City to city
Budapest to Zagreb by train
Budapest-Keleti → Zagreb Glavni kolodvor
- Fastest
- ≈ 9h 50m
- Typical
- ≈ 11h 50m
- Direct trains
- No
- Fewest changes
- 1
- Operators
- Magyar Allamvasutak, OEBB Personenverkehr AG Kundenservice, SŽ - Potniški promet, d.o.o., Österreichische Bundesbahnen
Trains link Budapest (Budapest-Keleti) and Zagreb (Zagreb Glavni kolodvor) in about 9h 50m at best, with at least 1 change along the way. The corridor is part of the EuroCity Budapest–Zagreb (340 km, typically ≈ 6 h), one of 1247 routes plotted in the World Train Map atlas.
How long does the train from Budapest to Zagreb take?
The fastest trains cover Budapest to Zagreb in about 9h 50m; a typical journey takes around 11h 50m.
Is there a direct train from Budapest to Zagreb?
Usually not; expect at least 1 change on this journey.
Is the train or a flight faster from Budapest to Zagreb?
A typical flight works out roughly 8h 15m quicker door to door (about 3h 55m against 12h 10m 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
- ≈ 12h 10m
- Flight, door to door
- ≈ 3h 55m (est.)
- CO₂e per passenger
- ~13 kg train · ~41 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
- EuroCity Budapest–Zagreb The only Hungary–Croatia day train: along Balaton’s southern shore, over the Drava at Gyékényes and down through Zagorje to Zagreb.
Legendary routes through Budapest or Zagreb
- Railjet Vienna → Budapest
- EN Ister Budapest → Bucharest
- ICN Zagreb–Split Zagreb → Split
- Balaton InterCity Budapest → Siófok
More trains from Budapest
- Budapest → Vienna ≈ 2h 50m · direct
- Budapest → Bratislava ≈ 3h 45m
- Budapest → Prague ≈ 7h 53m
- Budapest → Belgrade ≈ 8h 09m
- Budapest → Kraków ≈ 9h 24m
- Budapest → Bucharest ≈ 14h 27m
More train routes in Hungary · Croatia · Austria.
Journey figures are typical values sampled from public European schedule data; exact times vary by day. Always check the operator when booking.