Dubai Metro Green Line Stations

All 20 Green Line stations in order

Codes run from G11 at e& in the north east to G30 at Creek in the south, with no gaps in the sequence. Eighteen stations opened together in September 2011, and Al Jadaf and Creek were added at the southern end in March 2014, which is why the line looks like two projects joined together on a map.

The zone split is simple. Everything from e& down to Al Ras is in Zone 5, and everything from Al Ghubaiba to Creek is in Zone 6, because the creek itself is the boundary. A ride that stays on one side costs AED 3 on a Silver card and one that crosses costs AED 5.

Six of the 20 stations have been renamed. Etisalat became e& in February 2023, Palm Deira became Gold Souq in 2020, Al Fahidi became Sharaf DG in November 2020, and BurJuman dropped the name Khalid Bin Al Waleed back in 2012. The codes never changed, which is why G11 or G22 is a safer thing to quote than a name. The Red Line list covers the other 35 stations.

Eight underground Green Line stations

Salah Al Din, Union, Baniyas Square, Gold Souq, Al Ras, Al Ghubaiba, Sharaf DG and BurJuman all sit below ground, which is eight of the 20 and a far higher share than the Red Line manages. The tunnel exists because this half of the line runs through the dense old city, where there was no room for a viaduct along Baniyas Road or through Bur Dubai.

The crossing under Dubai Creek between Al Ras and Al Ghubaiba takes 1 minute and is the shortest gap on the whole network. It is also a fare boundary, so that one minute ride costs AED 5 rather than AED 3. The abra across the same stretch of water costs a fraction of that and takes longer.

In practice the underground section is the comfortable one in summer, because it is cooled from the platform to the street exit. Every below ground station on the network is listed here, on both lines.

Depth has one cost worth knowing about. Al Ras, Gold Souq and Baniyas Square have long escalator runs and a single set of exits each, so an arrival at the wrong end of the platform adds a few minutes on the way out. Al Ghubaiba is the exception, with a direct link towards the marine station and the bus terminal above it.

Green Line journey times

e& to Creek takes about 40 minutes, worked out from the gaps between consecutive stations in RTA's first and last train timetable, serial REG_20251215. Most hops are two minutes or a little more. The longest is Al Ghubaiba to Sharaf DG at 3 minutes and Oud Metha to Dubai Healthcare City at the same figure.

The two lines are not interchangeable for the same pair of stations. Union to BurJuman is one stop and 3 minutes on the Red Line, but six stops and about 12 minutes on the Green, because the Green Line loops north through Deira and under the creek before doubling back. The route planner picks the faster of the two for you.

Those timings come from last train departures rather than a stopwatch, so treat them as the running time between platforms with dwell included. They do not cover the walk to the gate line, which at Union or BurJuman can add several minutes at either end because both stations are deep and have multiple exits.

Where the Green Line meets the Red

Two stations connect the lines. Union is G20 on the Green Line and R18 on the Red, and BurJuman is G26 and R19. Both changes happen inside the paid area, so you never tap out and never pay twice, and we allow 6 minutes at each for the walk between platforms plus an average wait.

Which one to use depends on your destination rather than distance. Union is the better change for the airport and the northern Red Line, BurJuman for Downtown, the Marina and everything south. Both are among the busiest stations on the network, with BurJuman on 17.8 million riders in 2025 and Union on 13.6 million. Both interchanges are described in detail here.

One thing to note at Union: the Red and Green platforms are on different levels and the walk between them is longer than the layout suggests. Follow the line colour on the floor rather than the exit signs, and allow more than the headline figure if you are carrying a suitcase or moving at the pace of a small child.

What the Green Line reaches

This is the line for old Dubai. Gold Souq station, which was Palm Deira until 2020, puts you a walk from the gold and spice souqs. Al Ghubaiba sits beside the marine station where abras and water buses cross the creek, and Al Ras covers the textile souq on the Deira bank. Baniyas Square is the old commercial centre.

South of the creek the line serves Bur Dubai at Sharaf DG, the malls and offices at BurJuman, then Oud Metha, Dubai Healthcare City, Al Jadaf and Creek. Al Jadaf has its own marine station alongside. At the northern end, Stadium and Abu Hail are the two stops with bus links to Dubai International Terminal 2, which has no station of its own.

The line also does a quiet job for commuters that tourists never see. Dubai Airport Free Zone, Al Nahda and Al Qusais serve a dense band of residential blocks close to the Sharjah border, and Al Qiyadah and Abu Baker Al Siddique cover Hor Al Anz. Those stations carry the morning load towards Union and BurJuman, which is why northbound trains are quiet at 08:00 and packed at 18:00.