Metrorail and Metromover in Miami: Fares, Hours and Lines

One Metrorail trip is $2.25 at full fare and $1.10 at the reduced fare, (Miami-Dade Transit fares), and the downtown Metromover is free (Metromover).

Switching from a Metrobus to a Metrorail train, or the other way, costs nothing extra under the county fare table (Metrorail). For a busy sightseeing day, the 1-Day Pass sells for $5.65 ($2.80 reduced) and expires at 2:00 a.m. after the day it is first used. A week of riding on the 7-Day Pass is $29.25 ($14.60 reduced), counted as seven straight days from first use. Commuters buy the 1-Month Pass at $112.50 ($56.25 reduced); it covers one calendar month only, and Miami-Dade Transit stops selling it from the 11th through the 20th of each month (Miami-Dade transit pass page).

Some Miami-Dade riders pay no Metrorail fare at all. Seniors and people drawing Social Security can get a Golden Passport EASY Card, veterans living permanently in the county can apply for the Patriot Passport, and county residents earning less than $35,910 a year may qualify for the free Mobility EASY Card (Miami-Dade special passes). Drivers who park at a Metrorail station without holding a monthly transit pass can buy the $45 Transit Monthly Parking Pass instead of paying $4.50 a day. Every sale is final, and EASY Ticket purchases are never refunded.

Metrorail trains run daily from 5 a.m. until midnight, while the Metromover opens at 5:30 a.m. and shuts down at 10 p.m., also every day of the week (Metrorail; Metromover).

Downtown, a Metromover car pulls in about every 90 seconds at peak commuting times and roughly every 3 minutes the rest of the day, announced by a bell (Metromover service page). Orange Line trains toward the Miami International Airport Station come every 15 minutes. Track maintenance can stretch Metrorail waits, because during single tracking the trains in both directions share one track (Metrorail schedule notes).

Banner notices on the county pages lag behind. When this guide was checked on October 15, 2026, the Metrorail page still showed a notice that Metrorail service would run one hour past the end of the Sept. 3 and Sept. 17 County budget hearings if they went past midnight, and the Metromover page still warned of a Saturday, Sept. 26 closure of the Omni and Brickell loops until 2 p.m. (Metrorail; Metromover). Both pages point riders to the GO Miami-Dade Transit app and the Transit Alerts sign-up for service issues.

Green Line trains cover the full Metrorail spine from Palmetto at the north end to Dadeland South at the south end, and Orange Line trains peel off to the airport (Metrorail).

Miami-Dade DTPW describes Metrorail as 25 miles of double track. Starting in Kendall, it passes South Miami and Coral Gables, crosses downtown, serves the Civic Center hospital district and continues to Brownsville, Liberty City, Hialeah and Medley (Miami-Dade DTPW). Each train shows its color on an electronic sign at the front and a colored square on the destination displays.

The airport branch behaves differently on Saturdays and Sundays. Monday through Friday, riders heading north can stay on an Orange Line train all the way into the MIA Station. On weekends, Orange Line trains shuttle only between Earlington Heights and the airport every 15 minutes, which means a transfer at Earlington Heights for every airport trip (Metrorail). Riders starting north of Earlington Heights always ride a Green Line train south first and switch there.

Three Metrorail stations tie into the regional trains: Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre for Brightline, the MIA stop on the Orange Line for Tri-Rail, and the Green Line stop named for Tri-Rail (Metrorail connections). The Tri-Rail side of that Green Line connection is the Metrorail Transfer Station at 2567 East 11th Avenue in Hialeah, which has free parking and Metrobus Route 79 (Tri-Rail Metrorail Transfer).

The Metromover links 21 stations between Financial District Station at the Brickell end and School Board Station at the Omni end, running as three loops: Omni, Inner and Brickell (Metromover).

The free elevated Metromover runs seven days a week in downtown Miami, Omni and Brickell, and DTPW names four major destinations: Bayside Marketplace, the Kaseya Center where the HEAT play, the Miami Dade College campus and the county School Board building (Miami-Dade DTPW). A screen over the platform map shows where each car is headed, and each Metromover station is called out by name before the doors open.

Reliability work is under way: DTPW says the Metromover is being upgraded so that equipment breaks down less often, and free buses stand in when a loop is interrupted (Metromover upgrade notice). A rider in a wheelchair who reaches a Metromover station with a broken elevator can use the red box at the station entrance or the elevator, and Miami-Dade Transit sends backup accessible service within 30 minutes. Priority seats sit at each end of a car.

At a Metrorail gate, riders can tap a contactless debit or credit card, a mobile wallet or a smart watch, or present an EASY Card, an EASY Ticket or a GO Miami-Dade Transit app pass (Miami-Dade Transit).

Metrorail fare gates do not accept cash. Bills and coins go into the ticket vending machines at each Metrorail station instead, where they buy an EASY Card or an EASY Ticket (Metrorail payment). The Token Transit app now sells One-Trip, One-Day and Seven-Day Passes as well, and the county suggests the EASY Ticket for visitors (Transit Pass).

Other places to buy Miami-Dade Transit passes are the online Transit Store, the Transit Service Centers, retail sales outlets and the EASY Card Financial Center by phone (Miami-Dade transit pass page). Full-time college and K-12 students in Miami-Dade ride Metrorail at half price, and Medicare recipients can apply for the Discount Fare EASY Card, and people with disabilities can ride at the discount rate with one. The Metrorail page lists 311 support Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and transit information agents are not available on Sundays or County-observed holidays (Metrorail support).

Last verified: October 15, 2026, on the Miami-Dade County website.

Metrorail stops at MIA inside the Miami Intermodal Center, and travelers reach it on the free MIA Mover, boarded on the 3rd level between the Dolphin and Flamingo garages (Miami International Airport).

MIA places the Metrobus, Metrorail and Tri-Rail airport connections in the Miami Intermodal Center, where the EASY Card vending machines are, and its page still says an EASY Card is needed to ride (MIA public transportation). That differs from the Miami-Dade Transit fare page, which says Metrorail fare gates take contactless bank cards, mobile wallets and smart watches (Transit Pass). DTPW calls the Orange Line the cheapest way between MIA and the rest of the county (Metrorail).

Tri-Rail gives 3861 Northwest 21st Street as the address of its Miami Airport Station, and it lists the Metrorail Orange Line as a connection there (Tri-Rail Miami Airport Station). MIA describes Tri-Rail as the commuter train linking Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach (MIA). Tri-Rail vending machines at the Miami Airport Station accept cash, debit and credit cards. Bicycle racks are available inside each Metrorail car (Metrorail bike rules).

Two Miami-Dade SMART Program corridors would extend the rail network: a Metromover branch up Miami Avenue to NW 41st Street and a North Corridor reaching about 10 miles up NW 27th Avenue (Beach Corridor; North Corridor).

On the Beach Corridor, also called Baylink, the Miami-Dade Transportation Planning Organization Governing Board chose its Locally Preferred Alternative on Jan. 30, 2020: elevated rubber tire technology for the trunkline across Biscayne Bay to Miami Beach, the Metromover extension along Miami Avenue for the Design District leg, and dedicated bus or trolley lanes on Washington Avenue toward the Miami Beach Convention Center (Miami-Dade DTPW Beach Corridor page). A Draft Environmental Assessment for the trunkline is posted for comment, and DTPW says it is refining and finalizing the study analysis, which includes obtaining conceptual permits from regulatory agencies.

The North Corridor would start at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Metrorail Station and run to the Broward County line, serving unincorporated Miami-Dade, Opa-locka and Miami Gardens, with Miami Dade College North Campus and Hard Rock Stadium among the destinations (North Corridor page). DTPW describes it as a seamless extension of Metrorail and is drafting a transit-oriented development master plan for the station areas; its first community workshop was held at the Sherbondy Village Community Center on Oct. 22, 2025.

Metrobus, unlike the Metrorail fare gates, takes cash, a Metrobus-to-Metrorail transfer is free, and a transfer from a local Metrobus to an express bus costs $0.95 (Metrobus fares).