Vienna U-Bahn opening hours
The metro runs from about 04:45 to 00:55, and right through the night on Friday and Saturday nights and before public holidays. Here are the intervals, line by line.
Vienna metro opening hours: when does the U-Bahn run?
On Friday nights, Saturday nights and on the nights before public holidays the Vienna U-Bahn runs 24 hours — every 15 minutes, on all five lines. On every other night there is no metro between the last train (00:45 on the U4 to 00:58 on the U2) and the start of service from 04:39; the NightLine buses take over instead.
How often does the Vienna metro run?
The Vienna U-Bahn has no minute-by-minute departure timetable: it runs at intervals. So there is nothing to look up — you walk down to the platform and the next train comes. How long you wait depends only on the time of day.
Opening hours by line and day of the week
These times come from the official Wiener Linien GTFS timetable (edition of 27 August 2026, valid to 12 December 2026) — the earliest and latest departure of each line anywhere on the network. At your own station they fall a little earlier or later; every station page shows its own figures per direction.
Vienna books the night trains to Saturday and Sunday, so the Sat column starts just after midnight — those are the trains of the Friday-to-Saturday night. “Runs all night” means there is no gap between the last train and the first.
Opening hours line by line
The exact first and last departure depends on the station: trains set off from the termini between 04:39 (U6) and 04:51 (U1), so they reach the city centre a few minutes later. The last trains run between 00:45 (U4) and 00:58 (U2) — the exact times for each station are on every station page.
Night service and the NightLine buses
Fri/Sat, Sat/Sun and before public holidays
On those nights all five metro lines run right through, every 15 minutes. You need no special ticket: the normal Wiener Linien fare applies.
On every other night
From Sunday to Thursday the metro rests between the last train (00:45 to 00:58) and the start of service from 04:39. The NightLine buses (route numbers starting with «N») then run about every 30 minutes along the main corridors — and they are included in your normal ticket too.
A daytime back-up
Trams and buses keep their own hours and some start earlier than the metro. You can change between metro, tram, bus and S-Bahn on the same ticket.
Summer closures
Wiener Linien use the summer months for track and points renewals. Sections are closed and served by replacement buses instead. Current closures are announced by Wiener Linien on wienerlinien.at and in the WienMobil app.
Check before you travel
Engineering works, a big match at the stadium or an incident can change the service at short notice. Take a look at the current service status before you set off — especially in summer, when partial closures are common.
Opening hours: frequently asked questions
Service starts at around 04:45. That is when the first trains pull out of the terminus stations; they reach the city centre a few minutes later.
Depending on the line, the last trains leave the termini between about 23:55 and 00:35 (U2 from Seestadt 23:55, U6 from Floridsdorf 00:35); the last trains are still on the move until just before 01:00. The exception: on Friday nights, Saturday nights and the nights before public holidays the metro runs all night long.
Not every night — but it does at the weekend. On Friday nights, Saturday nights and before public holidays there is a 24-hour service every 15 minutes on all five lines. On the other nights the NightLine buses run instead.
Every 2–5 min at peak times, about 5 min during the day, 7–8 min from about 20:30, and every 15 min during the weekend night service. You do not need a departure timetable.
No. The same fare applies at night as during the day: a single ticket costs €3.20 and passes stay valid. The NightLine buses are covered by your normal ticket as well.
Planned partial closures — usually track and points renewals during the summer holidays — are announced in advance by Wiener Linien; in summer 2026, for example, the U3 was cut between Hütteldorfer Straße and Westbahnhof from 13 July to 30 August. Since 31 August it has been running through from Ottakring to Simmering again. For the current service status check wienerlinien.at and the WienMobil app.
On this page: download the timetable PDF with the opening hours, intervals and journey times of all five lines on a single sheet.