Barcelona public transport fares to rise 3% in 2025

Public transport fares in the Barcelona area will rise 3% in 2025.

The Metropolitan Transport Authority (ATM) approved the increase for next year at a meeting on Friday.

Discounts of 50% will continue to apply to T-usual tickets, which will cost €22 for one zone, and for the young person's ticket, the T-jove, which will cost €44 for all six zones.

Next year will also see a continuation of the discounts for single-parent and large families, and for unemployed people.

The 2025 prices will be in effect from January 15 and will remain in effect throughout the year, while tickets with 2024 rates purchased until January 14 will expire on February 28.

Subsidies continue

The small price increase comes after the Catalan and Spanish governments announced in recent days they would continue subsidising public transport directly.

Public transport tickets would continue to be partially (50%) subsidized throughout the whole of 2025, the Catalan government announced on Saturday.

Two days previously, the Spanish cabinet had already reached a deal to extend the discounts through the first half of next year after a deal with anti-austerity Podemos.

That announcement followed speculation over whether the subsidies, introduced in 2022 to alleviate economic challenges from the post-Covid-19 crisis, would continue.