Budapest to Vienna by train
Budapest-Keleti → Wien Hauptbahnhof
Trains link Budapest (Budapest-Keleti) and Vienna (Wien Hauptbahnhof) in about 2h 50m at best, with no changes needed. The corridor is part of the Railjet (243 km, typically 2 h 20 min), one of 1562 routes plotted in the World Train Map atlas.
- Journey time
- ≈ 2h 50m
- Direct trains
- Yes
- Fewest changes
- 0
- Operators
- MÁV, ÖBB
How long does the train from Budapest to Vienna take?
Trains cover Budapest to Vienna in about 2h 50m, with little variation between departures.
Is there a direct train from Budapest to Vienna?
Yes: direct trains run between Budapest-Keleti and Wien Hauptbahnhof.
This corridor in the atlas
- Railjet Follows the old Orient Express alignment down the Danube plain: centre to centre faster than any flight.
Legendary routes through Budapest or Vienna
- Semmeringbahn Vienna → Graz
- Nightjet Vienna → Zurich
- Railjet Prague → Vienna
- EN Ister Budapest → Bucharest
Sleepers too: night trains from Vienna.
More trains from Budapest
- Budapest → Bratislava ≈ 3h 45m
- Budapest → Prague ≈ 7h 53m
- Budapest → Belgrade ≈ 8h 09m
- Budapest → Kraków ≈ 9h 24m
- Budapest → Zagreb ≈ 9h 50m
- Budapest → Bucharest ≈ 14h 27m
More train routes in Austria · Hungary · Germany.
Journey figures are typical values sampled from public European schedule data; exact times vary by day. Always check the operator when booking.