Monthly average of weekday (business day) passenger entries for each station in the São Paulo metro system. Data covers October 2017 through 2026 for Lines 1, 2, 3, and 15; Line 4 from January 2012; Line 5 from October 2017. Sourced from the METRO SP transparency portal and the Insper Dataverse.
Format
A data frame with the following columns:
- date
First day of the month (Date).
- line_number
Metro line number (integer).
- station_name
Name of the metro station (character).
- avg_passenger
Average weekday passenger entries (numeric).
- line_name
English name of the metro line (character).
- line_name_pt
Portuguese name of the metro line (character).
- year
Calendar year (integer).
Source
Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo (METRO SP). https://transparencia.metrosp.com.br/dataset/demanda
Details
Only the weekday average (mdu) metric is available at the station level.
For line-level data with all five metrics, see
passengers_entrance.
Station coverage by line and source:
Line 1 (Azul/Blue): 23 stations, October 2017–2026 (METRO SP portal).
Line 2 (Verde/Green): 14 stations, October 2017–2026 (METRO SP portal).
Line 3 (Vermelha/Red): 18 stations, October 2017–2026 (METRO SP portal).
Line 4 (Amarela/Yellow): January 2012–2026 (Insper Dataverse).
Line 5 (Lilás/Lilac): October 2017–July 2018 (METRO SP portal) and August 2018–2026 (Insper Dataverse).
Line 15 (Prata/Silver): 10 stations in 2020, 11 from January 2021 onward (Jardim Colonial added), October 2017–2026 (METRO SP portal).
See also
station_daily for daily station entries,
passengers_entrance for monthly line-level totals.