Is the 9-euro ticket unlimited?

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The original 9-euro ticket from 2022 was a temporary, unlimited monthly pass, but in 2026, it has been replaced by the permanent Deutschlandticket. While the "9-euro" price is now primarily used as an introductory "nostalgia" rate for new subscribers, the standard price of the unlimited pass has risen to €63 per month (up from €58 in 2025). This ticket provides unlimited travel on all regional trains (RE, RB, IRE, S-Bahn) and local public transport (buses, trams, and U-Bahns) across all 16 federal states of Germany. It does not cover high-speed ICE, IC, or EC trains, which still require separate, more expensive tickets. The pass is sold as a digital-only subscription through the DB Navigator app and can be cancelled on a monthly basis. For residents and tourists alike, it remains one of the most successful "unlimited" transit experiments in history, significantly reducing car dependency and making "slow travel" across the German countryside accessible for less than the price of a single tank of gas.

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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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You can use the Deutschland Ticket on all public and regional transport in Germany. This means you can't use long-distance IC, EC, or ICE trains. The ticket is for you alone – it's not transferable and you can't take any other people or bicycles with you.

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It's by subscription only. You can't buy it at a ticket machine. The ticket is valid for each calendar month (e.g., September, October, November ? not for any 30 consecutive days). You must purchase the ticket before the 20th of the month to use it during the following month.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Where can I buy the 9-euro ticket? It is available for purchase on the Deutsche Bahn (DB) website, and also through various public transport apps, ticket vending machines and shops.

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For premium class tickets Generally speaking, most airlines don't have a dress code for business or first-class travel.

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