Ticket validity and interchanging
All tickets allow you to transfer between modes of transport within their validity. You can board a vehicle and complete your journey even if the ticket expires during the journey.
When boarding a bus, show your ticket to the bus driver or show your HSL card to a card reader. On trams, the metro, trains and on the Suomenlinna ferry, you only need to show your ticket if a ticket inspector or conductor asks you to to do so.
Single tickets
AB, BC and D tickets are valid for 80 minutes, ABC and CD tickets for 90 minutes, BCD tickets for 100 minutes and ABCD tickets for 110 minutes.
The tickets are valid from the moment of purchase. Alternatively, you can set the validity start time of the ticket within 24 hours of the purchase.
The ticket must be in the app before you board a bus, a tram or train, or before you enter the Suomenlinna ferry pier. When travelling on the metro, the ticket must be on your phone before you enter the payment area after passing the card readers.
You can buy value tickets for individual journeys with value loaded on your HSL card. Buy the ticket at a card reader immediately after boarding a bus, tram or train. When travelling on the metro, you must buy your ticket at a card reader before entering the metro payment area, i.e. before passing the card readers.
You can buy single tickets from HSL ticket machines and in Helsinki also form parking ticket machines. At the ticket machines, you can pay using coins or a debit or credit card with chip. Some ticket machines accept notes. You can also use the value balance on your HSL card to pay for single tickets at the large HSL ticket machines (full-range ticket machines).
The tickets are valid from the moment of purchase. The expiry time is printed on the ticket. The tickets are valid for 10 minutes longer than tickets purchased from other ticketing outlets.
You can buy single tickets in advance. Advance purchase tickets are valid from the time you show the disposable card to a card reader at the start of your first journey. You do not need to press any buttons, simply show the card to the reader. The tickets must be used within two years from the moment of purchase.
Use the sales points search to find the closest sales or service point.
U line buses are bus services whose routes extend to outside the HSL area. The buses have U signs on the front. HSL tickets are not sold on U line buses; on these buses you can buy bus operators’ tickets, which do not allow transfer to HSL public transport.
Day tickets
You can buy day tickets for 1 to 13 days on the HSL card and the HSL app. Sales points sell tickets loaded on single charge cards for 1 to 7 days and HSL single ticket machines sell one-day tickets.
You can use the HSL app to buy day tickets for 1 to 13 days. The tickets are valid from the moment of purchase. Alternatively, you can set the validity start time of the ticket within 24 hours of the purchase. A one-day ticket is valid for 24 hours from the first use, two-day ticket for 48 hours, three-day ticket for 72 hours, etc.
The ticket must be in the app before you board a bus, a tram, or a train, or before you enter the Suomenlinna ferry pier. When traveling on the metro, the ticket must be on your phone before you enter the payment area after passing the card readers.
You can buy a ticket for 1 to 13 days on your HSL card.
Show your HSL card to the card reader when you board a bus. You do not need to press any buttons. On commuter trains, the metro, trams and on the orange trunk route buses you do not need to show your card unless a ticket inspector or conductor asks you to do so.
The ticket is valid from the moment it is loaded on your card. If you buy a ticket in advance, it will be valid from midnight on the first day. On the last day of validity, the ticket will be valid until 4.30am on the next calendar day.
You can buy day tickets onto both personal and multi-user HSL cards via the online HSL card service, at full-range ticket machines as well as at sales and service points. Find the closest point
You can buy day tickets for 1 to 7 days in advance. Advance purchase tickets loaded on single-charge cards are valid from the time you show your ticket to a card reader at the beginning of your first journey. You do not need to press any buttons, simply show the card to the reader. The tickets are valid for 24, 48, 72, 96, etc. hours.
The tickets must be used within two years from the moment of purchase.
Use the sales point search to find the closest sales or service point.
You can buy day tickets in advance from large, full-range ticket machines. Advance purchase tickets loaded on single-charge cards are valid from the time you show your ticket to a card reader at the beginning of your first journey. You do not need to press any buttons, simply show the card to the reader. The tickets are valid for 24, 48, 72, 96, etc. hours.
The tickets must be used within two years from the moment of purchase.
You can buy one-day AB and ABC tickets from single ticket machines. The tickets are valid from the moment of purchase. The expiry time is printed on the ticket. You can pay for the tickets in cash.
Season tickets
A season ticket allows you unlimited travel within is validity. You can buy a season ticket using the HSL app or your HSL card.
You can buy season tickets as a one-off purchase via the HSL app for 14, 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, 180, 210, 240, 270 or 360 days. Alternatively, you can also buy 30-day season tickets as an auto-renewing subscription. This way, the ticket is valid all the time and you don’t have to top it up every 30 days. The ticket is charged automatically to your payment card every 30 days.
In addition, auto-renewing saver subscriptions are available to adults who live permanently in the HSL area. The auto-renewing saver subscription is the most economical season ticket if you travel regularly. The subscription requires you to commit to it for a year.
You can set the season ticket validity to start immediately or within up to 60 days from the moment of purchase. The season ticket is valid until 4.30am on the day following the expiry date.
Season tickets bought on the HSL app are always personal.
You can purchase season tickets for 14, 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, 180, 210, 240, 270 or 360 days.
You can set the ticket validity to start immediately or within 60 days from the moment of purchase. The season ticket is valid until 4.30am on the day following the expiry date.
You can buy a new season ticket on your HSL card in advance before the current ticket expires. You can set the validity of the second ticket to start within up to 60 days of the expiry of the first season ticket. In other words, you can have two season tickets on your HSL card at the same time, with a maximum gap of 60 days between the tickets.
Season tickets bought on a personal HSL card are always personal.
Season tickets bought on a multi-user HSL card are more expensive than tickets bought on a personal HSL card. The ticket can be used by anyone holding the card who belongs to the same customer group. There are cards for adults and children (7–17 years).
If you live permanently in the HSL area, you can buy season tickets at a lower price than residents in other municipalities. Residents of certain neighboring municipalities can also buy tickets at the same price as residents of the HSL area.
- The HSL municipalities include Helsinki, Espoo, Kauniainen, Kirkkonummi, Siuntio, Vantaa, Kerava, Tuusula and Sipoo.
- All the municipalities that have signed a ticketing agreement with HSL have been listed on our website.
Season tickets cost more for residents of other municipalities due to that their home municipalities do not subsidize the public transport journeys of their residents in the HSL area. Season tickets bought on a multi-user HSL card cost the same.
Students, children, pensioners receiving a pension from Kela, people over 70 years, and people with reduced mobility who live permanently in the HSL area can buy season tickets at a discounted rate.
The prices of season tickets for different customer groups, zones and residents of different municipalities.
Sales and service points
Use the sales points search to easily find the closest ticket machine or sales point.