Dubai Metro Blue Line: Stations, Route and 2029 Opening

Checked on 28 October 2026 against the Roads and Transport Authority’s published route description.

The Dubai Metro Blue Line is a 30km route with 14 stations, due for completion in 2029. RTA says it is planned around the growth of roughly one million residents in the eastern half of the city, and it is the first Dubai transport project built to platinum green building standards.

It is not a single line end to end. It runs in two directions that meet at International City, which is the part most coverage gets wrong.

The route, branch by branch

RTA describes the Blue Line as extending in two directions. Both of them end at the same place: the interchange at International City 1.

So a passenger from Mirdif and a passenger from Dubai Festival City both reach International City 1, and from there the line continues as one to Academic City.

The three interchanges

Three stations connect the Blue Line to the rest of the network, and they are the ones worth knowing if you are working out journey times.

1. Creek at Al Jaddaf, which joins the Green Line.
2. Centrepoint at Al Rashidiya, which joins the Red Line.
3. International City 1, where the Blue Line’s own two branches meet.

RTA also singles out Dubai Creek Harbour as the line’s landmark station, separately from the three interchanges.

What it changes for the airport

The clearest practical gain is airport access. RTA states the line gives a direct connection between Dubai International Airport and nine areas: Mirdif, Al Warqa, International City 1 and 2, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Academic City, Ras Al Khor Industrial Area, Dubai Creek Harbour and Dubai Festival City.

If you live in any of those, this is the headline. Several of them currently have no rail option at all.

Why 2029 is the date

The Red Line opened on 9 September 2009. RTA has tied Blue Line completion to 2029, the Metro’s 20th anniversary year. Note the wording: RTA says completion in 2029, not a specific opening day, so treat any exact date you see elsewhere as an estimate rather than something the authority has announced.

What has not been published yet

This is worth being straight about. RTA’s route description puts the total at 14 stations but names 12 of them: Creek, Dubai Festival City, Dubai Creek Harbour, Ras Al Khor, International City 1, 2 and 3, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Academic City, Centrepoint, Mirdif and Al Warqa.

That leaves two stations that RTA has not named in its published route description. Figures circulating for the project cost, the depth of the underground sections and the height of the Creek Harbour station do not appear in that description either. We have left them out rather than repeat them, and will add them here when RTA publishes them.

Full detail is on the RTA’s own Dubai Metro page.

How it fits the rest of the network

The Blue Line is one piece of a much larger build-out. RTA has separately set out 29 new metro station locations across the network, and the line sits inside the Dubai 2040 Urban Master Plan, which is the document that explains why the eastern communities are the priority.

Meanwhile the national network has already arrived: Etihad Rail passenger services now run from Dubai, and a bridge links the Metro to the Etihad Rail station in about five minutes.

Dubai Creek Harbour, the Blue Line’s landmark stop, is also where the AED 80 million Dubai Creek lighting project is being delivered.