What this site is
dubaimetro.net is an independent guide to the Dubai Metro. It is not the RTA, and it is not Keolis-MHI: we do not sell tickets, we cannot top up a nol card and we cannot resolve anything about your journey. The operator does that, and we link to it on every page.
What we do is put the two lines, a page for each of the 53 stations, the timetable, the fares and a route planner in one place, in English and in Arabic.
The fares page was wrong in three ways
We checked every figure against the RTA's own nol fares page on 6 September 2026. Three things did not survive the check.
1. A one-day pass at AED 20 that the RTA does not sell. The RTA's product table lists travel passes of 7, 30, 90 and 365 days and no daily product. Its red ticket can hold "up to 10 journeys or 5 daily passes", but the RTA does not publish the price of that daily pass anywhere on its site. So we no longer publish a price either — we say where to ask.
2. "Valid for 60 minutes." The RTA charges a journey, not a ride: a maximum of 180 minutes, up to 3 transfers, and 30 minutes to change between modes. Sixty minutes was simply not the rule.
3. AED 110 and AED 350 labelled as Zone 1. Those are the all-zones prices for the 7 and 30-day passes. Zone 1 costs AED 50 and AED 140. The page now carries the RTA's whole table: four durations × three zone bands.
While we were at it: Dubai has seven fare zones, not three. The three prices you see everywhere are for one zone, two adjacent zones and more than two — which is a different thing.
A warning about the RTA's own PDF
If you download the RTA's printable Dubai Metro brochure, check the date before you trust it. The version served today still carries the pre-2022 fare table — AED 1.80 for a one-zone trip and a silver card at AED 20 with AED 14 of credit — while the RTA's own web page says AED 3 and AED 25 with AED 19. The website is the current one. We hit exactly the same trap on our Tampere site, where the operator's printable price list was a year behind its own web page.
The 53 station pages were nearly the same page
We measured it: 78 % of the eight-word phrases on one station page also appeared on the others. The worst part was a "Station facilities" list that was identical on all 53 and claimed, with no source at all, that every station has park-and-ride parking and bicycle racks. That is gone.
What replaced it is, first, a block of facts that are true of that station and nothing else: when it opened (all 53 have a date — the Dubai Metro opened in stages between 2009 and 2021, so this genuinely differs), its RTA station code, what it used to be called and between which years, the platform count and the accessibility tag. And second, an honest facilities block: the things the RTA publishes for the whole network — lift access to all station levels, Wi-Fi, tactile guidance, ticket machines — labelled as network-wide, because that is what they are.
The station names keep changing, and that is worth knowing
Dubai sells the naming rights to its metro stations, so the name on the platform is not permanent. Nineteen of the 53 stations have carried a sponsor's name, several of them two or three in a row: the station on the Red Line that is now Life Pharmacy was Jebel Ali until 2011, then UAE Exchange until 2025. Onpassive was Noor Bank, then Al Safa. Al Fardan Exchange was Nakheel, then Al Khail.
That matters practically: an old map, an old article or an old memory will use a name that no longer appears on the platform. Every station page now lists its previous names with the years each was in use, taken from OpenStreetMap, which records them with dates.
Why there is no live timetable here
Because there is no live source we can use. The only machine-readable feed for the Dubai Metro we could find is the RTA's GTFS through the MobilityData mirror, and it expired in 2021. Publishing five-year-old departure times as if they were current would mislead you even if we never used the words "real time". The RTA's own open data portal, Dubai Pulse, refuses connections from our servers.
So what this site publishes is the RTA's published opening hours — 05:00 to midnight Monday to Thursday and Saturday, 05:00 to 01:00 on Friday night, and 08:00 to midnight on Sunday — and the RTA Dubai app for live arrivals. Nothing on this site is labelled real time, because nothing on it is.
Where each fact comes from
Fares, opening hours, transfer rules and card prices: the RTA's own pages at rta.ae, checked on 6 September 2026 and dated on the page. The RTA updates them without notice, so the date matters.
Opening dates: Wikidata, reached through the identifier OpenStreetMap holds for each station. All 53 have one.
Station codes, previous names, platforms, accessibility tags and nearby places: OpenStreetMap. Where a station has a hand-written list of what is worth getting off for, that comes from us and says so.
Lines, station order and interchanges: our own model of the network, which is what feeds the station pages and the route planner.
When we get it wrong
We fix it and we say what was fixed — this page is the example. An automated watchdog checks every week whether the figures we publish still match the operator's, which is the failure this review found: a fare page that had drifted away from the RTA's. If you spot something that does not add up, write to [email protected] — it is the fastest way to get it corrected.
This site is run by the team at GoRandom, a small group based in the Basque Country in Spain who do two things that go together better than they sound: travel, and build websites.
Dubai is not yet one of the cities we have set foot in — we are up to twenty and we move slowly. We would rather say so than pretend otherwise: what you read here does not come from our memories, it comes from what the operator publishes and from checking work we can show you.
The other half of what we know how to do is web development, and this site is the excuse to put the two together. We do not leave it sitting there: every fare and every timetable carries its source and the date we checked it, and they get revised when the operator changes something. The last full review is from September 2026. It found a one-day pass price the RTA does not publish, a "60 minutes validity" rule that is actually 180 minutes with three transfers, and two travel-pass prices labelled Zone 1 when they were the all-zones ones.
He decides what goes up, checks the data before it does, and answers the email. If you find a fare that has expired or a timetable that no longer holds, there is a specific person to write to.