Vienna▸ to Hamburg
18:36 08:38+1
Direct trains across Europe's borders.
Every high-speed, intercity and night train that runs straight from one country to another, no change of train. And when it beats the plane, door to door.
High-speedIntercityNightThicker: more trains a dayLines show direct trains, not the track.
Busy direct routes
Straight across the border, no change. Times from each operator's official open timetable for 26 Oct to 22 Nov 2026.
Amsterdam → BrusselsHigh-speedIntercityNight trainBasel → FrankfurtHigh-speedIntercityNight trainMunich → ViennaHigh-speedIntercityNight trainBasel → MannheimHigh-speedIntercityNight trainMunich → St. PöltenHigh-speedIntercityNight trainLinz → MunichHigh-speedIntercityNight trainLondon → ParisHigh-speedBudapest → ViennaIntercityNight trainBratislava → PardubiceIntercityNight trainDresden → StockholmNight trainBrussels → MilanNight trainBrussels → PragueNight train
Direct from your city
Every city with a direct cross-border train.
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Bad GasteinBregenzDornbirnFeldkirchGrazInnsbruckJenbachKitzbühelKlagenfurtKufsteinLandeckLinzSalzburgSchwarzach im PongauSt. Anton am ArlbergSt. Johann im PongauSt. PöltenVelden am WörtherseeViennaVillachWelsWiener NeustadtWörglZell am See🇭🇷 Croatia
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Bucharest🇨🇭 Switzerland
AarauBadenBaselBellinzonaBernBrigBuchs SGChurGenevaInterlakenLausanneLucerneLuganoMartignyMontreuxNyonOltenSchaffhausenSionSpiezSt. GallenSt. MoritzThunVeveyVispWinterthurZugZurich🇬🇧 United Kingdom
LondonNight trains
Board in the evening. Wake up in another country.
The sleeper trains across a border, with their real departure and arrival times, and the nights they run.
1,203 sleeper routes129 cities59 trains leave tonight
Zurich▸ to Prague
19:59 09:25+1
Vienna▸ to Venice
21:39 08:34+1
Brussels▸ to Prague
18:06 10:54+1
Paris▸ to Berlin
18:03 10:10+1
Berlin▸ to Stockholm
21:06 13:17+1
Leaves before 20:00 313Leaves 20:00 to 22:00 424Leaves after 22:00 535Arrives by 08:00 701Under 10 hours 650Every night 366
Find your night train1,203 sleeper routes, all on one page
When does the train beat the plane?
On every route page we add it up door to door: getting to the station, the train, getting to your destination; against getting out to the airport, check-in and security, the flight and getting back into town. Pick where you start and end (city centre, a station or the airport) and it recalculates. No prices yet: this compares time.
Under 3 hours on board25 of 25The train is faster door to door on every route.
3 to 4 hours on board15 of 28The train wins on about half of them.
Routes between cities with an airport within 45 minutes and a nonstop flight, city centre to city centre, as each route page adds it up.
Brussels → Paris, door to door4h30
Train
Eurostar 9304 / 94041h49
Plane
Check-in & securityFlight BRU to CDGFrom CDG3h50
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The train arrives 2h01 sooner, city centre to city centre.
Every train Brussels to Paris, and the sum from your own address →Who flies it nonstop, on picktheflight ↗
Every route, by time on boardTrain fasterPlane faster
Each dot is a route by day between two cities with an airport within 45 minutes. Tap one for its route page.
The 20 city pairs where the train wins both ways, door to door
Brussels ↔ London up to 2h37 fasterBrussels ↔ Paris up to 2h05 fasterAmsterdam ↔ Duisburg up to 1h42 fasterLondon ↔ Paris up to 1h35 fasterLuxembourg ↔ Paris up to 1h21 fasterGeneva ↔ Lyon up to 1h16 fasterAmsterdam ↔ Brussels up to 1h13 fasterFrankfurt ↔ Strasbourg up to 1h11 fasterAmsterdam ↔ Düsseldorf up to 1h01 fasterBudapest ↔ Vienna up to 1h00 fasterMunich ↔ Winterthur up to 55 min fasterBasel ↔ Paris up to 40 min fasterBasel ↔ Frankfurt up to 26 min fasterLondon ↔ Rotterdam up to 22 min fasterBrussels ↔ Lyon up to 16 min fasterBrussels ↔ Frankfurt up to 15 min fasterGeneva ↔ Paris up to 13 min fasterStuttgart ↔ Zurich up to 12 min fasterAmsterdam ↔ Paris up to 9 min fasterGothenburg ↔ Oslo up to 9 min faster
The world's great train rides
Famous train journeys
The Glacier Express, the Orient Express, the California Zephyr and 22 more: whether each runs now, how long it takes, and how to get to the start.
RunningOn a break or out of seasonCheck before you goNot advised or suspended
Glacier ExpressZermatt → St. Moritz291 bridges, 91 tunnels and the Oberalp Pass at 2,033 m, between Zermatt and St. Moritz.About 8 hBack on 5 DecBernina ExpressChur → TiranoThe Albula and Bernina lines, UNESCO World Heritage since 2008: 196 bridges, 55 tunnels, up to 2,253 m.About 4 h from ChurDiverted to 13 NovGoldenPass ExpressMontreux → InterlakenMontreux to Interlaken with no change: its bogies switch between metre and standard gauge at Zweisimmen.About 3 h 15 minRunningBergen LineOslo → BergenVy calls it Northern Europe's highest railway line: across the Hardangervidda plateau, up to 1,237 m.6.5 to 7.5 hRunningVenice Simplon-Orient-ExpressParis → VeniceBelmond's sleeper train of restored 1920s carriages, overnight from Paris to Venice.1 night, Paris to VeniceRunningCalifornia ZephyrChicago → EmeryvilleChicago to the San Francisco Bay Area via Denver, Salt Lake City and Reno, every day.About 2 days, 2 nightsRunningThe GhanAdelaide → Darwin2,979 km through the Red Centre; the first train left Adelaide in 1929.2 to 3 nightsRunningRocky MountaineerVancouver → Banff or JasperDaylight only through the Canadian Rockies, with a night in a hotel in Kamloops.2 days, a night in KamloopsBack in April