Malaga City GuideAbout Malaga City Guide
An independent, unofficial guide to visiting Málaga: which ticket to buy for which building, which beach sits on which side of the port, and how to spend one, two or three days without queueing for things that do not need it. We are not the Ayuntamiento de Málaga or its Área de Turismo, the Museo Picasso Málaga, the Museo Carmen Thyssen, the Centre Pompidou Málaga, the Junta de Andalucía's Museo de Málaga, the Cabildo of Málaga Cathedral, the Fundación Caminito del Rey, the Diputación de Málaga, Renfe, EMT, Metro Málaga or AENA. We are not a tour operator or a ticket seller, and we sell nothing. The guide starts on the Málaga city guide homepage.
Why This Site Exists
Málaga punishes a vague plan in three specific ways. The first is the free-hours map: the municipal museums, the Junta's Museo de Málaga, the Picasso museum and the Roman theatre each have their own free window, on different days and for different people, and nobody prints them side by side. The second is the hill: the Alcazaba and the Castillo de Gibralfaro are sold separately and as a combined ticket, the walk between them is steep, and the order you do them in, plus knowing about the lift, changes the afternoon. The third is Caminito del Rey: a timed, named ticket that sells out weeks ahead, so the walk most people plan on arrival is the one they never make.
So every price, hour and closed day here is read off the official page of the building itself and stamped with the date it was read. Where the source does not state a figure, the page says not stated.
Where the Information Comes From
Opening hours, closed days, ticket names and admission prices come from the institutions themselves: museopicassomalaga.org, carmenthyssenmalaga.org, centrepompidou-malaga.eu, museosdeandalucia.es, malagacatedral.com, the Ayuntamiento's own ticket shop for the Alcazaba, Gibralfaro and the Roman theatre, and caminitodelrey.info. City information comes from visita.malaga.eu. Transport figures come from renfe.com, emtmalaga.es, metromalaga.es and aena.es. Tap water from emasa.es. Climate from AEMET data and the ERA5 reanalysis. Each page prints the source and the check date in its freshness box.
Tour prices, durations, ratings and review counts are the booking platform's own published numbers, read on the date shown on the card.
What We Do Not Claim
No invented author, no character who grew up in El Perchel, no claim that anyone from this site stood in a particular queue on a particular morning. We do not operate or personally conduct these tours, and we inspect no museum, boat or operator.
We also hold no bookings. Every Check Availability button hands you to the platform the tour is sold on, where the price, the terms and the cancellation window are theirs. Official ticket offices are linked plainly, with no tracking, whenever buying direct is the better move, which for several of the Málaga tickets covered here it is.
How Often Figures Are Re-Checked
Every page is re-read against its sources at least once a quarter. The date in its freshness box is the date that page's figures were last read. Ticket pages and the things to do in Málaga hub go first because their figures move most.
How the Site Pays for Itself
Tour and activity links here are affiliate links: book through one and the platform pays us a commission out of its own margin, at the same price you would have paid going direct. The hotel buttons on where to stay in Málaga work the same way. That buys nothing else: not placement, not a rating, not the wording of a recommendation.
Where the official ticket office, the public bus or the Cercanías train is cheaper, the page says so even though that link earns nothing. Detail on the affiliate disclosure page.
Corrections
Museum hours in Málaga change with the season, free windows get renamed, and prices move every year. If a number here is out of date, write to us with what you found and when you were there. A corrected figure is worth more than a defended one.