Miami Transportation Guide

Three Miami transportation guides go deeper than this hub: the Miami Metrorail and Metromover guide, the Miami International Airport guide and the Port of Miami guide.

The Miami Metrorail and Metromover guide covers the two rail systems station by station, their history and planned extensions. The Miami International Airport guide covers airport operations and ground access, and the Port of Miami guide covers cruise and cargo operations on the port. This hub answers the everyday questions about moving around Miami, from fares to the city trolley, and every figure on it was checked on October 15, 2026 against Miami-Dade County, City of Miami, airport, port and Tri-Rail pages.

Two Miami-Dade County rail systems serve the City of Miami: Metrorail, a 25-mile line between Kendall, downtown Miami, the airport and Hialeah, and Metromover, a free elevated people mover downtown.

Metrorail service starts at 5 a.m. and ends at midnight daily (Miami-Dade Metrorail page). Its Green Line links Palmetto, the northern terminal, with Dadeland South, the southern one, while Orange Line trains carry weekday riders north to the airport's MIA station; anyone boarding north of Earlington Heights switches there for the airport. Gates take no cash. A single trip is $2.25 ($1.10 discounted), moving between bus and train adds nothing, and a car left at a station lot pays $4.50 for the day. The Miami Metrorail and Metromover guide lists every station.

Inside the urban core, Metromover runs on three loops, Inner, Omni and Brickell, tying 21 stations between Financial District in Brickell and School Board in the Omni area, with no fare at all (Miami-Dade Metromover page). Its daily window is 5:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., and the county lists headways of 90 seconds at rush hour and 3 minutes otherwise. Kaseya Center, Bayside Marketplace and Miami Dade College are among the stops it names.

The county says it is upgrading Metromover to improve equipment reliability and availability. On October 15, 2026, its Metromover page still carried a past weekend notice for Saturday, Sept. 26: the Omni and Brickell loops would open at 2 p.m., free shuttle buses would serve affected stations from 5:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Financial District Station would be closed Sept. 26 and 27, and the Inner Loop would operate normally (Miami-Dade DTPW). The same page links an elevator and escalator status report. For phone help, county transit agents take 311 calls weekdays 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., with none on Sundays (Miami-Dade DTPW).

Metrorail also hands Miami riders to the regional railroads: Brightline at Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre, and Tri-Rail at both the MIA station and the Tri-Rail station (Miami-Dade DTPW). Tri-Rail's own list of stops stretches from Mangonia Park down to Miami Airport and MiamiCentral, with a Metrorail Transfer stop between Opa-locka and Hialeah Market, and its phone line is 1-800-TRI-RAIL (Tri-Rail).

Riding a Metrobus or Metrorail train anywhere in Miami-Dade costs $2.25 a trip ($1.10 discounted), and daily fare capping stops charges at $5.65 for unlimited rides.

Miami-Dade County's fare page lists the bus fares, the $3.50 Special Transportation Service fare and a $2 charge for an EASY Card, while an EASY Ticket is free (Miami-Dade transit fares and parking fees). The same page explains fare capping: riders pay per trip until reaching $5.65 in a day on Metrorail or Metrobus, after which rides are unlimited, and it notes that Metromover is always free. Last verified: October 15, 2026, on the Miami-Dade County transit pages.

Several Miami-Dade programs take the fare to zero. A Golden Passport EASY Card carries seniors and Social Security recipients at no charge, a Patriot Passport does the same for qualifying veterans living in Miami-Dade, and county residents whose annual income is less than $35,910 may qualify for the Mobility EASY Card, which covers Metrobus and Metrorail (Miami-Dade transit pass page). A 1-Day Pass lasts until 2:00 a.m. after the day it is first tapped, and a College/Adult Education Center monthly pass costs $56.25. The Golden Passport office is at the Stephen P. Clark Center, 111 NW 1st Street, in downtown Miami (Miami-Dade County).

The City of Miami Trolley is free and accessible to all, runs 13 routes across Miami neighborhoods, and does not go to Miami Beach.

The trolley belongs to the City of Miami, not to Miami-Dade County transit, and the city asks riders with questions to call 311 or 305.416.1132 (City of Miami trolley page). It arrives roughly every 15 to 45 minutes, and a live tracker shows where each trolley is on its route. The schedule table on the city page, checked October 15, 2026, lists these hours:

The city's route page fills in the stops: the Biscayne route serves downtown Miami, Brickell and the Biscayne corridor with stops at Adrienne Arsht Metromover Station, Brickell Metrorail Station and Bayfront Park, and the Coconut Grove route stops at Coconut Grove Metrorail Station and Douglas Road Metrorail Station and, the city says, gives access to City Hall (City of Miami trolley routes).

The two city pages conflict on one route: the schedule table gives the Biscayne route a midnight close on weekdays and Saturdays, while the routes page says the Biscayne Trolley Route operates Monday through Saturday from 6:30 AM to 11:00 PM (City of Miami). The schedule page also posts a Biscayne Route detour in effect from 9/23/2026 until further notice: the stop at S Miami Avenue and SW 15th Road is not served. The city's trolley tracker shows routes, times and where each trolley is on its route.

Miami International Airport handled 55,314,661 passengers in 2025 on 3,230 acres near downtown Miami, and PortMiami reports a record 8,564,225 cruise passengers for a fiscal year.

MIA is operated by the Miami-Dade Aviation Department and is the property of Miami-Dade County government; founded in 1928, it ranks 1st among U.S. airports for international freight and 2nd for international passengers in the final 2025 rankings (Miami International Airport). Its 2025 traffic split into 30,464,597 domestic and 24,850,064 international passengers, with 498,697 commercial aircraft movements and 3,405,322 U.S. tons of freight. MIA counted 92 carriers in August 2026 and 164 nonstop destinations in September 2026. From downtown Miami, the Metrorail Orange Line reaches the airport's MIA station on weekdays.

PortMiami, whose pages sit on the Miami-Dade County website, calls itself the Cruise Capital of the World (PortMiami). Its 8,564,225 cruise passengers were up from 8,233,056 the previous fiscal year, a 4.02 percent increase and the highest count in the port's history, and the county credits the port with $61 billion in annual economic impact and 340,078 jobs, although the Business Information section of the same page says more than 340,000 jobs and $42 billion annually. One inconsistency is worth knowing: the same PortMiami home page gives the cargo total as 1,115,058 TEUs in its headline figures and more than 1,120,913 TEUs in its shipping section.