Financial Centre Metro Station

Financial Centre Metro Station Overview

First and last train from Financial Centre 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.

Financial Centre Station opening hours and facilities

Financial Centre 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

Financial Centre 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 built around a building

DIFC, the Dubai International Financial Centre, was established by federal decree in 2004 as the financial free zone for the UAE, with its own commercial law and an English-language court. The anchor is The Gate, the arch-shaped building on the south side of the cluster, completed in 2004 to a Gensler design. The Gate sits over Gate Avenue, the lower-level retail and dining street that runs north under the Gate Village towers. Financial Centre Metro Station opened with the Red Line in September 2009 and has been the public-transport access ever since.

The Gate Village dining lanes

Gate Village, the residential and office cluster behind The Gate, has become one of the city’s most-booked dining quarters in the past decade. The lanes carry over fifty restaurants and cafes, plus the DIFC Sculpture Park along the central spine. The cluster gets going at lunchtime with the office crowd and stays busy through to late night. Khaleej Times profiles a steady stream of new openings each season. The Friday brunch trail through DIFC is the most-blogged in the city, with several restaurants running until late afternoon and a quieter late-evening sitting after.

The galleries no one charges for

Gate Village 8 and 9 carry the DIFC art and design galleries cluster, a permanent set of around a dozen commercial galleries that run free public exhibitions on most weekdays. Hours typically run from 11 AM to about 7 PM, with extended weekend hours during the Art Dubai fair in March. The galleries are part of Art Dubai’s gallery week programme each March. The walk from the Metro station to the galleries takes about ten minutes and the loop through the cluster is the easiest free cultural visit in the city centre.

Fares from Financial Centre 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 Financial Centre Station

• Emirates Towers (R23): The stop after Financial Centre on the Red Line going towards Centrepoint
• Burj Khalifa / Dubai Mall (R25): The stop after Financial Centre on the Red Line going towards Expo 2020