City to city
Montpellier to Paris by train
Montpellier Saint-Roch → Gare de Lyon
- Fastest
- ≈ 3h 28m
- Typical
- ≈ 4h 23m
- Direct trains
- Yes
- Fewest changes
- 0
- Operators
- SNCF VOYAGEURS, ZOU ! TER, RENFE OPERADORA, Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français
Trains link Montpellier (Montpellier Saint-Roch) and Paris (Gare de Lyon) in about 3h 28m at best, with no changes needed. The corridor is part of the TGV inOui (750 km, typically 3 h 10 min), one of 1247 routes plotted in the World Train Map atlas.
How long does the train from Montpellier to Paris take?
The fastest trains cover Montpellier to Paris in about 3h 28m; a typical journey takes around 4h 23m.
Is there a direct train from Montpellier to Paris?
Yes: direct trains run between Montpellier Saint-Roch and Gare de Lyon.
Is the train or a flight faster from Montpellier to Paris?
A typical flight works out roughly 25 min quicker door to door (about 4h 20m against 4h 45m 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
- ≈ 4h 45m
- Flight, door to door
- ≈ 4h 20m (est.)
- CO₂e per passenger
- ~25 kg train · ~81 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
- TGV inOui Races down the Rhône on the LGV Méditerranée, then rides the 2017 Montpellier bypass, the first new stretch of French high-speed line in a decade, to the edge of the Camargue.
Legendary routes through Montpellier or Paris
- Eurostar London → Paris
- TGV inOui Paris → Marseille
- Eurostar (Thalys) Paris → Amsterdam
- Venice Simplon-Orient-Express Paris → Venice
Sleepers too: night trains from Paris.
More trains from Montpellier
- Montpellier → Perpignan ≈ 1h 34m · direct
- Montpellier → Toulouse ≈ 2h 08m · direct
- Montpellier → Marseille ≈ 2h 21m
- Montpellier → Barcelona ≈ 3h 02m · direct
More train routes in France · United Kingdom · Belgium.
Journey figures are typical values sampled from public European schedule data; exact times vary by day. Always check the operator when booking.