This is the content of the submission of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Construction to the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee on promulgating fares for public passenger transport services by bus and fares for shared buses and trains in Ho Chi Minh City.
Bus fares will increase from March 1, 2026
Currently, subsidized bus fares are being applied at 5,000 VND/trip (under 15 km), 6,000 VND (15-25 km) and 7,000 VND (over 25 km).
Students - students pay 3,000 VND/time when presenting their cards. Boarding tickets (30 tickets) range from 112,500 to 157,500 VND. For student admission tickets alone, it is 135,000 VND/30 tickets.
According to the new proposal, the ticket price for cash payment will increase to 7,000 VND for distance under 15 km; 8,000 VND for distance from 15 - 25 km; 9,000 VND for route over 25 km.
If you pay without cash, the ticket price will be reduced by 1,000 VND compared to cash tickets for each distance group. Student ticket prices remain at 3,000 VND/trip.
The Department of Construction also proposed to apply time-based tickets, including: VND 18,000 for a day ticket; VND 40,000 for a 3-day ticket; VND 215,000 for a high school month ticket; VND 108,000 for a student month ticket.
All new proposed prices will start applying from March 1, 2026.
For the first time, there are tickets for the same bus - metro
Ho Chi Minh City will deploy shared tickets between buses and Metro Line 1, applicable to passengers transferring within 120 minutes. This ticket is not applicable to students taking turns.
The suggested common bus fares include: 3,000 VND ( distances under 15 km); 4,000 VND (15-25 km); 5,000 VND (over 25 km).
The price of Metro No. 1 tickets when used together with the bus ranges from 3,000 - 16,000 VND depending on the number of passenger stations passing through.
Ticket prices according to the time of sharing buses and metro are as follows: 47,000 VND for 1 day; 104,000 VND for 3-day tickets; 412,000 VND for regular monthly tickets; 206,000 VND for student monthly tickets.
The time of application for shared bus and metro tickets is also from March 1, 2026.
The Department of Construction proposed that the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee assign Urban Railway Company No. 1 to coordinate with the Public Transport Management Center to connect the payment system of Metro No. 1 with the GoAFC cashless system.
For bus routes that are not subsidized, transport businesses will self-declare ticket prices according to regulations, and apply transfer tickets as a general price framework.
In addition, time-travel tickets that have expired but have not yet been fully utilized will be transferred to the account of the Public Transport Management Center for settlement or allocation to units with lower revenue than turnover.
After the merger, Ho Chi Minh City currently has 176 bus routes, including 108 subsidized routes and non-subsidized routes, with 2,386 vehicles in operation. In addition, 2 schools participated in picking up and dropping off students in the form of subsidized contracts.
In the first 9 months of 2025, buses transported 66.5 million passengers, an increase of 2% over the same period in 2024. Metro Line 1, in operation since December 22, 2024, recorded nearly 16.9 million passengers as of October 30, 2025.
The current automatic ticket collection system includes: Metro No. 1 ticket system and Mastercard-funded electronic ticket system, allowing passengers to flexibly pay on metro and many bus routes.
