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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 25 public transit
Best public transit in Madrid
The 10 most notable public transit in Madrid, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Petit Palace Arturo Soria Alcalá
Arturo Soria, 14
153 m from Ciudad Lineal, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.407, percentile 100 of 25
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2
Estacion Cercanias Villaverde Alto
Calle Domingo Parraga
40 m from Villaverde Alto, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.340, percentile 95.83 of 25
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3
Intercambiador de Moncloa
Calle de la Princesa, 89
25 m from Moncloa, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.263, percentile 91.67 of 25
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4
Estación Sur de Autobuses
Calle de Méndez Álvaro, 83
100 m from Méndez Álvaro, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.255, percentile 87.5 of 25
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5
Centro de especialidades Cristo Rey
Calle Isaac Peral, 45
402 m from Islas Filipinas, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.216, percentile 83.33 of 25
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6
Europcar Madrid Chamartin Estación
Estación Chamartin, Parking P2 Saba
152 m from Chamartín, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.216, percentile 79.17 of 25
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7
Moove Cars
C/Luis I, 54
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.212, percentile 75 of 25
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8
VIP CAR Autocares
C/ Torneros, 55
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.148, percentile 70.83 of 25
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9
Centro Kumon Madrid - Pinar de Chamartín
C/ Arturo Soria, 342
298 m from Pinar de Chamartín, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.896, percentile 66.67 of 25
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10
Lucitur
Calle de La Marroquina, 67
523 m from Vinateros, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.864, percentile 62.5 of 25
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).