Paris Metro - Bus - RER Tickets & Passes

		Paris Métro-RER-Bus Fares 2025
		January 2, 2025 brings a whole new system of fares, tickets & passes to Paris's 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 becomes your ticket or pass.

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

Titre de Transport

To ride the Paris Métro, city buses, trams, RER trains, SNCF trains, funiculars and other forms of Paris transport, you need a titre de transport (a ticket or transit pass).

Random inspections are carried out by RATP agents: they stop everyone proceeding along a corridor or at an exit, ask to see their ticket or pass, check it with an electronic gizmo, and if it's valid you proceed on your trip. If not, you're in expensive trouble!

New Rules & Fares for 2025!

On January 2, 2025, a whole new system for transit fares in the Paris region will go into effect.

Bus/tram fare: 2€ (2.50€ on the bus)

Métro-train-RER fare: 2.50€

Navigo jour (1-day transit pass): 12€

Transport to an Airport: 13€ (train or bus)

The biggest change is that your Métro train ticket will now take you anywhere on the system (except to the 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.

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.

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.

Also, separate 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 Navigo Easy transit pass, but the price for each will be the base fare. No discount.

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). It's easy! But if you prefer to have a separate plastic ticket/pass, you can.

Tap your smartphone or fare card on this target symbol.

Navigo Easy Transit Pass

The Navigo Easy pass is a reusable plastic RFID/NFC card sold by agents and at ticket machines for 2€. t's like London's Oyster card, Boston's Charlie card, etc.

Tap the card on the fare gate or bus validation machine and you're on your way.

The Navigo Easy 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 mobile phone.

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 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 fare allows you to ride on one bus, then within 90 minutes to transfer to another bus line (but not to Métro or tram). It does not include transport to/from Paris's airports, and it does not allow round-trip/return travel on a single line (that is, you can't use a ticket for a quick trip to the store, and the same ticket to return to your starting-point within 90 minutes.)

Smartphone Apps

We use the excellent Bonjour RATP app all the time to buy tickets, recharge passes, plan routes, be warned of service problems and suspensions, etc. The Île-de-France Mobilités app is similar, but covers the entire huge Paris region (Île-de-France).

You can buy tickets right in the app, then use your smartphone as the ticket by means of NFC (Near-Field Communication): tap it on the turnstile target to enter the transport system.

Buy in Advance!

If you see a sign like this at a station entrance...

"Access for passengers with tickets only..."

Accès réservé aux voyageurs munis de billets" means "Access is restricted to passengers who already have passes or tickets." No passes or tickets are sold at this entrance. You must already possess one to enter the system here.

"Accès principal..." tells you where the main station entrance is. You can buy passes or tickets there and enter.

Navigo Découverte Weekly Pass

For short-term but frequently-returning foreign visitors, the Navigo Découverte pass is available by the calendar week (Monday to Sunday). It offers great savings and convenience for frequent transit users, but requires a bit more trouble (photo, proof of identity, and account setup with payment method) and expense to obtain because, unlike the Navigo Easy pass, it must be linked to you personally, and to a payment method. More...