Paris Metro - Bus - RER Tickets & Passes

		Paris Métro-RER-Bus Fares
		In 2025, Paris began a whole new system of fares, tickets & passes for its excellent public transport system of Métro & RER suburban trains, SNCF Transilien trains, city buses, funiculars and trams. Buy tickets on your smartphone, and your phone can become your ticket or pass.

Paris transport in the time of King Henry IV...

New Rules & Fares!

In 2025, a whole new system for transit fares in the Paris region went into effect.

Bus/tram fare: 2€ (2.50€ if bought on the bus)

Métro-RER train fare: 2.50€

Paris Region Airport: 13€ (train or bus)

Those fares—bus/tram, Métro/RER, and tickets to/from Paris airports—are the ones most visitors will want. Buy them via the Bonjour RATP app on your smartphone, then use your smartphone as your ticket.

In the past, Métro tickets where priced by zone, so if you wanted to travel from central Paris to a suburb, you paid more. Now you don't; and your Métro ticket is also an RER ticket.

Now, your Métro train ticket will take you anywhere on the system (except to the airport—any airport) for that one low price, whether you're riding on the Métro, the RER, or both, in the city center, or way out to the suburbs. No more zone system or fares based on how far or long you travel.

Want to go from central Paris to Versailles? Before 2025, you had to pay more than the base fare. Now your base-fare Métro/RER ticket takes you all the way there.

Train or Bus? Different Tickets!

Also, different tickets are used for train and bus/tram rides, so if you take the Métro or RER, then want to board a bus, you'll need a separate bus ticket. Bus tickets are cheaper than Métro/RER tickets, but can only be used on buses and trams.

So: Métro/RER tickets for trains, and bus/tram tickets for bus, tram and funicular trips.

No More Carnet of 10 Tickets

It used to be that if you bought 10 tickets at a time, you got a discount. No more. You can still buy as many tickets as you want at the same time on your smartphone or Navigo Easy transit pass, but the price for each will be the base fare. No discount.

Tickets to/from Airports are Different!

To/from any Paris airport by public transit, the fare is 13€, no matter where you enter the system: bus, tram, Métro or RER. Buy an Airport Ticket, enter the Métro, change to the RER, and the Airport Ticket will take you all the way. Same goes for travel from any Paris airport into the city.

Smartphone App or Physical Pass?

You can buy transit tickets and passes using the Bonjour RATP app or the Ile-de-France Mobilités app on your smartphone, and your phone becomes your ticket/pass: just touch it to the target point on a machine or turnstile (see below).

Your phone must be on, but it needn't be open to any particular app or screen; the screen can be dark; there's no bar code or QR code to scan. Just touch it to the target, listen for the beepm and pass through the turnstile. It's easy!

Tap your smartphone or Navigo transit pass on this target symbol.

Navigo Easy Transit Pass

The Navigo Easy pass is the basic, reusable plastic RFID/NFC card sold by agents and at ticket machines for 2€. Load ticket value onto the card witgh your smartphone or at a ticket/fare machine, tap the card on the fare gate or bus validation machine and you're on your way.

The Navigo Easy plastic card can be anonymous, and transferrable to any other person; or you can set up an account with RATP and re-charge your Navigo Easy pass right from your smartphone using the Bonjour RATP app.

We prefer using the Bonjour RATP app to buy tickets and passes on our smaprtphones, then using our phones as our tickets. You must set up an account and payment method (credit/debit card; Apple Pay, Google Pay, etc.) before purchasing tickets.

Paying one Métro/RR fare entitles you to one journey of up to 90 minutes on the Métro or tram system, including switching Métro and RER lines (but not Métro to bus or tram).

On city buses, one Bus/Tram/Funiculaire fare allows you to ride on one bus, tram, etc, then within 90 minutes to transfer to another bus or tram line (but not to Métro or RER).