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Torre dos Clérigos tickets cost $11 on GetYourGuide, where the entrance ticket is rated 4.6 from 7,469 reviews and is the only listing I found. The tower is 75.6 m high, per Wikipedia, and you climb 240 steps to the top. I would go at opening time at 9 am, or about an hour before sunset when the light turns the rooftops orange.
| Tour | From | Rating | Length | Free cancellation | Book |
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| Torre dos Clérigos Entrance Ticket | $11 | ★ 4.6 (7,469) | 30 minutes | Yes | Check availability |
Prices, ratings and inclusions for Torre dos Clérigos tickets on this page come from the GetYourGuide listing in US dollars, checked in October 2026. Links open GetYourGuide in a new tab, and I earn a commission if you book, at no extra cost to you.
The Torre dos Clérigos is the baroque bell tower of the Clérigos Church in the centre of Porto. The grid shows the figures that matter before you buy tickets for the Torre dos Clérigos, each with its source.
| What | Detail |
|---|---|
| Floors | Six, per Wikipedia |
| Steps | 240 to the top, per Wikipedia |
| Time to allow | 30 minutes, per the GetYourGuide listing |
| Address | R. de São Filipe de Nery, 4050-546 Porto, per Google Maps |
| Opening hours | 9 am to 7 pm every day, per Google Maps |
| Also inside | The exhibition space in the Clérigos Building, per the listing |
The tower is not a modern glass deck. It is an open climb up a narrow stone stair, so I would not book it for anyone who cannot manage 240 steps.
The tower is 75.6 metres high, dominating the city.
There is one ticket for the tower, so choosing among Torre dos Clérigos observation deck tickets is easy. It is a standard entrance ticket, not a tour: you walk in at your own pace, with no guide, and the listing names the Irmandade dos Clérigos as the operator. It includes entry to the tower and to the exhibition space in the Clérigos Building, where you see the Irmandade dos Clérigos Collection and the Christus Collection, with furniture, paintings and vestments from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Cancellation of Torre dos Clérigos tickets is free up to 2 days before for a full refund. That makes it an easy booking to hold while you wait for a decent forecast. The meeting point is Rua de São Filipe Nery, at the foot of the tower.
Irmandade dos Clérigos
My pick: My pick for a first visit: $11, 4.6 stars from 7,469 reviews, tower plus exhibition space, and free cancellation up to 2 days before.
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With a single listing, the price of Torre dos Clérigos tickets is simple: $11 buys entry for one person, and I did not find a family, guided or combined version. For a group, this calculator works out the total and links to the booking page.
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Prices are the lowest per-person prices on GetYourGuide when I last checked; the final price depends on the date, time slot and age.
The Torre dos Clérigos tickets pay for the tower and the exhibition together, so you are not paying extra for the museum rooms. A guided walk or a city pass would be a separate purchase, and none of them appear in my data for this tower.
The score for Torre dos Clérigos tickets is strong for a tower with this much traffic: 4.6 from 7,469 reviews on GetYourGuide, and 4.6 from 22,612 reviews for the tower on Google Maps. Two ratings from two platforms agree, which is the reason I trust the number. The complaints are about the climb and the crowds, not about the view.
Easy to use ticket. Quite busy on the day but worth climbing stairs for the view
One reviewer visited at 10 am on a Saturday and found no queue. Another booked for the 9 am opening and called it a cooler climb. Both tips point to the first hours of the day, so choose an early slot for your Torre dos Clérigos tickets. Midday is when the stair is slowest, because groups arrive together and the narrow steps leave little room to pass.
Booking a Torre dos Clérigos entrance ticket takes a few minutes. You pick a date online, receive a voucher and show it at the tower. Because the tower sits on a narrow street, I would give myself a few minutes to find Rua de São Filipe Nery, which is the meeting point in the listing. The ticket does not include a guide, so bring your own plan for the exhibition rooms. If you are comparing it with another city’s deck, this is a short, cheap, self-guided visit and not a long timed slot.
The hours decide when Torre dos Clérigos tickets are worth using. Google Maps lists the tower as open from 9 am to 7 pm on all seven days. I could not confirm the hours or the last entry on the official site, torredosclerigos.pt, so check it before you buy Torre dos Clérigos tickets for a sunset climb that depends on the closing time. In summer the sun sets after 9 pm, which means the tower may close before the best light, so a late afternoon visit suits the low season better.
No Torre dos Clérigos tickets skip the stairs. Wikipedia counts 240 steps to the top of the six floors. Reviewers call it a moderate walk up and say you should be prepared to climb a lot of steps, with room to pause on the way. The stair is narrow, so a busy hour means waiting for people coming down. I would start early, wear flat shoes and take water in warm months.
The tower belongs to a church built for the Clérigos Brotherhood by Nicolau Nasoni, an Italian architect and painter whose work shapes the 18th-century north of Portugal. Construction of the church began in 1732, per the listing, and Wikidata gives 1779 as the opening year. The monumental divided stairway in front of the church was completed in the 1750s. The tower is visible from many points in the city, and the climb gives you the reverse view: Porto laid out below, including the tower’s own neighbours.
Porto’s sky decides the view, so pick the date of your Torre dos Clérigos tickets with care. The table below uses Open-Meteo data for 2025 at the tower.
| Month | Sunset (Lisbon time) | Cloud cover | Sunshine a day | Rainy days |
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| Jan | 17:30 | 72% | 5.7 h | 18 |
| Feb | 18:08 | 74% | 6.8 h | 11 |
| Mar | 18:41 | 56% | 8.7 h | 16 |
| Apr | 20:14 | 66% | 9.6 h | 16 |
| Mayclearest | 20:46 | 42% | 13 h | 11 |
| Jun | 21:09 | 47% | 13.1 h | 5 |
| Julclearest | 21:05 | 20% | 13.9 h | 2 |
| Augclearest | 20:33 | 32% | 12.5 h | 4 |
| Sep | 19:43 | 47% | 10 h | 8 |
| Oct | 18:53 | 57% | 7.6 h | 11 |
| Nov | 17:15 | 64% | 6.5 h | 14 |
| Dec | 17:06 | 65% | 6.1 h | 19 |
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Sunset and cloud cover for the same dates in 2025 at the deck (Open-Meteo historical weather (ERA5), 2025); sunset moves by about a minute between years.
July was the clearest month at 20 percent cloud cover, followed by August at 32 percent. February was the cloudiest at 74 percent, with January close behind at 72 percent and 18 rainy days. Sunset is earliest in December at 17:06 and latest in June at 21:09. I would arrive 45 to 60 minutes before sunset, and in the months when the tower may close before dusk I would aim for the last hours of daylight instead.
At the top you look over Porto’s rooftops towards the Douro River. A viewer at the top of a 75 m structure sees about 31 km to the horizon on a clear day, using the calculator below. The gallery sits lower than the full height of the tower, so treat that figure as an upper limit.
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Geometric horizon d ≈ 3.57 × √h (km, h in metres); refraction adds about 8%. Haze and clouds usually limit the real view first. Formula: Distance to the horizon.
These places are all within walking distance of the tower, so you can add them to the day you book Torre dos Clérigos tickets. Distances are straight-line from the tower, from Google Maps coordinates.
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No other ticketed observation deck from this site is in Porto yet. Porto has several viewpoints, so here is how the tower compares, using Google Maps ratings. Whether each one is free is something I did not verify, so check locally.
| Viewpoint | Google rating | Reviews | Distance from the tower | Free or paid |
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| Torre dos Clérigos | 4.6 | 22,612 | the tower itself | Paid, $11 |
| Jardim do Morro | 4.7 | 36,247 | 1.03 km (0.64 mi) | Check locally |
| Miradouro da Serra do Pilar | 4.8 | 2,501 | 0.96 km (0.60 mi) | Check locally |
| Miradouro da Ribeira | 4.8 | 137 | 0.95 km (0.59 mi) | Check locally |
| Miradouro da Rua das Aldas | 4.8 | 348 | 0.40 km (0.25 mi) | Check locally |
| Miradouro do Passeio das Virtudes | 4.7 | 117 | 0.38 km (0.23 mi) | Check locally |
The difference is height and angle, and only the tower sells Torre dos Clérigos tickets. The viewpoints on the river side look across at the Dom Luís I bridge, while the tower looks down on the old town from the middle of it, and the tower is also the only one here with a ticket I can price.
I think so. The GetYourGuide entrance ticket costs $11 and is rated 4.6 from 7,469 reviews, and reviewers describe views over the red rooftops and the Douro River. The price also includes the exhibition space in the Clérigos Building. Be ready for the climb: Wikipedia counts 240 steps to the top.
The listing I found sells entry at $11 in US dollars, and nothing in my data says the tower climb is free. The tower is the paid part of the visit. Check the official site, torredosclerigos.pt, for any free categories or for the current price before you travel.
The GetYourGuide listing gives 30 minutes for the whole visit. That covers the stairs, the view and a look around, so a slow climber or a photographer should allow more. Wikipedia counts 240 steps over six floors, and a reviewer called it a moderate walk up.
The only ticket I found for the tower on GetYourGuide is the entrance ticket at $11. It is rated 4.6 from 7,469 reviews and offers free cancellation up to 2 days before for a full refund. It includes entry to the tower and the exhibition space but no guide.
Google Maps lists 9 am to 7 pm every day of the week. Hours can change on holidays and in the low season, and I could not confirm them on the official site, so check torredosclerigos.pt before you plan around the last entry. Arriving at opening time was a reviewer's tip for fewer people.
For the clearest sky, July was the best month in the 2025 Open-Meteo data at 20 percent cloud cover, followed by August at 32 percent. Sunset runs from 17:06 in December to 21:09 in June. I would arrive 45 to 60 minutes before sunset, or at 9 am for a cooler climb.
Wikipedia gives 75.6 metres for the tower, with 240 steps to reach the top of its six floors. The viewing gallery sits below the full height of the tower, so the view comes from a little lower than that figure. The tower is one of the symbols of Porto.