About us

Barcelona Metro is an independent guide to the Barcelona metro. There is a page for each of the 15 TMB and FGC lines and for each of their 160 stations, together with the network map, first- and last-train times, fares, the T-mobilitat card, a route planner and a guide to reaching the airport. It is not run by TMB (Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona), by FGC (Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya) or by the ATM (Autoritat del Transport Metropolità), and it has no connection with any of them.

What this site is

A reference guide with one simple aim: anyone should be able to open the page for their station and, within thirty seconds, find what they came for — which lines call there, when the first and last trains leave, whether there is a lift, how long the ride takes to where they are heading, what lies around it — without fighting a timetable search tool or squinting at a PDF on a phone. The pages are generated from the operators’ open data, so no station page can be left showing a two-year-old timetable just because nobody got round to rewriting its paragraph.

What we are not: the operator. We do not sell tickets, we hold no real-time information, and we cannot sort out a service disruption, an item of lost property or a complaint. Those are matters for tmb.cat, fgc.cat and atm.cat.

Where each piece of data comes from

• The network and its stations (names, order of stops, interchanges, termini, entrances, coordinates, opening dates): TMB’s Transit API, accessed with a key registered in this site’s name. The key is read while the pages are being built and is never published on the site or sent to the browser. As TMB’s terms of use require: Source: TMB (Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona), data updated on 19 October 2026; FGC open data.
• Timetables (first and last train from each station in each direction, journey times between stations, frequencies): the TMB GTFS and FGC GTFS feeds, the same scheduled timetable that drives the operators’ own apps. So as not to invent a day type, we always take a reference week with no public holidays and read every departure along one continuous time axis: that is why Saturday appears as “all night” on the TMB lines rather than with a closing time that does not exist.
• The FGC lines (L6, L7, L8 and L12): stations, timetables, step-free routes and ticket validations per station, from FGC open data.
• Fares: the ATM (its sheet for each ticket, the fares leaflet and the fare-zone map) and TMB for its own tickets and zone 1. Every price we publish is checked automatically against the saved text of the official page: if the price changes, the generator fails rather than leave an outdated figure in place.
• The T-mobilitat card: atm.cat, the ATM’s t-mobilitat.cat portal and TMB’s pages, consulted on 20 October 2026.
• Accessibility: TMB, station by station and entrance by entrance; FGC, through its data set of step-free routes. A station without a single step-free route is published as not accessible.
• Nearby places: OpenStreetMap contributors, for whatever lies within 400 metres of each station. The walking minutes are our own estimate from the straight-line distance, not a real route, and the card itself says so.
• The map: “Mapa metro Barcelona actual” by ItsAstrid, published on Wikimedia Commons under a CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. It is not TMB’s official map, which is not freely licensed. It also shows Rodalies, the FGC suburban trains and the TRAM, and it labels six stations with the names the ATM approved in 2022 but TMB has yet to adopt: El Clot, Bellvitge Rambla Marina, La Rambla | Drassanes, Vall d’Hebron | Sant Genís, Llucmajor | República and Congrés | Indians. On our pages the operator’s names prevail.
• Wikipedia in Spanish and Catalan: only as a cross-check and as background for the history paragraphs on each station page. It is not an official source and never overrides the operator’s data.

What we leave out on purpose

We do not publish waiting times or train positions: no live source is connected, and calling a scheduled timetable “real time” would mislead you. The status board on the home page tells you whether a line is inside its operating hours, and nothing more.

Nor does the guide cover FGC’s S and R lines, the Vallvidrera Funicular, Rodalies, the TRAM or the Montjuïc cable car: they show up as interchanges where they exist, but have no page of their own, because this is a metro guide. The four FGC lines that carry metro numbers are in, and so is the Montjuïc Funicular, because the integrated map draws them as metro and they share the zone 1 fare.

And we do not make up what the operator does not publish. If a figure is missing, we say that it is missing.

Known gaps and discrepancies

• 160 stations, or 165? We count 160 physical stations: where several lines cross, as at Passeig de Gràcia or Catalunya, the station counts once. TMB’s annual report gives 165 because it counts each station once per line (with the section shared by L9 and L10 counted only once) and leaves out the FGC stations. Both figures are right; they measure different things.
• Opening dates of FGC stations. FGC does not publish a date per station. For the 21 stations served only by FGC, the date Wikipedia gives is that of the original railway station, sometimes from the nineteenth century, not that of the metro line, so we do not present it as an opening date.
• One day out. For 53 stations, the opening date in TMB’s API falls a day earlier than Wikipedia’s — almost certainly local midnight converted to UTC. As there is no way of telling which is right without a third source, for those stations we publish only the month and the year.
• Accessibility. At 7 stations the official data and the Catalan Wikipedia entry disagree. We publish the operator’s version and point out the mismatch, but if you will be relying on a lift, confirm it on tmb.cat or fgc.cat before you set off.
• The FGC timetable has an expiry date. Its current GTFS runs to 31 December 2026 (TMB’s to 10 June 2027). We regenerate the timetables when the operators release a new feed; if you are reading this long after that date, check the timetable on the operator’s website.
• What is not published at all: the price of the Hola Barcelona Travel Card for each duration, passenger numbers for individual TMB stations, and the walking time between linked stations run by different operators.

Corrections

We will make mistakes: this is more than 175 pages generated from several sources that do not always agree. If you notice a wrong figure, a name that has fallen out of use or a broken link, let us know, quoting the page and the problem. We normally answer within two working days, and we correct the generator as well as the page, so the error does not creep back.

How the site is paid for

Through advertising. There is no sponsored content, no paid-for articles and no paid links passed off as recommendations: no advertiser has any say over what a page contains. Nor do we sell tickets or take a commission on them. Should we ever add affiliate links, the page carrying them will say so.

Who is behind it

The guide is published by David Franco Aguirre under the GoRandom name, a small, independent publisher of travel and public-transport guides based in Bilbao, which also runs guides to other metro networks along the same lines. We do not live in Barcelona and we are not going to pretend to first-hand experience we lack: what we offer is the operators’ data, checked, put in order and explained in Spanish and, for the most-used pages, in English. Contact: [email protected].

Last updated: October 2026.