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What metrovalencia.org covers

The 10 metro and tram lines that FGV runs under the Metrovalencia brand and the 144 stations and stops that serve them, each with its own page, plus the map, the first and last departures, tickets and cards, and a journey planner that reads the official timetable train by train. Neither Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana, nor the Autoritat de Transport Metropolità de València, nor the Generalitat has any part in these pages: they do not commission them, do not oversee them and are not responsible for them. Whatever you plan to do with a piece of information, metrovalencia.es has the final word.

One point of vocabulary is respected on every page: on this network not everything is a station. The metro has stations and the tram has stops, and they are different things; when both are meant at once we say “stations and stops”, which is longer but correct.

The timetable comes from a feed that expires

This is what defines the site. FGV publishes its complete timetable in a single file that it regenerates every day and that only covers a few weeks: it is a rolling window, not a seasonal timetable. The one behind these pages runs from 20 October 2026 to 27 December 2026. After that date the times on this website start to go stale until the dataset is rebuilt, which is why the date is written out in the legal notice and not hidden in a footer.

In return, that window contains something almost no network publishes: the timetable train by train. That is why the journey planner on this website can tell you what time your train leaves instead of adding half the frequency, as planners for other cities do. The travel times between stations on the network’s 440 segments are the median of the actual departures and arrivals in that same file, not an estimate based on distance.

Getting hold of the file was a story in itself, and it explains why the data is handled with care: FGV’s server presents an incomplete certificate chain (it does not send the intermediate certificate that actually signs its own) and any standard client refuses to connect. The fix was not to switch verification off, which is the easy way out, but to download the missing intermediate named in the certificate itself and add it to the trusted roots, so that the check remains complete. There is a second detail: the wildcard in its certificate does not cover the domain without www, so there is only one host name with which the connection is valid.

Why you will never read “real time” here

Because we checked that there is none, and the result can be verified. The FGV website shows a “next arrivals” box that looks like live data. It is not. On 20 October 2026 at 21:47 that box returned eight arrivals at Xàtiva; the published timetable for the same day gave exactly the same eight, with the same minutes and the same destinations. It is the timetable, repainted. Nor does FGV publish a real-time data feed anywhere: not on the Generalitat’s open data portal and not in the international feed directories.

Hence the house rule: no time on this site is labelled as live, because none of them is. Where another website would put a label promising immediacy, here you read “scheduled”, and the board on the home page only says whether the network is within its service hours. It is less eye-catching, and it is the only thing that can be backed up.

Source by source

• Lines, stations, stops and their order: the operator’s list of stations, which is the source for the commercial route, cross-checked with the official timetable. A list is accepted only if the two agree, and the order is also compared with the OpenStreetMap route relations: 23 match ours and none differs.
• Coordinates and fare zone: the official timetable. The zone of all 144 was checked one by one against the official fare-zone map, edition FGV-01/2026, which had to be read graphically because it is a vector PDF with no text layer. The two sources agree completely.
• Fares: the Resolution of 17 June 2025 of the ATMV Board of Directors, published in DOGV 10139 of 27 June 2025, and Decreto ley 6/2026, which extends the temporary fare reduction, checked against the operator’s fares pages.
• Municipality, district and neighbourhood: OpenStreetMap, by point in polygon, with 36 clean municipalities. The postal address is the operator’s, exactly as published and not normalised: its own file writes “Picasent” and “Picassent”, or “Valencia” and “València” plus a third spelling with an acute accent on the e, in different cells, and only 91 of the 144 include a postcode.
• What is nearby: named places from OpenStreetMap within 400 metres. The distance is in a straight line and the walking minutes are our own estimate.
• Opening dates and former names: the Spanish Wikipedia and the OpenStreetMap old_name tag. Neither is official, and we say so every time they appear, because FGV does not publish the opening date of each station.
• The map: the official one is FGV’s work and is protected, so we link to its PDF and do not host a copy.

What we do not publish

• Accessibility station by station. Not because it does not matter, but because FGV does not publish it in any readable format: the station pages on its website are rendered by JavaScript and come out empty, the official timetable has no such field and the accessibility section of its own widget is blank for all 144. The only thing available is an OpenStreetMap tag, which is not official. Rather than say a station has a lift and have someone turn up and not find one, we say the information is not published. The network-wide figures do come from the operator, and those we give.
• The TRAM d’Alacant. It is run by the same FGV, but it is another city, another brand and another fare authority; mixing it in would break every count.
• Adjectives. No stop is a “must-see” and no neighbourhood is “vibrant”. If a station has something to tell, it is documented.
• Tickets. Nothing is sold and there are no links to resellers.
• What nobody publishes: passengers per station, number of entrances, platform depth and the actual minutes of a walking interchange. The gap is left in plain sight.

Two FGV figures that do not add up

• 144 stations and stops here, 148 in the official figure. Nobody made a mistake: the operator’s footnote explains that Àngel Guimerà, Empalme, Marítim and Benimaclet are each counted as two facilities, because each has two numbers attached to different platforms. 144 unique ones plus those 4 counted twice make 148, and it adds up exactly. Here each one counts once: 96 are served by at least one metro line and 48 by trams only.
• FGV contradicts itself on L2 and L3. Its list of stations gives 34 and 27; its table “Metrovalencia data by line” gives 33 and 26. We publish the list, which is the one that agrees with the official timetable and with OpenStreetMap. That the table carries errors shows elsewhere in the same document: its own list of car parks puts “Font del barranc” on L1 when it is on L2. There is a hypothesis about which station is surplus on each line, but it is a hypothesis and is not published as fact.
• 18 opening dates are missing. We have 126 of the 144, all from the “opened” field of the Spanish Wikipedia infobox. What FGV does publish, officially, is its history section by section, which goes up to the opening of L10 on 17 May 2022.
• Former names are not official either. The fourteen given come from OpenStreetMap. The station pages on the FGV website, which would be the right source, are a fossil from 2021: they are still labelled with 23 names that no longer exist, and there are 23 current names with no page. They are not paired one to one because the set of stations changed in between and the pairing would be invented.
• Four doubtful coordinates. The point in the official timetable and the OpenStreetMap point are more than 300 metres apart at Col·legi El Vedat (1,319 m), Espioca (531 m), Castelló (432 m) and La Vallesa (302 m). We publish the official one, but at Col·legi El Vedat not even the operator’s postal address settles it, so it is worth checking before you trust the map link.
• Line 10 does not touch the rest of the network. None of its eight stops is shared with another line, so within Metrovalencia there is no possible change. Its Alacant stop is about 180 metres in a straight line from Bailén, but the operator does not publish that link as an interchange or give it a time; the journey planner warns you and gives the two legs separately instead of inventing the minutes.
• Three days with no timetable. Within the feed window there are three dates with no service at all: 7, 24 and 25 December 2026. No timetable is invented for those days.
• Seven contradictions in the fares. The three that matter: the DOGV lists a “Gent Major Anual” at €52.40 that the operator does not sell, so it is not priced here; metrovalencia.es attributes all its prices to the ATMV Resolution of 17 June 2025, but its own tickets (Sencillo, TuiN, Gent Major, Mobilitat) do not appear in the published annexes; and the board resolution its website cites for the price of the cards does not appear in the DOGV.
• There is no freely licensed map that works. On Wikimedia Commons the up-to-date maps are FGV’s work re-uploaded with a free licence tag that the uploader was in no position to apply, and the ones with a genuine licence date from 2006, 2008 and 2015 or show a future network.
• Fira València has no regular service, and that has to be said every time it appears: in the official timetable it is served only by four special patterns on trade-fair days.

Reporting an error

A misspelt stop name, a wrong zone, a broken link: let us know. The correction goes into the dataset, not into the sentence you read, so with the same rebuild it reaches the line page, the journey planner and the fares table. If the error is in the official source, it is noted above and stated on the page. What this inbox cannot sort out is anything about your journey: lost property, fines, refunds or applying for a card are matters for the operator and the ATMV, and their links are on the contact page.

How the site is funded

By the advertising blocks, which pay for the hosting and the hours spent rebuilding the dataset every time the timetable window expires. There is no other income and nothing is bought: no stop appears because someone paid for it, no link earns a commission and no advertiser sees a page before it is published. If that changed, the page concerned would say so. Which cookies are needed to serve those ads, and how to reject them, is explained in the cookie policy.

Publisher and contact

Published by David Franco Aguirre under the GoRandom brand, a small independent publisher based in Bilbao. Nobody here lives in València, so what we offer is not first-hand experience but official data, organised, cross-checked and dated. When a figure is our own estimate (the four minutes per interchange, the walking minutes to a nearby place) we say so; when two official sources contradict each other, we report the contradiction.

Last updated: October 2026.