Fare and ticket information: What will change for my bus and train tickets from 1 January 2025?
The new year will see a number of fare adjustments for passengers. We have summarised the most important changes here.
Fare and ticket information as of 01 January 2025
How will the prices in the VRR tariff change?
The VRR committees have decided that there will be a general price adjustment of +5.5% from 1 January 2025.
How will the price of the DeutschlandTicket?
The federal government has decided to raise the price of the (regular) DeutschlandTicket to €58 from 1 January 2025. This will affect the entire DeutschlandTicket product family, with prices changing as follows:
- DeutschlandTicket Job €55.10, of which employees pay a maximum of €40.60
- DeutschlandTicket Social € 48.00
- DeutschlandTicket Schuleself-payer € 38.00, the prices for
- DeutschlandTicket SchoolEligible 1st child € 14.00
- DeutschlandTicket School Eligible 2nd child € 7.00
- DeutschlandTicket Schule entitled persons from 3rd child € 0.00
- Germany Semester Ticket winter semester 2024/2025 and summer semester 2025 € 29.40
- Germany semester ticket winter semester 2025/2026 € 34.80
- The DT-Upgrade FH & Uni semester ticket is only available until the end of the current winter semester 2024/2025 and costs € 18.42
What do I do with my unused tickets?
Tickets that you buy by 31.12.2024 can still be used until 31.03.2025.
What else will change in the VRR fare in 2025?
The major fare reform will take effect on 01.03.2025. fare reform will be implemented in VRR, meaning that passengers will face further changes. Among other things, some ticket offers in the VRR will be discontinued, including the Ticket1000, the YoungTicketPlus, the BärenTicket, the 10-trip ticket and the 48-hour ticket. The price levels A1, A2 and A3 will be merged into the new, standardised price level A. Price level D will no longer apply and the "new" price level C will apply for journeys throughout the network. The previous regions of price level C will no longer apply, as will the short-haul route.
Tickets purchased between 01.01.25 and 28.02.25 may still be used until 28.02.25.
Information material for download
Downloads
VRR price table from 01.01.2025(PDF - 296 KB)
VRR price table from 01.03.2025(PDF - 171 KB)
You can find detailed information on the major tariff reform in our brochure (PDF - 475 KB)!