Sweden

Malmö

A port town at the Swedish end of the bridge from Copenhagen. Only its green city buses take a tap of a bank card.

Green city buses (stadsbuss, Skånetrafiken)

Tap a bank card on the reader inside a green city bus: 32 kronor for an adult hour, capped at two singles per 24 hours in the same city zone. Only green buses take a tap - trains and yellow regional buses do not.

Updated on August 27, 2026

How to ride

1
Have a ticket ready before you board

The driver sells nothing. If you have no card to tap, buy first in the app, at a station machine or at a kiosk.
2
Tap the reader on board

On a green city bus go straight to a reader; the tap itself buys an adult hour. App tickets are scanned at the same reader.
3
Change buses on the same card

Tap on every boarding; nothing extra is charged inside the hour. A second tap after the hour turns it into a 24-hour ticket.
4
Show the card you paid with

Hold the card or phone you paid with against the inspector's handheld. The ticket is only valid on the card that bought it.

Fares

Single fares1

City bus single (tap a bank card)

One hour inside the city zone, at the full adult fare with no discount

32 SEK ≈ $3

Passes & multi-ride1

Turistbiljett Skåne (48 hours)

Forty-eight hours across the whole of Skåne, bought in the app or onto a reskort

299 SEK ≈ $31

Fare caps1

24-hour cap (tapping a bank card)

Tapping is capped at two singles per 24 hours, counted from the first tap

64 SEK ≈ $7

Estimates use exchange rates as of November 4, 2026

Payment

Tap to ride Green city buses only - not the yellow regional buses, not the trains

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The reader inside the bus - the tap itself is the ticket

Phone wallet

Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay work on the same reader

Card payment at machines

Machines take a card or a värdekod, and they stand at railway stations

IC card

At the gates: On a bus, tapping a reskort activates the oldest unused ticket on it

App tickets

Skånetrafiken

The card must be enabled for online purchases; the single fare is not published

Paper tickets

At machines: Printed on paper at machines, kundcenters and ombud

Cash

Not accepted at the ticket machines

At machines: Cash works only at a kundcenter or an ombud On board: The driver sells no tickets; there is no on-board sales channel at all

Quick facts

Fares from

32 SEK+

Heads-up

Arriving by train? Do not tap on the city bus

An Öresundståg ticket also covers the city buses inside the zone you depart from and the zone you arrive in, from an hour before departure to an hour after arrival - so tapping a card after stepping off the train pays 32 kronor twice. The reverse case: a ticket bought into the city does not always cover every stop in it, and then you buy a stadszonstillägg on top.
Your own e-scooter cannot come on the bus

Segways and e-scooters are not allowed on buses. Only a folding one, folded as far as it goes, counts as hand luggage and rides under the seat. On the trains - Öresundståg, Pågatåg and Krösatåg - you may bring one per person if there is room. Bicycles cannot go on a city bus either.
Rented scooters go in the marked racks

In the city centre a rented e-scooter may only be parked in the marked scooter racks. Malmö permits four operators - Bolt, Lime, Ryde and Voi - with a ceiling of 2,800 scooters. On-street offences are fined by the police, not the operator.

Timetable

Typical duration Malmö has neither metro nor tram, so the green city buses cover the city itself; trains are the backbone out of town and across the strait, and the yellow regional buses fill in where the railway does not reach

Check the official site for the latest times and service status