Pankrác is a station of the Prague metro on line C. The track lies 14.0 m below the street and the station has been open since 9 May 1974.

How deep is Pankrác
The track at Pankrác lies 14.0 m below the street. It is the 29th deepest of 61 platforms. That is roughly a 4-storey building below the pavement.
Elevation: street 267 m a.s.l., track 253 m a.s.l. Depth is measured from the ground above the station to the track.
Step-free access
Step-free: lift or level access all the way to the platformStep-free entrances from the street: 1 of 6. Source: PID open data.
Entrances from the street: 6
- E1Escalator + stairs · 27 steps
- E5Escalator + stairs · 26 steps
- E6Liftstep-free
- Obchodní centrumLevel entrance
- E2Stairs · 32 steps
- E3Stairs · 35 steps
Official entrance names and step counts from PID.
Ridership
One ordinary Wednesday, 11 November 2015, 5 am to midnight (PID and DPP survey). No newer per-station data has been published.
About Pankrác
Pankrác is a Prague Metro station on Line C, located in the neighbourhood of Pankrác (part of Nusle) in Prague 4. The station was formerly known as Mládežnická. It was opened on 9 May 1974 with the first section of Prague Metro, between Sokolovská and Kačerov. The station serves the Arkády Pankrác shopping centre.
A tram extension was constructed to the station in 2021. The station was closed on January 6, 2025 for a year for renovations in connection with the construction of Line D. After the opening of Line D, Pankrác will become a transfer station. After a long year of renovating, Pankrác was reopened as of December 12, 2025.
Text: English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Technical data
CLine C
- Depth
- 14.0 m below ground
- Track
- 253 m a.s.l.
- Street above
- 267 m a.s.l.
- Construction
- Cut-and-cover
- Opened
- 9 May 1974
- Architect
- Zdeněk Štolfa (linka C), Patrik Kotas (linka D), Martin Smrž (linka D)
Neighbouring stations
The whole station in 3D: escalators, passages, halls and entrances at their true depth beneath Prague.
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