Tickets can be purchased from ticket windows inside stations or through automated ticket vending machines accepting Euro coins and smart chip credit cards. Paris Metro tickets have no expiry You can use them at any time in the future. If you want a return ticket, you simply buy two Metro tickets. These tickets are sold as single one-way fares or in books of 10. These tickets are valid for a single continuous journey of any length throughout the Paris Metro system, including changes to other Metro lines and RER interurban trains within Zone 1. There are a variety of Paris Metro tickets to buy and several Paris Metro Pass options shown in detail below.īasic Paris Metro tickets are known as “Ticket t+”.
1, 2019 is 1.90€ for a one-way ride lasting up to 2 hours. Even though a few Paris Metro stations are actually outside of Paris fare zone 1, a single Paris Metro ticket is still valid for travel from inside zone 1 and ending at a Metro station outside of Paris zone 1.
Regarding fares for different zones: Paris Metro zones don’t exist! The entire Paris underground is one zone, unlike the Paris RER trains which have zones & different fares per zones traveled. The Paris tube has a wide variety of tickets available while I’ll describe in detail below: single ride tickets, books of 10 or 20, preloaded ticket cards, single day passes, multi-day passes, youth weekend passes, Monday to Sunday week passes, monthly passes and year passes. Route options under “Criteria” can be chosen for fewest connections, least amount of walking and quickest route (the default). The RATP offers a route planner via their website which can use street addresses, station names or well known locations to create a travel itinerary for you, including necessary connections and total travel time. Times are approximate! This includes times of first train / last train of Paris RER A ( Disneyland) and RER B ( airport).
Paris Metro hours change very little year-to-year and the RATP has stopped producing this full schedule in 2013 so this timetable of Metro Paris times is still useful to find Paris Metro opening hours and closing time. On average, expect 8-10 minutes between train times in the late evening and 2-4 minutes during rush hours.ĭownload a Paris Metro timetable showing first and last Paris Metro trains. The outer ends of Metro line 13 which splits into two separate lines in the outskirts, late night trains can run as slow as every 13 minutes as trains alternate between each end, effectively halving the frequency of train service. For example, Metro line 1 time between trains ranges from 2 minutes in morning/evening rush hours to every 5 minutes after midnight (Metro Line 1 is arguably the most central & popular Paris Metro line). Paris Metro times between trains range from 2 minutes during rush hour up to 13 minutes during late night hours, holidays, and Sundays, depending on the Metro line and the Metro station. Paris Metro hours run from roughly 05:30 to 00:40 (5:30am – 12:40am) Sunday thru Thursday and 05:30 – 01:40 on Fridays, Saturdays and on days before a holiday. The zones visible on some older Paris Metro / RER maps are for RER trains which are subject to fare zones.
The Paris Metro is a single zone (even if some lines reach into zone 3). Note that there are no Paris Metro Zones for the Metro system. Other Metro maps such as individual line maps can be downloaded directly from (in french).