City to city
Paris to London by train
Gare du Nord → London St Pancras International
- Journey time
- ≈ 2h 18m
- Direct trains
- Yes
- Fewest changes
- 0
- Operators
- Eurostar
Trains link Paris (Gare du Nord) and London (London St Pancras International) in about 2h 18m at best, with no changes needed. The corridor is part of the Eurostar (492 km, typically 2 h 18 min), one of 1247 routes plotted in the World Train Map atlas.
How long does the train from Paris to London take?
Trains cover Paris to London in about 2h 18m, with little variation between departures.
Is there a direct train from Paris to London?
Yes: direct trains run between Gare du Nord and London St Pancras International.
Is the train or a flight faster from Paris to London?
Door to door, the train typically wins: about 2h 40m city centre to city centre, against roughly 3h 55m 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
- ≈ 2h 40m
- Flight, door to door
- ≈ 3h 55m (est.)
- CO₂e per passenger
- ~15 kg train · ~47 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
- Eurostar Drops 75 m below the sea through the 50.5 km Channel Tunnel, 37.9 km of it under the seabed, the longest undersea stretch of any rail tunnel.
Legendary routes through Paris or London
- TGV inOui Paris → Marseille
- Eurostar (Thalys) Paris → Amsterdam
- LNER Azuma London → Edinburgh
- Venice Simplon-Orient-Express Paris → Venice
Sleepers too: night trains from Paris · night trains from London.
More trains from Paris
- Paris → Reims ≈ 46 min · direct
- Paris → Lille ≈ 1h 17m · direct
- Paris → Brussels ≈ 1h 22m · direct
- Paris → Rennes ≈ 1h 30m · direct
- Paris → Nancy ≈ 1h 35m · direct
- Paris → Dijon ≈ 1h 38m · direct
More train routes in United Kingdom · France · Belgium.
Journey figures are typical values sampled from public European schedule data; exact times vary by day. Always check the operator when booking.