Hikers on a trail across black lava fields and red cinder cones below Mount Etna's smoking summit

436 tours on GetYourGuide · prices read October 2026

Mount Etna Tours: Find the One That Fits You

Etna has more than 400 tours, and most of them fall into a few kinds of day. Start with the three that travellers book most, or pick the kind that fits you and narrow it down from there.

  • Summit craters: only with an authorised alpine or volcanological guide, and only while the alert phase allows it. Below 2,500 m you can walk on your own.
  • Cable car: €54 return to 2,500 m, or €82 with the 4x4 bus and a guide to about 2,800 m (October 2026).
  • Checked October 2026. Summit access changes with the volcano's alert phase; your tour operator confirms on the day.

Etna's tour landscape

Where every Etna tour starts, and where on the mountain it goes. More in Etna tours by the numbers.

Where the tours start

Meet on Etna91Catania214Taormina79Siracusa16Palermo7Messina5Cefalù4Malta3Nicolosi2Randazzo2Sciacca1Ragalna1Riposto1Meet on Etna91Catania214Taormina79Siracusa16Palermo7Messina5Cefalù4Malta3Nicolosi2Sciacca1Ragalna1

436 tours, from 13 towns and the mountain itself. Tap a dot for its numbers.

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Where on the mountain they go

Silvestri craters55Rifugio Sapienza53Summit craters51Cable car42Valle del Bove39Piano Provenzana19Zafferana Etnea18Linguaglossa17Monti Sartorius15Pizzi Deneri, observatory12Ragalna and Piano Vetore10Nicolosi8Randazzo5Castiglione di Sicilia4Bronte1Solicchiata and Passopisciaro1Silvestri craters55Rifugio Sapienza53Summit craters51Cable car42Valle del Bove39Piano Provenzana19Zafferana Etnea18Linguaglossa17Monti Sartorius15Ragalna and Piano Vetore10Randazzo5Castiglione di Sicilia4Bronte1

On several slopes: Lava caves 157 · Trecastagni, Pedara, Belpasso 4

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See all 482 Etna tours on GetYourGuide
Dot size and arrow width follow the number of tours on this page; a tour is counted at each place where its guests stop or walk, not where it only meets or drives past. GetYourGuide files tours by its own filters, so its counts differ from ours. From GetYourGuide's Etna listings, read 2026-10-22.

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Which Etna tour is for you?

Each kind of tour has its own page with every tour of that kind, a way to narrow them down, and the questions people ask before booking.

Summit hike on foot It's for you if you want to stand at the summit craters or their rim and can walk two to five hours at altitude, with a guide. 65 tourstypically €65 per person See the summit on foot tours → Cable car and 4x4 to the high craters It's for you if you want the lifts to do part of the climb, whether you stop at about 2,800 m or walk on to the summit craters. 81 tourstypically €69 per person See the cable car and 4x4 tours → Sunset on the volcano It's for you if you want the light going down over the craters and the sea, and you are free in the late afternoon. 31 tourstypically €73 per person See the sunset tours → 4x4 jeep tours It's for you if you want lava fields, side craters and forest tracks off the tarmac in a 4x4, with little walking. 27 tourstypically €100 per person See the jeep tours → Day trips by van or coach It's for you if you want the craters, a lava cave and the views from a seat, picked up at your hotel, often with the Alcantara Gorges or Taormina the same day. 121 tourstypically €100 per person See the day trip tours → Wine on the slopes It's for you if a winery is part of your day, from a tasting on the slopes to a crater walk with lunch at a cantina. 115 tourstypically €129 per person See the wine tours → Easier crater walk below 2,500 m It's for you if you want a real walk on lava and through craters without the summit's altitude. 103 tourstypically €79 per person See the crater walk tours → Private tours It's for you if you want the day at your pace, with your own guide and car, and are happy to pay for it. 44 tourstypically €223 per person See the private tours →

Where you start

From your hotel, or on the mountain

About half of Etna's tours leave from Catania, and they hold two thirds of the reviews. Taormina has fewer and dearer ones, most with a hotel pickup. Or meet the guide at a mountain station and drive or bus up yourself.

Leaving from

Where each tour starts. A tour that also collects from other towns counts once, at its start.

  • Catania 214 tours · typically €80
  • Meet on the mountain 91 tours · typically €72 Rifugio Sapienza on the south side, Piano Provenzana on the north. Catania's AST bus reaches Rifugio Sapienza once a day.
  • Taormina 79 tours · typically €120
  • Palermo 7 tours · typically €139 About three hours each way: a long day in the coach.
  • Siracusa 16 tours · typically €130 About two hours each way, most with a hotel pickup.
  • Cefalù 4 tours · typically €67
  • Malta 3 tours · typically €159
  • Fiumefreddo 2 tours · typically €300
  • Linguaglossa 5 tours · typically €50
  • Messina 5 tours · typically €260
  • Nicolosi 2 tours · typically €60
  • Randazzo 2 tours · typically €112
  • Other towns 6 tours Motta Camastra, Sciacca, Ragalna, Sant'Alfio, Acireale, Riposto, one tour each

Where on the mountain

Where to stay for Etna

Tours that start in each town or collect from it, counted from every listing's pickup places and meeting point.

Staying inToursWith hotel pickupTypical priceMostly
Catania220101€80crater walk, day trip, summit on foot
Taormina8169€115day trip, crater walk, jeep
Giardini Naxos119€89day trip, crater walk, jeep
Siracusa169€130day trip, crater walk
Acireale21€189day trip
Palermo71€139day trip
Your own car or the bus91none€72meet the guide at a mountain station
Map of Mount Etna with Catania, Taormina and Giardini Naxos on the coast, the Rifugio Sapienza and Piano Provenzana stations, the summit craters and the Valle del Bove
Where the tours start and climb. Rifugio Sapienza (south) has the cable car; Piano Provenzana (north) is reached by 4x4. Station height: Funivia dell'Etna, October 2026.

Plan it

What a day on Etna costs, and how to get there

Check what the price leaves out. Many summit tours sell the guide and leave the cable car and 4x4 bus to you: €45 to €82 a head, paid at the station on the day. The operator’s own prices are €54 for the cable car up to 2,500 m and back, and €82 for the “Tour 3000”: cable car, 4x4 bus and an alpine or volcanological guide to about 2,800 m. Each tour card on this site says when the cable car or the 4x4 is extra.

Without a tour. AST runs one bus a day from Catania’s central station (Piazza Giovanni XXIII) to Rifugio Sapienza: up at 8:15, about two hours, back at 16:30, €6.60 return, sold on board. It fits the cable car: arrive around 10:15, ride up, and the Tour 3000 ticket is valid until 15:15. Miss the 16:30 bus and the only way down is a taxi.

What to bring. It is about 20 °C colder at 3,000 m than on the coast, and the wind is strong. Bring layers, a windproof jacket and closed shoes with a grip, even in August. Several summit tours lend boots, poles and jackets.

Prices and timetables were checked in October 2026.

Mount Etna tours: questions before you book

Answered in the first sentence, from the operators' own pages, the town ordinances and GetYourGuide's listings (October 2026).

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