Is the 9-euro-ticket unlimited?

A separate ticket was required. Other than those few limits, your nine-euro ticket entitled you to go anywhere in Germany, using public transport, as often as you wanted, for a calendar month. Children under six already traveled free.



The original "9-euro-ticket" was a temporary, three-month promotion in Germany during the summer of 2022. It provided unlimited travel on all local and regional public transport (buses, U-Bahns, S-Bahns, and regional trains) throughout the entire country for just 9 euros per month. It was incredibly popular but was replaced by the permanent Deutschland-Ticket (D-Ticket). As of 2026, the D-Ticket is the successor and offers similar "unlimited" benefits but at a higher price point (around 63 euros per month). Like its predecessor, it is a monthly subscription that allows you to ride any local or regional transit across Germany as much as you want. However, it is not valid on long-distance, high-speed trains such as the ICE (Intercity Express), IC (Intercity), or EC (EuroCity) trains. For tourists or residents traveling within a city or between nearby towns using regional RB or RE trains, the ticket provides truly unlimited mobility, making it one of the most cost-effective transit passes in the world, provided you stick to the slower, regional rail networks.

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On which trains is the 9-Euro Ticket not valid? In principle, the 9-Euro Ticket is only valid on local public transport: i.e. on buses, S-Bahn trains, underground trains, trams and regional trains (RB and RE).

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The new 'Deutschlandticket', a flat-fee public transport card for regional trains and other forms of public transport, will be valid from May 1 onwards. Federal and local authorities have ironed out the final details of the ticket, which is the successor of the much-lauded 9-euro ticket.

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Who can buy and use the ticket? Anyone, including non-German residents and tourists.

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According to an estimate of the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV), the 9-Euro-Ticket offer – of which around 52 million tickets were sold in the three months – saved 1.8 million tons of CO 2, almost as much as a 130 km/h (81 mph) speed limit on the autobahns would achieve in an entire year.

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For more about how to navigate public transport in Germany see Public Transport in Germany. A 9-euro monthly ticket bought in Berlin could be used on public transport there and anywhere else in Germany. If you were in Munich or Hamburg, the ticket you bought in Berlin was valid there as well.

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The €49 ticket, also known as the “Deutschlandticket”, is a monthly subscription ticket that gives you access to all public transport throughout Germany (excluding ICE, IC or EC trains).

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Why the 9-Euro Ticket? In an effort to deal with increasing energy costs caused by the war in Ukraine, and to encourage Germans to use their cars less, and public transport more, the German government introduced a special discounted flat-rate monthly rail ticket valid anywhere in the entire country.

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The 9-euro ticket was valid in the second class, throughout Germany for all local public transport and on regional trains. It did not include travel on Intercity Express (ICE), Intercity (IC) and Eurocity (EC) trains, and could not be used on FlixTrains or intercity buses.

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From Baden-Württemberg, you can take the 49-euro ticket on the SBB trains from Zell im Wiesenthal to Basel Bad. The Swiss city is really gorgeous and impresses with a medieval old town, market square, town hall and cathedral.

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Anyone who likes a lie-in, or only uses bus & rail after 9am, the 9am monthly pass is an option. The 9am monthly pass is cheaper than the normal pass, because it cannot be used on Monday to Friday between 4am and 9am. At weekends and on bank holidays you can use the 9am monthly pass with no time restrictions.

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Even if you have a Deutschland ticket (Germany's 49 euro ticket) that will only get you as far as the border, so you'd still have to buy train tickets from the border to Prague.

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Netherlands. We do know that the €9 ticket is also accepted on some cross-border bus routes into the Netherlands. Examples include local buses on route 22 and 33 from Aachen to Vaals.

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The 9-euro ticket was valid in the second class, throughout Germany for all local public transport and on regional trains. It did not include travel on Intercity Express (ICE), Intercity (IC) and Eurocity (EC) trains, and could not be used on FlixTrains or intercity buses.

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