Madrid City Guided Bike/E-Bike Tour for Small Groups
★ 4.9 · 326 reviews
- Three hours
- Small group
- Longest tour here
- Free cancellation
A bike tour Madrid lets you see more city quickly. We compared 17 tours, from $25, with free cancellation and the top tour rated 4.9 from 326 reviews. The top tour includes three hours riding past Plaza Mayor, the Royal Palace and Retiro Park.
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Express ride$25
Today's lowest Madrid bike tour across all 17 tours
Average rating
All 17 tours48
6,831 verified reviews across 17 tours
Your time
Shortest to longest90–180min
Shortest: Express Bike or E-Bike
Longest: Madrid City Guided
Everything you can book here
Seventeen listings on city bikes, vintage bikes and electric bikes, each one with a guide riding in front. Fares run from $25 for ninety minutes of the essential landmarks to $215 for a private e-bike tour priced for the whole group. The heaviest record belongs to the three-hour highlights ride at $33, rated 4.8 across 1,882 reviews.
★ 4.9 · 326 reviews
★ 4.8 · 1 882 reviews
★ 4.8 · 1 557 reviews
★ 4.9 · 1 235 reviews
★ 4.5 · 676 reviews
★ 4.3 · 308 reviews
★ 4.5 · 200 reviews
★ 4.7 · 109 reviews
★ 4.6 · 105 reviews
★ 4.8 · 98 reviews
★ 4.9 · 92 reviews
★ 4.5 · 70 reviews
★ 4.7 · 41 reviews
★ 5.0 · 5 reviews
★ 5.0 · 1 reviews
★ 4.8 · 115 reviews
Two questions
The choice comes down to four things: three hours with a guide through the centre, ninety minutes over the essentials, an electric bike for the hills, or a private listing that sells you the whole group. Tell us what matters and we will point at one.
See it before you pay for it
The same landmarks arrive in three shapes, and the shape sets the fare. Three hours on a city bicycle with a local guide is $33. Pedal assistance takes the hills of Madrid for $52. The third shape keeps the route and adds a table at the end, from $86.
Side by side
Four products with four clocks. Three hours through the centre is where the reviews sit, from $32 to $40. Ninety minutes is $25, two hours in a park $33, and the private listings are quoted for the group, up to $215.
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| Madrid Highlights: Express Bike or E-Bike Tour (1.5 Hours) | TOP PICKMadrid City Guided Bike/E-Bike Tour for Small Groups | Madrid: 3-Hour Sightseeing Tour by Electric Bike | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price per person | $25 | $40 | $52 |
| What it is | The essential landmarks with a local guide, at speed | The full guided ride, in a small group | The same sightseeing round on an electric bike |
| Time it takes | An hour and a half | Three hours | Three hours |
| What you ride | A bike or an e-bike, your choice on the listing | A bike or an e-bike, your choice on the listing | An electric bike with pedal assistance |
| Who you are with | A guided group, as the listing states | A small group, with a private option on the listing | A guided group, as the listing states |
| What the listing names | Madrid’s essential landmarks | Debod Temple, the Royal Palace, Retiro Park, Salamanca | The Plaza de Oriente and San Miguel Market |
| Hills | Take the e-bike option if you would rather not push | Take the e-bike option if you would rather not push | Pedal assistance is what the fare is for |
| Guide | A local guide rides with you | An experienced multilingual guide | A guide rides with the group |
| Rating | 4.5 across 70 reviews | 4.9 across 326 reviews | 4.5 across 200 reviews |
| Cancellation | See the operator’s terms on the listing | Free cancellation | See the operator’s terms on the listing |
| Check dates | Book this one→ | Check dates |
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Verdict
It balances the three things people weigh: the three hours most of this page is built on, a handful of riders rather than a crowd, and the choice of a regular bike or an e-bike on the same booking — rated 4.9 across 326 reviews, at $40, with an experienced multilingual guide.
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Settle the machine first, because Madrid is built on hills between the river and Retiro: seven listings are electric from the start and five more let you pick when you book. Then settle the hours — eleven of the seventeen are three hours through the centre, two hours buys a park, and ninety minutes buys the express tour at $25.
Two-minute check
Every listing here is two halves: what you ride, and who rides in front. Three questions settle which of the seventeen fits your day.
How many of you are riding?A private listing is priced for the group, not per person.
When do you want to be on the bike?The guided rides leave at the set times each listing states.
How long do you want to be out?Ninety minutes, two hours, or the classic three hours across the city.
You’ll get the one that fits your answers, and the thing about it that catches people out.
Six ways to ride the city
The ratings here are the operators’ own numbers on GetYourGuide, shown beside each listing as they stand. We write none of them, and we average nobody else’s into a score of our own.
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All seventeen tours on this page, rated on GetYourGuide.
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From $40 · 326 reviews
★★★★★
Three hours with a guide is the classic shape here. The route runs from the Debod Temple and the Royal Palace through La Latina to Retiro Park and the Salamanca and Malasaña districts, in a small group. Rated 4.9 across 326 reviews.
Madrid Highlights: Express Bike or E-Bike Tour (1.5 Hours)
From $25 · 70 reviews
★★★★★
The express ride is the short version: an hour and a half with a local guide through the essential landmarks, on a bike or an e-bike. It is the lowest fare on this page and the one that fits into a day that is already full. Rated 4.5 across 70 reviews.
Madrid: 3-Hour Sightseeing Tour by Electric Bike
From $52 · 200 reviews
★★★★★
Madrid rises away from the river, and that is why almost every operator here offers an electric bike as well. Three hours with pedal assistance, the Plaza de Oriente and San Miguel Market among the sights the listing names, and the hills stop being the thing you think about. Rated 4.5 across 200 reviews.
Madrid’s Riverside & Casa de Campo Electric Bike Tour
From $38 · 105 reviews
★★★★★
Two hours by electric bike through Casa de Campo, which the operator calls one of the largest urban parks in Europe: the trenches built during the Civil War and the Serpents Bridge are the two things the listing names, and the operator sells it as the greenest tour in Madrid. Rated 4.6 across 105 reviews.
Madrid: Guided Tapas E-Bike Tour with Food and Drink
From $86 · 5 reviews
★★★★★
Several listings put food at the end of the route, and it is part of the fare. This one rides the historic neighbourhoods and finishes with a selection of tapas and a drink. Rated 5.0 across 5 reviews.
Madrid: Highlights & Parks with Electric Bike Private Tour
From $215 · 115 reviews
★★★★★
A private listing sells the whole group and its guide to you, which is why the fare is quoted for the group. This one is a guided e-bike tour of the highlights and the parks. Rated 4.8 across 115 reviews.
What it really costs
On the shared rides the fare is per person and covers the bike and the guide. What moves it is the hours, and whether the group is shared or yours alone.
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| What you do | Price | What that buys | Cancellation |
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| Guided highlights bike tour, 3 hours | $33 | 3 hours on a city bicycle past the monuments and parks | Most reviewed |
| Express bike or e-bike tour, 1.5 hours | $25 | 90 minutes of the essential landmarks with a local guide | Starting fare |
| Small-group guided bike or e-bike tour | $40 | 3 hours with a multilingual guide, bike or e-bike | Our top pick |
| Magic Retiro Park bike tour | $33 | 2 hours inside Retiro Park, its history and its flora | Small group |
| Sightseeing tour by electric bike | $52 | 3 hours with pedal assistance, Plaza de Oriente and the market | Electric bike |
| Highlights and parks private e-bike tour | $215 | 3 hours with the guide and the slot kept for you | Private group |
The honest answer
Plaza Mayor, the Royal Palace, the Prado and Retiro Park sit inside one afternoon on two wheels, with a guide talking between them. Across these seventeen listings there are 6,831 ratings, averaging 4.8.
The three hours, turn by turn
The listings split by hours, not by price. Ninety minutes is the express run, two hours a park, three hours the classic ride across the city.
Most listings offer both machines on the same route, and the choice is made at booking. Several ask for notice: two hours on some, eight or ten on others.
The guided rides leave at set times, and a morning departure leaves the afternoon open. The group meets, the guide sizes the bikes, and the centre comes first.
The Royal Palace, Plaza Mayor and the Temple of Debod are named across these listings, and on a bike they sit minutes apart rather than a walk apart.
Retiro Park is on most routes here, and one listing gives it two hours: the pond, the statues and the Crystal Palace. Casa de Campo is the other green half.
The neighbourhoods are what the three-hour rides add to the monuments, and they are named on the listing our top pick belongs to.
The bikes go back at the end of the tour, and most routes finish in the centre. On the tapas and tasting rides the fare ends at a table.
Best time of day
Three hours is the shape of this page, and eleven of the seventeen listings run exactly that: the small-group tour at $40, the highlights tour at $33 with its 1,882 reviews, Best of Madrid at $32. A morning departure leaves the afternoon open. The shorter listings sit anywhere in the day — ninety minutes on the express tour at $25, two hours in Retiro Park at $33. Several ask for notice rather than an hour: eight hours on the small-group tour, ten on the tour with a local guide.
On the ground
Named on the listing our top pick belongs to, at the west end of the route.
The Royal Palace and the Almudena Cathedral come one after the other on a bike.
Retiro is on most routes here, and one listing gives it two full hours.
The riverside listing spends two hours in one of Europe’s largest urban parks.
What it's like
Seventeen guided bike tours of Madrid are sold on the same two words, and what changes between them is smaller than the list looks: the machine under you, the hours, and whether the group is yours alone. Madrid is built on hills, and pedal assistance is what flattens them — which is why most operators sell the same route on a city bike and on an electric one.
The review record sits in three listings. The three-hour guided highlights tour carries 4.8 across 1,882 reviews at $33, past the monuments, the parks and the statues of the centre. Best of Madrid holds 4.8 across 1,557 at $32 for the same three hours, and the vintage bike tour 4.9 across 1,235 at $33, naming the Royal Palace, Retiro Park and the Almudena Cathedral. Together those three hold 4,674 reviews; the other fourteen listings hold 2,157 between them.
Our top pick is the small-group city tour at $40, rated 4.9 across 326 reviews: three hours with an experienced multilingual guide, and the bike is your choice on the same route. The listing names the Temple of Debod, the Royal Palace, La Latina, Retiro Park and the Salamanca and Malasaña districts, carries free cancellation and asks to be booked at least eight hours ahead.
The short end of the page is where a tour fits into a day that is already arranged. The express tour is the lowest fare here, $25 for 90 minutes on a bike or an e-bike with a local guide over the essential landmarks, rated 4.5 across 70 reviews. The two-and-a-half-hour tour with a local guide is $28, 4.5 across 676 reviews.
Seven listings are electric from the start. The three-hour sightseeing tour by electric bike is $52, 4.5 across 200 reviews, and names the Plaza de Oriente and the San Miguel Market. The private e-bike tour of all Madrid is $38, 4.7 across 109 reviews, through Retiro Park, the Royal Palace, the Cathedral and Plaza Mayor. The two-hour private tour of the centre and Retiro is $36, 4.7 across 41.
Two listings spend their hours in the green half of the city. The riverside and Casa de Campo electric bike tour is $38 for two hours, 4.6 across 105 reviews, through one of the largest urban parks in Europe, past the trenches dug during the Civil War and the Serpents Bridge. The Magic Retiro Park tour is $33 for two hours, 4.8 across 98 reviews, on the history, the fauna and the flora of the park itself.
Four listings put something on the table at the end of the ride. The guided tapas e-bike tour is $86, rated 5.0 across 5 reviews, with the tapas and the drink inside the fare, and the highlights tour with a Madroño tasting is $172. The Prado Museum listing at $39, 4.3 across 308 reviews, works the other way round: an expert guide inside the museum, with an e-bike ride in Retiro or a tapas tasting added.
Five listings are sold as a private tour, where the fare buys the guide and the group rather than a seat: $215 for the highlights and the parks, $63 for the highlights and hidden gems, and the two that stay close to the shared fares at $38 and $36. Settle the machine first, then the hours, then whose group it is.
Three ways through the centre
All three are three hours through the centre: Plaza Mayor, the Royal Palace, Retiro Park and the streets between them. What changes is the group, the record behind the listing and the machine under you. Prices and ratings come from the operators’ own listings.
3 hours · ★ 4.9 (326)
$40See dates
3 hours · ★ 4.8 (1 882)
$33See dates
3 hours · ★ 4.5 (200)
$52See datesPractical
Four things decide how it goes: the clock, the machine, the group and how far ahead you book. Ninety minutes fits between two museums, two hours covers one park, and three hours is the classic route most of these seventeen listings sell.
The small-group city tour at $40, 4.9 across 326 reviews — three hours with a multilingual guide.
The highlights tour holds 4.8 across 1,882 at $33, Best of Madrid 4.8 across 1,557 at $32.
The express tour is $25 for 90 minutes, and the tour with a local guide $28.
Three hours of sightseeing by electric bike, $52; the riverside and Casa de Campo route, $38.
Highlights and parks, $215; highlights and hidden gems, $63. Each fare buys the guide and the group.
The tapas e-bike tour is $86, the Madroño tasting $172, and two listings sell tapas as an option.
Shoes that hold a pedal and something you can move in; the operator supplies the bike.
These routes cross open squares and park paths, so a bottle you can reach while riding earns its place.
The same three hours are warm at midday and cool at either end of the day.
Where a listing sells tapas as an option, it prices that option itself.
A strap or a bar mount beats a pocket on a bike.
Each listing here is bought through GetYourGuide and the voucher goes to your phone.
Most operators sell the same route twice, on a city bike and on an electric one.
Eleven listings run three hours, three run two, one two and a half, and the express tour ninety minutes.
Five of the seventeen are sold as a private tour, and two more offer a private option.
A guide comes with each listing, and the bike with it. Four state a small group.
Five listings carry it, with the terms printed on the listing you are booking.
The fare is the same wherever you buy it; booking ahead buys the date you wanted.
Plaza Mayor, Puerta del Sol and the Royal Palace are within a few streets of the meeting points.
Madrid rises and falls between the river and Retiro, and pedal assistance is what the motor is for.
One listing spends two hours inside Retiro at $33, another two in Casa de Campo at $38.
The Royal Palace, Plaza Mayor and Retiro Park are on most of these itineraries.
The small-group tour names an experienced multilingual guide; where language matters, the listing states it.
The hidden-gems listing names bike-friendly routes between the iconic sights and the quiet corners.
Best time
These seventeen listings run through the year, so the month changes how the ride feels rather than whether it happens: the daylight, the heat of midday in high summer, and how long the group stays off the saddle.
Dec – Feb
Midwinter suits the shorter formats and the electric ones: ninety minutes of the landmarks at $25, two hours inside Retiro Park at $33, or three hours with pedal assistance at $52.
Mar – May
Spring is when the three-hour classic is at its most comfortable: the highlights ride at $33, the vintage-bike version at $33, or the small-group tour at $40.
Jun – Aug
July and August are the hottest stretch of the Madrid year, and the listings that suit them are the short ones and the assisted ones: ninety minutes at $25, or an electric bike at $52.
Sep – Nov
Mild afternoons, long evenings, and all seventeen listings still running. This is the window for the three-hour rides at $32 and $40.
Worth knowing
The e-bike is the answer to the hills, not the distance. Madrid rises and falls between the river and Retiro, and seven listings here are electric from the start, from $36 to $215.
Read the review counts beside the ratings. The highlights tour carries 1,882 reviews at 4.8 and Best of Madrid 1,557 at 4.8, while the Madroño tasting sits at 5.0 across 1 review.
Three hours is the shape of this niche. Eleven of the seventeen run three hours through the centre, which is why the fares cluster between $32 and $40.
Private fares buy the group, not the seat. $215 for the highlights and parks, $172 for the Madroño tasting and $63 for the hidden gems divide by however many of you ride.
The tapas is a course, and the listing says which. The tapas e-bike tour at $86 has the food and the drink inside the fare; two listings sell tapas as an option they price themselves.
Several of these ask for notice, and the listing states how much. Eight hours on the small-group tour, ten on the tour with a local guide, two on Best of Madrid. Booking a day ahead covers all of them.
Round out the trip
3 hours · ★ 4.9 (326)
$40View
1h 30m · ★ 4.5 (70)
$25View
3 hours · ★ 4.8 (115)
$215ViewGo deeper
Common questions
By review record it is the three-hour guided highlights tour at $33, rated 4.8 across 1,882 reviews. Our own pick is the small-group tour at $40, 4.9 across 326 reviews: the same three hours with an experienced multilingual guide and your choice of bike.
The seventeen listings run from $25 to $215. Ninety minutes is $25, three hours through the centre $32 to $40, three hours by electric bike $52, and the private highlights and parks tour $215 for the guide and the group.
Madrid is built on hills between the river and Retiro, and pedal assistance is what the electric listings are selling: the same route and the same three hours with less work on the climbs. Seven listings are electric from the start, from $36 to $215.
From 90 minutes to three hours. The express tour is $25 for 90 minutes. The riverside route and the Magic Retiro Park tour are two hours each, at $38 and $33. Eleven of the seventeen are three hours.
Five are sold as a private tour: the highlights and parks electric tour at $215, the private e-bike tour of all Madrid at $38, the centre-and-Retiro tour at $36, the hidden gems tour at $63 and the Madroño tasting at $172.
The guided tapas e-bike tour at $86 has the tapas and a drink inside the fare, and the Madroño tasting tour at $172 includes a tasting of the liqueur. The highlights tour and the vintage bike tour sell tapas as an option the listing prices itself.
The names repeat across the listings. The small-group tour names the Temple of Debod, the Royal Palace, La Latina, Retiro Park and the Salamanca and Malasaña districts; the electric sightseeing tour names the Plaza de Oriente and the San Miguel Market.
Two listings spend their hours in the green half of the city. The riverside and Casa de Campo electric bike tour is $38 for two hours, rated 4.6 across 105 reviews. The Magic Retiro Park tour is $33 for two hours, 4.8 across 98.
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Which of the seventeen listings matches the ride you actually want — the three-hour tours of the centre, the two-hour park routes, the express ride, the electric ones, the private ones and the two that end at a table.
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Why trust this page
Durations, inclusions and operator names come from the live listings. Prices and ratings are read off the same listings and updated with the page.
Every listing here is a guided bike tour of Madrid, and we kept the range wide: the three-hour rides through the centre, the two park routes, the express tour, the electric and the private ones. Nobody pays to be featured.
Madrid rises and falls between the river and Retiro, which is why most operators sell the same route twice: on a city bicycle and on an electric bike. We name the bike and the hours on every listing.
A ticket arranges the guide, the bike and the route, and on the tapas and tasting listings what is at the end of it. Museum entry is a separate ticket unless the listing names it.
The answer
Every listing on this page covers the same centre: Plaza Mayor, the Royal Palace, the Almudena Cathedral, the Temple of Debod and Retiro Park. What you are choosing is how you cross it — three hours in a small group, an electric bike for the hills, two hours inside a park, or 90 minutes over the essentials. The small-group tour is $40, the express tour $25.
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