The 2025 Paris bus ticket is now the Ticket Bus-Tram costing 2€ for adults and 1€ for children 9 & under. This Paris Ticket Bus-Tram is only sold on a Navigo Easy card, or Paris transport smartphone app, or Apple Wallet.
What is the Paris Bus-Tram ticket?
The Paris Bus-Tram ticket is:
- a single-use ticket / fare for all numbered Paris city buses, Noctilien night buses, Trams 1 – 10
- not valid for Roissybus, Orlybus, Express Trams 11, 12, 13, nor Tzen
- not valid for transfers onto Paris Metro nor Paris RER
- 2€ adult / 1€ kids 4-9
- digital only; No paper ticket exists
- put on a Navigo Easy card, or Paris transport smartphone app, or Apple Wallet
- max 20 tickets on card / app / wallet
- not discounted for purchasing 10 or more tickets
- not compatible with Navigo Découverte card (used for Day, Week, Month passes)
- valid for 90 minutes of transfers onto intersecting bus & tram lines
- cannot be used for a return trip on same bus line
- valid across fare zones 1 – 5 (most of Paris metropolitan area “Ile-de-France“)
- a replacement for the Paris Metro Ticket t+ (former combined Metro/Bus/Tram ticket) as of January 1, 2025
How do I buy the Paris Bus-Tram ticket?
The Paris Bus-Tram ticket can be purchased on your mobile phone via an official Paris transport smartphone app (instructions in link), within Apple Wallet, or in-person at any Paris Metro station / RER station / Transilien station ticket window and some automated ticket vending machines which can distribute paper Navigo Easy cards.
When buying the Bus-Tram ticket in-person, you will need to also buy a Navigo Easy card (2€) to store the ticket (if you don’t already have one).
You can buy & store anywhere from a single Paris Bus-Tram ticket up to 20 tickets on a Navigo Easy card, or smartphone app, or Apple Wallet. Bus-Tram single-ride tickets do not expire and can be used at any time in the future. (Note that Navigo Easy cards expire after ten years of initial purchase.)
When buying in-person, Paris train station ticket windows accept Euro cash notes, coins, French debit card and Visa/Mastercard credit cards. When purchasing Paris transport fares on your smartphone, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and credit cards are accepted.
Paris Bus-Tram tickets can be loaded onto the same Navigo Easy card / smartphone / Apple Wallet that holds Paris Airports Tickets; the two tickets do not clash (since Paris Airports Tickets are not valid for transfers onto buses nor trams).
The Paris Bus-Tram ticket can also be loaded onto a Navigo Easy / smartphone / Apple Wallet that holds Paris Metro-Train-RER tickets. Again, there is no overlap in coverage between these two types of tickets and they can be loaded onto the same card / phone / wallet at the same time.
Same with the Navigo Day Pass: it can be loaded onto Navigo Easy / smartphone / Apple Wallet simultaneously with the Paris Bus-Tram tickets. While the Navigo Day Pass is active, the Day Pass will be used first before any Paris Bus-Tram tickets.
A Navigo Découverte card cannot be loaded with Paris Bus-Tram tickets. Navigo Decouverte can only hold Navigo Day Pass, Navigo Week Pass and Navigo Month Pass. No single-use tickets or fares can be loaded onto a Navigo Découverte card.
How to Use Paris Bus-Tram Ticket
On board Paris buses & trams are purple or blue card readers which are used to validate Navigo cards including Navigo Easy & Navigo Découverte Week Passes and also to validate fares stored on smartphone apps, Apple Wallets on iPhones & Apple Watches such as the Paris Bus-Tram ticket.
Below is a photo on board a Paris city bus with a Navigo card reader (white top, purple bottom half, with whitish circle pattern) on the left and a paper ticket stamping/validation machine (grey rectangular box with green sticker on front) on the right. For Navigo Easy cards/smartphones/Apple Watches, hold your pass or device flat up against the purple reader on the left until you hear a “ding” to indicate a ticket has been successfully validated. If you hear a “buzz-buzz” a ticket was not validated properly and you should remove your card/device & try tapping again.
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