Public Transportation

All public transport in the area around Vienna has joined the fare union Verkehrsverbund Ost-Region (VOR). This means that any ticket bearing the VOR symbol can be used on every means of public transport in the area.

You can use the same ticket for a journey that involves trips by bus, tram, metro and/or train, and you can change as often as you have to without having to buy a new ticket!

Tickets are available for various fare zones. If you aren't leaving Vienna, you need not worry about the zones at all, since all of Vienna is just one zone (zone 100).

However, whenever you are crossing a zone boundary, you have to pay for an additional zone. This may concern tourists in so far as a ride from the airport to the city on the S-Bahn is two zones. If you have a valid ticket for zone 100 you only have to pay the extra zones. You never have to pay for more than eight zones, no matter how far you travel.

• U-Bahn (metro): is operated seven days a week, with first trains departing around 5:00 hrs and last trains leaving the city center around 0:30 hrs. During the day, intervals are typically 5 minutes, with 2-4 minutes during peak hours and 7-8 minutes after 8:30 pm. Except for some southbound trains on line U6, all trains run over the whole length of each line, calling at all stops.

• Trams and buses are usually in operation between 5:00 hrs and 24:00 hrs. However, some lines may only run until 21:00 hrs and not at all on Sundays and holidays. Be sure to check the timetables at the relevant stops.

• There is a dense network of night buses operating daily between 0:45 hrs and 5:00 hrs. Regular tickets and travel passes are also valid on the night buses.

Useful information for your first underground trip you can find here!