What Is TaxiFareCalc?
TaxiFareCalc estimates what a metered taxi ride is likely to cost in 550+ cities and on 4,000+ airport-to-destination routes. You pick a city and a distance (or an airport and a destination) and the calculator returns an expected fare range in your chosen currency.
The site exists because taxi pricing is hard to read from the outside: every city sets its own flag-fall and per-kilometre rates, airport surcharges and night tariffs vary, and arriving travellers are the people least able to tell a fair fare from an inflated one. A realistic baseline before you get in the car is the most useful protection.
How We Estimate Fares
Every estimate is built from three inputs:
- City tariff data — a starting fare (flag fall) and a per-kilometre rate for each city. For some cities these are taken from the published local taxi tariff and shown in the local currency; for the rest they come from crowd-sourced cost-of-living price surveys (Numbeo), in which residents report what they actually pay, and are shown in US dollars.
- Route distance and drive time — road distance and typical driving time between an airport and each destination.
- A simple fare model — fare = flag fall + (distance × per-km rate), shown as a range because waiting time, traffic, luggage fees and night or airport surcharges add to the meter.
These are estimates, not quotes. Crowd-sourced data lags behind official tariff changes, and a few cities apply flat airport fares that a per-kilometre model cannot capture. If you spot a figure that is out of date, please tell us — corrections are the fastest way the data improves.
Our Guides
The Newsroom publishes city taxi guides and airport transfer guides: how the meter works in a given city, typical airport-to-centre fares, official taxi ranks, apps, tipping norms and common scams. City guides display the calculator's current rates for that city next to the text. Each guide shows its publication date; guides are updated or removed when the information no longer holds.
Private Transfers and How the Site Is Funded
TaxiFareCalc is free to use and supported by advertising. It is run by the team behind Transferhood, a private airport transfer service, and links to Transferhood are marked as sponsored. A pre-booked transfer is not always cheaper than a taxi — for short rides a metered cab often wins — so the calculator shows the taxi estimate first and lets you decide.
Contact Us
Got a question, data correction, or partnership inquiry? Visit our contact page or email us at hello@taxifarecalc.com.