🇨🇿 Prague · Getting around
Transport and the shape of the city in Prague
One of the best-value public transport systems in Europe, integrated across metro, tram, bus and suburban rail on a single card.
The thing people get wrongThe annual pass costs roughly what three months of monthly tickets cost, so almost anybody staying a year should buy the year. People default to monthly coupons and quietly overpay.
Lítačka and PID
Prague Integrated Transport (PID) covers the metro, trams, buses, the funicular and the suburban trains on one ticket. You can carry the pass on a Lítačka card, in the PID Lítačka app, or on a contactless bank card registered to your account. Fares are time-based rather than per-journey, so a single validation covers any number of changes within the window.
- Zone P plus zone 0 covers the city; outer zones are added for suburban travel.
- Annual coupon: around Kč 3,650 — roughly ten korunas a day.
- Monthly coupon: around Kč 550.
- Over-65s travel free within the city; under-18s and students pay a fraction.
Metro, tram, night service
Three metro lines cross at the centre and run to around midnight. The tram network is the real backbone and covers far more of the city than the metro does. A full night tram and bus network takes over after the metro closes, all lines meeting at Lazarská, so a late night does not mean a taxi.
Driving and parking
A car is unnecessary in the inner districts and awkward in them. Most of central Prague sits inside paid parking zones, and a resident permit requires a registered address in the zone and the car registered to you — a foreign-plated car generally cannot get one. Bolt, Uber and the local operator Liftago all work, and are inexpensive by Western European standards.
The airport and getting out
Václav Havel airport has no rail link. The usual route is bus 119 to Nádraží Veleslavín on metro line A, which is covered by an ordinary transit ticket and takes about half an hour door to door. Long-distance trains and coaches leave from Hlavní nádraží and Florenc, and the rail connections to Berlin, Vienna and Bratislava are good enough that most people stop flying regionally.
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