City to city

Madrid to Seville by train

Madrid-Puerta de Atocha → Sevilla-Santa Justa

Fastest

≈ 2h 39m

Typical

≈ 3h

Direct trains

Yes

Fewest changes

0

Operators

RENFE OPERADORA

Trains link Madrid (Madrid-Puerta de Atocha) and Seville (Sevilla-Santa Justa) in about 2h 39m at best, with no changes needed. The corridor is part of the AVE (471 km, typically 2 h 20 min), one of 1247 routes plotted in the World Train Map atlas.

How long does the train from Madrid to Seville take?

The fastest trains cover Madrid to Seville in about 2h 39m; a typical journey takes around 3h.

Is there a direct train from Madrid to Seville?

Yes: direct trains run between Madrid-Puerta de Atocha and Sevilla-Santa Justa.

Is the train or a flight faster from Madrid to Seville?

Door to door, the train typically wins: about 3h 20m city centre to city centre, against roughly 4h for a typical flight once airport time is counted. The train also emits about 3× less CO₂e, even on conservative official emission factors.

Train, door to door

≈ 3h 20m

Flight, door to door

≈ 4h (est.)

CO₂e per passenger

~17 kg train · ~53 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

• AVE Spain’s first AVE, built for Expo ’92 in standard gauge, the line that reset Spanish railways.
• Al Ándalus A rolling Belle Époque palace whose 1929 sleeping cars once carried the British court from Calais to the Riviera: now easing from Seville to Madrid in seven days.

Legendary routes through Madrid or Seville

• AVE Madrid → Barcelona
• AVE Madrid → Valencia
• AVE Madrid → Málaga
• AVE Madrid → Alicante

More trains from Madrid

• Madrid → Zaragoza ≈ 1h 35m · direct
• Madrid → Córdoba ≈ 1h 44m · direct
• Madrid → Valencia ≈ 2h 01m · direct
• Madrid → Málaga ≈ 2h 46m · direct
• Madrid → Barcelona ≈ 3h 02m · direct
• Madrid → Santiago de Compostela ≈ 3h 22m

All trains from Madrid →

More train routes in Spain.

Journey figures are typical values sampled from public European schedule data; exact times vary by day. Always check the operator when booking.