City to city
Berlin to Warsaw by train
Berlin Hauptbahnhof → Warszawa Centralna
- Journey time
- ≈ 7h 42m
- Direct trains
- No
- Fewest changes
- 2
- Operators
- DB Regio AG Nordost, NEB Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn, DB Fernverkehr AG, PKP Intercity
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 1247 routes plotted in the World Train Map atlas.
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.