Live information notice: NMMT routes, timings, fares and app features can change. Check the official BusTracker app or ask the conductor for anything time-sensitive, especially fares and the last service of the day.
NMMT (Navi Mumbai Municipal Transport) fills the gaps the railway and metro don’t reach, running ordinary and AC buses across the city’s nodes and out to Thane, Kalyan, Mumbra and South Mumbai. This guide focuses on what you can actually verify right now: how to find your route, how to check today’s fare, how to read a schedule against a live arrival estimate, and what to check before you rely on a pass. It does not reproduce a citywide fare table or a full route timetable, because NMMT revises both more often than an article can track, and a stale specific number is worse than no number at all.
Quick Answer
Use the official NMMT BusTracker app to find your boarding stop, select your route and check a live arrival estimate rather than relying on a fixed schedule. Fares vary by route, distance and passenger category, and premium AC corridors such as the Atal Setu shuttles to Mantralaya have been revised before, so confirm the current fare in the app or with the conductor rather than trusting an old figure, including the ones in this guide’s own earlier version. An AC ticket does not by itself guarantee a reserved seat; check the specific service. For a longer commute, compare a pass against your actual per-trip cost for the same period before assuming it is cheaper.
How to Find Your NMMT Route
Start with your boarding stop, not the route number. Open NMMT BusTracker, select or search for the stop closest to you, and the app will show which routes currently serve it along with a live or scheduled arrival estimate. From there, check the route’s full stop sequence to confirm it actually reaches your destination and in the right direction; two routes with similar numbers can run opposite directions or terminate short of where you assume.
If you already know a route number, search for it directly and check its direction, its current stops and its service days before walking to a stop expecting it. A route that runs on weekdays may not run, or may run less often, on Sundays and public holidays.
Verified Route Information
NMMT’s network is large and changes over time as routes are added, merged or withdrawn. We could not retrieve a current official NMMT route inventory during this review, so this guide explains how to check individual journeys instead. Rather than list remembered route numbers or locality pairs that may no longer be accurate, this guide points you to the official lookup tools above for the current network and calls out the specific services that are independently documented.
The clearest example is the AC shuttle service NMMT introduced across the Atal Setu (Mumbai Trans Harbour Link) sea crossing, connecting Nerul and Kharghar to Mantralaya in South Mumbai. These routes are well documented in local news coverage, including the fare revision discussed below, though this guide does not reproduce their timetable since NMMT can adjust frequency and timing independently of fare.
For scale rather than a route-by-route list, NMMC’s own NMMT department page states the network at 567 buses running on 74 routes plus some special services, carrying roughly 1,80,000 passengers a day. It gives a combined route length of about 2,006 km, an average route length near 26 km (ranging from 5 km to 60 km), and an average headway across all routes of 15 minutes, ranging from roughly 7 to 10 minutes at the busiest to 65 minutes at the least frequent. These are network-wide totals published by the corporation itself, not a list of individual routes or stops, and the page carries no visible last-updated date, so treat them as NMMC’s own published figures on the system’s size rather than a real-time count. They tell you how big and how frequent the network is in aggregate; they don’t replace checking your own route and stop in BusTracker.
For a broader third-party route search, BusKosh’s NMMT timetable lookup and Moovit combine NMMT routes with walking directions for multi-mode trips; treat both as supplementary planning tools and confirm anything time-sensitive against the official app before you travel.
Checking Fares
NMMT fares depend on the route, the distance travelled, whether the service is ordinary or AC, and the passenger category, and they are revised periodically. This guide does not publish a minimum ordinary fare, an AC minimum, or a rupee range for short intra-city rides, because none of those figures could be confirmed against a current source at the time of writing; check the fare for your specific boarding stop and destination in the BusTracker app or with the conductor when you board.
The clearest illustration of why a fixed fare figure goes stale is the Atal Setu AC shuttle to Mantralaya. At launch, the Nerul to Mantralaya service was priced around ₹230 and the Kharghar to Mantralaya service around ₹270. Reporting from early January 2025 recorded a revision to roughly ₹105 and ₹120 respectively, a reduction of more than half (Lokmat Times, Mumbai Live). That report is now more than a year old. It establishes that the original launch fares are outdated; it does not establish what NMMT charges on these routes today. Check the current fare in the app or with the conductor before you travel, rather than using either the launch figure or the 2025 revision as today’s price.
If you want to estimate a running cost across a commuting period, use your own confirmed per-trip fare rather than a figure from this or any other article; the worksheet later in this guide walks through that calculation.
Timetables Versus Live Arrival Estimates
A published or app-shown time can mean three different things, and mixing them up is the most common reason a passenger misses a bus or waits for one that already left.
| Information | What it tells the passenger |
|---|---|
| Scheduled departure | When the bus is scheduled to leave its starting point, not when it reaches your stop |
| Estimated arrival | A live prediction for arrival at your specific selected stop, which can shift with traffic |
| Last service | The final scheduled journey for that particular route, direction and day; it can differ by direction and by weekday versus weekend |
This guide does not publish a general first and last bus window or a citywide peak frequency, because both vary by route and change over time, and a single figure for the whole network would misrepresent most individual routes. It also does not repeat the old claim that AC services universally start later, finish earlier or run less often on Sundays; some do and some don’t, so check the specific route and day in the app rather than applying a network-wide rule.
Tracking Apps and Digital Tickets
The official NMMT BusTracker app for Android and the NMMT BusTracker app for iPhone, listed under Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation, let you look up your nearby stops with walking time, select a route, see a live arrival and departure estimate, view the vehicle’s last recorded stop and its expected arrival at stops ahead, and check the scheduled buses for a chosen stop. An iPhone version exists and is maintained by the same civic provider, so this guide does not repeat an old “Android only” claim.
To use it well: select your actual boarding stop rather than a nearby locality name, confirm the destination and direction the route is running, open the route’s full stop sequence to make sure it reaches where you’re going, and treat the arrival estimate as a live prediction rather than a guaranteed time, since delays and connectivity gaps happen. Check the app or ask the conductor about the return service separately, since it may run on a different frequency or stop earlier than the outbound direction.
For digital ticketing beyond the operator’s own system, the Mumbai One app is an official multimodal platform covering metro, suburban rail and bus travel with QR-code ticketing for contactless entry and exit. Its listing describes broad public-transport coverage rather than confirming every NMMT service specifically, so check within the app that your operator and journey are actually supported before you rely on it for payment, rather than assuming coverage because the app is official.
What “AC” Actually Tells You
Do not assume an AC ticket includes a reserved seat. Check whether your specific service offers seat reservation; an ordinary ticket or an AC bus ticket alone does not guarantee one. Also keep these distinctions separate rather than inferring one from another: AC versus non-AC describes the passenger service category; electric, CNG or diesel describes the propulsion; express versus stopping describes the operating pattern; and reserved versus unreserved describes the booking arrangement. A bus being AC does not tell you its propulsion, and “Volvo” is a vehicle brand, not a universal label for every AC service, so this guide refers to “AC buses” generally unless a specific service is confirmed as Volvo-operated.
Passes and Concessions
NMMT’s BusTracker app has supported mobile tickets and passes since a 2020 update, and a later update added a return-ticket option, a digital pass calculator, and ticket and pass history within the app. That confirms the feature exists; it does not establish the current price or conditions for any specific pass, which this guide does not publish without a current, route-specific source.
Before relying on a pass, confirm which routes or geographic zones it covers, whether it applies to ordinary services, AC services or both, its validity period, who is eligible and what documents are required, the price and any issuance charge, and whether premium or special services are excluded. A pass “usually works out cheaper” is not a substitute for actually comparing the numbers, which the worksheet below walks through.
NMMT has previously run fare concessions for specific passenger categories, including a discount for women passengers reported in late 2024. Rather than restate a specific percentage that may no longer be current, this guide asks students, senior citizens and passengers with disabilities to check the applicable scheme directly with NMMT: the eligible category and any age or residency condition, required documentation, which services it covers, and the current application process. Treat a concession from one municipal transport undertaking as specific to that undertaking rather than assuming it extends to another city’s buses, the metro or the railway.
Commuting Cost Worksheet
Compare the same period and the same journeys before deciding whether a pass is worth it.
| Input | Your figure |
|---|---|
| Outbound fare | ₹___ |
| Return fare | ₹___ |
| Travel days during the pass period | ___ |
| Additional daily connecting fares (if any) | ₹___ |
| Eligible pass price | ₹___ |
| Costs not covered by the pass | ₹___ |
Pay-per-trip total is your travel days multiplied by your daily fares (outbound plus return plus any connecting fare). Pass-option total is the pass price plus whatever journeys or charges the pass does not cover. Compare the two totals for the same period and the same journeys, and remember that an NMMT pass covers NMMT services; it does not automatically cover a connecting rail or metro leg.
Railway-Station Connections
A significant share of NMMT routes exist specifically to connect railway stations, including Vashi, Nerul, Kharghar, Belapur and Panvel, with the residential sectors around them. If you live beyond comfortable walking distance of your station, check the BusTracker app for feeder routes serving that station before defaulting to an auto-rickshaw for the last stretch, and confirm the specific route reaches your sector rather than assuming from the station name alone.
Atal Setu and Airport Connections
For the toll, route, FASTag and pass details of the Atal Setu crossing itself, see this site’s dedicated Atal Setu toll guide rather than a duplicated summary here. For NMMT’s AC shuttle services that use the crossing to reach Mantralaya, verify the exact route, boarding stop, operating days, current fare and the last return departure directly in the BusTracker app before you plan a commute around one, since all of these can change independently of each other.
For travel to Navi Mumbai International Airport, see this site’s dedicated airport access guide for current route and transport options rather than a fixed route count repeated here, since airport-linked bus connectivity has changed since launch and this guide has not independently rechecked a specific route count against a current official source.
Practical Boarding and Return-Trip Checklist
Confirm the operator, route number and direction match your intended journey before boarding, not just the destination name on the front of the bus.
Confirm the correct stop and side of the road. Routes running in opposite directions often use stops on opposite sides of the same road.
Confirm this particular trip serves your destination. Some trips on a route short-terminate or skip a branch; don’t assume every departure on a route number goes the full distance.
Check the current fare and accepted payment method before boarding, including whether the service accepts cash, a digital ticket, or both.
Confirm a valid ticket has been issued after payment, whether physical or digital; a payment confirmation alone is not the same as an issued ticket.
Check the last return service separately from the outbound timing, since return frequency and the last departure can differ.
Identify an alternative journey option in case your planned service is delayed, full or unavailable when you arrive.
For accessibility needs, luggage space, or anything else specific to your trip, check with NMMT or the conductor for that particular service rather than assuming a fleet-wide standard for ramps, boarding assistance or luggage capacity.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find the right NMMT bus route?
Use NMMT BusTracker to select your boarding stop and check the route’s destination, direction and stop sequence. Confirm that the particular trip serves your intended destination before boarding.
What time do NMMT buses start and stop?
Operating hours depend on the route, direction and day. Check the first and last service for your specific journey rather than relying on a single timing for the whole network.
How much does an NMMT bus ticket cost?
Check the current fare for your boarding stop, destination and service through NMMT’s available fare information or with the conductor. Confirm any concession separately.
Is there an NMMT live-tracking app?
NMMT BusTracker provides route, stop, schedule and arrival information. Live information may be unavailable or delayed, so distinguish an estimated arrival from a scheduled departure.
Does an AC bus ticket guarantee a seat?
Do not assume it does. Check whether your specific service offers a reservation and whether your booking includes an allocated seat.
Is an NMMT pass cheaper than individual tickets?
It depends on the pass price, eligible services and how often you travel. Compare the pass and any uncovered journeys with your individual-ticket total for the same period.
What should I check before buying a digital bus ticket?
Confirm the operator, route, direction, boarding stop, destination and ticket conditions. Check that a valid ticket has been issued; a payment confirmation alone should not be treated as the ticket.
How should I plan an NMMT journey to the airport?
Check current airport-serving routes, boarding points, operating days and journey information before travelling. Allow for waiting, transfers and the airline’s check-in requirements, and keep an alternative transport option available.
Sources and Verification Date
The network-wide bus, route and headway figures in the “Verified Route Information” section are sourced directly to Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation’s own NMMT department page, checked on the date below; the page itself carries no last-updated date. The Atal Setu AC shuttle fare history in this guide is sourced to Lokmat Times and Mumbai Live, both reporting the January 2025 revision; this is evidence that the launch-era fares are outdated, not a substitute for checking today’s tariff. App features are sourced to the official listings for NMMT BusTracker on Android, NMMT BusTracker on iPhone, and the Mumbai One app. The women’s fare concession is sourced to Free Press Journal’s October 2024 report and is noted as a scheme that has existed rather than a current guaranteed rate.
This guide did not retrieve a current, official NMMT fare chart or a complete route timetable at the time of writing, and it does not certify current fares, route frequencies or concession rates as a result. Where a number could not be confirmed against a current, route-specific source, this guide explains what to check instead of publishing an estimate.
Last verified: 14 September 2026
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