking from €40.66, Wednesday to Saturday. Roques de García, the Masca viewpoints, the cliffs from the road and the channel from the shore cost nothing.
Where do most people go?
The volcano and the water. Teide carries 102 tours and 27 173 reviews; the whale channel has fewer tours at 57 but 84 102 reviews — the most reviewed thing on the island by a wide margin, because a ninety-minute boat is the easiest sightseeing decision anyone makes here.
What is the cheapest sight to book?
Both Teide and Masca start at €15, the north at €16, Santa Cruz at €19 and the whale channel at €26. The floor across the whole catalogue is €15. The next islands are the expensive direction: La Palma and La Gomera start at €110, because a day there is a ferry plus a coach.
Can I see several of these in one day?
Yes, if they share a direction. Teide and Masca go together on one eight-hour tour at €86 — that is the product in the calendar above. The whale channel does not combine with the volcano on the same day unless you take the short versions of each, because one is at sea level and the other is two thousand metres up.