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Edinburgh Trams.
To St Andrew Square.

Edinburgh Trams, from the tram stop on the plaza outside the terminal to st andrew square.

25–35 min ride06:30–22:52Luggage included

Priced per traveler.

Each traveler pays the fare; group products are applied where they beat it.

TravelersEachTotal
1 adult£7.90£7.90
2 adults£7.90£15.80
3 adults£7.90£23.70
4 adults£7.90£31.60
5 adults£7.90£39.50
6 adults£7.90£47.40
7 adults£7.90£55.30
8 adults£7.90£63.20

The Airport Single is £7.90 at the platform machine or in the app, £7.50 bought in advance online. Children 5 to 15 pay £4.00; up to three infants travel free with a paying passenger. An Airport Open Return is £9.50 (£5.00 child); a family airport open return for two adults and three children is £28.00. The £2.40 city single, the £6.00 City DAY and the £5.70 daily contactless cap are all void at the airport stop.

How to get there

From arrivals to St Andrew Square

Three steps once you have collected your bags.

01

Find the station

The tram stop on the plaza outside the terminal.

02

Buy and validate a ticket

Before boarding — a ticket bought but not validated can be fined.

03

Ride to St Andrew Square

25–35 min.

Worth knowing

From the airport, seven days a week. Every 7 minutes from 06:30 to 19:00 on weekdays and from 09:30 to 21:00 at weekends, every 10 minutes otherwise. Towards the airport the last tram leaves St Andrew Square at 00:16 on weekdays.

Buy or activate before you board: the operator has a pre-purchase policy and machine tickets must be used within 30 minutes of purchase.

If you pay by tapping a card or phone, tap off at your stop with the same card. A missed tap-off is charged as a full Airport Zone fare and does not count towards any cap; a different card tapped off is two incomplete journeys.

Journey time is 35 minutes to St Andrew Square, 32 to Princes Street and 25 to Haymarket. Since Princes Street reopened on 29 August 2026 after a fire, trams pass through it under a 15 mph limit until further notice.

The last tram from the airport is 22:52 and the first 06:30. Outside those hours the Airlink, £1.90 cheaper, is the public transport.

The tram pays for itself only by where it goes: Leith, Newhaven and the Edinburgh Gateway rail interchange. For Waverley and Princes Street the Airlink does the same job for less.

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