Top of the Rock
The cable car top station, the terrace, and most of the apes.
The terraces at the top of the Rock, and where most visitors meet their first macaque. It was the cable car's upper station until that closed in November 2025, so for now people arrive by taxi tour, on foot or by eBike.
There is a café and a viewing terrace looking across the bay to Algeciras and, on a clear day, over to Morocco.
Where this rating comes from
This is the rating for the ticket, not for this site on its own.
Top of the Rock is not sold or reviewed separately anywhere we can licence, so it carries no score of its own — and we would rather show you nothing than invent one. What we can tell you is how people rate the ticket that admits you to it, which is the thing you actually buy.
The facts
- Access
- Taxi tour, road or on foot — no cable car until 2027
- Facilities
- Café and viewing terraces
What we read
One ticket · 17 sites
Also in the Nature Reserve
Your ticket covers all of these, not just this one. There is nothing further to buy once you are through the gate.
- The Barbary MacaquesAs long as you like
- St Michael's Cave45 minutes
- The Skywalk30 minutes
- Windsor Suspension Bridge20 minutes
- Great Siege Tunnels1 hour
- WWII Tunnels1 hour
- The Moorish Castle45 minutes to an hour
- City Under Siege Exhibition30 minutes
- O'Hara's Battery45 minutes
- Princess Caroline's Battery30 minutes
- Spur Battery20 minutes
- Queen's Balcony15 minutes
- Charles V Wall30 minutes
- Top of the RockYou are here
- The Mediterranean Steps1.5 – 2 hours
- Birds of Prey MigrationSeasonal
- The East Side1 hour
Around £45 per adult · under 5 free. What the ticket covers