Berlin to Warsaw by train
Berlin Hauptbahnhof → Warszawa Centralna
Trains link Berlin (Berlin Hauptbahnhof) and Warsaw (Warszawa Centralna) in about 7h 42m at best, with at least 2 changes along the way. The corridor is part of the Berlin-Warszawa-Express (570 km, typically 5 h 25 min), one of 1562 routes plotted in the World Train Map atlas.
- Journey time
- ≈ 7h 42m
- Direct trains
- No
- Fewest changes
- 2
- Operators
- DB Regio, NEB, DB Fernverkehr, PKP Intercity
How long does the train from Berlin to Warsaw take?
Trains cover Berlin to Warsaw in about 7h 42m, with little variation between departures.
Is there a direct train from Berlin to Warsaw?
Usually not; expect at least 2 changes on this journey.
Is the train or a flight faster from Berlin to Warsaw?
A typical flight works out roughly 3h 50m quicker door to door (about 4h 10m against 8h by train, once airport time is counted), but the train emits about 3× less CO₂e, even on conservative official emission factors.
- Train, door to door
- ≈ 8h
- Flight, door to door
- ≈ 4h 10m (est.)
- CO₂e per passenger
- ~22 kg train · ~70 kg plane
Flight time and emissions are transparent estimates, not airline schedules: method, factors and all 109 compared pairs on Train vs plane in Europe.
This corridor in the atlas
- Berlin-Warszawa-Express Six EuroCitys a day across the North European Plain, with the cult WARS dining car serving pierogi between the Oder and the Vistula.
Legendary routes through Berlin or Warsaw
- ICE Sprinter Berlin → Munich
- EIP Pendolino Warsaw → Kraków
- ICE Hamburg → Berlin
- EIP Pendolino Warsaw → Gdańsk
Sleepers too: night trains from Berlin · night trains from Warsaw.
More trains from Berlin
- Berlin → Leipzig ≈ 1h 15m · direct
- Berlin → Hannover ≈ 1h 33m · direct
- Berlin → Dresden ≈ 1h 39m · direct
- Berlin → Hamburg ≈ 1h 47m · direct
- Berlin → Nuremberg ≈ 2h 45m · direct
- Berlin → Frankfurt ≈ 3h 51m · direct
More train routes in Germany · Poland.
Journey figures are typical values sampled from public European schedule data; exact times vary by day. Always check the operator when booking.