Getting around Dubai: every published fare in one place

On rails and on the road

The four charges that cover almost every journey a visitor makes.

• Taxi fares by hourStreet AED 5, app AED 9–13
• Metro & nol faresAED 3–7.50 by zone
• Bus fares & zonesSame grid, no daily cap
• Salik toll chargesAED 4 or 6, free 01:00–06:00

Parking

Two completely different systems, priced by two different operators.

• Street parkingZones, peak tariffs, fines
• Mall parking ratesFree windows & validation

Arriving, and on the water

The airport, and the marine routes — from the AED 1 creek abra upward.

• Airport to the cityThree sources, three answers
• Abra & ferry faresAED 1 cash on the creek; the ferry takes nol
• What the metro reaches13 places it does not

Also in Getting around

The rest of this section, each page carrying its own sources and its own verification date.

• Parkin car park fees — Every fee table Parkin publishes for malls, Kite Beach and private car parks, as printed
• DXB airport — Dubai Airports publishes no minimum connection time and never states whether a terminal transfer is airside; it does publish left luggage at AED 35 to 50 and full parking tariffs, and its most current wifi statement is a 2017 press release
• Al Maktoum airport — DWC's own airline directory lists 79 carriers including Emirates and Qatar Airways and is not a list of who flies there; the operator publishes no distance to the city, and the government and the operator described the DXB relocation differently on the same day
• The Dubai Tram — The Dubai Tram runs on the nol zone tariff with a Gold surcharge, not a flat fare; RTA publishes no frequency or journey time, and its page still says the tram links a monorail whose operator has posted a suspension notice
• To Abu Dhabi — RTA calls the same Abu Dhabi bus C01 on one page and E100 on another and publishes no fare; Abu Dhabi Mobility gives AED 25 for E100/E101/E102; Abu Dhabi's Darb toll is AED 4 per gate and its daily and monthly caps were removed on 1 September 2025
• To the other emirates — Across every RTA page exactly one inter-emirate fare is published, AED 12 to Sharjah on a route number RTA no longer lists; for Ras Al Khaimah and Umm Al Quwain RTA publishes nothing at all
• The Dubai Trolley — Emaar's Dubai Trolley page returns 404 while Emaar Malls still lists the Trolley on a 2026 page; no operator has published a closure, a fare, hours or a route, and three sources give three different lengths

Before you rely on a fare you found elsewhere

RTA's metro and bus brochure, stamped “Updated September 2011”, is still online and still linked from a current page. It prints Silver fares of 2.30, 4.10 and 5.80 against today's 3, 5 and 7.50, in a four-band structure that no longer exists. A legacy ferry brochure prints AED 50 and 75 against the current 25 and 35. A January 2024 Salik release still claims tolls have “remained… unchanged”, eighteen months after they changed.

All three are RTA's own documents. The full catalogue, and how to spot one yourself, is here.

Common questions