Deutschland Ticket, for Canadian visitors 2024–26
How-to buy guide
Updote, 30 Sept 2026: Deutsche Welle reports that the Deutschland-Ticket price will rise from 63€ to 66,80€ from 1 January 2027. Purchases I made in the summers of 2025 and 2026 went the same way as in 2024, whose details are described below.
(posted originally, for summer 2024)
89 days within Europe includes by necessity substantial travel by train within Germany. I’ve already booked in advance a number of intercity express segments, but what about local transport and regional trains?
The “Deutschland Ticket” (D-Ticket) is a rail ticket for one person and costs 49€ per month on a rolling subscription. The ticket is generally valid for local transport (bus, tram, U-Bahn, S-Bahn, intracity ferry) and regional rail (RB, most RE, IRE), but not for long-distance IC and ICE routes. Intended primarily for commuters, visitors to Germany can also purchase these tickets.
It’s early-April 2024, and I’m about to buy the D-Ticket for 49€ for the entire month of May. The ticket’s “rolling subscription” means if I do nothing else before 10 May, I’ll also automatically purchase a D-Ticket for the month of June for 49€. I’ll need the D-Ticket for May, June, July, and August; but I can only buy one month at a time.
I choose Munich’s MVV-App, based on successes reported by other travellers. I’m only using the Munich app for ticket purchase, and I’m not planning to use public transport within Munich. To buy a D-Ticket, customers are neither limited by their choice of app/method, nor by the base/location where the app is based.
My question is whether a Canadian-based credit card is an acceptable form of payment by the processing company in Germany for a German-based app. The answer is “yes”, as you’ll read below.
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