The Opal card is an easy, convenient way of paying for your travel on Sydney public transport. It’s the only card you’ll need to get around on all public transport including trains, ferries, buses and light rail.
Daily Travel Cap*
With an Opal card you can enjoy travel all day for no more than $15 per day for Adult, $2.50 for Gold Senior/Pensioner and $7.50 for Concession and Child/Youth Opal card holders from Monday to Saturday.
Sunday $2.50 Travel Cap*
Travel all day on Sunday with Opal for no more than $2.50. Travel as much as you want as an Opal customer and pay no more than $2.50 from 4:00am Sunday morning until 3:59am on Monday morning – you could even pay less than $2.50 with off-peak train fares!
Weekly Travel Reward*
Take 8 paid journeys from Monday-Sunday with an Opal card and enjoy free travel for the rest of the week.
Off-peak train fares
A 30% off-peak discount on full price Opal fares applies to all train journeys taken:
- on weekends (up to $2.50 cap on Sunday)
- on public holidays
- before or after the weekday morning and afternoon peaks as below:
- Sydney Trains network area: 7-9am and 4-6.30pm weekdays
- NSW TrainLink Intercity services area: 6-8am and 4-6.30pm weekdays
Where tap on occurs at a station shared by Sydney Trains and NSW TrainLink networks, the peak times are as for Sydney Trains.
If you’re using an intercity station, there are some exceptions to the off-peak times
N.B. Off-peak fares only apply to travel by train.
Weekly travel cap on the Sydney Airport Station Access Fee
The Sydney Airport Station Access Fee is capped at $23 per week for Adult and $20.50 for Gold Senior/Pensioner, Concession and Child/Youth Opal card holders. If you travel to the airport stations every day, or every now and then, you could save money with Opal.
Travel anywhere during the week for no more than $60
Using your Opal card, you’ll never pay more than $60 a week when travelling on all modes of Opal enabled transport from Monday to Sunday excluding the Sydney Airport Station Access Fee
Opal trip advantage
If you make several trips across the same mode of transport e.g. only ferries, only trains or only buses – you can take up to 60 minutes to transfer between trips, and only pay one fare for the journey. You could meet a friend or go to a quick meeting and, if your transfer occurs within 60 minutes*, it still counts as a single journey and a single fare.
* 60 minutes applies to all services except the Sydney Ferries Manly service when the standard transfer time is extended to 130 minutes from tap on.
悉尼Opal卡就是类似于香港八达通的公交付费系统，可以用于火车、轻轨、轮渡、公交。
旅客抵达悉尼机场后请在前往行李区以前就在机场内寻找Relay等便利商店，第一时间购买Opal卡。Opal卡本身免费，第一次购买时请选择预存款额度，一周的旅程建议先预存20澳元。
如果从机场搭乘火车前往市区，需要支付高额机场建设费，所以Opal扣款总费用将接近20澳元。国内航班乘客如果步行20分钟出机场搭乘309、M20去市区，将只需要约3.5澳元。也可以直接在机场搭乘400路前往Bondi Junction，那边也可以转车去市区。国际航班乘客可以步行20分钟到Wolli Creek车站上火车可以省下机场建设费，到市区仅需2.36澳元，早晚高峰时段3.38澳元。如果离开前从市区去机场，仅需保持卡内有搭乘1站所需最低金额即可进站，并可正常出站，Opal卡将变为负额，今后不再用就不需要还钱了，也就是说最少仅需2.36澳元即可从市区前往机场。
使用Opal搭巴士注意一定要上车和下车都刷卡，如果搭乘火车、轻轨需要在车站上车前和下车后刷卡。
对于普通成人卡而言，刷卡每天最多扣款15澳元，每周最多扣款60澳元，周日全天最多扣款2.5澳元，搭火车离峰时段7折（但机场建设费不打折，轻轨不打折，所以游客用处不大）1小时内换乘，如果搭乘同类交通工具（比如巴士转巴士）将被累积总里程按一次旅行计费。
如果你停留时间短，可以充分利用周日到距离远的地方旅行，无论怎样搭乘各种交通工具，全天只需要2.5澳元
如果停留时间长，可以利用每周（周一-周日）8次搭乘以后全部免费的优惠。比如你前8次，每次3公里距离内公交或轻轨旅行，每次仅需2.1澳元，搭乘8次总共16.8澳元以后，所有旅行都是免费的了（机场建设费不免）。想要累积8次旅程，需要注意的是：1）必须上下车都刷卡，这样的旅程才计入头8次搭乘。2）上下车1小时内转车，将被记入同一旅程，即便你换乘不同交通工具(比如巴士转轻轨)并且被两次收费，但依然被认为是同一旅程，所以头8次旅行应尽可能避免换乘不同交通工具，才能尽可能省钱。