City to city
Munich to Vienna by train
Hauptbahnhof Süd → Wien Hauptbahnhof
- Fastest
- ≈ 4h 16m
- Typical
- ≈ 4h 30m
- Direct trains
- Yes
- Fewest changes
- 0
- Operators
- WESTbahn Management GmbH, OEBB Personenverkehr AG Kundenservice, Deutsche Bahn AG
Trains link Munich (Hauptbahnhof Süd) and Vienna (Wien Hauptbahnhof) in about 4h 16m at best, with no changes needed. The corridor is part of the Railjet (460 km, typically 4 h), one of 1247 routes plotted in the World Train Map atlas.
How long does the train from Munich to Vienna take?
The fastest trains cover Munich to Vienna in about 4h 16m; a typical journey takes around 4h 30m.
Is there a direct train from Munich to Vienna?
Yes: direct trains run between Hauptbahnhof Süd and Wien Hauptbahnhof.
Is the train or a flight faster from Munich to Vienna?
A typical flight works out roughly 50 min quicker door to door (about 4h against 4h 50m 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 50m
- Flight, door to door
- ≈ 4h (est.)
- CO₂e per passenger
- ~15 kg train · ~49 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
- Railjet Bavaria to the Danube capital along the Westbahn, past Salzburg’s fortress and the baroque abbeys of Upper Austria.
Legendary routes through Munich or Vienna
- ICE Sprinter Berlin → Munich
- Railjet Vienna → Budapest
- Semmeringbahn Vienna → Graz
- Nightjet Vienna → Zurich
Sleepers too: night trains from Vienna.
More trains from Munich
- Munich → Nuremberg ≈ 1h 11m · direct
- Munich → Salzburg ≈ 1h 45m · direct
- Munich → Innsbruck ≈ 1h 55m · direct
- Munich → Stuttgart ≈ 1h 58m · direct
- Munich → Leipzig ≈ 3h 15m · direct
- Munich → Frankfurt ≈ 3h 17m · direct
More train routes in Germany · Austria · Hungary.
Journey figures are typical values sampled from public European schedule data; exact times vary by day. Always check the operator when booking.