What is the cheapest metro system in the world?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 31 Jul, 2023
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Using metro in Caracas (Venezuela) is for free now.
With sky-rocketing inflation, printing the tickets costed more than the ride so they made it free.
As of Jan 2018 exchange rate of USD-INR, Delhi Metro has lowest fare of just 10 rupees or 16 US cents which I think is the lowest or second lowest in the world.
You can take the London Underground for free between terminal 5 and terminals 2/3 at Heathrow. You will need an oyster card or contactless payment card though.
A ride on the Tashkent Metro in Uzbekistan costs $0.18, so it’s definitely one of the cheapest
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Also you can enjoy cheap transportation in Iran, Like:
- $0.14 Tehran, Iran (Capital City)
- $0.17 Shiraz, Iran
- $0.08 Mashhad, Iran
Prices in March 2015.
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Some Metros aren’t on PriceOfTravel.com list. Others are out of date. The list has been updated since Mark Mayo’s answer but still outdated again quickly:
- $0.00 Caracas (officially it’s $0.10 but they stopped charging because they don’t have material for tickets)
- $0.001 Pyongyang (given current exchange rate assuming the fare is still 5 KPW)
- $0.16 Dnipropetrovsk (4 UAH)
- $0.20 Kharkov (5 UAH)
- $0.24 Yerevan
- $0.29 Tbilisi
- $0.32 Kyiv (8 UAH)
- $0.35 Minsk
- $0.35 Buenos Aires (the Premetro is only $0.03)
I’d like to add a second answer, because it’s one that is cheaper but not generally accessible to do individually as a traveller.
“The Pyongyang Metro, in North Korea was designed to operate every few minutes. During the rush hours, the trains can operate at a minimum interval of 2 minutes.
It is also one of the cheapest in the world to ride, at only 5 KP₩ (about $0.03 USD) per ticket.”
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According to PriceOfTravel.com:
*all prices converted into US dollars in mid-November, 2010
Price ranges reflect shortest to longest rides in most cities. Tourists are most likely to pay the lowest price.
- Caracas, Venezuela (metro, bus) $0.12 – $0.28
- Cairo, Egypt (metro) $0.17
- Delhi, India (metro) $0.18 – $0.66
- La Paz, Bolivia (bus) $0.19 – $0.50
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (light rail, bus) $0.22 – $0.76
- Marrakech, Morocco (bus) $0.24 – $0.61
- Mexico City, Mexico (metro) $0.24
- Panama City, Panama (bus) $0.25
- Quito, Ecuador (bus) $0.25 – $0.35
- Hong Kong, China (tram, ferry) $0.26 – $0.39
- Buenos Aires, Argentina (bus, subway) $0.28 – $0.32
- Beijing, China (subway) $0.30
- Dakar, Senegal (bus) $0.31
- Lima, Peru (bus) $0.36 – $0.64
- Auckland, New Zealand (bus, train) $0.38 – $1.38
- Macau, China (bus) $0.41 – $0.83
- Shanghai, China (metro) $0.45 – $1.35
- Cancun, Mexico (bus) $0.49
- Taipei, Taiwan (metro, bus) $0.49 – $2.14
- Bangkok, Thailand (skytrain, subway) $0.50 – $1.34
- Singapore, Singapore (subway, light rail) $0.61 – $1.53
- St. Petersburg, Russia (tram, bus, metro) $0.61 – $0.71
- Cartagena, Colombia (bus) $0.64 – $0.80
- Dubai, UAE (metro) $0.68 – $2.18
- Montevideo, Uruguay (bus) $0.76
- Sofia, Bulgaria (tram, bus, metro) $0.80
- Phuket, Thailand (bus) $0.83, $1.17
- Moscow, Russia (metro) $0.84
- Krakow, Poland (bus, tram) $0.86
- Seoul, South Korea (subway, bus) $0.89 – $1.77
- Prague, Czech Republic (tram, bus, metro) $1.00 – $1.44
- Santiago, Chile (metro, bus) $1.00 – $1.20
- Istanbul, Turkey (tram, bus, metro, ferry) $1.03
- Cape Town, South Africa (bus) $1.14
- Lisbon, Portugal (tram, bus, metro) $1.16 – $3.97
- New Orleans, USA (tram, bus) $1.25 – $1.50
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (metro, bus) $1.28 – $1.74
- Budapest, Hungary (tram, bus, metro) $1.28 – $2.32
- Athens, Greece (tram, bus, metro) $1.37
- Madrid, Spain (metro, bus) $1.37
- Monaco, Monaco (bus) $1.37
- Rome, Italy (tram, bus, metro) $1.37
- Tallinn, Estonia (bus, tram, trolley) $1.39 – $1.74
- Dubrovnik, Croatia (bus) $1.48 – $1.85
- Los Angeles, USA (bus, metro) $1.50
- Chicago, USA (metro, bus) $1.54 – $1.73
- Dublin, Ireland (tram, bus) $1.58 – $2.47
- Nice, France (bus) $1.58
- Tel Aviv, Israel (bus) $1.58
- Washington DC, USA (metro) $1.60 – $5.00
- Bruges, Belgium (bus) $1.64 – $2.74
I’ll stop there, as they just get more expensive after that.
So according to this, Mexico City prices have gone up to US$0.24 now, so your best has now lost out to a few other cities, and now Caracas would probably take the prize.
Credit:stackoverflow.com‘