ADCB Metro Station

ADCB Metro Station Overview

First and last train from ADCB Station

These times come from the official RTA timetable. For the exact minute on the day you travel, the RTA S'hail app is the live source.

ADCB Station opening hours and facilities

ADCB station keeps the standard RTA opening hours, the same right across the network:

• Monday to Thursday: 5:00 AM to 12:00 AM
• Friday: 5:00 AM to 1:00 AM
• Saturday: 5:00 AM to 12:00 AM
• Sunday: 8:00 AM to 12:00 AM

ADCB has the standard Dubai Metro facilities, confirmed in the official RTA passenger guide. The station is step-free, with lifts to all levels, tactile guidance paths, and dedicated wheelchair spaces on every train. Nol card machines and a ticket counter sit inside the concourse, alongside bilingual signage and information screens. Du Wi-Fi covers the network.

Every regular train carries three cabin types: Gold Class at one end, a Women and Children cabin with pink signage, and Standard cabins. Door pictograms on the platform show where each cabin stops. The station has at least one bus connection, dedicated Metro Police, CCTV throughout, and emergency call points on every platform and train.

A district older than the Metro

Karama was laid out in the 1970s as one of Dubai’s first organised residential neighbourhoods, with a uniform grid of low-rise apartment blocks built to a single municipal template. The Karama Park sits at the centre, and the streets that radiate out from it carry the budget shopping and dining clusters the area has been known for since the 1980s. Tailoring is the area’s deepest specialism: dozens of shops, many family-run for three decades, take walk-in measurements and turn around basic stitching the same day. Khaleej Times profiles the cluster regularly as one of the most-recommended sections of the city for low-cost made-to-measure work.

The rename that put a bank on the map

The station opened with the Red Line in September 2009 as Al Karama. In 2014, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank took the naming rights under the RTA’s commercial station naming programme, and it has been called ADCB since. The renaming was part of an early wave of sponsor names across the network, alongside Mashreq, Noor Bank and First Gulf Bank, several of which have since changed again. The station code (R20) is unchanged through the rename and remains the most reliable reference on older maps.

Karama Market and the gift trail

A five minute walk east from the station, the Karama Market street is the city’s best-known cluster for budget souvenirs, copy-brand handbags and watches, and bulk gift buying for trips home. The shops open from late morning, but the street comes alive after 6 PM as the after-work and tourist crowds arrive. Most shops take cash only and prices are negotiable; the going rate for a copy-brand handbag is usually 30 to 50 per cent below the first quoted figure. The market loop ends back at the station within thirty minutes if you keep a steady pace, and the Metro ride is faster than the off-peak taxi on most evenings.

Fares from ADCB Station

Fares depend on how many zones your trip crosses, not how many stations you pass. A Silver Nol card costs AED 3 within one zone, AED 5 across two zones, and AED 7.50 for three or more zones, per the RTA Nol fares page. A personal Blue Nol card pays the same as Silver. Gold Class costs double: AED 6, 10 or 15 across the same bands.

Without a Nol card, the Red ticket is a separate, higher tariff of AED 4, 6 or 8.50 by zone band, and the blank ticket costs AED 2 to buy. Children aged five and under travel free, and travel is free for People of Determination.

Metro Stations Before and After ADCB Station

• BurJuman (R19): The stop after ADCB on the Red Line going towards Centrepoint
• Max (R21): The stop after ADCB on the Red Line going towards Expo 2020