About us
Who is behind riyadhmetro.org, how we work, and where every fact on this site comes from.
An independent guide to the Riyadh Metro
We are a small independent team that travels and builds websites; we were in Riyadh in April 2026, and everything on this site is checked against official sources. riyadhmetro.org started from a simple observation — the Riyadh Metro is a brand-new network, six lines, 83 stations and 176 km whose lines opened between December 2024 and January 2025 while some stations followed in stages until May 2026, and accurate information about it was scattered across separate official pages and news stories that date quickly.
So we put it in one place: a page for every one of the 83 stations, a page per line, the network map as a downloadable PDF, the timings, the fares, the darb card, and a route planner that works out journey time and interchanges. The site is free, asks for no sign-up, and runs in Arabic and English.
This is an independent site, not the official one. We are not part of the Riyadh Public Transport Authority or the Royal Commission for Riyadh City. We do not sell tickets and we cannot help with cards, balances or lost property. For anything official, call 19933 or visit a station ticket office.
Where the data comes from
This is the part we take seriously. The station list — names, order, coordinates and type (elevated, underground or at grade) — comes from the Royal Commission for Riyadh City open data, independently cross-checked against the Riyadh Public Transport Authority’s own service. Fares, operating hours, train frequency and darb card terms come from the operator’s official pages, read in both Arabic and English.
The rule we hold to: two independent official sources must agree before any network fact is frozen. When Wikipedia disagreed with both official sources, Wikipedia was the one that was wrong.
What we will not publish
Choosing not to publish is as much an editorial decision as publishing. Where no reliable source exists we leave the gap and say so, rather than filling it with a plausible-looking estimate. Real examples from this site:
No per-line timetables
The transport authority publishes one frequency range for the whole network (3–5 minutes at peak, 5–10 off-peak) and no separate timetable per line. So you will not find a "Blue Line frequency" here — because it is not published, not because we forgot it.
No real-time promises
There is still no live data feed available for the Riyadh Metro. Nothing on this site is labelled "live" or "right now": the times shown are the published times, and the route planner gives an estimate.
No exit counts, no undocumented methods
We do not publish how many exits each station has, nor darb card balance-checking methods the operator does not document. The card page states only what is confirmed.
No geographic map
The map published here is a schematic diagram drawn by riyadhmetro.org from the Royal Commission for Riyadh City open data, with the official station names in Arabic and English; it is not to scale. We do not draw a geographic map, because an error in one looks precise and is hard to spot.
Corrections
We get things wrong sometimes, and the network changes: a station opens, another closes for maintenance, a fare is revised. When a report reaches us we verify it against an official source and then correct the page. Telling us about a mistake is the most useful thing you can do — write to [email protected] with the page link. We normally reply within 24 to 48 hours.
Known service changes and disruptions are collected and dated on the network status page.
How the site is funded
The site is free to read. Hosting and development are covered by advertising. Advertising does not influence the content: we receive nothing from the transport authority, from any operator or from any ticket seller, we do not place paid links inside the text, and we do not sell reader data. If a page ever carries a commercial link, it will be clearly labelled as one.
Frequently asked questions
Who is behind this site
This site is run by the team at GoRandom, a small group based in the Basque Country in Spain who do two things that go together better than they sound: travel, and build websites.
We were in Riyadh in April 2026, and the city guide on gorandom.es came out of that trip. We liked it enough to want to go back, and after enough hours spent staring at network maps and comparing travel passes this turned up: a site about nothing except how you actually get around here.
The other half of what we know how to do is web development, and this site is the excuse to put the two together. We do not leave it sitting there: every fare and every timetable carries its source and the date we checked it, and they get revised when the operator changes something. The station list has come from the open data the Royal Commission for Riyadh City publishes — 83 stations with their official code, bilingual names and coordinates — since the site was built in July 2026. The last thorough revision was in October 2026: we corrected how Lines 1, 3 and 5 run (Line 5 is underground end to end; the eastern end of Line 3 is in shallow tunnel), removed a hospital listed at a station 6 km away, and stopped claiming taxi ranks and BRT at every station.
He decides what goes up, checks the data before it does, and answers the email. If you find a fare that has expired or a timetable that no longer holds, there is a specific person to write to.