Train Times and Fares: LIRR, Metro-North, NJ Transit, PATH

Networks

414 stations

LIRR125 stations
12 lines Metro-North112 stations
6 lines NJ Transit164 stations
11 lines PATH13 stations
7 lines

Popular trips

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Harlem-125 St to Grand CentralMetro-North · 270 weekday trains$7.2513 min Grand Central to Harlem-125 StMetro-North · 265 weekday trains$7.2510 min Grand Central to New HavenMetro-North · 48 weekday trains$27.25130 min New Haven to Grand CentralMetro-North · 42 weekday trains$27.25127 min Jamaica to Penn StationLIRR · 175 weekday trains$7.2520 min Penn Station to JamaicaLIRR · 168 weekday trains$7.2520 min Hamilton to New York Penn StationNJ Transit · 48 weekday trains$16.2585 min Ronkonkoma to Penn StationLIRR · 40 weekday trains$21.5082 min

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How each network prices a ticket

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By zone · 8 zonesLIRRThe LIRR prices a ticket by the fare zone you start in and the zone you end in.By zoneMetro-NorthMetro-North prices by fare zone, counted outward from Grand Central Terminal and Harlem-125th Street, which are zone 1.By distanceNJ TransitNJ Transit prices a rail ticket on the distance between your origin and destination.Flat farePATHPATH charges one flat fare for any ride, however far you go and whichever line you take.

Guides

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LIRRLIRR peak and off-peak: when each fare appliesHow the LIRR decides whether a train is peak or off-peak, which trips have no peak fare at all, and how to read the two prices on a trip page.Metro-NorthMetro-North fare zones explainedHow Metro-North zones are numbered on the Hudson, Harlem and New Haven Lines, why the New Haven Line starts at zone 11, and what intermediate fares are.NJ TransitNJ Transit rail fares: one price all dayHow NJ Transit prices a rail ticket by distance, why there is no peak fare, what the ticket types are, and why some trip pages on this site show no fare yet.PATHPATH fares and how to payThe PATH flat fare, what it covers, how to pay at the turnstile, and which PATH services run when.LIRRLIRR to Penn Station or Grand Central Madison?How to choose between the LIRR's two Manhattan terminals, what the fare difference is, and which branches run direct to each.All networksWhen a weekly or monthly ticket pays offHow the break-even rows on each trip page are calculated, and what they say about commuting three, four or five days a week.All networksFirst and last trains into and out of ManhattanThe earliest and latest scheduled departures on the trips this site publishes, by network and terminal, computed from the operators' schedule feeds.All networksNJ Transit or PATH into Manhattan?From Newark, Hoboken and Jersey City you can reach Manhattan on NJ Transit or PATH. How the two compare on where they land, what they cost and when they run.

How to read a trip page

A trip page is one direction between two stations, computed from the operator's own schedule feed on one representative weekday, Saturday and Sunday. The strip at the top gives the typical travel time, the one-way fare (two fares where the operator charges a peak price), the number of weekday trains and the distance.

The paragraph under it says which direction the page describes. That matters on the LIRR and Metro-North, where a peak fare is defined by arriving in Manhattan in the morning or leaving it in the evening, so the page for the return trip says something different about the same two prices.

Calling points are the stops on the all-stations run, each linked to its station page. Service gives first and last train, the typical gap and the fastest and slowest run. Stopping pattern tells you how many trains skip stops and how far apart trains are in the morning peak and at midday. Fares lists every ticket the operator publishes for the pair, and how many one-way rides a weekly or monthly ticket equals. The questions at the end are asked only where the data answers them.

Where the numbers come from

Every figure is computed from a feed or chart the operator publishes: the MTA's GTFS feeds for the LIRR and Metro-North, NJ Transit's rail feed, the PATH feed, and the operators' own fare charts and timetables. Nothing is estimated and nothing is copied from another website. Each page names its sources and the date they take effect.

Service counts are taken from one real service date in each bucket, chosen as the date the most trains run, so a "41 weekday trains" figure matches a day you could travel rather than an average across a month of timetable changes. A station's count is distinct trains, never a sum across platforms.

Before a page is written it is checked against sanity ranges for trains a day, travel time, fare and distance, and a page that fails is not published. Fares parsed from a PDF are tested against the operator's own price ratios, and a row that fails is dropped rather than corrected by guesswork. Where a fare is missing, the page shows no fare rather than a wrong one. Pages are released in stages, so every page you can reach here is one that has passed those checks. The full method is on the about page and the data sources page.

Every train, every fare, between any two stations.