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Madrid 🇪🇸

Ride Answers has no Madrid page yet. Fifteen cities are finished and Madrid is not one of them. Until it is, the questions below are the ones to settle before you land, and the operator's own site is where the answers are.

What to settle before you land

  • Whether a bank card taps straight onto the gate or the reader, or only buys a ticket at a machine first.
  • Whether tapping is capped for a day, and what area that cap covers.
  • Which local card or app a visitor can actually get, where to get it, and whether it wants a local address or bank.
  • Whether the airport link is sold on the same ticket as the city network, or on its own.
  • Whether the machines take a foreign card, and whether they ask for a PIN.

Start on the transport authority's own site, not a summary of it, and open the local-language version: the English one is usually shorter. For the airport leg, go to the airport's own site. That is the order this site works in.

If Madrid is the one you want next, tell us.

Cities that are finished