Charm City Circulator

Twenty-four free buses on five routes through the middle of the city, run by Baltimore City rather than the state. Purple runs 33rd Street to Federal Hill every 13 minutes, Orange runs Hollins Market to Harbor East every 10, Green links City Hall to North Avenue and Johns Hopkins Hospital every 20, Cherry reaches Cherry Hill every 20, and Banner goes down to Fort McHenry every 40. Late enough on a Friday and Saturday to get you home from most of this guide.

Address

Over 100 stops on five routes across central Baltimore

Directions⌄

Hours

Mon-Thu 7am-8pm; Fri 7am-midnight; Sat 9am-midnight; Sun 9am-7pm. No service on Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year's Day

In the guides

• Free Baltimore, done properly
• Nights out that publish their access
• Baltimore without a car, and without a parking app
• Gameday, done on foot

Parking

Not applicable, and rather the point.

Age rules

No restriction stated

Accessibility

Baltimore City DOT's reasonable modifications policy names the Circulator and commits to modifying its policies and procedures where needed so a person with a disability can use the service. It sets out a request process rather than stating that the buses carry ramps or lifts, and the Circulator's own pages say nothing about access

Official links

Charm City Circulator · Routes and schedules

Verified

Verified Sep 18, 2026 against Baltimore City's own Circulator pages for the five routes, what each connects, the per-route frequencies, the fleet size, the system-wide hours by day, the three holidays it does not run, and the statement that the buses are always free; accessibility from https://s3.amazonaws.com/baltimorecity.gov.if-us-east-1/s3fs-public/2026-08/BCDOT%20Reasonable%20Modifications%20Policy.pdf. Facts can drift; if something here is wrong, tell us and we’ll fix it. How we check.

Not yet confirmed

The city publishes one set of hours for the whole system and per-route frequencies, but not first and last departure times for individual stops. Accessibility is not addressed on the route page.