City to city
Budapest to Vienna by train
Budapest-Keleti → Wien Hauptbahnhof
- Journey time
- ≈ 2h 50m
- Direct trains
- Yes
- Fewest changes
- 0
- Operators
- Magyar Allamvasutak, OEBB Personenverkehr AG Kundenservice
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 1247 routes plotted in the World Train Map atlas.
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.