Porto Metro Map 2026: All 6 Lines, Stations, Fares and Zones

The Porto metro is the easiest part of this city to work out, and the map makes it look harder than it is. Six lines, one interchange that matters, and a flat little fare table. Once you understand that every line passes through Trindade, you can stop reading maps and start walking out of stations.

Everything below is current for 2026. The fares changed on 1 January, contactless bank cards arrived at a handful of key stations, and the Rosa line everyone keeps asking me about has been pushed back again. I have kept it to what you will actually use in a week here.

Porto Metro Map: All 6 Lines and 85 Stations

A metro map is a picture of six lines and one interchange. Here is the same information in a form you can search, read on a phone at 6am, and check without pinching to zoom. All six lines are open and running today, and the network covers 70 km, from the beach at Matosinhos to the market towns inland.

Three things that are not obvious from the diagram itself:

• Trindade is everything. All six lines pass through it, and the platforms sit on one underground level, so changing is a walk of seconds rather than a trek through tunnels.
• Five lines share the central spine. Lines A, B, C, E and F all run the same core through Trindade, which means a train showing a destination you have never heard of is very often still your train for the next two stops.
• Line D is the odd one out. It runs north to south and crosses the river on the top deck of the Dom Luís bridge, which is the best free view in the city. It reaches Jardim do Morro in four minutes from São Bento.

Porto Metro Tickets and Fares in 2026

Fares changed on 1 January 2026. Monthly passes and the Z2 single held their price, and the longer-distance singles went up. These are the numbers a visitor needs.

The maths most visitors get wrong: the Andante Tour 1 at €7.75 only beats singles if you make six or more journeys in a day, and almost nobody does, because Porto’s centre is walkable. Buy the €0.60 card and load singles onto it. Where the Tour card earns its money is the day you land, since it covers the airport run and everything after it.

Two traps worth knowing before you queue at a machine:

• The Andante Tour card cannot be topped up. When it expires you buy another one, so do not treat it as a wallet.
• It is not valid on the Funicular dos Guindais or the historic STCP tram. Both take your money separately no matter what you wave at them.
• One card, one person. You cannot load two people’s tickets onto a single Andante and share it between you.

I have written up the card in more detail in my guide to the Andante card, including where to buy one at the airport.

Can You Use Contactless on the Porto Metro?

Yes, at some stations, and this is new enough that most guides have not caught up. Metro do Porto runs a tap-to-pay system where you touch a contactless bank card or phone straight onto the validator, with no Andante card involved at all. Visa, VPAY, Electron and Mastercard all work.

The catch is coverage. It is live at nine stations plus one bus route, not across the whole network:

• Line E (violet): Aeroporto, Senhora da Hora, Casa da Música and Trindade.
• Lines A, B, C, D and F: Campanhã, Bolhão, Campo 24 de Agosto, São Bento and Aliados.
• Bus: the 500 route between Praça da Liberdade and Matosinhos.

The genuinely good part is the daily cap. Tap as often as you like and the system charges you the best available fare, never more than €7.00 in a day. That is less than the €7.75 Andante Tour 1, so if your travel starts and ends at those nine stations you can skip the card queue entirely. Take the card out of your wallet before you tap it, because two contactless cards touching the reader at once will fail the transaction and leave you unvalidated.

For everywhere else, and that is most of the network, you still need an Andante. If in doubt, buy the €0.60 card on arrival and stop thinking about it.

Porto Metro Zones Explained: Z2, Z3 and Z4

Andante charges you for the number of zones your journey crosses, not the number of vehicles you get on. That second half is the useful bit, and it is what people leave money on the table over. The same ticket carries you across the metro, STCP city buses and some CP urban trains, so a metro-then-bus trip inside one validation is one fare, not two.

• Z2 is the two central zones and where you will spend almost your whole visit: the old town, Boavista, Campanhã, and Gaia across the bridge. €1.40 a journey.
• Z4 is what the airport sits in, so the airport run is not the €1.40 fare no matter how short it feels.
• Z3 and beyond climb from €1.85 to €4.65, covering Póvoa de Varzim, Vila do Conde, Maia and ISMAI.

Each ticket also carries a time window rather than a single ride, which is the detail almost everyone misses. A Z4 ticket runs for 1 hour 15 minutes from validation, comfortably enough to get from the airport into the centre including a change at Trindade. If your journey needs two vehicles inside that window, you have already paid for it. Validate once at the start and keep moving.

Porto Metro Timetable: Opening Hours and Frequency

The metro opens at 6am every day and the last train leaves at 1am. Through the day, the central corridor between Campanhã, Trindade, Casa da Música and Senhora da Hora is the busy one, and in peak hours a train comes every 4 to 6 minutes, often enough that consulting a timetable is a waste of your morning. Head out to the branches towards Póvoa de Varzim, ISMAI or Fânzeres and the gap stretches to 15 minutes or more, which is when it is worth a glance at the app.

• First train: 6am, every day.
• Last train: 1am, every day.
• Peak frequency: every 4 to 6 minutes on the central corridor.
• Outer branches: 15 minutes or more between trains.
• Friday and Saturday nights: lines A and D run all night, every 20 to 30 minutes.

That last one is the part almost nobody tells you, and it is under the Move Porto programme. Line D is the one that crosses the river, so getting back from a late night in Gaia at 3am on a Saturday is a train, not a negotiation with a taxi driver. It is worth knowing before you plan a weekend around closing time.

How to Use the Porto Metro: Validate Every Time

There are no barriers on the Porto metro. You walk from the street onto the platform and nothing stops you, which fools a lot of people into believing they have paid when they have not. The validators are small posts on the platform. Touch your Andante to one before you board, every time, including when you change onto a different zone.

• Validate before boarding, not on the train. There is no reader on board.
• A valid ticket sitting unvalidated on your card counts as no ticket at all.
• Inspectors do work the trains, and the fine is real and unpleasant.
• Take your card out of your wallet first, so the reader only sees one card.

It takes half a second and it is the single thing I ask guests to remember. Everything else about this network forgives you. This one does not.

Porto Airport to City Centre by Metro

Line E, violet, runs from Aeroporto Francisco Sá Carneiro to Trindade in about 25 minutes, and it starts inside the terminal so you never go outside. It is the reason I almost never recommend a taxi from the airport: the metro is cheaper, it is not affected by traffic on the VCI, and it drops you at the interchange for everywhere else in the city.

• Journey time: about 25 minutes, Aeroporto to Trindade.
• Zone: Z4, so this is not the €1.40 Z2 fare.
• Best value: Andante Tour 1 at €7.75 covers the airport plus your first 24 hours, or tap contactless and let the €7.00 daily cap do the work.
• Ticket validity: 1h15 on a Z4, which covers the run plus a change at Trindade.

If you are arriving by air, my guide to flying to Porto covers the terminal end of it.

Where the Porto Metro Actually Takes You

The centre of Porto is small enough that you will walk most of it. The metro earns its place on the days you leave the middle, and these are the runs my guests actually make.

• Matosinhos and the beach on Line A, for the seafood restaurants and an afternoon in the Atlantic wind.
• Gaia and the port lodges on Line D across the bridge, four minutes from São Bento to Jardim do Morro.
• Estádio do Dragão on Lines A and B, which is also where you go for a match rather than a museum.
• Casa da Música on the central spine, worth the trip for the building alone even if nothing is on.
• Porto Cathedral (Sé do Porto) is a short walk from São Bento station, the stop all central-spine lines share with Line D.
• Campanhã on Lines A, B, C and F, which is where long distance trains arrive from Lisbon.

That last one connects the two halves of most people’s trip. If you are coming up from the capital first, my guide to Lisbon to Porto by train covers the 2026 fares and the Campanhã transfer that catches people out.

Is the Porto Metro Rosa Line Open Yet?

No, and if you have seen it drawn on a map you saw a plan, not a railway. The Rosa line (Line G) will run 2.7 km between Casa da Música and São Bento with four stations, entirely underground, adding a second cross-town link that does not depend on Trindade.

Metro do Porto had been saying the first quarter of 2026. On 20 January 2026 they confirmed that is not happening:

• Construction hit serious problems between the Boavista roundabout and Praça da Galiza.
• Tunnelling now finishes at the end of 2026.
• The line opens in early 2027, by March.
• The cost has reached around €420 million.
• Surface works return to the city before the São João festivities in June.

What this means for a trip in 2026: plan on six lines, not seven. If you are staying near Casa da Música and heading into the old town, that is still Line A, B, C, E or F to Trindade and then walk or change. Nothing you read about the Rosa line changes anything you will do this year.

More to Explore

• The full Porto public transport guide, once buses and trams come into it.
• Porto spring events for 2026, if you are still choosing dates.

Image credits: metro photography by Sergei Gussev, IngolfBLN, Patrycja Rosa, Thomas Dahlstrøm Nielsen, Ymblanter and Joehawkins, licensed under CC BY and CC BY-SA via Wikimedia Commons.