Taxi Nuremberg: the Tariff Since June 2026 and What Rides Really Cost

Hop into a taxi in Nuremberg, ride a single kilometre, and you’ll pay almost exactly ten euros. That’s not a coincidence – it’s printed in the table the city attaches to its taxi ordinance. The first kilometre here is expensive, things get cheaper in two steps after that, and on longer runs Nuremberg ends up mid-table among Germany’s big cities. A new tariff has applied since 1 June 2026, the second in just over a year. Once you’ve got the hang of it, you can predict the fare to the trade fair or the airport to within a euro before you’ve even flagged the cab.

The tariff since 1 June 2026

The legal basis is Nuremberg’s Taxitarifordnung, most recently amended by an ordinance dated 12 May 2026. The city council passed it on 6 May and it was published in the official gazette, Amtsblatt No. 11, on 20 May 2026. It took effect, in the ordinance’s own words, on “the first day of the month following publication” – that is, on 1 June 2026. The prices:

• Minimum fare: €4.90, which already includes €0.30 worth of distance
• First kilometre: €5.10
• Kilometres 2 to 5: €2.70 per km
• From the 6th kilometre: €2.20 per km
• Waiting time: €40 an hour, roughly 67 cents a minute

The meter ticks up in 30-cent steps: one every 59 metres or so during the first kilometre, every 111 metres after that, and every 136 metres from the sixth kilometre onwards.

For comparison, the tariff in force since May 2025 had a €4.70 minimum fare, then €4.90, €2.60 and €2.10 per kilometre, with waiting at €33 an hour. So each kilometre has gone up by 10 to 20 cents, and waiting time by just over a fifth. By my own maths that adds about one and a half euros to a ten-kilometre ride – around five per cent. Unlike Dresden, which has already written a second step for January 2027 into its ordinance, Nuremberg’s rules contain no scheduled follow-up rise.

What’s missing matters just as much. Nuremberg has no night rate and no Sunday surcharge: a ride at four in the morning costs exactly what it would at four in the afternoon. There’s no airport surcharge either, and the ordinance explicitly says carrying normal luggage from your front door, or to the station or airport entrance, can’t be charged extra.

The official fare table as a cheat sheet

Here’s a detail no online fare calculator mentions. The city appends a table to its ordinance setting out the advance a driver may ask for – which is nothing more than the metered fare for every distance, in tenths of a kilometre up to ten and in whole kilometres up to a hundred. A few values from it:

Distance	Fare per the table
1 km	€10.00
3 km	€15.40
5 km	€20.80
7 km	€25.20
10 km	€31.80
15 km	€42.80
20 km	€53.80
30 km	€75.80

The figures sit a few cents above the naive formula, because the meter charges for every step it has started. The rule of thumb: ten euros for the first kilometre, just under €21 for five, just under €32 for ten, then €2.20 for every kilometre beyond. Time spent stuck in traffic comes on top.

Compared with other cities, Nuremberg is dear on short hops and cheap on long ones. In Frankfurt the base fare is around €4 and each kilometre runs roughly €2 to €2.60 – a Frankfurt local breaks down what a taxi ride in Frankfurt costs in detail. Three kilometres there comes to under twelve euros at most; in Nuremberg it’s €15.40. That expensive first kilometre is the whole difference. Munich, at around €32 for ten kilometres, lands almost exactly on the Nuremberg figure, as you can check under Taxi Munich – and beyond that, Nuremberg’s €2.20 a kilometre undercuts Munich’s €2.50.

Three real journeys: trade fair, airport, Documentation Centre

The distances here are my own estimates along the usual road route; the prices come straight from the official table, with no traffic and no surcharges.

Hauptbahnhof → trade fair (NürnbergMesse): about 6.5 km. Per the table, €24.10. On fair days, when everything is crawling towards Langwasser at 9am, ten minutes of waiting time is easily added – nearly seven euros more. The U1 covers the same journey in eight minutes according to the timetable, for €3.90. On your own and without a trade-fair trolley case, the taxi is hard to justify.

City centre → airport: from the Hauptmarkt it’s about seven and a half kilometres to the terminal – roughly €26.30 per the table. From the Hauptbahnhof it’s 7.7 to 9 km depending on route, so €26.70 to €29.60. That’s unusually little for a German airport, and it’s exactly why the sums work differently here than in Munich – I’ve done them in full under Nuremberg airport transfer. The taxi rank sits right outside the terminal, and for how the rest of this compact airport is laid out, from the arrivals hall to the U-Bahn entrance, see this guide to Nuremberg Airport.

Hauptbahnhof → Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds: the Dokuzentrum at Bayernstraße 110 is only a little over three kilometres south-east of the station. Per the table, €15.40 to €15.70. Frankly, this is where a taxi makes sense, because tram lines 6 and 8 currently don’t run all the way to the Doku-Zentrum stop owing to engineering works, with replacement buses covering the gap (as of September 2026). The quickest timetabled options are the S-Bahn to Dürrenhof plus bus 36, or the U1 to Frankenstraße plus bus 65 – each around 12 to 14 minutes with a change. For two people it’s just under eight euros by public transport against a bit over €15 by taxi; for a direct ride with no change and no replacement bus, I think that’s fair. The new permanent exhibition has been in trial operation since May 2026, with the official opening announced for 4 November 2026.

If you’re driving yourself to the trade fair or a home match at the stadium, it’s worth weighing the fare against a space on the edge of town: the park-and-ride sites around Nuremberg are rounded up in one overview, and the U-Bahn does the last stretch.

Fixed fares exist – but only upwards

Official fixed route prices of the kind Dresden sets between its airport, trade fair and stations don’t exist in Nuremberg; the meter runs on every route. Since May 2025, though, the city has had a fare corridor, and it works differently from Munich’s or Dresden’s.

If you book in advance by phone or app, and your pick-up or destination is in Nuremberg or neighbouring Stein, the operator may quote you a fixed price. That price can be at most 25 per cent above the metered fare including surcharges. Going below the meter is expressly forbidden. In return, waiting time and zone surcharges aren’t factored into the fixed price. You get a confirmation beforehand showing the price, any surcharges, and the date and time it was agreed – by app, email or text.

Put plainly: a Nuremberg fixed fare is never a discount, it’s traffic insurance. Take Hauptbahnhof to the trade fair: €24.10 on the meter, so a fixed price can be up to €30.10. That only pays off if you expect more than nine minutes of jams. On a big fair morning that’s realistic; on a quiet Tuesday afternoon it isn’t. Dresden allows ten per cent below the meter in its corridor, and so does Munich – Nuremberg doesn’t. How these models fit together nationally is covered under taxi fares in Germany.

One more rule from the small print: if you interrupt a fixed-price ride at your own request for more than five minutes, the ride counts as finished and the full fixed price is due.

Surcharges, waiting time and cancellations

Surcharges are modest and only apply in specific cases:

• Estate car (extra luggage space) booked by phone or app: €3
• Larger vehicle for five to six passengers, used or booked as such: €3
• Larger vehicle for seven to eight passengers: €10
• Wheelchair-accessible vehicle for a passenger who needs one: €10

The driver has to tell you about any surcharge before setting off. With a booked taxi, the first four minutes of waiting at the pick-up address are free; after that the clock runs at €40 an hour. If a booked ride falls through for reasons that are your fault, you pay whatever the meter shows, but at least €4.90 plus any surcharges.

Card payment is compulsory: every Nuremberg taxi must accept credit or debit cards on request, including at least three common credit cards. The driver may ask to see ID. And if the card reader is broken, you have to be told before the ride starts, not at your destination.

A mandatory service area spanning four cities

Nuremberg’s mandatory service area is unusually large. According to the ordinance it covers the independent cities of Nuremberg, Fürth, Erlangen and Schwabach, plus parts of the districts of Ansbach, Erlangen-Höchstadt, Forchheim, Fürth, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Neustadt an der Aisch–Bad Windsheim, Nürnberger Land and Roth. The exact boundaries are drawn on a map from 1998, which you can inspect at the city’s public order office on Innerer Laufer Platz. Within that area the tariff applies to Nuremberg taxis, and the driver is obliged to take you.

The map divides the area into zones. If your ride stays entirely in the outer ring – neither starting nor ending in zones 1 or 2, nor passing through them – a zone surcharge of €10 to €40 applies, depending on how far out the start and end points lie. The reason is the long run out from the city. For trips into, out of or through Nuremberg it doesn’t come into play, but the driver must mention it beforehand if it does.

For longer trips the table does the work: central Erlangen is, by my estimate, about 22 road kilometres from Nuremberg Hauptbahnhof, which the table puts at around €58. If you want road distances and drive times from Nuremberg to other places in the region, they’re collected in one place – then just add €2.20 for every kilometre past the fifth.

Taxi, app or U-Bahn?

You can reach the Taxi Nürnberg eG dispatch centre on +49 911 19410, and taxis wait at the airport around the clock. Since Bolt launched in Nuremberg in November 2024, the trade has felt app competition keenly; according to industry reports, around a third of Nuremberg’s taxis now also take jobs via such apps. App prices can sit well below the meter, though they swing with demand – compare before you ride rather than committing to either.

The honest comparison, though, is usually not taxi versus app but taxi versus U-Bahn. A single ticket in fare level A costs €3.90 from a machine, or €3.65 as a mobile ticket (as of 2026). As long as you’re on your own and your destination is on the U1, U2 or U3, the train wins almost every time. With three or four people and luggage, on the other hand, the taxi is surprisingly competitive over Nuremberg’s short distances.

So Nuremberg is a city where the taxi stings mainly on the first kilometre: ten euros for one kilometre is a lot, €32 for ten is normal, and beyond that every kilometre is cheaper than in most other big German cities. You needn’t fear a night premium, and you won’t get a fixed price below the meter. All figures are as of 2026 and reflect the ordinance in force since 1 June 2026 – if in doubt, the tariff is displayed in the vehicle, and the driver must show it to you on request.