In short
- buses.app now covers 25 Australian cities in every state and territory.
- Live departures are shown wherever operators publish them, including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Canberra.
- Ticket pages list fares checked against official sources on 24 October 2026, in Australian dollars.
- A separate intercity section covers regional trains and coaches between cities.
buses.app now covers Australia, our first country outside Europe. For 25 cities in every state and territory you get bus, train, tram and ferry timetables, stops, network maps, fares and intercity connections, in English, Greek and German.
Which Australian cities are covered?
All the state and territory capitals are there: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart and Darwin. They are joined by the Gold Coast, Newcastle, the Sunshine Coast, the Central Coast, Wollongong, Geelong, Townsville, Cairns, Toowoomba, Ballarat, Bendigo, Launceston, Mackay, Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Hervey Bay and Alice Springs.
Sydney has the biggest network in our data: more than 600 bus routes, the Sydney Trains lines T1 to T9, the M1 metro line, four light rail lines and ten ferry routes from Circular Quay. Melbourne follows with 24 tram routes, 18 train lines and more than 380 bus routes. Brisbane adds nine ferry routes, including the CityCat, to its trains and buses, and Perth has its own ferry across the Swan River.
Where can I see live departures?
Where the operator publishes real-time data, buses.app shows it, for example in Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong, the Central Coast, Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast, Cairns and Adelaide. In cities without live data you see the scheduled times from the official timetables. Service changes and disruptions announced by the operators appear on the status page of each city where they are published.
What do the ticket pages show?
Fares in Australia are set by each state, so every city has its own ticket page in Australian dollars. All amounts come from official sources, such as Transport for NSW, the Victorian Government, Translink, Adelaide Metro and the ACT fares determination, and were checked on 24 October 2026. A few examples at the time of writing:
- South East Queensland and regional Queensland cities: a flat 50 cent fare on buses, trains, trams and ferries (not on the airport train).
- Victoria: fares are half price until 1 January 2027, so a 2-hour myki fare in Melbourne zones 1+2 costs A$2.85.
- Tasmania: Metro buses are free until 30 June 2027.
- Greater Darwin and Alice Springs: public buses are currently free.
How does intercity travel work on buses.app?
The Australian intercity section lists regional trains and coaches between cities and towns: more than 40 operators, more than 1,000 lines and more than 12,000 stops. You will find, for example, Sydney to Newcastle, Melbourne to Geelong, Ballarat or Bendigo, Hobart to Launceston and Perth to Bunbury.
How to start
- Open your city from the Australia page.
- Find your route under routes, or search for your stop to see which routes call there.
- Check the ticket page before you travel: it tells you how to pay and what a trip costs.
Over the next days we will publish guides to the main Australian cities and to the smart cards used in each state.
