Where a car takes you from Lisbon
These are the day trips from Lisbon on our own pages where a car earns its keep. Trains reach some of them; a car reaches all of them, on your own clock.
- Sintra (travesseiros and queijadas) Sintra, 40 minutes from Lisbon by train: travesseiros, the puff pastry with almond-egg-yolk filling developed at Casa Piriquita in the 1940s, plus que
- Setubal (choco frito and moscatel) Setubal one hour from Lisbon: choco frito, fried cuttlefish in a beer batter, and Moscatel de Setubal tastings at Jose Maria da Fonseca's Azeitao cell
- Ericeira (Atlantic seafood) Ericeira, 45 minutes from Lisbon: an Atlantic fishing village turned surf town, charcoal-grilled sea bass at Mar das Latas, percebes at Tik Tak
- Cascais (seafood and surf) Cascais, 40 minutes from Lisbon: a beachside town with grilled lobster at Mar do Inferno, lunch at Furnas do Guincho overlooking the Atlantic dunes
- Azeitao (cheese and wine) Azeitao, 45 minutes from Lisbon: a queijo DOP sheep's-milk cheese and Moscatel wine country, with the Jose Maria da Fonseca cellars dating from 1834
- Cacilhas (riverside fish lunch) Cacilhas, ten minutes across the Tagus from Lisbon: a fishing wharf with riverside grills, Ponto Final and Atira-te ao Rio for charcoal fish lunch
Booking a car in Lisbon
We compare through one partner rather than listing every broker. Desks sit at the airport and in town, and the headline rate below is theirs, not ours.
- From
- USD 14.06 a day
- Desks on site
- Alamo, Dollar, Enterprise, Europcar, Firefly, Hertz, Keddy, National
- Pick up at
- Lisbon Airport · Lisbon Oriente Railway Station · Lisbon Benfica Railway Station
Rates are the partner's headline price at our last check (2026-10-02) and move with dates, car class and insurance. We earn a commission if you book, at no cost to you.